Eternal Witness + Phyrexian Altar + Helping Hand

3-card combo · GW

Verdict

Yes — this 3-card loop generates infinite ETB, death, and storm triggers in any green-white shell that can assemble three specific pieces.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$0.00

Color identity

Popularity

63 decks

Format

Commander

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Phyrexian Altar converts Eternal Witness into the single white mana Helping Hand costs; Helping Hand puts Eternal Witness directly onto the battlefield, and Eternal Witness's ETB retrieves Helping Hand from the graveyard to reset the loop. The engine asks nothing of the board state beyond these three cards, making it a clean win condition in Trostani, Selesnya's Voice or any Selesnya aristocrats list that already wants Eternal Witness for recursion.

How it works

Prerequisites

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Steps

Sacrifice Eternal Witness to Phyrexian Altar, adding .
Cast Helping Hand, returning Eternal Witness from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Eternal Witness enters, returning Helping Hand from your graveyard to your hand.
Repeat.

Result

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

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Eternal Witness is the hardest piece to replace — Timeless Witness runs the same loop and adds counters as a bonus if the four-mana cost is acceptable in the shell. The loop produces no mana beyond what Phyrexian Altar provides each iteration, so a storm payoff like Aetherflux Reservoir or a death-trigger payoff like Zulaport Cutthroat is the required closer; without one, the loop cycles forever but wins nothing.

Eternal Witness + Phyrexian Altar + Helping Hand

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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