Raiders' Wake is better than it looks, albeit mostly in Commander.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
So Anointed Procession + Ruthless Knave is an infinite mana engine as long as you provide fodder. Is there anything in standard that could be abused for this? A creature that recurs, or the like? I can't think of anything, but the potential to be a mana engine and a draw engine is mildly intriguing.
No, there is nothing which we could abuse at this time. Panharmonicon can double some of the treasure tokens a few pirates generate upon entering the battlefield and the procession can double those but there isn't a way to abuse the interaction. You would need Solemnity and any creature with undying or persist to generate an arbitrarily large number of treasure tokens.
The Demon of Dark Schemes can generate E when the creature is sacrificed and then you can sacrifice the tokens and spend another EEE to bring it back, but this still won't lead to abuse.
hrm...wait...hypothetically speaking, the demon + Aether Theorist + Anointed Procession + Ruthless Knave could result in spend 2B, sac the Theorist, get four treasure tokens and one energy, spend the energy you got from the Theorist's etb and its subsequent death plus sac three tokens to bring it back, netting you three energy and you would end up at your starting position netting only one treasure token. No, you would need two Processions--conclusion: not possible (or at least so unlikely that we can dismiss it as effectively impossible).
Alternatively, if you had enough artifacts so that Metalwork Colossus costs you 0 to cast then Procession + Ruthless Knave = spend 2B to sac the colossus, get four treasure tokens, sacrifice two treasures to bring the Colossus back to your hand, then summon it again for free = net gain of two Treasure tokens. No, once again you would need two Processions--again, this is not likely to occur. If, in the unlikely event that it did occur, then sacrificing the Colossus would generate eight treasure tokens--sac two to bring it back to hand, cast it for free, sac three to offer it to the Knave for a net gain of three tokens per iteration.
In summary, it is possible but it will probably never happen so I wouldn't worry about it.
I appreciate you taking the time to think about it. I've considereda few combinations myself but, ultimately, the pieces to the puzzle are too many...
...for now.
Heh, I just kinda realized that the Ruthless Knave is redundant in this. Anointed Procession, Gonti's Aether Heart, and Whirler Virtuoso all on their own are infinite thopers and energy... and the means to take another turn to get those thopters an attack before the opponent gets a turn. All Knave does here is give a draw-as-many-cards-as-you-want and infinite mana option, as if the million-thopters-and-a-turn wasn't enough.
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Ruthless Knave will be in the same type of decks Disciple of the Vault and Marionette Master are in.
Raiders' Wake is better than it looks, albeit mostly in Commander.
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I appreciate you taking the time to think about it. I've considereda few combinations myself but, ultimately, the pieces to the puzzle are too many...
...for now.
Heh, I just kinda realized that the Ruthless Knave is redundant in this. Anointed Procession, Gonti's Aether Heart, and Whirler Virtuoso all on their own are infinite thopers and energy... and the means to take another turn to get those thopters an attack before the opponent gets a turn. All Knave does here is give a draw-as-many-cards-as-you-want and infinite mana option, as if the million-thopters-and-a-turn wasn't enough.