Cloudstone Curio + Dual Nature + Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness + Leashling
Mana needed: {11}{R}{R} plus enough mana to pay for commander tax, if applicable
RG identity
Commander legal
The 4 combo pieces
How to execute it
- Cast Leashling by paying {6}.
- When Leashling enters the battlefield, Dual Nature's first ability triggers, creating a token copy of Leashling.
- Cast Etali either from your hand or from the command zone by paying {5}{R}{R} plus commander tax, if applicable.
- When Etali enters the battlefield, it, Dual Nature's first ability and Cloudstone Curio trigger.
- Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, choosing not to return anything to your hand.
- Resolve the Dual Nature trigger, creating a token copy of Etali.
- Put the token Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- The token Etali and Cloudstone Curio trigger.
- Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, returning Etali from the battlefield to your hand.
- When Etali leaves the battlefield, Dual Nature's second ability triggers, doing nothing.
- Activate the nontoken Leashling by putting Etali on top of your library from your hand, returning Leashling to your hand from the battlefield.
- When the nontoken Leashling leaves the battlefield, Dual Nature's second ability triggers.
- Holding priority, activate the token Leashling by putting Leashling on top of your library from your hand, returning the token Leashling to your hand from the battlefield.
- Resolve the Dual Nature trigger, doing nothing.
- Resolve the token Etali's trigger from step 8, causing each player to exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, and allowing you to cast the nonland cards without paying their mana costs, with you casting Leashling from your library.
- When Leashling enters the battlefield, Dual Nature's first ability triggers, creating a token copy of Leashling.
- Resolve the nontoken Etali's trigger from step 4, causing each player to exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, and allowing you to cast the nonland cards without paying their mana costs, with you casting Etali from your library.
- Repeat from step 4.
What the combo produces
- Cast any number of spells from opponents' libraries
- Exile each opponent's library
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Near-infinite magecraft triggers