One of my favorite combos is Platinum Angel and Abyssal Persecutor. No one can win, no one can lose. It's a fragile combo, but unless you have removal, the game will keep going. Me and my friend were around -300 health before he conceded lol.
I can only assume the concession came by sacking one, otherwise that game is still ongoing. As one man discovered in Honolulu... WotC didn't know what they unleashed. Always have a way to out your Plat Angels and Persecutors. No others need to be lost to those terrible cards.
Exquisite Blood: When opponents lose life, you gain that much life Soul Warden: You gain one life if a creature enters ANY battlefield Vito, Thorn of the Dark Rose: Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life Any player summons a creature, SW gives you a life Vito damages target player EB gives you life Vito triggers again EB triggers again Cycle until opponent is at 0.
You don't need the soul warden, Vito has an activated ability that he can give creatures lifelink (Also, you're still saying "summons" instead of "plays/casts" so either you have been playing for a very long or a very short time)
Ancient greenwarden makes land triggers happen twice (play lands from the graveyard too), ayasha makes all nontoken creatures you control forests. Now all nontoken ETB effects are 'landfall', and proc twice. I did a maskwood nexus combo to summon my deck, with the killer being skemfar shadow cleric( think thats the name ), where you choose one of the abilities, either gain x life ( x is amount of creatures you control that share a type ), or do x damage to each opponent. Nutty damage, 4 greenwardens will get ya 5 procs per shadow cleric, 4 shadow clerics entering along with the rest of your creature. Big boi stack
Gotta love the good old phage the untouchable + fractured identity combo. Or if you're extra spicy leveler + fractured identity is also fun. Losing last = winning
Leveler is also banned in Commander, by the way. It's why I'm in the process of building Esper Fractured Identity + Immortal Coil, and then clearing out graveyards with Relic of Progenitus or Rest In Peace. Edit: After checking Leveler's legality, it is legal in Commander. But if that's the case, why not use Leveler + Lab-Man/Jace to win?
Here's a sweet, mono green combo that helped me to victory last night. Apex Altisaur + Heroic Intervention + Concordant Crossroads + Shaman of Forgotten Ways. It takes a lot of mana lol but you cast Apex Altisaur. Hold priority and in response to the Altisaur's fight trigger on the stack, you cast Heroic Intervention. That makes your Altisaur Indestructible and it fights all of your opponents creatures to the death. Once your opponents creatures are dead, you just activate the Shamans ability to make everyone's life totals become 0 except yours, and you win. You don't need Concordant Crossroads of the Shaman has been on the field long enough for the summoning sickness to wear off. Otherwise you'll need it to activate the Shaman the turn you cast it.
Feels good when you already know and play half of these Here's another one. I play it in my Dimir Mill Drain 60 inspired by making mill damage work after seeing how awful Arc-Slogger is. Perfect Hand win-scenario against any number of opponents. Turn 1: Land, Altar of the Brood. Turn 2: Land of another color, Mindcrank. Turn 3: Land, Duskmantle Guildmage. Turn 4: Before playing land, Pay 3, activate Duskmantle Guildmage's ability, play land. Altar of the Brood triggers and starts the combo. Infinite mill, infinite drain on all opponents. Turn 4 win. This was before I knew about Bloodchief Ascension, but I found out about it shortly after and have wanted a playset ever since. Thankfully it was JUST reprinted in the list, knocking it down 10!
I found a REALLY good combo for my commander deck Uro as commander Castle vantress to scry cards Tamiyo, collector of tales as graveyard filler but you can scry so you won't lose anything too important
10:22 I actually played back in the late 90s when replenish was terrorizing standard, those were dark times. Especially if you were a kid and couldn't afford ports and masticores.
Bloodchief + Mindcrank is one of my favorite lines in Alela. People always raise an eyebrow at Bloodchief, but in one turn cycle it's usually online. Then you drop the crank and plink them with faeries. If your flyers can't get through, grab a codex shredder and assassinate them that way.
I used to run assault formation with tree of perdition. One activation and they're dead as soon as it gets in. Honorable mention to courtly provocateur and royal assassin.
Back in the day with tooth and nail being competitive, we had triskelion+mephidross vampire (selective board cleaner), kiki jiki+ sky ussar (endless pidgeons), or platinum angel and other stuff lol.
You know one of the wittier combos I played against was Sneak attack, the Penumbras, and Lifeline. Sneak attack the penumbras in for 1 mana each, then sacrifice them. This makes a copy of the card as it goes to the grave yard. Because there is a creature on the field, Lifeline triggers; bringing back the penumbra. You now have two penumbras for the price of one and you paid only one red mana for it as well. What makes the deck super fun is that you load the deck up with burn spells and penumbras. You play your turn, Sneak attack the creatures in with haste, attack with the penumbras, and then copy them. End your turn bring them back. Next turn attack again but this time you burn your own creature sending it to the graveyard. You get to create another copy and bring the penumbras back onto the field; UNTAPPED! You you can now defend with your penumbras, kill them again on your opponent’s turn, create another copy, and return it at the end of their turn; UnTapped!!! You then get to play your turn with a penumbra that doesn’t have summoning sickness... and guess what you do. Truly a sick deck.
Funny little combo with my newest deck; have pulled it off twice so far. Edh format Obeka, Brute Chronologist + Isochron Scepter (imprinted with Final Fortune) = Infinite Turns (Because the lose the game will go on the stack, and Obeka will cancel the Lose the Game)
Actually, I've pulled off Sage of Hours + Ezuri, Claw of Progress with 5 Experience Counters numerous times. People usually concede to that deck when I play it.
I LOVE eccentric combos like these, they're my favorite, it's what I live for! My dream one day is to make a deck where every card will combo off of every other card. Maybe it'll take another 30 years before this happens, but some day! A person can dream.
