Tortured Existence
Insidious Roots
Concordant Crossroads
Prerequisites
What do I need to start this combo?
| All permanents on the battlefield. | |
| You have at least one creature card in your hand. You have at least one creature card in your graveyard. | |
| available |
Steps
How does this combo work?
1 | Activate Tortured Existence by paying and discarding a creature card, returning any other creature card from your graveyard to your hand. |
2 | Insidious Roots triggers, creating a 0/1 Plant creature token, then putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control. |
3 | Activate the Plant by tapping it, adding . |
4 | Repeat. |
Results
What do I get from this combo?
| Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures | |
| Infinite ETB | |
| Infinite self-discard triggers | |
| Infinite tapped creature tokens |
Combo Metadata
413
DECKS
0.02%
OF 1973928 ELIGIBLE DECKS
Rank 7085
MOST PLAYED OF 54946 COMBOS
{ } Commander Bracket Information
In which Commander Bracket(s) am I allowed to play this combo?
1-2
Exhibition and Core
(no 2-card combos)
Any combos that require three or more cards are allowed
3
Upgraded
(no early game 2-card combos)
Any combos that require 3 or more cards are allowed
4-5
Optimized and CEDH
(all combos are allowed)
All combos are allowed.
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