Altar of Dementia + Pulsemage Advocate + Thornbite Staff

W identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

What must be in place

Thornbite Staff attached to Pulsemage Advocate.
Pulsemage Advocate does not have summoning sickness.
You control a nontoken creature with power three or greater.

How to execute it

  1. Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing a creature with power three or greater.
  2. The creature dies, triggering Pulsemage Advocate, untapping it.
  3. Resolve the Altar of Dementia trigger, causing target opponent to mill cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
  4. Activate Pulsemage Advocate by tapping it and putting three cards from an opponent's graveyard into their owner's hand, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  5. Repeat.

What the combo produces