Hardened Academic + Heartmender + Umbral Collar Zealot

BRGW identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing Heartmender.
  2. When Heartmender 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 Heartmender.
  4. Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
  5. Repeat.

What the combo produces