High Alert + Task Force + Lightning Greaves

3-card combo · WU

Verdict

Yes — this 3-piece white-blue setup turns Task Force into a lethal attacker by stacking its triggered ability before a single point of combat damage lands.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$5.27

Color identity

Popularity

16 decks

Format

Commander

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High Alert lets Task Force deal damage equal to its toughness rather than its power; shifting Lightning Greaves back and forth between Task Force and a second creature at zero equip cost triggers Task Force as many times as needed, stacking +0/+3 counters until its toughness reaches a kill shot. The loop requires a second creature on board to serve as the alternating equip target between activations. White-blue Defender strategies — anything under Arcades, the Strategist or Doran, the Siege Tower as a guest commander — are the natural homes, though this line demands a clear path to an opponent before it does anything.

How it works

Prerequisites

An opponent is unable to block and kill Task Force.

Steps

Activate Lightning Greaves' equip ability by paying , targeting Task Force.
Task Force triggers, giving itself +0/+3 until end of turn.
Resolve the Lightning Greaves ability, attaching it to Task Force.
Activate Lightning Greaves' equip ability by paying , attaching it to another creature you control.
Repeat an arbitrarily large number of times.
Deal combat damage to an opponent with Task Force, causing the opponent to lose the game due to having zero or less life.

Result

Infinite combat damage to one opponent

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Arcades, the Strategist replaces High Alert as the damage-enabler and doubles as a commander, which tightens the piece count to two cards in play. Swiftfoot Boots cannot substitute for Lightning Greaves here — the combo depends specifically on the zero equip cost. If the second creature requirement is a bottleneck, any cheap token producer like Raise the Alarm guarantees a Greaves target before the loop begins.

High Alert + Task Force + Lightning Greaves

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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