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Intruder Alarm

Multiverse ID: 45258

Intruder Alarm

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★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0) (4 votes)
This has to be the most broken combo card of all time, aside from the obvious Godsire/Master transmuter combos this card creates I prefer to use it with forbidden orchard and ley druid to ramp up alot of mana, give my opponent alot of creature and then drop a netherborn phalanx, Nobody sees that coming!
theDAYtheMUSICdied
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (18 votes)
Oh no, Krug! Put down your marshmallow! The blue fairy came to make us into real boys!
Grimn777
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0) (5 votes)
wow I almost never hear anyone talk about this extended deck that I use and it does so well. W/U control, win condition is infinite mill. Drowner of secrets, stonybrook schoolmaster, intruder alarm. tap schoolmaster, mill a card, get a 1/1, untap, repeat =)
ObsessedAddict
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (6 votes)
I would bet that 1/2 of all infinite comboes have something to do with this card o_o
jilting_joker
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (3 votes)
For infi combos this card gets a 5. For fairness id rate this card in the negatives. I personally like Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Horde of Boggarts + Intruder Alarm. Maybe throw in Wake Thrasher for more hillarity. Seriously though... Intruder Alarm should have been printed as nothing more than a joke.
kitsunewarlock
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Back in the day I ran this in a non-infinate type-II deck with Prodigal Sorecerers, Roo***er Hunters and Suq-Ata Firewalkers. You play a creature? Sure: I'll ping it into death.

Then I found Shrieking Drake and Sea Scryer and the deck went to hell in a handbasket.
Ohms89
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (5 votes)
Cryptic Gateway. That's all I gotta say.
Azazyel
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (7 votes)
Master Transmuter + Any 0 mana artifact + This.

Not infinite, but fun as hell, particularly if you use Sphinx Summoners to put more artifacts in your hand.
reapersaurus
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0) (3 votes)
I like smart/fun combos.
This is neither of them.
TheNUUB
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (1 vote)
This + Kazandu Tuskcaller = game over.
a7141988
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Here's another combo: Stonybrook Schoolmaster+Patron Wizard+Intruder Alarm. On your turn, if the field is safe, attack with everything, cause a 1/1 wizard to come into play, untapping everything. On opponent's turn, if they try to play a spell, tap schoolmaster to counter unless they pay 1, causing a 1/1 to enter, untapping everything. In otherwords, counter all spells your opponents play for the rest of the game unless they pay an infinite amount of mana.
TheSwarm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Act Of treason and this and anything equals infinite creatures. team up with like soul warden and youve got infinite life
umumwhatshisname
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0) (2 votes)
Infintie combos with almost any card in existance.
nimzo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My old Intruder Alarm deck ("standard" in Odyssey & Onslaught block and 8th Edition) was built around him, with the other center piece Words of Wind and Cryptic Gateway (yes Ohms89, I agree!) . Other cards was: Basking Rootwalla, a totally free spell, Llanowar Elves, Aphetto Alchemist, Krosan Restorer, Elvish Aberration for some mana producing, Merfolk Looter, Arcanis the Omnipotent, Careful Study, Standstill for drawing/discarding card (discarding the free Rootwalla, of course), the solid Genesis, and the very useful Anger (I don't forgot some Mountain in this green-blue deck!) to give haste at everybody.

