Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
Resourceful Defense
Altar of Dementia

   Prerequisites

What do I need to start this combo?
All permanents on the battlefield.
You control at least two additional nontoken creatures, one of which has a coin counter on it.

   Steps

How does this combo work?
1
Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing the creature with a coin counter on it.
2
When the creature dies, Resourceful Defense and Athreos trigger.
3
Resolve the Resourceful Defense trigger, putting a coin counter on another nontoken creature you control.
4
Resolve the Athreos trigger, returning the creature that died in step 1 from your graveyard to the battlefield.
5
Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability.
6
Repeat.

   Results

What do I get from this combo?
Infinite death triggers
Infinite ETB
Infinite LTB
Infinite mill
Infinite sacrifice triggers
Infinite self-mill
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2%synergy
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2%synergy
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12%synergy
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16%synergy
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10%synergy
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11%synergy
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14%synergy
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16%synergy
Tainted Field
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40%synergy
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33%synergy
Vault of Champions
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17%synergy
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Fetid Heath
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31%synergy
Orzhov Basilica
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27%synergy
Temple of Silence
38%inclusion50 decks130 decks
21%synergy
Shineshadow Snarl
37%inclusion48 decks130 decks
24%synergy
Lush Portico
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27%synergy
Underground Mortuary
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24%synergy
Marsh Flats
35%inclusion45 decks130 decks
24%synergy
Myriad Landscape
32%inclusion42 decks130 decks
16%synergy
Exotic Orchard
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-6%synergy
Shadowy Backstreet
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19%synergy
Brightclimb Pathway
28%inclusion37 decks130 decks
20%synergy
Deathcap Glade
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14%synergy
Golgari Rot Farm
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10%synergy
Overgrown Farmland
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10%synergy
Sandsteppe Citadel
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1%synergy
Woodland Cemetery
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-4%synergy
Concealed Courtyard
25%inclusion32 decks130 decks
19%synergy
Scrubland
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10%synergy
Bleachbone Verge
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15%synergy
Evolving Wilds
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0%synergy
Scoured Barrens
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8%synergy
Terramorphic Expanse
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-1%synergy
Sunlit Marsh
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10%synergy
Fabled Passage
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5%synergy
Desolate Mire
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5%synergy
Silent Clearing
11%inclusion14 decks130 decks
6%synergy
Verdant Catacombs
11%inclusion14 decks130 decks
0%synergy
Windswept Heath
9.2%inclusion12 decks130 decks
-2%synergy
Flooded Strand
9.2%inclusion12 decks130 decks
-2%synergy
Bloodstained Mire
8.5%inclusion11 decks130 decks
-3%synergy
Forsaken Sanctuary
7.7%inclusion10 decks130 decks
6%synergy
Arid Mesa
7.7%inclusion10 decks130 decks
-3%synergy
Snowfield Sinkhole
6.9%inclusion9 decks130 decks
5%synergy
Polluted Delta
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-5%synergy
Demolition Field
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3%synergy
Orzhov Guildgate
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2%synergy
Path of Ancestry
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-16%synergy
Ash Barrens
5.4%inclusion7 decks130 decks
0%synergy
Reflecting Pool
5.4%inclusion7 decks130 decks
0%synergy