Celestial Gatekeeper + Molten Echoes + Phyrexian Altar

Mana needed: {3}{W}{W}

RW identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

What must be in place

"Bird" or "Cleric" chosen with Motlen Echoes.

How to execute it

  1. Cast Celestial Gatekeeper by paying {3}{W}{W}.
  2. Celestial Gatekeeper enters the battlefield, triggering Molten Echoes, creating a token copy of Celestial Gatekeeper with haste.
  3. Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the nontoken Celestial Gatekeeper, adding {1}.
  4. Celestial Gatekeeper dies, triggering itself.
  5. In response, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the Celestial Gatekeeper token, adding {1}.
  6. The Celestial Gateekeeper token dies, triggering itself, exiling itself and returning Celestial Gatekeeper from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  7. Celestial Gatekeeper enters the battlefield, triggering Molten Echoes, creating a token copy of Celestial Gatekeeper with haste.
  8. Resolve the nontoken Celestial Gateekeeper's trigger, failing to exile itself and returning up to two more Birds and/or Clerics from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  9. If you returned a creature of the type chosen with Motlen Echoes, it triggers, creating a token copy of that creature with haste.
  10. Repeat from step 3.

What the combo produces