Combos with Animate Dead

15 known combos in Commander — View Animate Dead

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Animate Dead Animate Dead
Results: Infinite blinking · Infinite creature tokens · Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Show steps
  1. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1}{B}, returning Abdel Adrian from your graveyard to the battlefield, and attaching Animate Dead to it.
  2. Abdel Adrian enters the battlefield, exiling Animate Dead until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield, and creating a 1/1 Soldier creature token.
  3. Animate Dead triggers, causing you to sacrifice Abdel Adrian.
  4. Animate Dead returns to the battlefield, returning Abdel Adrian from your graveyard to the battlefield, and attaching Animate Dead to it.
  5. Repeat from step 2.
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Animate Dead Animate Dead
Worldgorger Dragon Worldgorger Dragon
Results: Infinite colored mana · Infinite colorless mana · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
  1. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1}{B}.
  2. Animate Dead enters the battlefield, returning Worldgorger Dragon from your graveyard to the battlefield attached with Animate Dead.
  3. Worldgorger Dragon enters the battlefield, exiling all other permanents you control.
  4. Animate Dead triggers, sacrificing Worldgorger Dragon.
  5. Worldgorger Dragon leaves the battlefield, returning all permanents exiled by it to the battlefield.
  6. Animate Dead enters the battlefield, returning Worldgorger Dragon from your graveyard to the battlefield attached with Animate Dead.
  7. Holding priority, activate all lands you control by tapping those, adding manas of any colors those lands can produce.
  8. Repeat.
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Leonin Relic-Warder Leonin Relic-Warder
Animate Dead Animate Dead
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
  1. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1}{B}, returning Leonin Relic-Warder from your graveyard to the battlefield, and attaching Animate Dead to it.
  2. Leonin Relic-Warder enters the battlefield, exiling Animate Dead.
  3. Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, causing you to sacrifice Leonin Relic-Warder.
  4. Leonin Relic-Warder leaves the battlefield, returning Animate Dead from exile to the battlefield.
  5. Animate Dead enters the battlefield, returning Leonin Relic-Warder from your graveyard to the battlefield, and attaching Animate Dead to it.
  6. Repeat from step 3.
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Sun Titan Sun Titan
Karmic Guide Karmic Guide
Animate Dead Animate Dead
Altar of Dementia Altar of Dementia
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite mill · Infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
  1. Cast Sun Titan.
  2. Sun Titan enters the battlefield, returning Animate Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  3. With the Animate Dead trigger on the stack, Activate Altar of Dementia, sacrificing Sun Titan to mill target player six.
  4. Resolve the Animate Dead trigger, causing it to become an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead" and returning Karmic Guide from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  5. Animate Dead is put into your graveyard due to state based actions, as it cannot attach to a creature with protection from black.
  6. Animate Dead triggers, causing you to sacrifice Karmic Guide.
  7. Karmic Guide's enter the battlefield triggers.
  8. Resolve Karmic Guide's enter the battlefield trigger returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  9. Repeat from step 2.
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Sun Titan Sun Titan
Karmic Guide Karmic Guide
Animate Dead Animate Dead
Ashnod's Altar Ashnod's Altar
Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
  1. Cast Sun Titan.
  2. Sun Titan enters the battlefield, returning Animate Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  3. With the Animate Dead trigger on the stack, Activate Ashnod's Altar, sacrificing Sun Titan to add {C}{C}.
  4. Resolve the Animate Dead trigger, causing it to become an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead" and returning Karmic Guide from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  5. Animate Dead is put into your graveyard due to state based actions, as it cannot attach to a creature with protection from black.
  6. Animate Dead triggers, causing you to sacrifice Karmic Guide.
  7. Karmic Guide's enter the battlefield triggers.
  8. Resolve Karmic Guide's enter the battlefield trigger returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  9. Repeat from step 2.
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K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Buried Alive Buried Alive
Animate Dead Animate Dead
Chainer, Dementia Master Chainer, Dementia Master
+2 more
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite scry 1 · Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
Show steps
  1. Cast Buried Alive by paying {2} and two life, searching for Chainer, Viscera Seer, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel.