Maralen of the mornsong also works really well with Ob Nixilis, Unshackled which says “whenever an opponent searches his or her library that player sacrifices a creature and loses 10 life”
My favorite (which admittedly doesn't work well in Commander the way most of these do) is Curse of Exhaustion + Knowledge Pool. If they can't get rid of an enchantment or artifact without casting from their hand. Otherwise, they are pretty much locked down.
Actually, the card you want is a creature that prevents opponents from casting from all other zones but the hand, and then using Eidolon of Rhetoric from being unable to cast more than one spell. The key to get around Knowledge Pool is to cast from the graveyard, from the Command Zone, or, if using Vizier of the Menagerie, from the library. You can also cast spells from exile, such as with Jeska's Will, or the creature that allows you to cast instants or sorceries at your upkeep for free.
My favorite combo is rest in piece + helm of obedience. I love old cards with walls of text and helm is exactly that. Exiling an opponents deck is also fun.
Soul Separator + Tree of Perdition feels a tad funnier. Especially since no one will pay attention to the soul separator until precisely the moment you target the Tree.
I have one combo for you too I just figured out in my Faerie Tribal, featuring infinite non-creature counterspells. 1. Play Metallic mimic and call Faeries 2. Play Glen Elendra Archmage 3. Enjoy!
But when Glen died once and returned from the graveyard it did have a -1/-1 counter on it and won't return again after dying a second time... I believe just because it also had a +1/+1 counter on it that won't make it lose it's -1/-1 counter, right? They will neutralize each other in sum but they are still both there. Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@hillchicken612 Yes they are both there and when you gain priority, state is checked and the counters errase themselves (you physically remove both counters from the card). Then, you can use Glen elendra again. +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 are the only counters, where this kind of interaction is possible. This trick is also used in the current meta BR goblin pauper deck, where you sac putrid goblin into skirk prospector, but casting first day of class before.
My favorite silly combo is "Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir" + "Knowledge Pool". I like both cards (in commander), but together your oponents can not cast spells from their hands. Geanted, their commander is still live but it might be the last spell of their game.
I'm interested in this combo because I've thought about making a Knowledge Pool deck before to really induce chaos to a game. How do these cards actually interact though? Just a quick reading doesn't seem to scream at my poor old brain any specific synergy but I feel like maybe I'm just missing something?
@@soultpp Using the pool is not optional, so whenever they try to cast a spell (during their turn), the pool trigger. Then they can cast a spell from the pool while the first spell is still on the stack before putting said first spell in the pool. Or at least they would if Teferi did not stop the freecasting as it happens while the stack is not empty (so technically at instant speed). So they can only add spells to the pool but never successfully cast any spell.
@@randomguy6680 I see! That does not sound particularly intuitive to me tbh. But clearly WotC thought so since there was an official ruling that says as much that I just read after looking at Teferi again. Sounds very evil though... *Starts building deck*
I have another combo with Tree of Perdition: Active free of Perdition's ability and put in on the stack, then play Turn into Frog to turn Tree of Perdition into a 1/1. You're opponent is now down to 1 life. Then just sneak in 1 damage.
A fun combo that I’ve found in pioneer is Madcap Experiment + Soulfire grandmaster/radiant scrollwielder. The madcap deals damage to you equal to cards revealed but with lifelink on it it’s effectively no life lost. But what if I was grabbing alhemmaret’s archive? Well now it’s effectively GAINING life = to cards revealed. Want to just combo win instead? Add Vito! If you didn’t even have an artifact in your deck this combo still works. You reveal your whole deck and shuffle and deal “damage” = to cards revealed. But automatically gain life after taking it. So reveal 40>take 40>gain >40>Vito for 40. Pull this combo off on curve is a rush!
A friend had a Maralen commander deck and had both her and Opposition Agent and we all IMMEDIATELY got upset and scooped. We are all good friends though so we weren’t upset long and moved on. He never play that deck again
When I was a kid I had a Familiar Ground + Goblin War Drums combo that let me attack unblocked with everything. It blew my mind that such combos existed.
Fun list. There are a few tweaks you can make to some so that they're either stronger (ie. Star of Extinction alongside Boros Reckoner/Stuffy Doll/Brash Taunter or whatever self-harmer you're using; Final Parting instead of Gifts Ungiven so it stays in black and isn't using such a notoriously strong card), but overall fun stuff. "What are the odds of losing a million coin flips?". Zero. Technically not, but it's so many decimal points below 1.00 that any sort of rounding at all effectively puts it at zero. If you're looking for a combo for your next list that's quite good at controlling games, Blood on the Snow, plus a creature that costs 6 or less and gives a sorcery (or any) card back from the graveyard when it enters the battlefield. Options are Eternal/Timeless Witness for green, Archaeomancer for blue, Ardent Elementalist for red. There are of course other viable creature options - Shipwreck Dowser (5 mana, blue) offers a more aggressive option due to having prowess, and Kairi, the Swirling Sky (6 mana, blue) can sort of do it too - though in its case, it relies on a dies trigger (but also gets 2 cards back for you, and is a 6/6 flying body with ward 3, so an awesome threat and good value). The combo is simple - Blood on the Snow. Get back one of the aforementioned creatures. That creature gets back Blood on the Snow. Now, unless your opponent can intervene, you always have access to a sweeper. This setup also works with Sublime Epiphany - in the case of Epiphany, you clone the creature in question - when the creature token is made, it gets you back the Sublime Epiphany. That makes UBx variants decent as it can include both of these. And now to go off on the Sublime/creature that can get Sublime back tangent - this can also be used to setup a lock with Archon of Emeria. Mana requirements aside, if you can set up the board with the creature-that-gets-an-instant back, Archon of Emeria (only allows players to cast one spell per turn) and have a Sublime in hand, you essentially have the tools to counter every spell your opponent casts.
