Mortuary
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Woe Strider
Bolas's Citadel

   Prerequisites

What do I need to start this combo?
Gray Merchant of Asphodel in hand or in your library (Gray Merchant of Asphodel on top of your library in your library).
All other permanents on the battlefield.
Your life total is at least 6 if Gray Merchant is on the top of your library, or you have 3 available otherwise.

   Steps

How does this combo work?
1
Cast Gray Merchant either from your hand by paying 3 or from the top of your library by paying 5 life.
2
When Gray Merchant enters, it triggers, causing each opponent to lose life equal to your devotion to black and causing you to gain life equal to the life lost this way.
3
Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Gray Merchant.
4
When Gray Merchant dies, Mortuary triggers, putting Gray Merchant from your graveyard onto the top of your library.
5
Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
6
Repeat.

   Results

What do I get from this combo?
Infinite LTB
Infinite ETB
Infinite sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite scry 1
Infinite lifegain triggers
Infinite lifegain
Infinite lifeloss
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High Synergy Cards
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86%synergy
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16%synergy
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15%synergy
Creatures
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42%synergy
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42%synergy
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28%synergy
Warren Soultrader
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26%synergy
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25%synergy
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24%synergy
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23%synergy
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22%synergy
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21%synergy
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14%synergy
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16%synergy
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13%synergy
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Bloodthirsty Conqueror
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8%synergy
Instants
Fell the Profane
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38%synergy
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9%synergy
Songs of the Damned
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9%synergy
Undying Malice
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7%synergy
Tragic Slip
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6%synergy
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5%synergy
Flare of Malice
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Soul Shatter
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Sorceries
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37%synergy
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Diabolic Intent
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Doomsday
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23%synergy
Duress
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22%synergy
Victimize
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11%synergy
Dark Petition
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19%synergy
Sign in Blood
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11%synergy
Zof Consumption
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18%synergy
Cruel Tutor
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18%synergy
Agadeem's Awakening
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Grim Tutor
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Torment of Hailfire
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Chain of Smog
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16%synergy
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11%synergy
Pelakka Predation
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16%synergy
Diabolic Tutor
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11%synergy
Read the Bones
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8%synergy
Night's Whisper
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5%synergy
Cruelclaw's Heist
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12%synergy
Profane Tutor
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11%synergy
Living Death
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7%synergy
Damnation
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6%synergy
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9%synergy
Dread Return
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6%synergy
Blasphemous Edict
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Final Parting
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9%synergy
Pilfer
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9%synergy
Yawgmoth's Will
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8%synergy
Unearth
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6%synergy
Beseech the Queen
8.0%inclusion7 decks87 decks
7%synergy
Morality Shift
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
6%synergy
Blood Tithe
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
6%synergy
Illicit Shipment
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6%synergy
Razaketh's Rite
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5%synergy
Forever Young
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5%synergy
Mutilate
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4%synergy
Persist
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4%synergy
Utility Artifacts
Bontu's Monument
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45%synergy
Defense Grid
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43%synergy
Codex Shredder
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36%synergy
Wishclaw Talisman
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28%synergy
Ashnod's Altar
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26%synergy
Conqueror's Flail
31%inclusion27 decks87 decks
30%synergy
Altar of Dementia
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24%synergy
Brainstone
22%inclusion19 decks87 decks
22%synergy
Phyrexian Altar
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17%synergy
Scroll Rack
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18%synergy
Conjurer's Bauble
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17%synergy
Skullclamp
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6%synergy
