Hardened Academic + Safehold Elite + Woe Strider

BRGW identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Safehold Elite.
  2. When Safehold Elite dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
  3. Hardened Academic triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on Safehold Elite.
  4. Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
  5. Repeat.

What the combo produces