Hardened Academic + Kitchen Finks + Yahenni, Undying Partisan

BRGW identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Yahenni by sacrificing Kitchen Finks.
  2. When Kitchen Finks dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
  3. Hardened Academic and Kitchen Finks trigger.
  4. Resolve the Hardened Academic trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on Kitchen Finks.
  5. Resolve the Kitchen Finks trigger, causing you to gain 2 life
  6. Resolve the Yahenni ability
  7. Repeat.

What the combo produces