Altar of Dementia + Athreos, Shroud-Veiled + Enduring Bondwarden
WB identity
Commander legal
The 3 combo pieces
What must be in place
You control at least one other nontoken creature.
Enduring Bondwarden has at least one coin counter on it.
How to execute it
- Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Enduring Bondwarden.
- When Enduring Bondwarden dies, it and Athreos' third ability trigger.
- Resolve the Enduring Bondwarden trigger, putting all counters from it onto another nontoken creature you control.
- Resolve the Athreos trigger, returning Enduring Bondwarden from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- When Enduring Bondwarden enters the battlefield, its backup ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on the creature who had a coin counter placed on it, and giving it the printed ability until end of turn.
- Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability from step 1, causing target player to mill cards equal to Enduring Bondwarden's power.
- Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing the nontoken creature with a coin counter on it.
- When the creature dies, it and Athreos' third ability trigger.
- Resolve the creature's trigger, putting all counters from it onto Enduring Bondwarden .
- Resolve the Athreos trigger, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability from step 7, causing target player to mill cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
- Repeat.
What the combo produces
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite ETB
- Infinite mill
- Infinite sacrifice triggers
- Infinite self-mill