Priest of Fell Rites + Necrotic Ooze + Righteous Valkyrie + Maskwood Nexus + Lightning Greaves

5-card combo · WB

Verdict

Yes — this 5-card loop generates infinite ETB, death, and lifegain triggers in any white-black life-matters shell that can reach fifty life and tutor five pieces.

Cards required

Cheapest stack total

$9.81

Color identity

Popularity

1 decks

Format

Commander

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Maskwood Nexus makes every creature an Angel, so Righteous Valkyrie's ETB trigger fires whenever Priest of Fell Rites or Necrotic Ooze enters — each loop costs three life, returns the other creature, gains life equal to its toughness, and nets positive. Lightning Greaves supplies the haste and shroud that lets the freshly-reanimated piece activate immediately without passing priority. This is a Lathril or Oloro-adjacent life-total architecture, but it lives most naturally under a white-black lifegain commander like Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim or Kambal, Consul of Allocation.

How it works

Prerequisites

Your life total is at least fifty.

Steps

Activate Lightning Greaves' equip ability by paying , attaching it to Priest of Fell Rites.
Activate Priest of Fell Rites by paying three life, tapping and sacrificing it, returning Necrotic Ooze from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When Necrotic Ooze enters the battlefield, Righteous Valkyrie's first ability triggers, causing you to gain life equal to Necrotic Ooze's toughness.
Activate Lightning Greaves' equip ability by paying , attaching it to Necrotic Ooze.
Activate Necrotic Ooze by paying three life, tapping and sacrificing it, returning Priest of Fell Rites from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When Priest of Fell Rites enters the battlefield, Righteous Valkyrie's first ability triggers, causing you to gain life equal to Priest of Fell Rites' toughness.
Repeat.

Result

Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

The fifty-life floor is the honest bottleneck — tutors like Vampiric Tutor and Enlightened Tutor assemble pieces faster, but the combo stalls if the table pressures the pilot below threshold before the loop fires. Once life goes infinite, Righteous Valkyrie's second ability pushes all Angels to lethal size; pair with Altar of Dementia or a hasty attacker to close without needing combat math.

Priest of Fell Rites + Necrotic Ooze + Righteous Valkyrie + Maskwood Nexus + Lightning Greaves

How it works

Cheaper, tighter, alternate lines

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