Cadaver Imp + Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer + Phyrexian Altar + Sifter of Skulls

B identity

Commander legal

The 4 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Cadaver Imp, adding {B}.
  2. Cadaver Imp dies, triggering Sifter of Skulls and Liliana, Heretical Healer.
  3. Resolve the Sifter of Skulls trigger, creating a 1/1 Eldrazi Scion creature token.
  4. Resolve the Liliana, Heretical Healer trigger, exiling it and returning it to the battlefield transformed, and creating a 2/2 Zombie creature token.
  5. Activate Liliana, Defiant Necromancer's second loyalty ability by removing three loyalty counters from it.
  6. Liliana, Defiant Necromancer is put into your graveyard as a state-based action due to having zero loyalty.
  7. Resolve the Liliana, Defiant Necromancer ability, returning Cadaver Imp from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  8. Cadaver Imp enters the battlefield, returning Liliana, Heretical Healer from your graveyard to your hand.
  9. Activate Phyrexian Altar twice by sacrificing the Zombie and the Eldrazi Scion tokens, adding {1}{B}.
  10. Cast Liliana, Heretical Healer by paying {1}{B}{B}.
  11. Repeat.

What the combo produces