Crystalline Crawler + Fain, the Broker + Tenacious Dead + Thornbite Staff

Mana needed: {1}{B}

B identity

Commander legal

The 4 combo pieces

What must be in place

Thornbite Staff attached to Fain.
Fain does not have summoning sickness.

How to execute it

  1. Activate Fain's first ability by tapping it and sacrificing Tenacious Dead.
  2. Tenacious Dead dies, triggering itself and Fain.
  3. Resolve the Fain trigger, untapping it.
  4. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, causing you to pay {1}{B} to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  5. Resolve the Fain ability from step 1, putting two +1/+1 counters on Crystalline Crawler.
  6. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability twice by removing two counters from it, adding {B}{B}.
  7. Repeat.

What the combo produces