Ashnod's Altar + Gossip's Talent + Matoya, Archon Elder + Nadir Kraken
Mana needed: {1}{U}{U}
U identity
Commander legal
The 4 combo pieces
How to execute it
- Cast Nadir Kraken by paying {1}{U}{U}.
- When Nadir Kraken enters the battlefield, Gossip's Talent's first ability triggers, causing you to surveil 1.
- Matoya triggers, causing you to draw a card.
- Nadir Kraken triggers, causing you to pay {1} to put a +1/+1 counter on it and create a 1/1 Tentacle creature token.
- When the Tentacle enters the battlefield, Gossip's Talent's first ability triggers, causing you to surveil 1.
- Matoya triggers, causing you to draw a card.
- Nadir Kraken triggers. Holding priority, activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing the Tentacle, adding {C}{C}.
- Resolve the Nadir Kraken trigger, causing you to pay {1} to put a +1/+1 counter on it and create a 1/1 Tentacle creature token.
- Repeat from step 5.
What the combo produces
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Near-infinite colorless mana
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite ETB
- Near-infinite LTB