Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness + Hua Tuo, Honored Physician + Mirage Mirror + Thornbite Staff

Mana needed: {7}{R}{R}{R} plus enough mana to pay for commander tax, if applicable

RG identity

Commander legal

The 4 combo pieces

What must be in place

Hua Tuo does not have summoning sickness.
Thornbite Staff attached to Hua Tuo.
It is your precombat main phase.

How to execute it

  1. Cast Etali either from your hand or from the command zone by paying {5}{R}{R} plus commander tax, if applicable.
  2. When Etali enters the battlefield, it triggers.
  3. Holding priority, activate Mirage Mirror by paying {2}, choosing to have it become a copy of Etali.
  4. Choose to put Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  5. If Etali is your commander, choose not to return it to the command zone from your graveyard.
  6. Hua Tuo triggers, untapping itself.
  7. Activate Hua Tuo by tapping it, putting Etali on top of your library from your graveyard.
  8. Resolve the Etali trigger from step 2, causing you to exile cards from each player's library until you exile a nonland card, with you exiling Etali from your library, and cast Etali and any other nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
  9. Choose to put Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  10. If Etali is your commander, choose not to return it to the command zone from your graveyard.
  11. Etali enters-the-battlefield ability and Hua Tuo trigger.
  12. Resolve the Hua Tuo trigger, untapping it.
  13. Repeat from step 7.

What the combo produces