Cryptic Trilobite + Crystalline Crawler + Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow + Umbral Mantle
Mana needed: {6}
WB identity
Commander legal
The 4 combo pieces
- Cryptic Trilobite
- Crystalline Crawler
- Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow
- Umbral Mantle
What must be in place
Shaile does not have summoning sickness.
Umbral Mantle attached to Shaile.
How to execute it
- Cast Crystalline Crawler by paying {4}.
- Cast Cryptic Trilobite by paying {2}.
- Activate Shaile by tapping it, putting a +1/+1 counter on Crystalline Crawler, Cryptic Trilobite and any other creature that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
- Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability by removing a +1/+1 counter from it, adding {U}.
- Activate Cryptic Trilobite's first ability by removing a +1/+1 counter from it, adding {C}{C} that can only be spent to activate abilities.
- Activate Shaile by paying {3} and untapping it, giving it +2/+2 until end of turn.
- Repeat from step 3.
What the combo produces
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
- Infinitely large creature until end of turn