A Black Lotus sandwich with Mox Pearl sauce, a side of Mox Emerald smothered in Mox Ruby dressing, Mox Saphire (with sprinkles) for desert, and wash it down with a glass of Mox Jet juice… no such thing as a free lunch INDEED!
A bit lengthy, but have 4 permanents, cast flood of tears, lay down omniscience, cast flux channeler followed by Vivian arkbow ranger, cast 3 more permanents, activate Vivian to take a creature from your collection (or sideboard) into your hand, cast tamiyo and get back flood of tears. Rinse and repeat until you have the biggest baddest creatures in hand and cast them all at once. Little tip, if you plan on attacking right away make sure something is giving them haste. 😁 not the easiest combo, but sire to have your opponents jaws on the floor!
I love me some good old Niv Mizzet, Firemind plus Curiosity. Curiosity:When you deal damage to a player draw a card. Niv: Tap to draw a card. When you draw a card deal 1 damage to player or creature. Just make sure to keep targeting the opponent.
That Pyhrexiqn Unlife and Solemnity is one I found a couple years back when I was searching for cards around counters. I saw that and debated creating a deck revolving around it.
My favorite combo is Zada + Silverfur partisan and lots of targeted cantrips. Zada is a goblin from BFZ that says any time it's targeted by an instant/sorcery she copies it onto every of your creatures, and each time any of those targets a wolf Silverfur gives you a 2/2 wolf token. Your wolf tokens quickly gets exponential !
Pandemonium should've been paired with Saproling Burst for an insta-21 damage combo, but can definitely see how Sekki is a better option when it goes infinite onto itself.
Good to see a fresh vid! Here's one: Nature's Will + Aggravated Assault 😈 With a Goldspan Dragon, Old Gnawbone, and/or Ancient Copper Dragon on board. Lol
Raggadragga+ (Selvala, Viridian Joiner, Heronblade Elite, Marwyn, any creature that taps for mana equal to power)+ 7 mana+ Fanning the flames or Wurmcalling= Unlimited mana/casting, unlimited damage or wurm tokens, unlimited huge mana dork with trample. Bonus* If Wurmcalling goes unlimited with Selvala you can also draw your library I am surprised how often I am able to pull this off :P
am now rather relieved that the maralen deck i was playing against at my LGS was a for-fun janky deck made by a fun dude that wanted a casual game. that combo is NASTY
Maybe i missed it, but ive always loved "Painter's Servant" + "Grindstone". Servant makes all cards not in play the chosen color, then tap grindstone. Grindstone makes them mill 2 cards, both cards share a color so they repeat until their library is empty...
Calibrated Blast: Deal damage to any target equal to the mana value of the top nonland card Scheming Symmetry: You and target opponent searches their library and puts the card on top Shadow of Mortality/Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: A 15 MV card Cast Symmetry to put your 15MV card on top, then immidiately shoot the opponent for 15 with Calibrated Blast before they can do anything. And it's all perfectly Modern legal.
My Commander deck uses Shorikai, Genesis Engine, Myr mana dorks, and Intruder Alarm (crew Shorikai, tap Myr for mana, tap Shorikai and use the mana to draw/discard/create a pilot token triggering Intruder Alarm so everybody untaps, repeat). Thinking of adding Halo Fountain for an alt win condition with all the pilot tokens.
My favorite is necroplasm + Asmodeus the archfiend + skirge familiar. Draw seven cards. Pitch what you don't for mana, do it again until you find your combo piece.
Enchanted Evening + Archon of Sun's Grace Archon has a constellation trigger to make pegasus tokens. Enchanted Evening makes all permanents enchantments, including the tokens created by the Archon. This gives you infinite Archon tokens and infinite constellation triggers until either piece leaves the battlefield.
i made an accidental combo once in arena. was running a orzhov life gain deck. i had a demon on the field that whenever i lose life i draw a card in its effect. opponent proceeds to steal it to his side at instant speed then i played underworld dreams. whenever an opponent draws a card they lose life. pass turn and instant win.
Bloodchief's Ascension + Mindcrank is a combo my one friend is SUPER cocky about using in his mill deck. It's also one of those combos that tends to get him targetted big time when he gets close to using it. I've personally been using the Demonic Pact + Harmless Gift combo for a long time in my Radkos deck. Only actually pulled it off once though.
FIRST TURN: -Mountain + Goblin Arsonist SECOND TURN: -Mountain + Infernal Plunge (goblin sac and face dmg) + Geosurge + Furyborn Hellkite = 12/12 flyer :D That was once my combo in standard
I have a personal liking for Demonic Pact and Harmless Offering, as I tried to make it into a Modern deck... It's really bad, like, REALLY bad. But pulling it off feels so very good.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 well, I use to play it a long time ago, before I played competitively, so it's pretty Janky. However, I have wanted to redo the list, just haven't gotten around to it. Basically, it's a bunch of control until I can pull the combo off
Step 1: have Archelos, Sakura Tribe scout, Rimewind Taskmage, Ancient Greenwarden and Retreat to coralhelm in play. Step 2: Have at least 1 bounce land in your hand. Step 3: tape Tribe scout, bringing the bounce land into play. Because of Archelos, it will come in untapped Step 4:. Tap the bounce land for mana and have it bounce itself to your hand. Step5: tap the Timewind Taskmage, tapping anything of your opponents, including lands. Step 6: Retreat to Coralhelm with have 2 triggers thanks to Ancient Greenwarden. Use both triggers to untap both the tribe scout and taskmage. Step 7: Repeat steps 1-6 until everything on your opponents side is tapped. Step 8: on each upkeep, repeat step 7, except now tap down archelos as well so that anything they do play comes in tapped. Step 9: slowly wack them to death. (in a multiplayer setting, once Archelos is tapped, you can still tap tribe scout to bring in the land, except now you wont be able to tap it for mana. Simply use the two coralhelm triggers to untap Archelos and the tribe scout to be able to go infinite again.)
