Chthonian Nightmare + Songs of the Damned + Timeless Witness

Mana needed: {B}

BG identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

What must be in place

You have at least five creature cards in your graveyard.
You control a nontoken creature with mana value 2 or less.
You have at least {E}.

How to execute it

  1. Cast Songs of the Damned by paying {B}, adding {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.
  2. Cast Chthonian Nightmare by paying {1}{B}.
  3. When Chthonian Nightmare enters the battlefield, it triggers, causing you to get {E}{E}{E}.
  4. Activate Chthonian Nightmare by paying {E}{E}{E}{E}, sacrificing a creature with mana value 2 or less and returning Chthonian Nightmare from the battlefield to your hand, returning Timeless Witness from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  5. When Timeless Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Songs of the Damned from your graveyard to your hand.
  6. Cast Chthonian Nightmare by paying {1}{B}.
  7. When Chthonian Nightmare enters the battlefield, it triggers, causing you to get {E}{E}{E}.
  8. Activate Chthonian Nightmare by paying an amount of {E}, sacrificing Timeless Witness and returning Chthonian Nightmare from the battlefield to your hand, returning a creature from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  9. Repeat.

What the combo produces