Lethal Vapors + Teferi's Protection + Tithe Taker
3-card combo · WB
Verdict
Yes — this 3-card lock skips enough turns that every opponent decks out while Teferi's Protection makes the pilot untouchable through the wait.
- Cards required
- 3
- Cheapest stack total
- $86.65
- Color identity
- WB
- Popularity
- 58 decks
- Format
- Commander
Lethal Vapors destroys any creature that enters the battlefield; its second ability lets any player skip their next turn to destroy it, so activating it arbitrarily many times before Teferi's Protection resolves stacks that many skipped turns on the stack. Teferi's Protection then freezes the pilot's life total and grants protection from everything, so the table has no interaction window during the skip-chain. Tithe Taker is the third piece — its death trigger or static ability taxes opponents' instant-speed responses, making it significantly harder to remove Lethal Vapors before the Protection resolves.
Recipe
How it works
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Prerequisites
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Steps
- Cast Lethal Vapors by paying
. - Activate Lethal Vapors an arbitrarily large number of times.
- Cast Teferi's Protection by paying
: until your next turn your life total can't change and you have protection from everything. - Allow all the activated abilities from Lethal Vapors to resolve, skipping an arbitrarily large number of turns.
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Result
Skip all your future turns, causing your opponents to eventually draw from an empty library and lose the game; You have protection from everything; Your life total can't change; Lock
Variations
Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines
Solemnity can substitute for some of the lock's defensive roles but doesn't replicate the untouchable window Teferi's Protection creates — there's no clean swap for that card. If Tithe Taker is unavailable, Grand Abolisher on the battlefield fills a similar role by shutting off opponent instants entirely on your turn; swap freely between the two depending on what white enchantment or creature tutors are in the list.
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Verified on Commander Spellbook · Combo ID lethal-vapors-teferis-protection-tithe-taker
Updated . Data from Commander Spellbook, Scryfall, and EDHREC.