I am an old school player and my favorite stupid combo will always be Chains of Mephistopheles + Teferi's Puzzle Box, if you want to be cheeky add Teferi, Time Raveler, because come on Tef likes his boxes. Then throw in 4 Gaea's Blessing with absolutly no way to play it.
Glad you brought up replenish opalescence. I tried to make that work so hard lol. At the time it was dovescape and pandemonium then end of turn cast as many force of wills as possible (hopefully 2) and swing out. Opalescence made it a little easier
Post Theros, you really don't even need Opalescence since half the enchantment cards in that plane are also creatures. Or you know, indestructible gods.
Tree of Perdition + Triskaidekafobia Triskaidekafobia: "Choose one- *At the begginning of your upkeep, each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gain 1 life. *At the begginning of your upkeep, each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life. So you only have to activate the Tree of Perdition before the Trigger of Triskaidekafobia resolve.
Try having Tree of Perdition and Triskadekaphobia on your board or Demonic pact and Fractured Identity in a commander game and watch the world burn. I always announce " You guys now have 4 turns. Make it count" for the latter.
I used the combo restoration angel + felidar guardian in my mono w lifegain with a sister on the battefield to gain infinite life...such good days with janky modern decks :')
Only problem with the mill combo, is if a player (like me) is playing Green/Blue. Why? The planeswalker Jace or Laboratory Maniac. Basically, with a tutor of some kind, along with Vizier of the Menagerie, I could get out Lab-Man to win the game. The only downside is the loss of life from the combo, which would have to be stifled somehow. Another two-card that could be used to stop the Mindcrank shenanigans is Syr Konrad/Exquisite Blood, which could use Syr Konrad's activated ability to interrupt the Mindcrank player's combo and kill them with their own cards.
My Fiance has a Phyrexian Unlife deck in it, I 'think' his combo card is either Platinum Angel or an enchantment that states he can't gain counters. It's been a while since he's played it. Since we play casually not every deck is going to have an answer to it.
Why use bloodchief ascension? Just use Duskmantle Guildmage as not only is that more consistent, but he has additional utilities and can start the combo.
For the first combo i have a way easyer and funnier way to do it but it takes 3 turns. First play the tree of perdition then play Triskaïdékaphobie which says that : at the beginning of your turn, each player with exactly 13 hp loses the game. Then on your next turn use the effect of the tree. And finally after your opponoent's which's eyes are drowned in terror of knowing what will happen, the turn starts and you've won the game lmao
Multiple pieces to this combo but it involves other combos: basalt monolith + rings of brightenrith = infinite mana + retrofitter foundry + altar of the brood = mill city
My favorite combo is March of machines + Mycosynth Lattice.. and all lands poof. If you have in play some artifact that produce mana you can still play!
Haha, I remember playing Pandemonium/Manowar and another card. . Green? Enchantment ‘you can play any creature 3 or less for free’ for infinite damage. .all my own baby. .then. The next set. .some other players were using some new cards with Pademonium in a deck called, ‘21’ (if everything went perfect for them the creature they put into play would deal 21 damage’
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Tree of Pedention + Triskaidekaphobia = How I win My Games!
One of my favorite combos is Platinum Angel and Abyssal Persecutor. No one can win, no one can lose. It's a fragile combo, but unless you have removal, the game will keep going. Me and my friend were around -300 health before he conceded lol.
Haha, that's a great one!
Bruh.
I can only assume the concession came by sacking one, otherwise that game is still ongoing. As one man discovered in Honolulu...
WotC didn't know what they unleashed. Always have a way to out your Plat Angels and Persecutors. No others need to be lost to those terrible cards.
Good stuff with a mill deck
He cant conced, as he cant lose
Exquisite Blood: When opponents lose life, you gain that much life
Soul Warden: You gain one life if a creature enters ANY battlefield
Vito, Thorn of the Dark Rose: Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life
Any player summons a creature, SW gives you a life
Vito damages target player
EB gives you life
Vito triggers again
EB triggers again
Cycle until opponent is at 0.
Exquisite Blood: When opponents lose life, you gain that much life
Sanguine Bond: Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
@@MountainLich throw a couple vito in the deck as a backup to the win con.
You don't need the soul warden, Vito has an activated ability that he can give creatures lifelink
(Also, you're still saying "summons" instead of "plays/casts" so either you have been playing for a very long or a very short time)
The same Trigger with Blood Artist.
Go for the throat ruins all that.
Ancient greenwarden makes land triggers happen twice (play lands from the graveyard too), ayasha makes all nontoken creatures you control forests. Now all nontoken ETB effects are 'landfall', and proc twice. I did a maskwood nexus combo to summon my deck, with the killer being skemfar shadow cleric( think thats the name ), where you choose one of the abilities, either gain x life ( x is amount of creatures you control that share a type ), or do x damage to each opponent. Nutty damage, 4 greenwardens will get ya 5 procs per shadow cleric, 4 shadow clerics entering along with the rest of your creature. Big boi stack
my fav combo: Swans of Bryn Argoll + chain of Plasma = draw your deck
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I love Swans + Seismic Assault. Just keep reloading and burn your opponent out with style.
The Gitrog Monster + discard outlet + Dakmor salvage + shuffle Titan in deck = any cards you want in your hand, Library, and graveyard
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I've got to demonic pact and harmless offering in a game once. It was so glorious.
I've 4-0'd an FNM with Kitty Pact back when it was in standard
Gotta love the good old phage the untouchable + fractured identity combo.
Or if you're extra spicy leveler + fractured identity is also fun. Losing last = winning
You don't lose last since there is no stack if all other players lose first, so you're just winning :)
Leveler is also banned in Commander, by the way. It's why I'm in the process of building Esper Fractured Identity + Immortal Coil, and then clearing out graveyards with Relic of Progenitus or Rest In Peace.
