Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Eternal Witness + Doomed Necromancer + Concordant Crossroads

5-card combo · BG

Verdict

Yes — this 5-card loop generates infinite death triggers, ETBs, and storm count in any black-green sacrifice shell that can assemble the pieces.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$40.17

Color identity

Popularity

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Format

Commander

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Ashnod's Altar and Pitiless Plunderer work as the mana engine: sacrificing Eternal Witness nets two colorless and a Treasure, which cashes out for the black needed to activate Doomed Necromancer, whose own death creates another Treasure to recast itself from the Eternal Witness trigger. Concordant Crossroads is the critical fifth piece — Doomed Necromancer needs haste the turn it enters to activate and sacrifice itself within the same loop iteration, otherwise the chain stalls.

How it works

Prerequisites

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Steps

Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Eternal Witness, adding .
When Eternal Witness dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
Activate Doomed Necromancer by paying , tapping it and sacrificing it.
When Doomed Necromancer dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
Resolve the Doomed Necromancer ability, returning Eternal Witness from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Doomed Necromancer from your graveyard to your hand.
Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
Cast Doomed Necromancer by paying .
Repeat.

Result

Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Swiftfoot Boots or Lightning Greaves can substitute for Concordant Crossroads if giving all creatures haste is a political liability, though equipping at instant speed mid-loop adds sequencing friction. The loop produces no direct kill condition — pair it with Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Altar of Dementia as the closer; Eternal Witness also returns any instant or sorcery each loop, so a graveyard-resident Tendrils of Agony ends the game on storm count alone.

Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Eternal Witness + Doomed Necromancer + Concordant Crossroads

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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