Cadaver Imp + Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer + Phyrexian Altar + Pitiless Plunderer

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 Pitiless Plunderer and Liliana, Heretical Healer.
  3. Resolve the Pitiless Plunderer trigger, creating a Treasure 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 by sacrificing the Zombie token, adding {B}.
  10. The Zombie dies, triggering Pitiless Plunderer, creating a Treasure token.
  11. Activate a Treasure token by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {1}.
  12. Cast Liliana, Heretical Healer by paying {1}{B}{B}.
  13. Repeat.

What the combo produces