Volo, Guide to Monsters + Food Chain + Ancestral Statue Combo
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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.
plus enough mana to cast the additional creature available
Steps
How does this combo work?
- 1Cast the additional creature by paying its mana cost.
- 2Volo triggers, copying the creature spell.
- 3Resolve both creature spells.
- 4Activate Food Chain by exiling the creature token, adding at least one mana of any color that can only be spent to cast creature spells.
- 5Cast Ancestral Statue by paying
.
- 6Volo triggers, copying Ancestral Statue.
- 7Resolve the copy of the Ancestral Statue spell.
- 8When the token Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning a nontoken creature from the battlefield to your hand.
- 9Activate Food Chain by exiling the Ancestral Statue token, adding five mana of any color that can only be spent to cast creature spells.
- 10Resolve the original Ancestral Statue spell cast in step 5.
- 11When the nontoken Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- 12Repeat.
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Results
What do I get from this combo?
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
Combo Metadata
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Combo Rank
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 three or more cards are allowed.
4-5
Optimized and CEDH
(all combos are allowed)
All combos are allowed.
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