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*Casually slides Walking Ballista into my Heliod deck*

In my casual group, one of the guys casts "Shielded by Faith" and did that infinite 1/1 soldier combo. On turn 4..... He looks at everyone and says, "OK, I'll just make 4 million tokens and next turn I win?" Everyone took their turn to see if they could draw a board wipe. No one did. So he thinks he has won now and everyone is about to just pack it up. I'm like, guys, he hasn't won yet. I make him carry out his combat phase properly. He sends 1 mil tokens at each of us. I respond by casting Arachnogenesis. NOW everyone scoops because now /I/ won. lol

If they have an odd number of health, then they have 1 life left. If even, they're dead. There, did the math for you.

You missed a true one-card combo! With Inalla as your Commander, you can win with Wanderine Prophets without even CASTING Inalla!

One combo with a commander that I really like is The Locust God + Sage of the Falls (Eldraine). When either enters the battlefield the other will cause the Sage to trigger, which in turn will cause the Locust God to trigger. Then you can loot through your entire deck, creating a bajillion hasty flyers.

Honestly dude - how much content can you make? Crazy stuff! 😁

Appreciate the output of content, sir. Makes the slow days bearable and reminds me there's some cards I need to buy.

On the subject of Hidetsugu, he forms a one-card combo with Gisela, Blade of Goldnight. Double the damage to your opponents and half the damage to you.

Surprised no zirda or Kinnan + monoliths, since they've been much talked about lately.

Thank you for adding your Borborygmos combos into your Borborygmos deck from your Borborygmos video.

17:50 I have a Kiki Jiki deck and I love It! There are some other combos that I remember: Kiki + Helm of the Host, you get infinite tapped nonlegendary Kiki Jikis. Does not Win the game alone (you'll need Goblin Bombardment, Impact Tremors or something) Kiki Jiki + Lightning Crafter. Play Crafter, and with the Champion ability ok the Stack, copy it with Kiki Jiki. Resolve the copy-crafter Champion ability exiling Kiki Jiki. Then tap the copy-crafter to kill itself and Kiki will be back able to repeat the loop. Again you'll need Impact Tremors or something to kill people. You can also use a sac engine like Goblin Bombardment to sacrifice the copy-crafter instead of making it kill itself

I love Niv-Mizzet with curiosity. I have it in my Nekusar deck as a finisher combo along with laboratory maniac

Now this is one video I've needed specifically for playing in my playgroup. Thanks Mitch!

Yep, Godo is probably the strongest mono color commander in cEDH, in my opinion, since you have a lot of blue hate with Boil(ing Seas) and all the "Counter target blue spell" cards. It also helps that red is pretty good at grabbing artifacts out of the bin and can also set up some nasty stax pieces, either artifact-based like Trinisphere or just your good old Blood Moon.

All the respect to you sir. You are on fire!

Hey Mitch, are you going to brew with any of the ikoria or c20 commanders?

I love to see another video on EDH combos on your channel :) one of my favourite combos is infinite mana with Marwyn, the Nurturer using Staff of Domination - it's not exactly one card, because you need to pump up Marwyn to 5 power, but it's usually not a problem if you're playing Elf tribal. And Staff does provide a way to win with this infinite mana, too! Anyway, thanks a lot for your amazing content, Mitch! Love from Russia :)

Animar and Ancestral statue is a fun one too 👍 awesome vid

one time playing with my Ghired deck at my LGS, I managed to get Godo and the helm out on turn 4, but wasn't able to equip it. Told the table they have 1 single turn. The player just before me realized that he had an destroy artifact card in hand, but thought he didn't have enough mana, till the table (myself included) helped him figure out that he had exactly enough to play it. Fun all around haha one of the last in person games we played before things got closed due to current events.

I run Heartless Hidetsugu in my Greven, Predator Captain deck, it is an easy way for me to close out a game. My favorite win is between when all of my opponent had tapped out and had 30+ life, I had 18 life and I cast Tainted Strike choosing Heartless Hidetsugu, and tap. (Note I was the only player who had damaged my life total in that game) Or the time everyone was still at 40 and I cast Tainted Strike on Heartless Hidetsugu, proud moment plus it was turn 10.