Edit: After checking Leveler's legality, it is legal in Commander. But if that's the case, why not use Leveler + Lab-Man/Jace to win?
Here's a sweet, mono green combo that helped me to victory last night. Apex Altisaur + Heroic Intervention + Concordant Crossroads + Shaman of Forgotten Ways. It takes a lot of mana lol but you cast Apex Altisaur. Hold priority and in response to the Altisaur's fight trigger on the stack, you cast Heroic Intervention. That makes your Altisaur Indestructible and it fights all of your opponents creatures to the death. Once your opponents creatures are dead, you just activate the Shamans ability to make everyone's life totals become 0 except yours, and you win. You don't need Concordant Crossroads of the Shaman has been on the field long enough for the summoning sickness to wear off. Otherwise you'll need it to activate the Shaman the turn you cast it.
The Demonic Pact and Harmless Offering is my favorite among these, such a troll combo lol
Feels good when you already know and play half of these
Here's another one. I play it in my Dimir Mill Drain 60 inspired by making mill damage work after seeing how awful Arc-Slogger is. Perfect Hand win-scenario against any number of opponents. Turn 1: Land, Altar of the Brood. Turn 2: Land of another color, Mindcrank. Turn 3: Land, Duskmantle Guildmage. Turn 4: Before playing land, Pay 3, activate Duskmantle Guildmage's ability, play land. Altar of the Brood triggers and starts the combo. Infinite mill, infinite drain on all opponents. Turn 4 win.
This was before I knew about Bloodchief Ascension, but I found out about it shortly after and have wanted a playset ever since. Thankfully it was JUST reprinted in the list, knocking it down 10!
I found a REALLY good combo for my commander deck
Uro as commander
Castle vantress to scry cards
Tamiyo, collector of tales as graveyard filler but you can scry so you won't lose anything too important
10:22 I actually played back in the late 90s when replenish was terrorizing standard, those were dark times. Especially if you were a kid and couldn't afford ports and masticores.
Bloodchief + Mindcrank is one of my favorite lines in Alela. People always raise an eyebrow at Bloodchief, but in one turn cycle it's usually online. Then you drop the crank and plink them with faeries. If your flyers can't get through, grab a codex shredder and assassinate them that way.
Duskmantle Guildmage works better IMO, more consistent.
Duskmantle ❤
I used to run assault formation with tree of perdition. One activation and they're dead as soon as it gets in. Honorable mention to courtly provocateur and royal assassin.
Solemnity and Decree of Silence is a fun combo too.
Back in the day with tooth and nail being competitive, we had triskelion+mephidross vampire (selective board cleaner), kiki jiki+ sky ussar (endless pidgeons), or platinum angel and other stuff lol.
From growing up playing with my dad's old collection, hands down I gotta go with "Swamp, Dark Ritual, Hypnotic Specter, scoop." :)
The classic combo!
Swamp, ritual, priest of Gix, specter hahah
You know one of the wittier combos I played against was Sneak attack, the Penumbras, and Lifeline.
Sneak attack the penumbras in for 1 mana each, then sacrifice them.
This makes a copy of the card as it goes to the grave yard.
Because there is a creature on the field, Lifeline triggers; bringing back the penumbra.
You now have two penumbras for the price of one and you paid only one red mana for it as well.
What makes the deck super fun is that you load the deck up with burn spells and penumbras.
You play your turn, Sneak attack the creatures in with haste, attack with the penumbras, and then copy them. End your turn bring them back. Next turn attack again but this time you burn your own creature sending it to the graveyard. You get to create another copy and bring the penumbras back onto the field; UNTAPPED!
You you can now defend with your penumbras, kill them again on your opponent’s turn, create another copy, and return it at the end of their turn; UnTapped!!!
You then get to play your turn with a penumbra that doesn’t have summoning sickness... and guess what you do.
Truly a sick deck.
A sneak attack deck is brutal
Funny little combo with my newest deck; have pulled it off twice so far.
Edh format
Obeka, Brute Chronologist
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Isochron Scepter (imprinted with Final Fortune)
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Infinite Turns (Because the lose the game will go on the stack, and Obeka will cancel the Lose the Game)
Actually, I've pulled off Sage of Hours + Ezuri, Claw of Progress with 5 Experience Counters numerous times.
People usually concede to that deck when I play it.
Tree of Perdition is perfectly works with Triskaidekaphobia card
I LOVE eccentric combos like these, they're my favorite, it's what I live for! My dream one day is to make a deck where every card will combo off of every other card. Maybe it'll take another 30 years before this happens, but some day! A person can dream.
Wonderful content as always. Thank you Nikachu MTG 👌💙🙏💎☮
Glad you enjoyed it!
Maralen of the mornsong also works really well with Ob Nixilis, Unshackled which says “whenever an opponent searches his or her library that player sacrifices a creature and loses 10 life”
My favorite (which admittedly doesn't work well in Commander the way most of these do) is Curse of Exhaustion + Knowledge Pool. If they can't get rid of an enchantment or artifact without casting from their hand. Otherwise, they are pretty much locked down.
Actually, the card you want is a creature that prevents opponents from casting from all other zones but the hand, and then using Eidolon of Rhetoric from being unable to cast more than one spell.
The key to get around Knowledge Pool is to cast from the graveyard, from the Command Zone, or, if using Vizier of the Menagerie, from the library. You can also cast spells from exile, such as with Jeska's Will, or the creature that allows you to cast instants or sorceries at your upkeep for free.
My favorite combo is rest in piece + helm of obedience. I love old cards with walls of text and helm is exactly that. Exiling an opponents deck is also fun.
It was a good day when they added Harmless Offering in Arena. Good ole historic shenanigans.
Soul Separator + Tree of Perdition feels a tad funnier. Especially since no one will pay attention to the soul separator until precisely the moment you target the Tree.
