Altar of Dementia + Glen Elendra Archmage + Hardened Academic

URW identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Glen Elendra Archmage.
  2. When Glen Elendra Archmage 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 Glen Elendra Archmage.
  4. Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability.
  5. Repeat.

What the combo produces