Lethal Vapors + Teferi's Protection + Trickbind

3-card combo · WUB

Verdict

Yes — this 3-card pile locks the table out of the game by stacking an arbitrarily large number of skip-turn triggers while Teferi's Protection makes the pilot untouchable for the duration.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$14.84

Color identity

WUB

Popularity

46 decks

Format

Commander

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Lethal Vapors reads that any player may activate its ability to skip their next turn and destroy it — but activating it repeatedly before it resolves stacks that skip-turn trigger on every opponent simultaneously. Trickbind counters one activation to seal Lethal Vapors from being popped early, and Teferi's Protection ensures the pilot survives the entire chain with an unchanged life total and protection from everything while opponents draw out.

How it works

Prerequisites

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Steps

Cast Lethal Vapors by paying .
Activate Lethal Vapors an arbitrarily large number of times.
Maintaining priority, cast Trickbind by paying , countering one of those triggers and preventing Lethal Vapors from being activated again until end of turn.
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.

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

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

Stifle or Tale's End substitutes for Trickbind if blue tutors are already taxed — any hard counter or stifle effect that prevents Lethal Vapors from being sacrificed in response to the activation stack completes the lock. The combo needs all three pieces in hand simultaneously, which is the real constraint; Esper tutors like Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Enlightened Tutor cut assembly time considerably.

Lethal Vapors + Teferi's Protection + Trickbind

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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