Not a competitive deck, but a funny one with friends... Intruder Alarm is one of my favorite non-broken combo card ever, and I think is complicate for Wizard to reprint it in Core set...
Superllama12
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Azazel: It would be infinite if you had infinite/huge amounts of mana (i.e. Tolarian Academy) and two 0 costers, just repeatedly bounce them...not sure if that would do much, storm is the only thing I can think of, but (correct me if I'm wrong) you would have to cast it, not put it into play...though I'm sure there's a way
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this is the definition of infinite combos
RJDroid
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (2 votes)
What the hell? I always thought that this cost 3UU. I guess my brain was trying to trick me into thinking that infinite combos with anything made it cost a lot.
Sobieski
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (6 votes)
HEY PEOPLE WHY DON'T U JUST PLAY THRABEN DOOMSAYER, WHOSE A THREE DROP CRETURE THAT KEEP ON PRODUCING 1/1'S SO WITH THIS CARD INFINITE 1/1'S:)
C5r1a5z0y
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ObsessedAddict: Wouldn't half of all infinite combos still be an infinite number of them? O_o
Ep1cLeprechaun
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (3 votes)
@Grimn777
I use the same U/W control deck, and as a tip, put 4 Azami, the Lady of Scrolls in. Schoolmaster+Alarm+Azami gives you infinite draw, then just draw most of your deck and play a drowner to mill them the same turn.
VenserArtificer
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (7 votes)
Hey, Bloodline Keeper, anyone?
atemu1234
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@sobieski or use it with Bloodline Keeper for infinite flying 2/2s.
twiddleman12
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (1 vote)
How about Thraben Doomsayer?
Dabok
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (1 vote)
This is the card that awakened my inner Johnny.
Like some of you, I have spent a lot of time searching on the internet and by myself ideas to fuel the posibilities.
What I use with mine (was standard legal at the time mind you) : Wirewood Channeler and Centaur Glade.
And in the same deck there's also Pemmin's Aura (for the channeler....yeah)
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I know that this idea was on the building on a budget section, some 9-10 years ago, but still, it was my very first infinite combo. Just thinking about it makes me smile and feel very nostalgic...
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
I really, reeeeeally hope this gets put into Modern Masters. Hate those white borders!
JaceIsAwesome
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Imperious Perfect, this, and Llanowar Elves (or another mana dork that gives you green mana) = UNLIMITED ELF BABIES!
Fleetfiend
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (2 votes)
I find this and Skirsdag High Priest to be pretty hilarious.

There are so many infinite combos possible with this card that it's just silly.
j_mindfingerpainter
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (1 vote)
@ Totema: Except if they have a rare slot for infinite token combos, I'll bet it goes to Splinter Twin, Kiki-Jiki, or Restoration Angel.
Belz_
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0) (2 votes)
Godsire for infinite 8/8.
Burgertog
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I was in a multiplayer game where someone was about to use this to generate infinite 1/1 tokens. Someone else equipped a lowly creature with a Viridian Longbow. I realized that the creature equipped with the Longbow will untap as soon as the first 1/1 token enters the battlefield, infinitely trumping the infinite tokens.
Pyroclasm404
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
This card is so combotastic that it combos with Chimney Imp.
mrchuckmorris
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Splinter Twin for infinite whomever the heck you want. Someone with a real nasty ETB effect, maybe...
Fictionarious
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Most commonly spoken phrase as a Johnny:

"Plus, it combos with intruder alarm!"

5/5
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☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combos with combos.
BagOfBags
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Good with Karametra's Acolyte, Soul of the Harvest, Arbor Colossus, extra ramp and Mind Spring. I once played about half of the non-land cards in my deck in one turn with that combo. Also, you can replace the Mind Spring with Braingeyser and mill your opponent to death with all the ramp you get from the combo.
Please correct me if you disagree.

Here's the(slightly modified) decklist:

4x Overgrown Battlement
3x Axebane Gaurdian
3x Arbor Colossus
4x Soul of the Harvest
3x Reverent Hunter
4x Karametra's Acolyte
4x Intruder Alarm
3x Renegade Krasis
3x Mind Spring
3x Seeker of Skybreak
1x Elderscale Wurm

10x Forest
4x Simic Guildgate
10x Island

@ObsessedAddict There are a finite number of infinite combos(I think), so half the infinite combos would still be finite.
tcollins
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Intruder Alarm + Opalescence + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Break gives you infinite Intruder Alarms that can attack as 3/3s. It even curves into your 3rd, 4th and 5th turns respectively.
Jhyrryl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This + Hell's Caretaker + anything with an ETB effect. Acidic Slime comes to mind as a good choice there.

Bacon_Businessman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
T1, swamp.
T2, island, dark ritual, Bloodline Keeper,
T3, swamp, intruder alarm, tap BK to bring out a 2/2 flyer, untapping him: Repeat
T4: Attack or troll...doesn't matter at that point. :D