Still have to make a few cuts...
2-Card Combos
- Any sac outlet in play (even non-free, as long as you have the mana to activate)
- Cast (or reanimate) Protean Hulk or Boonweaver Giant
3-Card Combos
Blasting Station in play and any pair of:
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- Any free sac outlet (Ashnod's Altar, Carrion Feeder, Viscera Seer, or Yahenni, Undying Partisan) in play
- Blood Artist of Zulaport Cuttroat in Play
- With Gift of Immortality in your library or graveyard, cast or reanimate Boonweaver Giant, enchanting Giant with the Gift. From here, just keep saccing Giant, returning it to play with Gift's trigger, and return Gift with Giant's trigger.
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- Any free sac outlet (Ashnod's Altar, Carrion Feeder, Viscera Seer, or Yahenni, Undying Partisan) in play
- Any creature in play
- Cast Pattern of Rebirth on #2 and retain priority if possible. Sac to #1 as a cost and get Boonweaver or Hulk from library and win through one of those combos (detailed below).
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- Any free sac outlet (Ashnod's Altar, Carrion Feeder, Viscera Seer, or Yahenni, Undying Partisan) in play
- Any creature in play
- With Pattern of Rebirth still in library, play Academy Rector, retaining priority if possible, sac to #1 as a cost, getting Pattern from library, which enchants #2, which gets sacced to #1 as a cost. Get Boonweaver or Hulk from library and win through one of those combos (detailed below).
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- Ashnod's Altar in play
- Ghave, Guru of Spores in play
- Play Strangleroot Geist. Sac Geist to Altar for 2 mana, use mana to move +1/+1 counter off of Geist and on to Ghave, neeting 1 mana each time and putt a +1/+1 counter on Ghave. This results in a billion colorless mana, a billion Saprolings and a billion +1+/+1 counters on Ghave. Then move the counters off of Ghave and back onto Geist for a gigantic hasty attacker.
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- Ashnod's Altar in play
- Ghave, Guru of Spores in play
- Cathars' Crusade in play. Pay 1 to remove a counter from Ghave to make a Saproling, which triggers Crusade and puts a counter on Ghave. Saccing the token to Altar nets +1 mana. Result is a billion colorless mana, Saproling tokens and +1/+1 counters on all of your creatures.
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- Ashnod's Altar in play
- Nim Deathmantle in play
- Play a token generator, such as Grave Titan, Hornet Queen or Wurmcoil Engine. Sac the 3+ creatures for 6 mana, using 4 of it for Deathmantle's trigger and returning the creature to play. This results in a billion colorless mana and a billion tokens.
4-Card Combos
- Any free sac outlet (Ashnod's Altar, Carrion Feeder, Viscera Seer, or Yahenni, Undying Partisan) in play
- Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat in play and any pair of:
Boonweaver Combo Explanation
- Boonweaver Giant ETB, triggers, and enchants itself with Pattern of Rebirth from either your yard or library
- Sac Giant, tutoring up Karmic Guide and putting it into play with Pattern trigger
- Guide ETB triggers, returning Giant
- Giant ETB triggers, returning Pattern onto itself
- Sac Giant, tutoring up Saffi Eriksdotter and putting it into play with Pattern trigger
- Activate Saffi's ability, targeting Guide
- Sac Guide, then return it to play with Saffi's trigger
- Guide returns Giant + Pattern
- Sac Giant, go get Reveillark and put it into play
- Sac Guide, let it resolve
- Sac Lark, trigger returns Saffi + Guide
- Guide trigger returns Giant + Pattern
- Sac Giant to get Blood Artist (or Zulaport Cutthroat) with Pattern trigger
- Activate Saffi, targeting Guide and triggering Artist
- Sac Guide, triggering Artist
- Guide returns thank to Saffi's trigger, then returns Lark. From here, saccing Lark will keep returning Saffi + Guide. Guide can return Lark immediately, and activating Saffi to return Guide for a second time with each 2. iteration means you can keep returning Giant + Pattern to put all creatures from your library into play. This means you can tutor up Fiend Hunter or Leonin Relic-Warder to deal with Creatures, Artifacts or Enchantments that might be preventing you from winning the game, such as Platinum Angel or something.
If Guide is in hand or has been exiled before you start the Boonweaver loop, just grab Protean Hulk.
Protean Hulk Combo #1 Explanation
- Sac Hulk, tutoring up Carrion Feeder, Viscera Seer, Academy Rector, Dryad Arbor.
- Sac Rector for Animate Dead, return Hulk.
- Sac Hulk for Grand Abolisher, Renegade Rallier, inconsequential 1 drop.
- Rallier trigger returns Animate Dead, which in turn reanimates Hulk.
- Sac Hulk for Saffi Eriksdotter, Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat.
- Target Rallier with Saffi's ability.
- Sac Rallier, trigger Artist/Cutthroat, both Saffi and Rallier return.
- Repeat 6 and 7 to kill everyone.
Protean Hulk Combo #2 Explanation
- Sac Hulk, tutoring up Karmic Guide and a redundant sac outlet, putting them into play with Hulk's trigger
- Guide ETB triggers, returning Hulk to play
- Sac Hulk, tutoring up Saffi, Eriksdotter, Grand Abolisher and Blood Artist (or Zulaport Cutthroat) and putting them into play with Hulk's trigger
- Activate Saffi's ability, targeting Guide, triggering Artist
- Sac Guide, triggering Artist, then return Guide to play with Saffi's trigger
- At this point, you can return Saffi with Guide's trigger and they can just keep returning one another, triggering Artist a billion times to kill everyone. OR, if you need to remove an Artifact, Enchantment or Creature, you can choose to bring back Hulk instead of Guide and continue...
- Sac Hulk, go get Reveillark and put it into play
- Sac Guide, let it resolve
- Sac Lark, trigger returns Saffi + Guide
- Guide trigger returns Hulk
- Sac Hulk to get Fiend Hunter or Leonin Relic-Warder
- Activate Saffi, targeting Guide
- Sac Guide, returning Guide, which in turn returns Lark to play
- GG
If Guide is in hand or has been exiled before you start the Hulk loop, you can get Rector + Saffi. Rector gets Pattern, Pattern trigger gets Boonweaver, see Boonweaver combo.
If Saffi is in hand or has been exiled before you start the Hulk loop, the second Hulk trigger (after getting Karmic Guide) can get Fiend Hunter + Artist/Cutthroat for a win. Hunter targets Guide, sac Hunter, Guide re-enters play returning Hunter, rinse and repeat.
In all cases but Hulk combo #1, watch out for open mana. Instant speed creature removal or grave hate can wreck your day. When the combo plan is disrupted, the deck can just play a grindy Ghave game well enough to win eventually.
Notable (non-combo) Synergies:
Blade of Selves
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Parallel Lives
: The deck already runs a few token producers because they're just good cards, especially with Ashnod's Altar and Nim Deathmantle. Put the Blade on a token producer and prepare to do some math :)
Aura Shards + Token Producers: Blow up all the artifacts and enchantments. In my meta, this does a lot of work.
