Glen Elendra Archmage + Hardened Academic + Umbral Collar Zealot

WUBR identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Umbral Collar Zealot 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 Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
  5. Repeat.

What the combo produces