Hardened Academic + Thermopod + Trapjaw Kelpie

RGWU identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Thermopod by sacrificing Trapjaw Kelpie.
  2. When Trapjaw Kelpie dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
  3. Hardened Academic triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on Trapjaw Kelpie.
  4. Repeat.

What the combo produces