Living Death + Ashnod's Altar + Basal Sliver + Eternal Witness

4-card combo · BG

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop converts a creature board into infinite death and ETB triggers by recasting Living Death every iteration.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$26.54

Color identity

Popularity

11 decks

Format

Commander

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Basal Sliver and Ashnod's Altar together generate the five mana needed to recast Living Death each loop, while Eternal Witness recovers it from the graveyard on entry. The catch is that Living Death symmetrically refills all graveyards and wipes all boards — running this in a dedicated reanimator shell like Meren of Clan Nel Toth or Karador, Ghost Chieftain ensures the yard is stacked with more fodder than opponents can recover.

How it works

Prerequisites

You control at least one additional nontoken creature.

Steps

Activate Basal Sliver by sacrificing it, adding .
Activate Ashnod's Altar twice by sacrificing Eternal Witness and another nontoken creature, adding .
Cast Living Death by paying , causing each player to exile all creature cards in their graveyards, sacrifice all creatures they control, then put all cards exiled this way onto the battlefield.
When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Living Death to your hand from your graveyard.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Phyrexian Altar replaces Ashnod's Altar if colorless mana is less useful than fixing, though the loop requires more creatures to fuel the black cost. The engine generates infinite storm count and ETB triggers but needs a payoff on the field — Altar of Dementia mills tables out, Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat converts the death triggers into lethal damage.

Living Death + Ashnod's Altar + Basal Sliver + Eternal Witness

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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