Combos with Gideon's Sacrifice

11 known combos in Commander — View Gideon's Sacrifice

Results: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you · Lock
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, targeting Anti-Venom
  2. Whenever damage would be dealt to you, Gideon's Sacrifice causes that damage to be redirected to Anti-Venom.
  3. Anti-Venom will then prevent the damage and put that many +1/+1 counters on it instead.
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Results: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you · Lock
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, targeting a creature you control.
  2. Whenever damage would be dealt to you, Gideon's Sacrifice causes that damage to be redirected to the creature it's attached to.
  3. Vigor will then prevent the damage and put that many +1/+1 counters on that creature instead.
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Results: Infinite lifeloss
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, targeting Barbed Servitor
  2. Deal damage to Barbed Servitor
  3. Barbed Servitor and Fiendlash trigger.
  4. Resolve the Barbed Servitor trigger, causing an opponent to lose life equal to the damage dealt to Barbed Servitor.
  5. Resolve the Fiendlash trigger, targeting you, but dealing damage to Barbed Servitor instead due to Gideon's Sacrifice.
  6. Repeat from step 3.
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Results: Near-infinite damage
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}.
  2. Activate Heartless Hidetsugu by tapping it, dealing damage to each opponent equal to half their life total, rounded down, times 2, and dealing no damage to you due to Gideon's Sacrifice.
Results: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature · Infinite colored mana · Infinite damage · Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you · Lock
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, causing all damage that would be dealt this turn to you or to permanents you control to be dealt to Crystalline Crawler instead.
  2. Activate Pestilence Demon by paying {B}, dealing 1 damage to each creature and each player.
  3. Gideon's Sacrifice redirects damage to Crawler, which results in at least four +1/+1 counters being placed on it instead due to Vigor.
  4. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first activated ability at least once by removing at least one +1/+1 counter from it, adding at least {B}.
  5. Repeat from step 2.
Results: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature · Infinite colored mana · Infinite damage · Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you · Lock
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, causing all damage that would be dealt this turn to you or to permanents you control to be dealt to Crystalline Crawler instead.
  2. Activate Thrashing Wumpus by paying {B}, dealing 1 damage to each creature and each player.
  3. Gideon's Sacrifice redirects damage to Crawler, which results in at least four +1/+1 counters being placed on it instead due to Vigor.
  4. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first activated ability at least once by removing at least one +1/+1 counter from it, adding at least {B}.
  5. Repeat from step 2.
Results: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature · Infinite colored mana · Infinite damage · Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control · Near-infinite damage · Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you · Lock
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, causing all damage that would be dealt this turn to you or to permanents you control to be dealt to Crystalline Crawler instead.
  2. Activate Pestilence by paying {B}, dealing 1 damage to each creature and each player.
  3. Gideon's Sacrifice redirects damage to Crawler, which results in at least three +1/+1 counters being placed on it instead due to Vigor.
  4. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first activated ability at least once by removing at least one +1/+1 counter from it, adding at least {B}.
  5. Repeat from step 2.
Results: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature · Infinite colored mana · Infinite damage to creatures · Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you · Lock
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, causing all damage that would be dealt this turn to you or to permanents you control to be dealt to Crystalline Crawler instead.
  2. Activate Scourge of Kher Ridges's first ability by paying {1}{R}, dealing 2 damage to each creature without flying.
  3. Gideon's Sacrifice redirects damage to Crawler, which results in at least three +1/+1 counters being placed on it instead due to Vigor.
  4. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first activated ability at least twice by removing at least two +1/+1 counters from it, adding at least {1}{R}.
  5. Repeat from step 2.
Results: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature · Infinite colored mana · Infinite damage to some creatures · Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you · Lock
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, causing all damage that would be dealt this turn to you or to permanents you control to be dealt to Crystalline Crawler instead.
  2. Activate Ashen Firebeast by paying {1}{R}, dealing 1 damage to each creature without flying.
  3. Gideon's Sacrifice redirects damage to Crawler, which results in at least three +1/+1 counters being placed on it instead due to Vigor.
  4. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first activated ability at least twice by removing at least two +1/+1 counters from it, adding at least {1}{R}.
  5. Repeat from step 2.
Results: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature · Infinite colored mana · Infinite damage · Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on most creatures you control · Near-infinite damage · Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you · Lock
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, causing all damage that would be dealt this turn to you or to permanents you control to be dealt to Crystalline Crawler instead.
  2. Activate Pyrohemia by paying {R}, dealing 1 damage to each creature and each player.
  3. Gideon's Sacrifice redirects damage to Crawler, which results in at least three +1/+1 counters being placed on it instead due to Vigor.
  4. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first activated ability at least once by removing a +1/+1 counter from it, adding at least {R}.
  5. Repeat from step 2.
Results: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature · Infinite colored mana · Infinite damage · Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you · Lock
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  1. Cast Gideon's Sacrifice by paying {W}, causing all damage that would be dealt this turn to you or to permanents you control to be dealt to Crystalline Crawler instead.
  2. Cast Warmonger by paying {3}{R}.
  3. Activate Warmonger by paying {2}, dealing 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player.
  4. Gideon's Sacrifice redirects damage to Crawler, which results in at least four +1/+1 counters being placed on it instead due to Vigor.
  5. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first activated ability at least twice by removing at least two +1/+1 counters from it, adding at least {2}.
  6. Repeat from step 3.
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