2 to add to the list: Ezuri, Claw of Progress + Sage of Hours + 5 experience counters = infinite turns Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Umbral Mantle + (I think) 6 Mana = infinite mana, infinitely powerful selvala

Animar + Ancestral Statue is a pretty good one that gives you infinite +1/+1 counters on Animar and infinite creature casts, you can throw in other things with cast triggers like Beast Whisperer and Purphoros and it gets crazy pretty fast.

Perfect time to find this video, I'm working on a Zaxara deck right now

Great video, Mitch! I have two thoughts: First, another combo similar to Boborygmos (in that it doesn't necessarily win, but usually will kill at least one player) is Phenax, God of Deception and Eater of the Dead. If there are already a decent number of creatures in graveyards, you are probably in good shape to just win. For those wondering, you tap the Eater with Phenax's ability to mill for four, then eat a creature to untap EotD, then repeat until someone is dead or you run out of creatures. Obviously works better against creature-heavy decks. Against something like Narset, it's worthless. My other thought is that I recently (like last week) built a Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deck. I deliberately didn't include Ophidian Eye or Curiosity because it feels too easy. I took Eater of the Dead out of my Phenax deck for the same reason.

Buried alive to put the Mike/Trike into graveyard then Living Death to win is one of my play patterns for Karador. Just added the Heliod/Ballista in case the first gets disrupted. Thanks for the great video!

I think Kiki Jiki combo's with Helm of the Host with the token that's being created tapping to target itself. Also, my favorite commander, who you have already done a dech tech on, Darien King of Kjeldor kinda combo's with a "Soul Sister"-type card and with Angel's Grace. All the full infinite combos you talked about were cool though! I'm suprised I don't see people use them more often.

With the new M21 Legends there is another new 1 card combo. It is Vito, thorn of the dusk rose and Exquisite Blood. Vito is basiclly the same as sanguine bond but as a legendary creature with an activated Ability to give your Creatures Lifelink

*laughs in Arixmethes*

Awesome video! Lots of ideas!

So happy to see my deck of choice avacyn worldslayer being such on this list ❤️

spellseeker with inalla, you can generate a combo win off only a spell seeker + inalla trigger :D notably, with a zero boardstate. Since inalla can just chill in the commandzone

Thanks for the "shielded by faith" combo. I have multiple infinate combos for my "Estrid, the masked" deck. I have slumbering isle, taferi, Estrid, the solder, and probably other I haven't realised that can combo infinitely. I will say the deck Is very weak until mid to late game. It's not designed to stall or block. Its designed to do the following: infinite +1/+1 & atk damage, draw, life gain, creature theft, ability damage, mill, and infinite creatures. ESTRID for the win. Its power at its finest. It just takes some time to get there.

Here's a combo that I haven't seen anybody else really use and it's for Nekusar the Mindrazer: Enchant it with either Helm of the Ghastlord or Elder Mastery, and suddenly Nekusar becomes a Stax commander. Elder Mastery even more so; it has: "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, they discard 2 cards." It doesn't care about combat damage, so your opponent draws 2 cards, takes 1 damage twice, then the triggers will resolve and force them to discard 4 cards. You don't even need wheels at that point since everyone else is stuck without a hand. Helm of the Ghastlord is similar except they only discard 1 for each damage they take, though you also draw 1.

Animar and Ancestral Statue does a good job of making Animar infinitely big.

Helm of the Host works with Aurelia the Warleader and Combat Celebrant as well. Another classic combo is Animar with Ancestral Statue. It doesn't end the game right there, but you can smack one player for lethal and enable more combos as well. Najeela the Blade Blossom and bear umbra can also go infinite if you have the 5 colours. This works with Hellkite Charger or Aggravated Assault too.

Great now I want to build some of these. Im surprised prosh and tazri aren’t here, but maybe everyone already knew those. A combo that’s not truly infinite but definitely powerful and a favorite of mine is muldrotha plus mindslaver. Mana intensive but more than likely makes one person lose.

I know this on one-card combos, but it's worth noting that Mikaeus also combos with Walking Ballista if you have a sac outlet or something that gives them -1/-1 like Night of Soul's Betrayal and Heartless Summoning. It's good to know if you want to build him and use infinites in it.

Cool Triskelion seems to also combo with shizo (once per turn) with a sacrifice outlet. Nice

Basically you basically put the basically one card with the basically second card and basically becomes a combo basically.

