Volo, Guide to Monsters
Food Chain
Ancestral Statue

  Played with this combo

   Prerequisites

What do I need to start this combo?
Ancestral Statue in hand.
Volo and Food Chain on the battlefield.
You do not control another Golem or have a Golem in your graveyard. You have another creature card in hand that is not a Golem and that does not share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature in your graveyard. If the additional creature has multiple differently colored mana symbols in its mana cost, an additional mana of each but one of those symbols will be required.
4 plus enough mana to cast the additional creature available

   Steps

How does this combo work?
1
Cast the additional creature by paying its mana cost.
2
Volo triggers, copying the creature spell.
3
Resolve both creature spells.
4
Activate Food Chain by exiling the creature token, adding at least one mana of any color that can only be spent to cast creature spells.
5
Cast Ancestral Statue by paying 4.
6
Volo triggers, copying Ancestral Statue.
7
Resolve the copy of the Ancestral Statue spell.
8
When the token Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning a nontoken creature from the battlefield to your hand.
9
Activate Food Chain by exiling the Ancestral Statue token, adding five mana of any color that can only be spent to cast creature spells.
10
Resolve the original Ancestral Statue spell cast in step 5.
11
When the nontoken Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
12
Repeat.

   Results

What do I get from this combo?
Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
Infinite ETB
Infinite LTB
Infinite storm count

