Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Eternal Witness + Doomed Necromancer + Smellerbee, Rebel Fighter

5-card combo · BRG

Verdict

Yes — this 5-card loop generates infinite ETB, death, and sacrifice triggers by recycling Eternal Witness and Doomed Necromancer through Ashnod's Altar and Pitiless Plunderer.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$9.61

Color identity

BRG

Popularity

0 decks

Format

Commander

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Ashnod's Altar and Pitiless Plunderer together convert every sacrifice into both colorless and black mana: Eternal Witness dies for two colorless, Doomed Necromancer uses the Treasure for black to reanimate it, and Eternal Witness returns Doomed Necromancer to hand on entry. Smellerbee, Rebel Fighter is the fifth piece tying the color identity together and enabling the shell, but the loop's engine is entirely the four-card Altar-Plunderer-Witness-Necromancer interaction. Any deck built around aristocrats payoffs — Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Mayhem Devil — turns this into a table kill.

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

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Phyrexian Altar substitutes for Ashnod's Altar if the colorless output isn't needed, since the loop only requires the black from Plunderer's Treasure and one mana toward recasting Doomed Necromancer. The combo produces infinite triggers but no direct win condition — slot in Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat as the closer, both of which sit comfortably in the Jund color identity this shell demands.

Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Eternal Witness + Doomed Necromancer + Smellerbee, Rebel Fighter

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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