Game winning combo Cards needed are Animar Soul of Elements, Ancestral Statue, and either Purphoros God of the Forge or Walking Ballista. Whenever you cast a creature spell Animar gets a 1/1 counter. For each 1/1 counter on Animar crearure spells you cast cost 1 colorless/generic mana less to cast. Ideally to do this with Purphoros, you have Purphorus on the battlefield already and you also have Animar on the battlefield already with atleast 3 1/1 counters. You then cast Ancestral Satue for 1 generic mana and put a 1/1 on Animar and you deal 2 damage to each opponent due to Purphoros's triggered ability. Then because of Ancestral Statues text, you can return any permanent you control back to your hand. You return Ancestral Statue to your hand. You then are able to play him for free because of Animar and you deal 2 damage to each opponent again bc of Purphoros. You repeat this until your opponents have no health left. With Walking Ballista, you ideally already have animar on the battlefield again with atleast 3 1/1 counters. Cast Ancestral for 1 generic, put a 1/1 on Animar. Repeat this for a long time. Until you have a shit ton of 1/1 counters on Animar. Now let's say you just put 300 1/1 counters. You declare walking ballista at 150 XX cost. You put 150 1/1 counters on Walking Ballista. You then remove those and deal damage to your opponents.

So I was playing a game with friends and I did the Kiki-jiki/Zealous Conscript combo, though one of my friends had a primal vigor on the field, it was a pretty fun way to win the game, controlling all permanents and having infinite Zealous conscripts.

Heartless was my first commander deck. Awesome card. Definetly a scary card to see across the table from you. My favorite thing to do with him is give him lifelink. Check out the hidden gem crater hellion. Pet card of mine in that deck

Heartless Hidetsugu actually works best as part 2 of the combo with Gisela, Blade of Goldnight as commander

You forgot one that I recently learned about that I think you should squeeze into your marwyn budget deck (which I'm very pleased with thanks for compiling the deck for easy purchase) marwyn the nurturer + umbral mantle goes infinite, it gives "pay 3 colorless mana, untap equipped and give it +2/+2 until end of turn" get her to 3 power and then tap her for infinite mana and infinite damage on a swing

Feed from the Real and Pemmin´s Aura works really well with Zaxara, the Exemplary. As one friend in our group plays that combo and wins turn 3 almost every game.

Great Video MMitch, I Have On Question About Another One Though, Are The Break The Bank Episodes 5-6s or 7-8s?'

I love my Arix deck. Pemmins Aura is nuts, either bash with a flying 21/3 Arix or drop a Helix Pinnacle and watch them freak out for their last turn.

another good one with niv is curiosity which is a 1 blue mana aura thats says whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player draw a card.

Love this format.

Temple bell + Mind over matter is another personal favorite of mine force every one to draw their deck all you have to do is build ur deck with some kind of shuffle effect like an eldrazi titan or nexus of fate, or guile works even

That Niv-Mizzet, The Firemind and Curiosity combo is what I'm running!

Still my favorite combo, built around my first edh deck, is Animar + Ancestral Statue. Not an automatic game winner on its own, but having an infinite/infinite Animar for free just feels so great, and having essentially infinite colorless Mana for creatures for those abusable X spells. Love it

My favorite infinite currently is Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Exquisite Blood, monk black is a weird but fun commander experience

Scion of the Ur-Dragon is a self contained combo commander. The one shot of double transform -> Firebreather (Moltensteel usually) -> Double Striker/Infector kills a player. Scourge of the Throne can kill 2. He can also use any 2-card combo that involves a dragon. Niv-Mizzets (all) which were already discussed. Savage Ventmaw plus an Aggravated Assault style card. Hellkite Charge and a card that untap all your lands (SoFeast aand Famine / Nature's Will / Bear Umbra). Utavara Hellkite and Breath of Fury will also give infinite combats if you can connect and have an additional dragon to start. Rite of Replication kicked plus Scourge of Valkas. Scourge of Valkas as part of a mass reanimation pile or Dragonstorm with Lathiss. Hellkite Tyrant and Mycosynth Lattice will take out one player or you can make infinite mana and use Hoard-Smelter to destroy everything. He can Entomb Worldgorger Dragon for the combo and then be the outlet for the infintie mana it generates. I'm sure I missed some but those seem to be the main ones involving just one dragon and one additional card. Such a powerhouse commander

If you're playing in rakdos colors and have a Heartless Hidetsugo, you can get the same effect with the new rakdos companion Obosh.

