Hardened Academic + Lingering Tormentor + Woe Strider

RWB identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Lingering Tormentor.
  2. When Lingering Tormentor 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 Lingering Tormentor.
  4. Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
  5. Repeat.

What the combo produces