Thousand-Faced Shadow
Palinchron
Moonsnare Specialist
Prerequisites
What do I need to start this combo?
| Thousand-Faced Shadow in hand. | |
| Palinchron and Moonsnare Specialist on the battlefield. | |
Moonsnare Specialist and Palinchron do not have summoning sickness.
An opponent cannot block Moonsnare Specialist or Palinchron.
You control up to seven lands that can tap to produce at least  . |
Steps
How does this combo work?
1 | Declare Palinchron and Moonsnare Specialist as attackers. |
2 | When they aren't blocked, activate up to seven lands you control by tapping them, adding at least . |
3 | Activate Thousand-Faced Shadow's ninjutsu ability by paying  and returning Moonsnare Specialist from the battlefield to your hand, putting Thousand-Faced Shadow onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking. |
4 | When Thousand-Faced Shadow enters the battlefield, it triggers, creating a token copy of Palinchron that is tapped and attacking. |
5 | When the Palinchron token enters the battlefield, it triggers, untapping up to seven lands. |
6 | Activate Moonsnare Specialist's ninjutsu ability by paying and returning Thousand-Faced Shadow from the battlefield to your hand, putting Moonsnare Specialist onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking. |
7 | When Moonsnare Specialist enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning up to one target creature from the battlefield to its owner's hand. |
8 | Repeat from step 2. |
9 | Deal combat damage using the Palinchron tokens, dealing infinite combat damage to the defending opponent. |
10 | If you control up to seven lands that can tap to produce at least  , this combo nets infinite mana. |
Results
What do I get from this combo?
| Infinite combat damage to one opponent | |
| Infinite creature tokens | |
| Infinite ETB | |
| Infinite LTB | |
| Return any number of creatures to their owners' hands |
Combo Metadata
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In which Commander Bracket(s) am I allowed to play this combo?
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Exhibition and Core
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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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