Hardened Academic + Heartmender + Woe Strider

BRGW identity

Commander legal

The 3 combo pieces

How to execute it

  1. Activate Woe Strider 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 Woe Strider ability.
  5. Repeat.

What the combo produces