Priest of Fell Rites + Necrotic Ooze + Bishop of Wings + Maskwood Nexus + Lightning Greaves

5-card combo · WB

Verdict

Yes — this 5-piece loop generates infinite life, infinite death triggers, and infinite Spirit tokens at zero mana once assembled.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$16.33

Color identity

Popularity

1 decks

Format

Commander

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Maskwood Nexus makes every creature an Angel and a Spirit, so Bishop of Wings fires on every enter and leave — Priest of Fell Rites and Necrotic Ooze alternate roles, each paying three life to sacrifice and then returning the other, with Lightning Greaves shuttling between them to enable the tap-and-sacrifice each loop. The net life gain per cycle is positive, so the three-life cost is self-sustaining as long as a life total of four exists at the start. This is a white-black reanimator shell combo — it wants Buried Alive or Entomb to seed the graveyard and tutors like Vampiric Tutor or Demonic Tutor to find Maskwood Nexus, the hardest piece to replace.

How it works

Prerequisites

Your life total is at least four.

Steps

Activate Lightning Greaves' equip ability by paying , attaching it to Priest of Fell Rites.
Activate Priest of Fell Rites by paying three life, tapping and sacrificing it.
When Priest of Fell Rites dies, Bishop of Wings' second ability triggers, creating a 1/1 Spirit creature token.
When the Spirit enters the battlefield, Bishop of Wings' first ability triggers, causing you to gain four life.
Resolve the Priest of Fell Rites ability, returning Necrotic Ooze from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When Necrotic Ooze enters the battlefield, Bishop of Wings' first ability triggers, causing you to gain four life.
Activate Lightning Greaves' equip ability by paying , attaching it to Necrotic Ooze.
Activate Necrotic Ooze by paying three life, tapping and sacrificing it.
When Necrotic Ooze dies, Bishop of Wings' second ability triggers, creating a 1/1 Spirit creature token.
When the Spirit enters the battlefield, Bishop of Wings' first ability triggers, causing you to gain four life.
Resolve the Necrotic Ooze ability, returning Priest of Fell Rites from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When Priest of Fell Rites enters the battlefield, Bishop of Wings' first ability triggers, causing you to gain four life.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

The five-card requirement is the real ceiling here — cutting any single piece collapses the loop, so redundancy matters more than substitution. Swapping Lightning Greaves for Thousand-Year Elixir lets the activated abilities untap without equip, but Elixir's 2-mana activation on Necrotic Ooze costs colorless rather than zero, which still works. Pair the infinite token output with Anointed Procession to double the Spirits mid-loop, or close with a Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat in play to drain the table the moment death triggers go infinite.

Priest of Fell Rites + Necrotic Ooze + Bishop of Wings + Maskwood Nexus + Lightning Greaves

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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