Deathrender + Gravedigger + Eternal Witness + Ashnod's Altar
4-card combo · BG
Verdict
Yes — this 4-card loop generates infinite colorless mana and infinite ETB and death triggers in any black-green value shell that already wants these pieces.
- Cards required
- 4
- Cheapest stack total
- $7.04
- Color identity
- BG
- Popularity
- 4 decks
- Format
- Commander
Deathrender attached to Eternal Witness is the engine: sacrificing Eternal Witness to Ashnod's Altar nets 2 colorless and drops Gravedigger, which retrieves Eternal Witness; sacrificing Gravedigger repeats the chain in reverse. Every iteration produces 4 colorless total and fires ETB, LTB, and sacrifice triggers twice, which black-green creature-value commanders like Meren of Clan Nel Toth or Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord are already incentivized to assemble.
Recipe
How it works
01
Prerequisites
Deathrender attached to Eternal Witness.
02
Steps
- Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Eternal Witness, adding
. - Eternal Witness dies, triggering Deathrender, putting Gravedigger from your hand onto the battlefield and attaching Deathrender to it.
- Gravedigger enters the battlefield, returning Eternal Witness from your graveyard to your hand.
- Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Gravedigger, adding .
- Gravedigger dies, triggering Deathrender, putting Eternal Witness from your hand onto the battlefield and attaching Deathrender to it.
- Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, returning Gravedigger from your graveyard to your hand.
- Repeat.
03
Result
Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
Variations
Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines
Substitute Reassembling Skeleton for Gravedigger in lists that struggle to keep both creatures in hand, though it loses the guaranteed creature recursion and tightens the loop's setup. Pair the infinite colorless mana with Walking Ballista or Blood Artist as the kill — the engine itself wins nothing without a damage sink or a payoff that scales with death triggers.
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Verified on Commander Spellbook · Combo ID ashnods-altar-eternal-witness-gravedigger
Updated . Data from Commander Spellbook, Scryfall, and EDHREC.