Combos with Alhammarret's Archive

15 known combos in Commander — View Alhammarret's Archive

Results: Infinite card draw · Infinite draw triggers
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Cast Peer into the Abyss by paying {4}{B}{B}{B}, causing you to lose half your life total rounded up and draw your library due to Alhammarret's Archive.

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Results: Near-infinite lifeloss
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  1. Cast Windfall by paying {2}{U}, causing each player to discard their hand and each opponent to draw cards equal to the greatest number of cards discarded this way, and you to draw twice that number due to Alhammarret's Archive.
  2. Psychosis Crawler triggers for each card you draw, and Scrawling Crawler triggers for each card opponents draw.
  3. Resolve the Psychosis Crawler triggers, causing each opponent to lose 1 life for each card you drew.
  4. Resolve the Scrawling Crawler triggers, causing each opponent to lose 1 life for each card they drew.
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Results: Infinite card draw · Infinite draw triggers · Near-infinite lifegain · Near-infinite lifegain triggers
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  1. Activate Greed by paying {B/P} and 2 life, causing you to draw two cards.
  2. Sheoldred's first ability triggers twice, causing you to gain 8 life.
  3. Repeat.
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Results: Infinite damage · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers
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  1. Activate Aetherflux Resevoir by paying 50 life, targeting yourself, but instead preventing the damage and causing you to gain 100 life due to Purity.
  2. Repeat an arbitrarily large number of times.
  3. Activate Aetherflux Resevoir by paying 50 life, dealing 50 damage to any target.
  4. Repeat step 3 as desired.
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Results: Near-infinite lifegain
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  1. Cast Wheel of Misfortune by paying {2}{R}.
  2. Judith triggers, giving Wheel of Misfortune deathtouch and lifelink.
  3. Resolve Wheel of Misfortune, choosing an arbitrarily large number.
  4. If you didn't choose the largest number, Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number chosen to each player that chose it, causing those players to lose the game due to having 0 or less life.
  5. If you chose the largest number, Wheel of Misfortune deals that much damage to you and causes you to gain twice that much life.
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Results: Infinite card draw · Infinite draw triggers · Infinite self-discard triggers · Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature · Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce · Near-infinite untap of permanents you control
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  1. Activate an Island by tapping it, adding {U}.
  2. Activate Ormos by paying {1}{U}{U} and discarding three cards with different names, causing you to draw ten cards.
  3. Activate Mind over Matter by discading a card, untapping the Island.
  4. Activate the Island by tapping it, adding {U}.
  5. Repeat from step 3 two additional times.
  6. Repeat from step 2.
57 decks Colorless View on Commander Spellbook →
Results: Infinite draw triggers · Near-infinite card draw · Near-infinite colorless mana · Near-infinite creature tokens · Near-infinite ETB · Near-infinite looting · Near-infinite self-discard triggers
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  1. Activate a mana-producing permanent by tapping it, adding at least {1}.
  2. Activate Shorikai by paying {1} and tapping it, causing you to draw four cards, discard a card and create a 1/1 Pilot creature token.
  3. Activate Mind over Matter twice by discarding two cards, untapping Shorikai and the mana-producing permanent.
  4. Repeat.
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Results: Near-infinite card draw · Near-infinite draw triggers · Near-infinite mill · Near-infinite self-discard triggers
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  1. Cast Whispering Madness by paying {2}{U}{B}, causing each player to discard your hand, then draw cards equal to the greatest number of cards discarded this way, with you drawing double that number due to Alhammarret's Archive.
  2. Whispering Madness' cipher ability triggers, exiling Whispering Madness encoded on a creature you control.
  3. Mystic Redaction triggers for each card you discarded, causing each opponent to mill two cards for each card you discarded.
  4. Deal combat damage using the creature that has Whispering Madness encoded.
  5. The creature triggers, casting a copy of Whispering Madness without paying its mana cost.