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13%synergy
Ghoulcaller's Bell
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12%synergy
Wayfarer's Bauble
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4%synergy
Demon's Horn
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10%synergy
The Darkness Crystal
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6%synergy
Manifold Key
9.2%inclusion8 decks87 decks
8%synergy
Golem's Heart
8.0%inclusion7 decks87 decks
8%synergy
Pyxis of Pandemonium
8.0%inclusion7 decks87 decks
8%synergy
Voltaic Key
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6%synergy
Elixir of Immortality
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6%synergy
Expedition Map
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4%synergy
Wand of Vertebrae
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
6%synergy
Prism Ring
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6%synergy
Moonsilver Key
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
5%synergy
Mindcrank
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
4%synergy
Enchantments
Animate Dead
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30%synergy
Heartless Summoning
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24%synergy
Font of Agonies
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24%synergy
Exquisite Blood
23%inclusion20 decks87 decks
18%synergy
Bastion of Remembrance
23%inclusion20 decks87 decks
16%synergy
Black Market Connections
17%inclusion15 decks87 decks
5%synergy
Phyrexian Arena
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2%synergy
Grave Pact
13%inclusion11 decks87 decks
8%synergy
The Meathook Massacre
13%inclusion11 decks87 decks
8%synergy
Sanguine Bond
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7%synergy
Dictate of Erebos
10%inclusion9 decks87 decks
7%synergy
Black Market
9.2%inclusion8 decks87 decks
5%synergy
Dreadhorde Invasion
8.0%inclusion7 decks87 decks
6%synergy
Bloodchief Ascension
8.0%inclusion7 decks87 decks
4%synergy
Kaya's Ghostform
6.9%inclusion6 decks87 decks
3%synergy
Bitterblossom
6.9%inclusion6 decks87 decks
3%synergy
Tortured Existence
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
4%synergy
Underworld Dreams
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
4%synergy
Phyrexian Reclamation
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
3%synergy
Planeswalkers
Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
29%inclusion21 decks73 decks
27%synergy
Liliana Vess
28%inclusion24 decks87 decks
27%synergy
Professor Onyx
22%inclusion19 decks87 decks
21%synergy
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
9.2%inclusion8 decks87 decks
6%synergy
Ugin, Eye of the Storms
5.2%inclusion4 decks77 decks
4%synergy
Utility Lands
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
46%inclusion40 decks87 decks
37%synergy
Cabal Coffers
41%inclusion36 decks87 decks
32%synergy
Hall of the Bandit Lord
39%inclusion34 decks87 decks
39%synergy
Ebon Stronghold
32%inclusion28 decks87 decks
32%synergy
Phyrexian Tower
32%inclusion28 decks87 decks
23%synergy
Castle Locthwain
30%inclusion26 decks87 decks
26%synergy
Bojuka Bog
30%inclusion26 decks87 decks
0%synergy
Crystal Vein
24%inclusion21 decks87 decks
23%synergy
Swarmyard
24%inclusion21 decks87 decks
23%synergy
Peat Bog
23%inclusion20 decks87 decks
23%synergy
Witch's Cottage
23%inclusion20 decks87 decks
20%synergy
Rogue's Passage
23%inclusion20 decks87 decks
3%synergy
Spymaster's Vault
22%inclusion19 decks85 decks
20%synergy
War Room
21%inclusion18 decks87 decks
15%synergy
Amonkhet Raceway
20%inclusion16 decks81 decks
19%synergy
City of Traitors
20%inclusion17 decks87 decks
18%synergy
The Black Gate
20%inclusion17 decks87 decks
17%synergy
Urza's Saga
20%inclusion17 decks87 decks
13%synergy
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
20%inclusion17 decks87 decks
11%synergy
Cabal Stronghold
16%inclusion14 decks87 decks
13%synergy
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
16%inclusion14 decks87 decks
11%synergy
Vault of Whispers
15%inclusion13 decks87 decks
11%synergy
Inventors' Fair
11%inclusion10 decks87 decks
8%synergy
Bonders' Enclave
10%inclusion9 decks87 decks
8%synergy
Mortuary Mire
10%inclusion9 decks87 decks
6%synergy
Lake of the Dead
9.2%inclusion8 decks87 decks
9%synergy
Emergence Zone
9.2%inclusion8 decks87 decks
7%synergy
Blast Zone
8.0%inclusion7 decks87 decks
7%synergy
Leechridden Swamp
6.9%inclusion6 decks87 decks
6%synergy
High Market
6.9%inclusion6 decks87 decks
4%synergy
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
6.9%inclusion6 decks87 decks
3%synergy
Command Beacon
6.9%inclusion6 decks87 decks
2%synergy
Thespian's Stage
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
3%synergy
Reliquary Tower
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
-24%synergy
Midgar, City of Mako
5.4%inclusion4 decks74 decks
2%synergy
Mana Artifacts
Sol Ring
94%inclusion82 decks87 decks
11%synergy
Arcane Signet
74%inclusion64 decks87 decks
1%synergy
Fellwar Stone
40%inclusion35 decks87 decks
20%synergy
Lotus Petal
37%inclusion32 decks87 decks
30%synergy
The Soul Stone
33%inclusion23 decks70 decks
29%synergy
Mind Stone
30%inclusion26 decks87 decks
15%synergy
Mox Opal
24%inclusion21 decks87 decks
20%synergy
Chromatic Star
17%inclusion15 decks87 decks
17%synergy
Thought Vessel
17%inclusion15 decks87 decks
0%synergy
Lion's Eye Diamond
16%inclusion14 decks87 decks
14%synergy
Charcoal Diamond
16%inclusion14 decks87 decks
12%synergy
Springleaf Drum
15%inclusion13 decks87 decks
13%synergy
Chromatic Sphere
14%inclusion12 decks87 decks
13%synergy
Jeweled Amulet
14%inclusion12 decks87 decks
13%synergy
Lotus Bloom
9.2%inclusion8 decks87 decks
9%synergy
Commander's Sphere
6.9%inclusion6 decks87 decks
-5%synergy
Nyx Lotus
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
5%synergy
Everflowing Chalice
5.7%inclusion5 decks87 decks
1%synergy
Lands
Bloodstained Mire
31%inclusion27 decks87 decks
20%synergy
Polluted Delta
29%inclusion25 decks87 decks
17%synergy
Verdant Catacombs
28%inclusion24 decks87 decks
17%synergy
Marsh Flats
26%inclusion23 decks87 decks
16%synergy
Gemstone Caverns
23%inclusion20 decks87 decks
18%synergy
Cavern of Souls
21%inclusion18 decks87 decks
13%synergy
Daily Bugle Building
19%inclusion13 decks70 decks
18%synergy
Prismatic Vista
18%inclusion16 decks87 decks
14%synergy
Plaza of Heroes
13%inclusion11 decks87 decks
10%synergy
Talon Gates of Madara
12%inclusion10 decks85 decks
9%synergy
Demolition Field
11%inclusion10 decks87 decks
8%synergy
Myriad Landscape
8.0%inclusion7 decks87 decks
-8%synergy
Evolving Wilds
6.9%inclusion6 decks87 decks
-14%synergy
Command Tower
6.9%inclusion6 decks87 decks
-67%synergy