  Combo Metadata

18
DECKS
0.00%
OF 2048497 ELIGIBLE DECKS
Rank 24457
MOST PLAYED OF 54789 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.
Top Commanders
High Synergy Cards
Top Cards
Game Changers
Creatures
Instants
Sorceries
Utility Artifacts
Enchantments
Utility Lands
Mana Artifacts
Lands
Back to Top
Animar, Soul of Elements
0.1%inclusion15 decks22.6K decks
Glarb, Calamity's Augur
0.0%inclusion1 decks23.1K decks
Jackal, Genius Geneticist
0.1%inclusion1 decks1.88K decks
High Synergy Cards
Badgermole Cub
92%inclusion11 decks12 decks
Starfield Vocalist
86%inclusion12 decks14 decks
Cloud of Faeries
83%inclusion15 decks18 decks
Peregrine Drake
83%inclusion15 decks18 decks
The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
82%inclusion9 decks11 decks
Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
83%inclusion10 decks12 decks
Imperial Recruiter
80%inclusion12 decks15 decks
Hullbreaker Horror
83%inclusion15 decks18 decks
Supportive Parents
69%inclusion9 decks13 decks
Beast Whisperer
78%inclusion14 decks18 decks
Top Cards
Birds of Paradise
78%inclusion14 decks18 decks
Bloom Tender
72%inclusion13 decks18 decks
Vizier of the Menagerie
67%inclusion12 decks18 decks
Walking Ballista
67%inclusion12 decks18 decks
Augur of Autumn
67%inclusion12 decks18 decks
Tinder Wall
67%inclusion10 decks15 decks
Formidable Speaker
67%inclusion8 decks12 decks
Elvish Mystic
67%inclusion12 decks18 decks
Llanowar Elves
67%inclusion12 decks18 decks
Transit Mage
63%inclusion10 decks16 decks
Game Changers
Gaea's Cradle
56%inclusion10 decks18 decks
Worldly Tutor
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Chrome Mox
44%inclusion8 decks18 decks
Fierce Guardianship
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Rhystic Study
22%inclusion4 decks18 decks
Ancient Tomb
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Creatures
Radagast the Brown
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Shrieking Drake
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Wandering Archaic
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Tishana, Voice of Thunder
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Fierce Empath
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Phantasmal Image
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Mulldrifter
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Enduring Vitality
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Phyrexian Metamorph
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Delighted Halfling
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Eternal Witness
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Wild Cantor
60%inclusion9 decks15 decks
Woodland Bellower
56%inclusion10 decks18 decks
Sowing Mycospawn
56%inclusion10 decks18 decks
High Fae Trickster
56%inclusion10 decks18 decks
Hexing Squelcher
56%inclusion5 decks9 decks
Fyndhorn Elves
56%inclusion10 decks18 decks
Stunt Double
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Wall of Roots
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Nulldrifter
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Volatile Stormdrake
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Arbor Elf
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
47%inclusion7 decks15 decks
Great Whale
44%inclusion8 decks18 decks
Generous Patron
44%inclusion8 decks18 decks
Collector Ouphe
44%inclusion8 decks18 decks
Dream Stalker
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Sister of Silence
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Eternal Scourge
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Palinchron
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Sicarian Infiltrator
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Keruga, the Macrosage
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Faerie Mastermind
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Misthollow Griffin
33%inclusion6 decks18 decks
Six
33%inclusion6 decks18 decks
Slithermuse
28%inclusion5 decks18 decks
Defiler of Dreams
28%inclusion5 decks18 decks
Tidal Barracuda
28%inclusion5 decks18 decks
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
28%inclusion5 decks18 decks
Apex Devastator
28%inclusion5 decks18 decks
Squee, the Immortal
27%inclusion4 decks15 decks
Myr Scrapling
22%inclusion4 decks18 decks
Hulking Metamorph
22%inclusion4 decks18 decks
Smirking Spelljacker
22%inclusion4 decks18 decks
Temur Sabertooth
22%inclusion4 decks18 decks
Nyxbloom Ancient
22%inclusion4 decks18 decks
Etali, Primal Conqueror
20%inclusion3 decks15 decks
Maelstrom Wanderer
20%inclusion3 decks15 decks
Man-o'-War
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Druid of Purification
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Instants
Deflecting Swat
60%inclusion9 decks15 decks
Chord of Calling
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Flusterstorm
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Summoner's Pact
44%inclusion8 decks18 decks
Redirect Lightning
42%inclusion5 decks12 decks
Legolas's Quick Reflexes
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Mental Misstep
33%inclusion6 decks18 decks
Swan Song
28%inclusion5 decks18 decks
Brain Freeze
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Snap
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Heroic Intervention
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Sorceries
Step Through
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Finale of Devastation
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Cultivate
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Utility Artifacts
Aetherflux Reservoir
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Panharmonicon
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
The Great Henge
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Lightning Greaves
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Enchantments
Utopia Sprawl
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Wild Growth
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Temur Ascendancy
20%inclusion3 decks15 decks
Rhythm of the Wild
20%inclusion3 decks15 decks
Utility Lands
Otawara, Soaring City
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Boseiju, Who Endures
56%inclusion10 decks18 decks
Minamo, School at Water's Edge
33%inclusion6 decks18 decks
Mana Artifacts
Sol Ring
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Arcane Signet
28%inclusion5 decks18 decks
Mox Amber
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Lotus Petal
17%inclusion3 decks18 decks
Lands
Command Tower
89%inclusion16 decks18 decks
Breeding Pool
78%inclusion14 decks18 decks
Steam Vents
73%inclusion11 decks15 decks
Stomping Ground
73%inclusion11 decks15 decks
Misty Rainforest
67%inclusion12 decks18 decks
Taiga
67%inclusion10 decks15 decks
Volcanic Island
67%inclusion10 decks15 decks
Spire Garden
67%inclusion10 decks15 decks
Training Center
67%inclusion10 decks15 decks
Scalding Tarn
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Wooded Foothills
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Windswept Heath
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Polluted Delta
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Tropical Island
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Rejuvenating Springs
61%inclusion11 decks18 decks
Gemstone Caverns
56%inclusion10 decks18 decks
Mana Confluence
56%inclusion10 decks18 decks
Flooded Strand
56%inclusion10 decks18 decks
Waterlogged Grove
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
City of Brass
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Verdant Catacombs
50%inclusion9 decks18 decks
Ketria Triome
40%inclusion6 decks15 decks
Cavern of Souls
39%inclusion7 decks18 decks
Arid Mesa
33%inclusion6 decks18 decks
Bloodstained Mire
33%inclusion6 decks18 decks
Yavimaya Coast
33%inclusion6 decks18 decks
Exotic Orchard
33%inclusion6 decks18 decks
Hedge Maze
28%inclusion5 decks18 decks
Rootbound Crag
27%inclusion4 decks15 decks
Hinterland Harbor
22%inclusion4 decks18 decks
Commercial District
20%inclusion3 decks15 decks
Frontier Bivouac
20%inclusion3 decks15 decks
Shivan Reef
20%inclusion3 decks15 decks
Cinder Glade
20%inclusion3 decks15 decks
About UsContactPrivacy PolicyTerms of Service
Space Cow MediaArchidektCardsphereCommander SpellbookFABRECSpellvoid
Space Cow MediaArchidektCommander's Herald
Commander SpellbookFABRECSpellvoid
EDHREC is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.
next@15 test