  2. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1} and two life.
  3. Animate Dead enters the battlefield, returning Chainer onto the battlefield attached with Animate Dead.
  4. Activate Chainer by paying nine life, returning Viscera Seer from your graveyard to the battlefield as a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
  5. Activate Chainer by paying nine life, returning Gray Merchant of Asphodel from your graveyard to the battlefield as a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
  6. Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, causing each opponent to lose life equal to your devotion to black and causing you to gain life equal to the amount of life lost this way.
  7. Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing Gray Merchant of Asphodel, scrying 1.
  8. Repeat from step 5.
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Kederekt Leviathan Kederekt Leviathan
Animate Dead Animate Dead
Results: Return all nonland permanents to owner's hand each turn · Lock
Show steps
  1. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1}{B}.
  2. Animate Dead enters the battlefield, returning Kederekt Leviathan from your graveyard to the battlefield attached with Animate Dead.
  3. Kederekt Leviathan triggers, returning all nonland permanents to their owner's hands.
  4. Animate Dead triggers, causing you to sacrifice Kederekt Leviathan.
  5. Repeat each turn.
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Sun Titan Sun Titan
Karmic Guide Karmic Guide
Animate Dead Animate Dead
Phyrexian Altar Phyrexian Altar
Results: Infinite colored mana · Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
  1. Cast Sun Titan.
  2. Sun Titan enters the battlefield, returning Animate Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  3. With the Animate Dead trigger on the stack, Activate Phyrexian Altar, sacrificing Sun Titan to add a mana of any color.
  4. Resolve the Animate Dead trigger, causing it to become an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead" and returning Karmic Guide from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  5. Animate Dead is put into your graveyard due to state based actions, as it cannot attach to a creature with protection from black.
  6. Animate Dead triggers, causing you to sacrifice Karmic Guide.
  7. Karmic Guide's enter the battlefield triggers.
  8. Resolve Karmic Guide's enter the battlefield trigger returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  9. Repeat from step 2.
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Animate Dead Animate Dead
Sun Titan Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead Dance of the Dead
Viscera Seer Viscera Seer
Results: Infinite LTB · Infinite ETB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite death triggers · Infinite scry 1
Show steps
  1. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1}{B}.
  2. When Animate Dead enters, it trigger, returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield and attaching Animate Dead to it.
  3. When Sun Titan enters, it triggers, targeting Dance of the Dead.
  4. Holding priority, activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing Sun Titan.
  5. Resolve the Sun Titan trigger, returning Dance of the Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  6. When Dance of the Dead enters, it trigger, returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield and attaching Dance of the Dead to it.
  7. When Sun Titan enters, it triggers, targeting Animate Dead.
  8. Holding priority, activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing Sun Titan.
  9. Resolve the Sun Titan trigger, returning Animate Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  10. Repeat from step 2.
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Animate Dead Animate Dead
Sun Titan Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead Dance of the Dead
Altar of Dementia Altar of Dementia
Results: Infinite LTB · Infinite ETB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite death triggers · Infinite mill · Infinite self-mill
Show steps
  1. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1}{B}.
  2. When Animate Dead enters, it trigger, returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield and attaching Animate Dead to it.
  3. When Sun Titan enters, it triggers, targeting Dance of the Dead.
  4. Holding priority, activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Sun Titan.
  5. Resolve the Sun Titan trigger, returning Dance of the Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  6. When Dance of the Dead enters, it trigger, returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield and attaching Dance of the Dead to it.
  7. When Sun Titan enters, it triggers, targeting Animate Dead.
  8. Holding priority, activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Sun Titan.
  9. Resolve the Sun Titan trigger, returning Animate Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  10. Repeat from step 2.
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Sun Titan Sun Titan
Karmic Guide Karmic Guide
Animate Dead Animate Dead
Goblin Bombardment Goblin Bombardment
Results: Infinite damage · Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
  1. Cast Sun Titan.
  2. Sun Titan enters the battlefield, returning Animate Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  3. With the Animate Dead trigger on the stack, Activate Goblin Bombardment, sacrificing Sun Titan to deal one damage to any target.
