MTG Salvation

As an EDH player who loves playing with mana rocks, all that I can say is COME TO PAPA!

Seriously, consider what is out there. Azami, Kydele, Captain Sisay, Kaho, and either Selvala can easily start spinning towards near-infinite chains.

That's not even counting commanders that just have "good" tap abilities like Hannah, Krenko, Kiki-Jikki, Muzzio, or Yisan.

Dear sweet god.

Realistically, you can only go infinite if you either have a card with buyback that you can infinitely cast (such as Fanning the Flames) or if you have some means of reusable card draw or tapping (meaning a Blue and/or Green deck in most cases). While a colorless shell could get you some of what you need with cards like Temple Bell, Otherworld Atlas, or Planar Portal (the new Planar Bridge doesn't let you CAST the spell and wouldn't trigger an untap), that would be quite a bit of work for just one of your 99... unless you were using Arcum Dagsson or something to find the engine.

So... yeah. Mostly good for cards with green or blue card draw/search options, though some some commanders (like Krenko and Kiki-Jikki) can still break the game with this thing.

Who created this and why?

Well...Been awhile since they designed a card that was seemingly meant to be banned almost right out of the gate (Griselbanned). Who's taking nicknames for this broken jank? My submission is "HurrDurr Engine". Hope no one in my group feels desperate enough to play this crap. Not mad, Wizards...just disappointed.

Sigh...kinda disgusted with this, honestly. Lazy design.

...That moment when you realize that Captain Sissay can search for Paradox Engine.

Anyone else feel like $4 for foil Beck/Call would be a fantastic investment about now?

I expect this card will be banned in commander for the same reason Prophet of Kruphix is banned. Stuff that can untap everything (almost) every turn leads to stale games pretty quickly. I'm no expert on commander though, so if I'm wrong, I'd be interested to know why.

Yes it can infinite with the right 3 cards or so. There are so many infinite combos in EDH that require 3 cards already that have not been banned. Think of Sharuum, any clone card and Disciple of the Vault or any other creature dies/enters battle field card. In a Sharuum combo, one of your pieces is always there as your commander, there are so many clone options, so many ETB or dies triggers and none of the cards are banned.

This card will be played and is powerful, but as I said, Sharuum combos are way easier to pull off. First you need this card +1. Captain Sisay/Demonic Tutor/etc. would need to find this card for you, because you will rarely just luck draw this card (or any 1 card in EDH) +1 card again. You need something to draw you cards to keep feeding spells into it, let's say Arcanis the Omnipotent is another +1 card. Then you will need a bunch of mana rocks already, extra turn permanents and/or a way to untap your lands (Candelabra of Tawnos or Magus of the Candelabra) +a few. So you are already in the 5+ card range to go infinite. So many combos like this exist and will not be banned. Shoot, even Retreat to Coralhelm + Ruin Ghost will be banned before this.

I don't think this will be banned.

Prophet of Kruphix generates absurd amounts of advantage on its own, without anything else required on the board. Of course you cast cards through it, but it's a one card engine.

This card requires a whole bunch of board state in order to be properly utilized. Keep in mind you need to keep casting spells in order to power it, so if you have no mana rocks or mana elves, you'll have much more trouble utilizing it properly.
This means that one Pyroclasm or small cmc removal will leave this card alone and doing nothing.

Or isochron scepter. And I looked up the clock/lattice combo, that's only once every upkeep, this is just infinite with a couple cards.

Someone will definitely break this, but Unwinding Clock and Mycosynth Lattice are still a thing, and not banned. Prophet is banned due to the unrestrained untapping of lands by itself.

You need fuel for this card so
Arcanis the Omnipotent, Urza’s Blueprints, Temple Bell and friends are what you would need to break it.

Well, my Arcum Commander deck is going to like this. It's a Dramatic Reversal enabler I can pull from my library for free- there's a lot to like here.

Or you could just slap Dramatic Reversal on Isochron Scepter and still get the same result.

A. You need Sol Ring so something gets untapped
B. Spells cast through Isochron Scepter can still be countered, while triggered abilities can only be countered by effects like Stifle.