I have one combo for you too I just figured out in my Faerie Tribal, featuring infinite non-creature counterspells.
1. Play Metallic mimic and call Faeries
2. Play Glen Elendra Archmage
3. Enjoy!
nice!
That's a fun one
But when Glen died once and returned from the graveyard it did have a -1/-1 counter on it and won't return again after dying a second time... I believe just because it also had a +1/+1 counter on it that won't make it lose it's -1/-1 counter, right? They will neutralize each other in sum but they are still both there. Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@hillchicken612 Yes they are both there and when you gain priority, state is checked and the counters errase themselves (you physically remove both counters from the card). Then, you can use Glen elendra again. +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 are the only counters, where this kind of interaction is possible.
This trick is also used in the current meta BR goblin pauper deck, where you sac putrid goblin into skirk prospector, but casting first day of class before.
My favorite silly combo is "Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir" + "Knowledge Pool". I like both cards (in commander), but together your oponents can not cast spells from their hands. Geanted, their commander is still live but it might be the last spell of their game.
That’s a nice one!
I'm interested in this combo because I've thought about making a Knowledge Pool deck before to really induce chaos to a game. How do these cards actually interact though? Just a quick reading doesn't seem to scream at my poor old brain any specific synergy but I feel like maybe I'm just missing something?
@@soultpp Using the pool is not optional, so whenever they try to cast a spell (during their turn), the pool trigger.
Then they can cast a spell from the pool while the first spell is still on the stack before putting said first spell in the pool. Or at least they would if Teferi did not stop the freecasting as it happens while the stack is not empty (so technically at instant speed).
So they can only add spells to the pool but never successfully cast any spell.
@@randomguy6680 I see! That does not sound particularly intuitive to me tbh. But clearly WotC thought so since there was an official ruling that says as much that I just read after looking at Teferi again. Sounds very evil though... *Starts building deck*
I have another combo with Tree of Perdition: Active free of Perdition's ability and put in on the stack, then play Turn into Frog to turn Tree of Perdition into a 1/1. You're opponent is now down to 1 life. Then just sneak in 1 damage.
Been having a blast killing people with an army of squirrels via the historic Scurry Oak combo!
I recently added Devilish Valet to this combo for a modern rendition with unlimited power with trample!
I love the way you incorporate your sponsor in a way that’s relevant to the rest of the video.
I am quite proud of myself for that one!
Tree of Perdition + Triskaidekaphobia works the same but requires only 2 cards.
And it’s one color
I've always wanted to pull off a win with Triskaideaphobia, I never did go back and build the deck for it.
Yes!! I love these videos! As a noob MTG player these are quite interesting!
A fun combo that I’ve found in pioneer is Madcap Experiment + Soulfire grandmaster/radiant scrollwielder.
The madcap deals damage to you equal to cards revealed but with lifelink on it it’s effectively no life lost.
But what if I was grabbing alhemmaret’s archive? Well now it’s effectively GAINING life = to cards revealed.
Want to just combo win instead? Add Vito!
If you didn’t even have an artifact in your deck this combo still works. You reveal your whole deck and shuffle and deal “damage” = to cards revealed. But automatically gain life after taking it.
So reveal 40>take 40>gain >40>Vito for 40. Pull this combo off on curve is a rush!
A friend had a Maralen commander deck and had both her and Opposition Agent and we all IMMEDIATELY got upset and scooped. We are all good friends though so we weren’t upset long and moved on. He never play that deck again
Add hermetic study and ping your opponent to death.
We used to do that same shit with the horseshoe crab and high tide.
This se deck also played that magpie that draws cards when it delas damage (you enchant it with Hermetic Study).
When I was a kid I had a Familiar Ground + Goblin War Drums combo that let me attack unblocked with everything. It blew my mind that such combos existed.
Fun list. There are a few tweaks you can make to some so that they're either stronger (ie. Star of Extinction alongside Boros Reckoner/Stuffy Doll/Brash Taunter or whatever self-harmer you're using; Final Parting instead of Gifts Ungiven so it stays in black and isn't using such a notoriously strong card), but overall fun stuff.
"What are the odds of losing a million coin flips?". Zero. Technically not, but it's so many decimal points below 1.00 that any sort of rounding at all effectively puts it at zero.
If you're looking for a combo for your next list that's quite good at controlling games, Blood on the Snow, plus a creature that costs 6 or less and gives a sorcery (or any) card back from the graveyard when it enters the battlefield. Options are Eternal/Timeless Witness for green, Archaeomancer for blue, Ardent Elementalist for red. There are of course other viable creature options - Shipwreck Dowser (5 mana, blue) offers a more aggressive option due to having prowess, and Kairi, the Swirling Sky (6 mana, blue) can sort of do it too - though in its case, it relies on a dies trigger (but also gets 2 cards back for you, and is a 6/6 flying body with ward 3, so an awesome threat and good value). The combo is simple - Blood on the Snow. Get back one of the aforementioned creatures. That creature gets back Blood on the Snow. Now, unless your opponent can intervene, you always have access to a sweeper.
This setup also works with Sublime Epiphany - in the case of Epiphany, you clone the creature in question - when the creature token is made, it gets you back the Sublime Epiphany. That makes UBx variants decent as it can include both of these.
And now to go off on the Sublime/creature that can get Sublime back tangent - this can also be used to setup a lock with Archon of Emeria. Mana requirements aside, if you can set up the board with the creature-that-gets-an-instant back, Archon of Emeria (only allows players to cast one spell per turn) and have a Sublime in hand, you essentially have the tools to counter every spell your opponent casts.
It only took me a couple of weeks of binge watching your stuff to find this particular video of yours. Love me some combos lol
A Black Lotus sandwich with Mox Pearl sauce, a side of Mox Emerald smothered in Mox Ruby dressing, Mox Saphire (with sprinkles) for desert, and wash it down with a glass of Mox Jet juice… no such thing as a free lunch INDEED!
