Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
Resourceful Defense
Phantom Train
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. | |
| You control at least one additional nontoken creature with a coin counter on it. |
Steps
How does this combo work?
1 | Activate Phantom Train 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 Phantom Train ability. |
6 | Repeat. |
7 | Activate Phantom Train by sacrificing the creature with a coin counter on it. |
8 | When the creature dies, Athreos's second ability and Resourceful Defense's ability trigger. |
9 | Resolve the Resourceful Defense trigger, putting a coin counter onto itself as well as +1/+1 counters if those were present. |
10 | Resolve the Athreos trigger, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield. |
11 | Resolve the Phantom Train ability from step 1. |
12 | Activate Phantom Train by sacrificing Resourceful Defense. |
13 | When Resourceful Defense dies, it and Athreos's second ability trigger. |
14 | Resolve the Resourceful Defense trigger, putting a coin counter and +1/+1 counters onto the other nontoken creature. |
15 | Resolve the Athreos trigger, returning Resourceful Defense from your graveyard to the battlefield. |
16 | Resolve the Phantom Train ability from step 6. |
17 | Repeat. |
Results
What do I get from this combo?
| Infinite creature LTB | |
| Infinite creature ETB | |
| Infinite creature sacrifice triggers | |
| Infinite death triggers | |
| Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature |
Combo Metadata
9
DECKS
0.00%
OF 1810429 ELIGIBLE DECKS
Rank 34843
MOST PLAYED OF 67862 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.