Hardened Academic + Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Woodfall Primus

BRGW identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Woodfall Primus.
  2. When Woodfall Primus dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
  3. Hardened Academic and Woodfall Primus trigger.
  4. Resolve the Hardened Academic trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on Woodfall Primus.
  5. Resolve the Woodfall Primus trigger, destroying target noncreature permanent.
  6. Resolve the Shilgengar ability
  7. Repeat.

What the combo produces