A bit lengthy, but have 4 permanents, cast flood of tears, lay down omniscience, cast flux channeler followed by Vivian arkbow ranger, cast 3 more permanents, activate Vivian to take a creature from your collection (or sideboard) into your hand, cast tamiyo and get back flood of tears. Rinse and repeat until you have the biggest baddest creatures in hand and cast them all at once. Little tip, if you plan on attacking right away make sure something is giving them haste. 😁 not the easiest combo, but sire to have your opponents jaws on the floor!
I love me some good old Niv Mizzet, Firemind plus Curiosity.
Curiosity:When you deal damage to a player draw a card.
Niv: Tap to draw a card. When you draw a card deal 1 damage to player or creature.
Just make sure to keep targeting the opponent.
I have had maralen sitting in a box for 20 years, thanks for the awesome combo.
That Pyhrexiqn Unlife and Solemnity is one I found a couple years back when I was searching for cards around counters. I saw that and debated creating a deck revolving around it.
My favorite combo is Zada + Silverfur partisan and lots of targeted cantrips.
Zada is a goblin from BFZ that says any time it's targeted by an instant/sorcery she copies it onto every of your creatures, and each time any of those targets a wolf Silverfur gives you a 2/2 wolf token.
Your wolf tokens quickly gets exponential !
That pause; "Win?" Quality timing.
Nikachu's Grandpa: "Back in my day, we didn't even win with creatures..."
Pandemonium should've been paired with Saproling Burst for an insta-21 damage combo, but can definitely see how Sekki is a better option when it goes infinite onto itself.
That’s a sweet combo too
@@NikachuMTG And since you also mentioned Replenish that reminded me of the Replenish -Pandemonium-Saproling Burst combo
I built my friend a Malcolm and Breeches deck, so I am definitely going to send him that Bucaneer combo.
Good to see a fresh vid! Here's one: Nature's Will + Aggravated Assault 😈 With a Goldspan Dragon, Old Gnawbone, and/or Ancient Copper Dragon on board. Lol
Raggadragga+ (Selvala, Viridian Joiner, Heronblade Elite, Marwyn, any creature that taps for mana equal to power)+ 7 mana+ Fanning the flames or Wurmcalling= Unlimited mana/casting, unlimited damage or wurm tokens, unlimited huge mana dork with trample.
Bonus* If Wurmcalling goes unlimited with Selvala you can also draw your library
I am surprised how often I am able to pull this off :P
I liked teferi's puzzle box with notion thief, the equal amounts of hate and panic as everyone looks for some instant speed spot removal was worth it.
"Have they ever heard of a bank? It's not like they won't take your illegal money!"
Shots fired 😂😂😂
am now rather relieved that the maralen deck i was playing against at my LGS was a for-fun janky deck made by a fun dude that wanted a casual game. that combo is NASTY
Maybe i missed it, but ive always loved "Painter's Servant" + "Grindstone".
Servant makes all cards not in play the chosen color, then tap grindstone.
Grindstone makes them mill 2 cards, both cards share a color so they repeat until their library is empty...
Calibrated Blast: Deal damage to any target equal to the mana value of the top nonland card
Scheming Symmetry: You and target opponent searches their library and puts the card on top
Shadow of Mortality/Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: A 15 MV card
Cast Symmetry to put your 15MV card on top, then immidiately shoot the opponent for 15 with Calibrated Blast before they can do anything.
And it's all perfectly Modern legal.
My Commander deck uses Shorikai, Genesis Engine, Myr mana dorks, and Intruder Alarm (crew Shorikai, tap Myr for mana, tap Shorikai and use the mana to draw/discard/create a pilot token triggering Intruder Alarm so everybody untaps, repeat). Thinking of adding Halo Fountain for an alt win condition with all the pilot tokens.
My favorite is necroplasm + Asmodeus the archfiend + skirge familiar. Draw seven cards. Pitch what you don't for mana, do it again until you find your combo piece.
Enchanted Evening + Archon of Sun's Grace
Archon has a constellation trigger to make pegasus tokens. Enchanted Evening makes all permanents enchantments, including the tokens created by the Archon. This gives you infinite Archon tokens and infinite constellation triggers until either piece leaves the battlefield.
Thopters assembly and time sieve makes me a happy man, I get all the turns!
i made an accidental combo once in arena. was running a orzhov life gain deck. i had a demon on the field that whenever i lose life i draw a card in its effect. opponent proceeds to steal it to his side at instant speed then i played underworld dreams. whenever an opponent draws a card they lose life. pass turn and instant win.
Interesting thought, Dark Depths and Solemnity...
One of my favorites: Tree of Perdition + Triskadekaphopia
Bloodchief's Ascension + Mindcrank is a combo my one friend is SUPER cocky about using in his mill deck. It's also one of those combos that tends to get him targetted big time when he gets close to using it.
I've personally been using the Demonic Pact + Harmless Gift combo for a long time in my Radkos deck. Only actually pulled it off once though.
FIRST TURN:
-Mountain + Goblin Arsonist
SECOND TURN:
-Mountain + Infernal Plunge (goblin sac and face dmg) + Geosurge + Furyborn Hellkite = 12/12 flyer :D That was once my combo in standard
Demonic Pact and Harmless Offering is hilarious
I have a personal liking for Demonic Pact and Harmless Offering, as I tried to make it into a Modern deck... It's really bad, like, REALLY bad. But pulling it off feels so very good.
I'd love to see the list you used. I've always wanted to see someone try and make the combo work.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 well, I use to play it a long time ago, before I played competitively, so it's pretty Janky. However, I have wanted to redo the list, just haven't gotten around to it. Basically, it's a bunch of control until I can pull the combo off
Step 1: have Archelos, Sakura Tribe scout, Rimewind Taskmage, Ancient Greenwarden and Retreat to coralhelm in play.
