Etali, Primal Conqueror
Hua Tuo, Honored Physician
Thornbite Staff
Heat Shimmer
Prerequisites
What do I need to start this combo?
| Heat Shimmer in hand. | |
| All other permanents on the battlefield. | |
| Hua Tuo does not have summoning sickness. Thornbite Staff attached to Hua Tuo.Primal Conquerer. It is your precombat main phase. | |
 available |
Steps
How does this combo work?
1 | Cast Heat Shimmer by paying , creating a token copy of Etali with haste. |
2 | Choose to put the nontoken Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule. |
3 | If Etali is your commander, choose not to return it to the command zone from your graveyard. |
4 | The Etali token and Hua Tuo trigger. |
5 | Resolve the Hua Tuo trigger untapping it. |
6 | Activate Hua Tuo by tapping it, putting Etali on top of your library from your graveyard. |
7 | Resolve the Etali token's trigger from step 4, causing you to exile cards from each player's library until you exile a nonland card, with you exiling Etali from your library, and cast Etali and any other nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. |
8 | Choose to put the nontoken Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule. |
9 | If Etali is your commander, choose not to return it to the command zone from your graveyard. |
10 | The nontoken Etali and Hua Tuo trigger. |
11 | Resolve the Hua Tuo trigger untapping it. |
12 | Activate Hua Tuo by tapping it, putting Etali on top of your library from your graveyard. |
13 | Resolve the nontoken Etali's trigger from step 10, causing you to exile cards from each player's library until you exile a nonland card, with you exiling Etali from your library, and cast Etali and any other nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. |
14 | Repeat from step 8. |
Results
What do I get from this combo?
| Exile each opponent's library | |
| Infinite death triggers | |
| Infinite ETB | |
| Infinite LTB | |
| Infinite storm count | |
| Near-infinite magecraft triggers | |
| Cast any number of spells from opponents' libraries |
Combo Metadata
10
DECKS
0.00%
OF 1661369 ELIGIBLE DECKS
Rank 24439
MOST PLAYED OF 44534 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.