A fun combo I have is Sydri + Mycosynth Lattice and just break the social contract as well as everyone's lands

Minor correction: zaxara with pimm aura or freed from the real doesn't actually give you infinite of any color. Only infinite blue. You must tap it for two blue; one to pay for the untap, and one as the net gain. It says "add two mana of one color" not "two mana of any combination of colors"

My personal favorites: Animar, Soul of Elements (at at least 3 counters) + Ancestral Statue: Cast Statue, put +1/+1 counter on Animar, bounce Statue with its ETB, Statue is now free. Infinite +1/+1 counters on Animar, which you can use for both attacking and for unreasonably large hydras. Grand Warlord Radha + Hellkite Charger (+ enough creatures): Attack, make mana, pay mana into Hellkite Charger, get another combat phase, rinse and repeat Arjun, the Shifting Flame + Fists of Flame: Cast spells until you dig into Fists of Flame, target Arjun, turn sideways, someone just died to commander damage. If you have Fists already in hand, cast it and then hold priority and keep casting cantrip instants until you have enough damage to one-shot.

I play a bant enchament deck with the Seyona shielded by faith combo. One of my opponents played a coat of arms the turn before me comboing of! It was Sweet AF! 😁

A deck I'm planning on putting together here soon is marrow gnawer it combos with thornbite staff so long as you have a single other rat on the battlefield.

In my Elemental tribal deck a MAJOR power move is when I kick Rite of Replication on Omnath, Locus of the Roil. All five copies see each other, and you get five ticks of the Omnath ETB damage.

Yarok and palinchron is another two card combo that gives you infinite mana.

My favorite OP combo is urza and deadeye navigator, which is very good on it's own but through Pan in it to go infinit

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir & Knowledge Pool makes it so enemies can't cast spells anymore which is usually a win.

Love that Mitch mentioned my girl Siona!

I know I'm late to the party but a combo more on the expensive side is sliver queen and mana echoes. It easily goes infinite.

Great ideas here. Thanks! 🍷

Kiki-jiki also combos with Krenko, mob boss. Either can be the commander, and you get infinite goblins and krenkos - with haste.

cool, i didnt know about the fiendish duo. for other doublers though do you live before the rounding in the same effect when others were at an even hitpoint total?

One of my favorites, even though it's *technically* 2 extra cards, one should be *verrry* accessible and hard to remove. Titania, Command Beacon (titania is a lands commander who works wonderfully this card. Its generally one of the first lands i search for), and Food chain go infinite. With all 3 in play, use command beacon's ability, then exile titania to food chain. You'll get 6 mana and after everything resolves, you get a 5/3, and titania ends up back in your hand, where you can cast her again using the food chain mana. When she etbs, return command beacon to play. Repeat for infinite 5/3s and creature mana

Great episode

One alternative way to win win with Godo is use his first trigger to get Hammer of Nazahm which eliminates equip costs on etb of an equipment (and auto equips itself to godo or something else, giving indestructible) then flicker godo somehow and use second etb to get helm which auto equips to godo, saving you 5 mana

I've been playing the Arcanis combo since college

Avacyn also goes close to the same way with Nevinyrral's Disk. (Artifact, enters tapped, 1 and tap to destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments). True, you're not destroying lands, so they still have mana to remove it or Avacyn. But they'll likely have to draw into an exile effect cuz half of my deck has its own form of indestructibility. The deck is too slow to be competitive, but it's won every game where Avacyn's come out; my board doesn't look scary until they realize that everything that's there will stay there regardless of my boardwipes and their destroy/damage effects.

There's also Ezuri claw of progress+sage of hours, Sage of Hours you can remove all +1/+1 counters from it and take an extra turn for every 5 counters, if you have 5 experience counters from ezuri which is not ahrd, you get infinite turns

There is a 0 card combo with Sisay + the Jegantha companion; its a relatively complicated fetch line, but it requires you to find 0 cards because Sisay is your commander and Jegantha starts as your companion

I love this channel. It's 10x more informational and interesting to watch than every other channel about Commander as a format out there. Thank you for making awesome videos all the time!