Step 2: Have at least 1 bounce land in your hand.
Step 3: tape Tribe scout, bringing the bounce land into play. Because of Archelos, it will come in untapped
Step 4:. Tap the bounce land for mana and have it bounce itself to your hand.
Step5: tap the Timewind Taskmage, tapping anything of your opponents, including lands.
Step 6: Retreat to Coralhelm with have 2 triggers thanks to Ancient Greenwarden. Use both triggers to untap both the tribe scout and taskmage.
Step 7: Repeat steps 1-6 until everything on your opponents side is tapped.
Step 8: on each upkeep, repeat step 7, except now tap down archelos as well so that anything they do play comes in tapped.
Step 9: slowly wack them to death.
(in a multiplayer setting, once Archelos is tapped, you can still tap tribe scout to bring in the land, except now you wont be able to tap it for mana. Simply use the two coralhelm triggers to untap Archelos and the tribe scout to be able to go infinite again.)
The bit about banks and illegal money was priceless
I am an old school player and my favorite stupid combo will always be Chains of Mephistopheles + Teferi's Puzzle Box, if you want to be cheeky add Teferi, Time Raveler, because come on Tef likes his boxes. Then throw in 4 Gaea's Blessing with absolutly no way to play it.
Glad you brought up replenish opalescence. I tried to make that work so hard lol. At the time it was dovescape and pandemonium then end of turn cast as many force of wills as possible (hopefully 2) and swing out. Opalescence made it a little easier
Post Theros, you really don't even need Opalescence since half the enchantment cards in that plane are also creatures. Or you know, indestructible gods.
UW Opalescence is one of my favorite decks ever. It's even funnier when you add the Donate + Illusions of Grandeur combo to it.
Absolutely amazing moment when the earthbound shop bgm came on!!
a classic banger
Demonic Pact! I loved that card!
I lost to a harmless offering combo on MTG arena and it was first time I've even seen that card and I was shocked but like that's a dope lost
Tree of Perdition + Triskaidekafobia
Triskaidekafobia: "Choose one-
*At the begginning of your upkeep, each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gain 1 life.
*At the begginning of your upkeep, each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life.
So you only have to activate the Tree of Perdition before the Trigger of Triskaidekafobia resolve.
Panglacial Wurm + anything that lets you search your library that is in your opening hand.
Alternative for Phyrexian Ulife would be Melira, Sylvok Outcast. I used to own a combo deck with her, most fun I had with MtG. :D
Mindcrank is fun... I used to play that combo, but with Duskmantle Guildmage rather than Bloodchief. So many groans of frustration 😂😂
Try having Tree of Perdition and Triskadekaphobia on your board or Demonic pact and Fractured Identity in a commander game and watch the world burn. I always announce " You guys now have 4 turns. Make it count" for the latter.
8:52 "And to that I respond 'Win?'"
I used the combo restoration angel + felidar guardian in my mono w lifegain with a sister on the battefield to gain infinite life...such good days with janky modern decks :')
Only problem with the mill combo, is if a player (like me) is playing Green/Blue. Why? The planeswalker Jace or Laboratory Maniac. Basically, with a tutor of some kind, along with Vizier of the Menagerie, I could get out Lab-Man to win the game. The only downside is the loss of life from the combo, which would have to be stifled somehow. Another two-card that could be used to stop the Mindcrank shenanigans is Syr Konrad/Exquisite Blood, which could use Syr Konrad's activated ability to interrupt the Mindcrank player's combo and kill them with their own cards.
The kitten is soooooo cute ! My fav combos all start with reveillark
My Fiance has a Phyrexian Unlife deck in it, I 'think' his combo card is either Platinum Angel or an enchantment that states he can't gain counters. It's been a while since he's played it. Since we play casually not every deck is going to have an answer to it.
one of my favorite combos: Black Lotus + Ancestral Recall = BANKRUPTCY
Your sense of humor is outstanding to this day! Keep up the good work. =]
Thanks, will do!
Why use bloodchief ascension? Just use Duskmantle Guildmage as not only is that more consistent, but he has additional utilities and can start the combo.
my fav combo is Teferi Time Raveler plus Possibility Storm :) good times
My favorite that I run is Omnath, Locus of the Roil, Dualcaster mage and Ghostly Flicker
I'm all about the Rest in Peace, Helm of Obedience mill combo.
One of your best ones yet hahah
" . . . WIN ? "
For the first combo i have a way easyer and funnier way to do it but it takes 3 turns.
First play the tree of perdition
then play Triskaïdékaphobie which says that : at the beginning of your turn, each player with exactly 13 hp loses the game.
Then on your next turn use the effect of the tree.
And finally after your opponoent's which's eyes are drowned in terror of knowing what will happen, the turn starts and you've won the game lmao
Multiple pieces to this combo but it involves other combos: basalt monolith + rings of brightenrith = infinite mana + retrofitter foundry + altar of the brood = mill city
Oh yeah, it’s all coming together.
My favorite combo is March of machines + Mycosynth Lattice.. and all lands poof. If you have in play some artifact that produce mana you can still play!
This reminds me of Enchanted Evening + Tempest of Light.
Gifts, Rites, Lord of Atlantis combo for sure. Too powerful for EDH after all.
I miss these.. always great when you upload these kind of videos. I 😃
Reverberate or any copy spell with target + itself or a copy of itself is my fav
Lavinia, Azorious Renegrade + Omen Machine/Knowledge Pool
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic + Zur's Weirding
Haha, I remember playing Pandemonium/Manowar and another card. . Green? Enchantment ‘you can play any creature 3 or less for free’ for infinite damage. .all my own baby. .then. The next set. .some other players were using some new cards with Pademonium in a deck called, ‘21’ (if everything went perfect for them the creature they put into play would deal 21 damage’