Living Death + Ashnod's Altar + Verdant Eidolon + Eternal Witness

4-card combo · BG

Verdict

Yes — this 4-card loop converts a single Living Death into infinite death and ETB triggers with Eternal Witness as the engine's reset button.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$17.35

Color identity

Popularity

0 decks

Format

Commander

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Ashnod's Altar sacrifices Eternal Witness and one other creature to pay most of Living Death's cost; Verdant Eidolon's activated ability tops off the mana. Living Death reanimates the whole package, Eternal Witness returns Living Death to hand, and the loop resets. Black-green aristocrats shells — anything helmed by Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Izoni, Thousand-Eyed, or Gyome, Master Chef — slot this in as a mass-reanimation line that just keeps firing.

How it works

Prerequisites

You control at least one additional nontoken creature.

Steps

Activate Verdant Eidolon by paying and sacrificing it, adding if you have two or more available, or otherwise.
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

The loop demands a fifth nontoken creature beyond the four pieces, so creature-light builds will stall out mid-loop. Sacrifice outlets that double as payoffs — Grave Pact or Dictate of Erebos — convert the infinite death triggers into a board wipe on the way to the win; add Zulaport Cutthroat or Blood Artist to close from life loss without needing a separate card.

Living Death + Ashnod's Altar + Verdant Eidolon + Eternal Witness

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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