Amulet of Vigor + Ashnod's Altar + Cormela, Glamour Thief + and 2 others

UBR identity

Commander legal

The 5 combo pieces

What must be in place

You control at least one nontoken creature.

How to execute it

  1. Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing another nontoken creature, adding {C}{C}.
  2. Activate Cormela by paying {1} and tapping it, adding {U}{B}{R} that can only be spent to cast instant and/or sorcery spells.
  3. Cast Saw in Half by paying {2}{B}, destroying Cormela and creating two token copies of it with base power equal to half the destroyed creature's power and base toughness equal to half the destroyed creature's toughness, rounding up each time.
  4. Put one of the Cormela tokens into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  5. The Cormela that died in step 3 and the Cormela that died in step 4 each trigger, returning Victimize and Saw in Half from your graveyard to your hand.
  6. Activate the Cormela token by paying {1} and tapping it, adding {U}{B}{R} that can only be spent to cast instant and/or sorcery spells.
  7. Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing the Cormela token, adding {C}{C}.
  8. When the Cormela token dies, it triggers, returning up to one instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
  9. Cast Victimize by paying {2}{B}, causing you to sacrifice the Cormela token and return Cormela and another creature from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  10. When the tapped permanents enter, Amulet of Vigor triggers for each one, untapping them.
  11. Put the token Cormela into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  12. The token Cormela triggers, returning up to one instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
  13. Repeat.

What the combo produces