Dauthi Voidwalker + Tethmos High Priest + Lightning Greaves + Grinning Totem + Leonin Shikari

5-card combo · WB

Verdict

Yes — this 5-card loop generates infinite magecraft and death triggers by weaponizing an opponent's own instant or sorcery as a free, self-resetting sacrifice engine.

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Cheapest stack total

$36.47

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Format

Commander

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Grinning Totem steals a spell from an opponent's library; when Dauthi Voidwalker's upkeep trigger tries to bury it, it instead exiles it under a void counter. Sacrificing Dauthi Voidwalker casts it for free targeting Tethmos High Priest, whose trigger reanimates Dauthi Voidwalker — then Lightning Greaves slides over to Tethmos High Priest at zero cost, making the spell fizzle and immediately exiling it under the fresh Dauthi Voidwalker, ready to go again. The whole engine collapses if the targeted opponent runs no instants or sorceries that can target a creature, so this has a real and table-dependent failure mode.

How it works

Prerequisites

NOTE: This combo fails if you target an opponent that does not have an instant or sorcery card in their library that can target a creature.

Steps

During the end step prior to your turn, activate Grinning Totem by paying and tapping it, causing you to search an opponent's library for an instant or sorcery card that can target a creature and exile it with the ability to cast it until your next upkeep.
At the beginning of your upkeep, Grinning Totem triggers, attempting to put the instant or sorcery into its owners graveyard, but instead exiling it with a void counter due to Dauthi Voidwalker.
Activate Dauthi Voidwalker by tapping and sacrificing it, causing you to cast the instant or sorcery without paying its mana cost, targeting Tethmos High Priest.
Tethmos High Priest triggers, returning Dauthi Voidwalker from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Holding priority, activate Lightning Greaves' equip ability by paying , attaching it to Tethmos High Priest.
Resolve the instant or sorcery spell, causing it to do nothing as Tethmos High Priest is now an illegal target, and then exile it with a void counter on it due to Dauthi Voidwalker.
Activate Lightning Greaves' equip ability by paying , attaching it to Dauthi Voidwalker.
Repeat from step 3.

Result

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

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Leonin Shikari is load-bearing here — without it, the zero-cost equip mid-stack to protect Tethmos High Priest is impossible, so there is no cut available in that slot. The loop produces infinite triggers but no built-in kill; Corpse Knight, Blood Artist, or Zulaport Cutthroat converts the infinite ETB and death triggers into a table win in white-black.

Dauthi Voidwalker + Tethmos High Priest + Lightning Greaves + Grinning Totem + Leonin Shikari

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