  6. Resolve the copy of Whispering Madness, causing each player to discard your hand, then draw cards equal to the greatest number of cards discarded this way, with you drawing double that number due to Alhammarret's Archive.
  7. Mystic Redaction triggers for each card you discarded, causing each opponent to mill two cards for each card you discarded.
  8. Move to your cleanup step, and discard cards down to your maximum hand size.
  9. Mystic Redaction triggers for each card you discarded, causing each opponent to mill two cards for each card you discarded.
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Results: Infinite creature tokens · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain triggers
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  1. Activate Aetherflux Resevoir by paying fifty life, dealing fifty damage to yourself.
  2. Darien triggers, creating fifty 1/1 Soldier creature tokens.
  3. The Soldiers enter the battlefield, triggering Soul Warden fifty times, gaining you 100 life.
  4. Repeat.
29 decks Colorless View on Commander Spellbook →
Results: Infinite creature tokens · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain triggers
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  1. Activate Aetherflux Reservoir by paying 50 life, dealing 50 damage to yourself.
  2. Darien triggers, creating fifty 1/1 Soldier creature tokens.
  3. When the Soldiers enter the battlefield, Soul's Attendant triggers 50 times, causing you to gain 100 life.
  4. Repeat.
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Results: Infinite card draw for all players · Infinite draw triggers for all players · Near-infinite lifegain for all players · Near-infinite lifegain triggers for all players
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  1. Activate Palladium Myr by tapping it, adding {C}{C}.
  2. Activate Kwain by tapping it, causing you to draw two cards and gain two life, and allowing your opponent to draw a card and gain 1 life.
  3. Tolarian Kraken triggers twice, causing you to pay {2} to untap Palladium Myr and Kwain.
  4. Repeat.
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Results: Tap all creatures opponents control during each turn
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  1. Activate a mana-producing permanent by tapping it, adding at least {1}.
  2. Activate Mind over Matter by discarding a card, tapping target creature an opponent controls.
  3. Hylda of the Icy Crown triggers, causing you to pay {1} to scry 2 and draw two cards.
  4. Activate Mind over Matter by discarding a card, untapping the mana-producing permanent.
  5. Repeat.
  6. You may also repeat this loop during each turn.
Results: Each opponent loses the game · Infinite card draw · Infinite draw triggers
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  1. Cast Fractured Identity by paying {3}{W}{U}, targeting Alhammarret's Archive.
  2. Hive Mind triggers, causing each opponent to copy Fractured Identity.
  3. Resolve each opponent's Fractured Identity.
  4. Resolve your Fractured Identity, exiling Alhammarret's Archive and causing each opponent to create a copy of it.
  5. Cast Enter the Infinite by paying {8}{U}{U}{U}{U}.
  6. Hive Mind triggers, causing each opponent to copy Enter the Infinite.
  7. Resolve the first opponent's Enter the Infinite, causing the opponent to draw cards equal to twice their deck size, and lose the game due to drawing from an empty library.
  8. Repeat step 7 for each other opponent.
Results: Infinite card draw · Infinite draw triggers · Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures · Near-infinite lifegain · Near-infinite lifegain triggers · Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
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  1. Draw a card, instead causing you to draw two cards due to Alhammarret's Archive.
  2. Shabraz triggers twice.
  3. Resolve a Shabraz trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on itself and causing you to gain two life.
  4. Mindless Automaton triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on itself.
  5. Repeat from step 3 one additional time.
  6. Activate Mindless Automaton's second ability by removing two +1/+1 counters from it, causing you to draw two cards.
  7. Repeat from step 2.
Results: Infinite draw triggers · Infinite looting · Infinite self-discard triggers · Near-infinite blue mana
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  1. Activate Urza by tapping Unctus, adding {U}.
  2. Activate Unctus by paying {U/P}, causing Urza to become an artifact until end of turn.
  3. Activate Urza by tapping itself, adding {U}.
  4. Urza triggers, causing you to draw two cards and discard a card.
  5. Activate Mind over Matter by discarding a card, untapping Urza.
  6. Repeat.
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