Crystalline Crawler + Persistent Specimen + Szarel, Genesis Shepherd + Umbral Collar Zealot

Mana needed: {2}{B}

BRG identity

Commander legal

The 4 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Persistent Specimen by paying {2}{B}, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  2. Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing Persistent Specimen.
  3. When Persistent Specimen is sacrificed, Szarel triggers, putting a number of +1/+1 counters equal to Szarel's power on Crystalline Crawler.
  4. Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
  5. Activate Crystalline Crawler three times by removing three +1/+1 counters from it, adding {2}{B}.
  6. Repeat.

What the combo produces