  4. Resolve the Animate Dead trigger, causing it to become an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead" and returning Karmic Guide from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  5. Animate Dead is put into your graveyard due to state based actions, as it cannot attach to a creature with protection from black.
  6. Animate Dead triggers, causing you to sacrifice Karmic Guide.
  7. Karmic Guide's enter the battlefield triggers.
  8. Resolve Karmic Guide's enter the battlefield trigger returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  9. Repeat from step 2.
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Animate Dead Animate Dead
Sun Titan Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead Dance of the Dead
Ashnod's Altar Ashnod's Altar
Results: Infinite LTB · Infinite ETB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite death triggers · Infinite colorless mana
Show steps
  1. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1}{B}.
  2. When Animate Dead enters, it trigger, returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield and attaching Animate Dead to it.
  3. When Sun Titan enters, it triggers, targeting Dance of the Dead.
  4. Holding priority, activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Sun Titan.
  5. Resolve the Sun Titan trigger, returning Dance of the Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  6. When Dance of the Dead enters, it trigger, returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield and attaching Dance of the Dead to it.
  7. When Sun Titan enters, it triggers, targeting Animate Dead.
  8. Holding priority, activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Sun Titan.
  9. Resolve the Sun Titan trigger, returning Animate Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  10. Repeat from step 2.
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Animate Dead Animate Dead
Sun Titan Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead Dance of the Dead
Phyrexian Altar Phyrexian Altar
Results: Infinite LTB · Infinite ETB · Infinite colored mana · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite death triggers
Show steps
  1. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1}{B}.
  2. When Animate Dead enters, it trigger, returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield and attaching Animate Dead to it.
  3. When Sun Titan enters, it triggers, targeting Dance of the Dead.
  4. Holding priority, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Sun Titan.
  5. Resolve the Sun Titan trigger, returning Dance of the Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  6. When Dance of the Dead enters, it trigger, returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield and attaching Dance of the Dead to it.
  7. When Sun Titan enters, it triggers, targeting Animate Dead.
  8. Holding priority, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Sun Titan.
  9. Resolve the Sun Titan trigger, returning Animate Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  10. Repeat from step 2.
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Animate Dead Animate Dead
Sun Titan Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead Dance of the Dead
Carrion Feeder Carrion Feeder
Results: Infinite LTB · Infinite ETB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite death triggers · Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
Show steps
  1. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1}{B}.
  2. When Animate Dead enters, it trigger, returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield and attaching Animate Dead to it.
  3. When Sun Titan enters, it triggers, targeting Dance of the Dead.
  4. Holding priority, activate Carrion Feeder by sacrificing Sun Titan.
  5. Resolve the Sun Titan trigger, returning Dance of the Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  6. When Dance of the Dead enters, it trigger, returning Sun Titan from your graveyard to the battlefield and attaching Dance of the Dead to it.
  7. When Sun Titan enters, it triggers, targeting Animate Dead.
  8. Holding priority, activate Carrion Feeder by sacrificing Sun Titan.
  9. Resolve the Sun Titan trigger, returning Animate Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  10. Repeat from step 2.
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K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Buried Alive Buried Alive
Animate Dead Animate Dead
Chainer, Dementia Master Chainer, Dementia Master
+2 more
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite scry 1 · Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
Show steps
  1. Cast Buried Alive by paying {2} and two life, searching for Chainer, Viscera Seer, and Kokusho.
  2. Cast Animate Dead by paying {1} and two life.
  3. Animate Dead enters the battlefield, returning Chainer onto the battlefield attached with Animate Dead.
  4. Activate Chainer by paying nine life, returning Viscera Seer from your graveyard to the battlefield as a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
  5. Activate Chainer by paying nine life, returning Kokusho from your graveyard to the battlefield as a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
  6. Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing Kokusho.
  7. Kokusho dies, causing each opponent to lose 5 life and causing you to gain life equal to the amount of life lost this way.
  8. Resolve the Viscera Seer, scrying 1.
  9. Repeat from step 5.
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