Altar of Dementia + Hardened Academic + River Kelpie

URW identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing River Kelpie.
  2. When River Kelpie dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
  3. Hardened Academic and River Kelpie trigger.
  4. Resolve the Hardened Academic trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on River Kelpie.
  5. Resolve the River Kelpie trigger, causing you to draw a card.
  6. Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability
  7. Repeat.

What the combo produces