Altar of Dementia + Hardened Academic + Safehold Elite

RGW identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Safehold Elite.
  2. When Safehold Elite dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
  3. Hardened Academic triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on Safehold Elite.
  4. Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability.
  5. Repeat.

What the combo produces