Dauthi Voidwalker + Tethmos High Priest + Lightning Greaves + Grinning Totem + Forge Anew

5-card combo · WB

Verdict

Yes — this 5-card loop generates infinite magecraft, ETB, and death triggers by repeatedly recycling Dauthi Voidwalker through Tethmos High Priest using an opponent's own spell as the engine.

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Format

Commander

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The line runs on a turn-cycle delay: Grinning Totem exiles an opponent's creature-targeting instant or sorcery, Dauthi Voidwalker intercepts it at upkeep and casts it for free targeting Tethmos High Priest, whose trigger returns the Voidwalker to the battlefield. Lightning Greaves equips to High Priest at zero cost before the spell resolves, making it an illegal target so the spell fizzles harmlessly into exile — and the whole loop resets. The combo depends entirely on finding a valid spell in an opponent's library, which makes it brittle in low-instant-sorcery metas or against control decks that have already emptied their libraries.

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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Forge Anew's role here is to reattach Lightning Greaves from the graveyard if it's been removed — without it, the target-fizzle step falls apart, so keep a cheap equipment-recursion backup like Goblin Welder if Forge Anew is countered. The infinite triggers don't kill on their own; pair with Zulaport Cutthroat or Blood Artist to convert the Voidwalker's infinite sacrifice loop into a table kill.

Dauthi Voidwalker + Tethmos High Priest + Lightning Greaves + Grinning Totem + Forge Anew

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