Crystalline Crawler + Gideon's Sacrifice + Pestilence + Vigor
Mana needed: {W}{B}
WBG identity
Commander legal
The 4 combo pieces
How to execute it
- Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, causing all damage that would be dealt this turn to you or to permanents you control to be dealt to Crystalline Crawler instead.
- Activate Pestilence by paying {B}, dealing 1 damage to each creature and each player.
- Gideon's Sacrifice redirects damage to Crawler, which results in at least three +1/+1 counters being placed on it instead due to Vigor.
- Activate Crystalline Crawler's first activated ability at least once by removing at least one +1/+1 counter from it, adding at least {B}.
- Repeat from step 2.
What the combo produces
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite damage
- Lock
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control
- Near-infinite damage
- Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you