Yay! Mitch does it again! Love your videos so much Mitch!

Teysa, Orzhov Scion and Blackest Night come to mind as well. granted, I suppose it technically doesn't count because you probably need proper board presence first before the infinite recycling of tokens and creatures starts to become a real problem.

Thanks Mitch. Nice video. I have a Syr Konrad + mindcrank deck which, while not technically an infinite combo, does fit the category of 1 card with your commander and it can often win immediately by milling my opponents and pinging them for damage at the same time. Have you come across anyone running this combo? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Phage the untouchable + endless whispers is a really fun one

As a FC Prossh player I’m offended my boi didn’t get a mention Intruder Alarm Vannifar comes to mind too

Avacyn also combos with nevinyrral's disc to a tremendous extent.

You missed one. Najeela infinite combos with jegantha (the gruul elk companion). The combo is pretty simple, be able to produce wubrg somehow without jegantha (like lands) attack with jegantha, way wubrg (from lands) to untap all attacking creatures then tap jegantha for wubrg and pay to untap all attacking creatures. Now you have infinite combat steps.

Mikaeus, The Unhallowed + any sacrifice outlet + Walking Ballista, wins without having to put extra counters on walking ballista. Not a one card combo, but it’s more efficient most of the time. Best sac outlets are most likely Carrion Feeder or Viscrea Seer.

Solid educational vid. Sweet. I'm building Kalamax as a token deck with Cackling Counterpart stuff. Good to know I can make infinite tokens with quasiduplicate and reverberate

My favourite 1 card combo that i discovered accidentally a couple months ago, Syr Konrad and Mindcrank, i activated konrads ability and hit one creature between the other 3 players, which then dealt 1 to everyone which triggered mindcrank causing them all to mill, and i think i ended up taking everyone down to single figure life before noone hit a creature

Another one card combo is also Kydele, Prophet of Krupix amd Umbra mantel... If u've drawn more than 3 cards u can make infinite colourless mana..... U might need some setup but i thought it was worth a mention

one i personally have in my riku deck is: Riku of Two Refections (commander) & Palanchron this gives you infinite palanchron (4/5 flying) tokens and infinite mana as well. and you can even keep the original palanchron in your hand if you want. you just need 9 mana, with at least 5 of it blue, and 1 of it green. but riku ramps like crazy so its not hard to get.

The minute I saw Mikaeus, I knew Mika-Trike was coming. One of my favorites.

nekusar the mindrazer and helm of the ghastlord is my favorite one card combo. One wheel effect and your opponents never keep a card in their hand from drawing

Marrow-Gnawer + Thornbite Staff. As long as you have at least 3 rats in play, this makes infinite rats (Marrow-Gnawer taps to sacrifice a rat, doubles your number of rats, the death of the sacrificed rat triggers Thornbite Staff, untapping Marrow-Gnawer, and so on)

I’m a big fan of Najeela, the blade blossom and druids’ repository

Also, it’s not an instant win, but a great combo if you’re willing to take a risk is Korvold, Fae-Cursed King and Sylvan Safekeeper. Depending on your land situation, you can use it strictly to pump up Korvold, or you can use it to protect him from any form of targeted removal. I built my Korvold deck around Land Sacrifice/Recursion. Rarely fails me and nobody sees it coming the first time, because I mean, who would be dumb enough to sacrifice their lands, AmIRight?

There's also Arixmethes + Thespian Stage. Thespian Stage in play, play Arixmethes. Copy Arixmethes with Stage. Boom. Turn 4 turned on Arixmethes.

That heartless hidsutgo combo I use him with gisela blade of goldnight and smoked the entire table as well

Loxodon warhammer, basilisk collar with heartless ogre guy. Or the new damage tripler. Mana echoes can make a lot of token decks go infinite or near enough.

Conspicuous Snoop with Kiki-Jiki on top and goblen bombardment on the battlefield can be a turn 3-4 win in a goblin deck

Riku of Two Reflections has many combos. With palichron, infinity mana and palichrons.

Of the 3 cards you listed to pair with mind over matter azami is the best not the worst because she doesn’t care about summoning sickness and costs 1 less to cast. She can also tap another wizard you control if your opponent decides to be cute and try to interrupt your combo.