Combos with Heat Shimmer

15 known combos in Commander — View Heat Shimmer

Dualcaster Mage Dualcaster Mage Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite LTB · Infinite ETB · Infinite creature tokens with haste · Infinite magecraft triggers
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  1. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying its mana cost, targeting a creature you control.
  2. Holding priority, cast Dualcaster Mage by paying {1}{R}{R}.
  3. When Dualcaster Mage enters the battlefield, it triggers, copying Heat Shimmer, targeting Dualcaster Mage.
  4. Resolve the copy of Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of Dualcaster Mage.
  5. Repeat from step 3.
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Naru Meha, Master Wizard Naru Meha, Master Wizard Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite magecraft triggers
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  1. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying its mana cost, targeting a creature you control.
  2. Holding priority, cast Naru Meha by paying {2}{U}{U}.
  3. When Naru Meha enters the battlefield, it triggers, copying Heat Shimmer, targeting Naru Meha.
  4. Resolve the copy of Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of Naru Meha.
  5. Put either Naru Meha into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  6. Repeat from step 3.
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Cormela, Glamour Thief Cormela, Glamour Thief Storm-Kiln Artist Storm-Kiln Artist Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite magecraft triggers · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite storm count
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  1. Activate Cormela by paying {1} and tapping it, adding {U}{B}{R} that can only be spent to cast instant and/or sorcery spells.
  2. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying {2}{R}.
  3. Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure artifact token.
  4. Resolve Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of Cormela.
  5. Put the tapped Cormela into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  6. Cormela dies, triggering itself, returning Heat Shimmer from your graveyard to your hand.
  7. Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {1}.
  8. Repeat.
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Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Combat Celebrant Combat Celebrant Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite combat phases · Infinite damage
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  1. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying {2}{R}, creating a token copy of Combat Celebrant.
  2. At the beginning of your combat phase, Brudiclad triggers, creating a 2/1 Phyrexian Myr creature token, then choosing to have all tokens you control become copies of the Combat Celebrant token.
  3. Declare one of the Combat Celebrant copy as an attacker, choosing to exert it as it attacks.
  4. The Combat Celebrant copy triggers, untapping all other creatures you control and causing you to get an additional combat phase after this one.
  5. Repeat from step 2.
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Cormela, Glamour Thief Cormela, Glamour Thief Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite magecraft triggers · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite storm count
Show steps
  1. Activate Cormela by paying {1} and tapping it, adding {U}{B}{R} that can only be spent to cast instant and/or sorcery spells.
  2. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying {2}{R}.
  3. Birgi triggers, adding {R}.
  4. Resolve Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of Cormela.
  5. Put the tapped Cormela into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  6. Cormela dies, triggering itself, returning Heat Shimmer from your graveyard to your hand.
  7. Repeat.
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Bladewing the Risen Bladewing the Risen Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB
Show steps
  1. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying {2}{R}, creating a token copy of Bladewing with haste.
  2. Put the nontoken Bladewing from the battlefield into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  3. The Bladewing token's enter-the-battlefield ability triggers, returning Bladewing from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  4. Put Bladewing from the battlefield into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  5. Bladewing's enter-the-battlefield ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  6. Repeat from step 4.
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Vadrok, Apex of Thunder Vadrok, Apex of Thunder Cloud of Faeries Cloud of Faeries Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer Snap Snap
Results: Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite magecraft triggers · Infinite storm count · Infinite mana lands you control can produce · Infinite untap of lands you control
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  1. Cast Vadrok for its mutate cost by paying {1}{W/U}{R}{R}, merging it under Cloud of Faeries.
  2. The Cloud of Faeries mutated creature's ability from Vadrok triggers, casting Heat Shimmer from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.
  3. Resolve Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of the Cloud of Faeries mutated creature with haste.
  4. The token copy of the Cloud of Faeries mutated creature triggers, untapping two lands you control.
  5. Cast Snap by paying {1}{U}, returning the nontoken Cloud of Faeries and Vadrok from the battlefield to your hand and untapping two lands you control.
  6. Cast Vadrok for its mutate cost by paying {1}{W/U}{R}{R}, merging it under the token Cloud of Faeries mutated creature.
  7. The token Cloud of Faeries mutated creature triggers once for each of its Vadrok abilities.
  8. Resolve one of these triggers, casting Heat Shimmer from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.
  9. Resolve Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of the Cloud of Faeries mutated creature with haste.
  10. The token copy of the Cloud of Faeries mutated creature triggers, untapping two lands you control.
  11. Resolve a second trigger from step 7, casting Snap from your graveyard without paying its mana cost, targeting the mutated creature that includes the nontoken Vadrok.
  12. Resolve Snap, returning Vadrok from the battlefield to your hand as well as multiple token creatures which cease to exist, and untapping two lands you control.
  13. Resolve any remaining triggers from step 7, casting any noncreature cards with mana value 3 or less that were not already cast since step 7 from your graveyard without paying their casting costs.
  14. Repeat from step 6, adding one additional token Vadrok to each new iteration of the Cloud of Faeries mutated creature token.
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Cormela, Glamour Thief Cormela, Glamour Thief Pitiless Plunderer Pitiless Plunderer Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite magecraft triggers · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite storm count
Show steps
  1. Activate Cormela by paying {1} and tapping it, adding {U}{B}{R}.
  2. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying {2}{R}, creating a token copy of Cormela.
  3. Put the tapped Cormela into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  4. Cormela dies, triggering itself and Pitiless Plunderer.
  5. Resolve the Cormela's trigger, returning Heat Shimmer to hand.
  6. Resolve the Pitiless Plunderer trigger, creating a Treasure token.
  7. Activate a Treasure token by tapping and sacrificing it, adding one mana of any color.
  8. Repeat.
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Vadrok, Apex of Thunder Vadrok, Apex of Thunder Peregrine Drake Peregrine Drake Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer Snap Snap
Results: Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite magecraft triggers · Infinite storm count · Infinite mana lands you control can produce · Infinite untap of lands you control
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  1. Cast Vadrok for its mutate cost by paying {1}{W/U}{R}{R}, merging it under Peregrine Drake.
  2. The Peregrine Drake mutated creature's ability from Vadrok triggers, casting Heat Shimmer from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.
  3. Resolve Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of the Peregrine Drake mutated creature with haste.
  4. The token copy of the Peregrine Drake mutated creature triggers, untapping five lands you control.
  5. Cast Snap by paying {1}{U}, returning the nontoken Peregrine Drake and Vadrok from the battlefield to your hand and untapping two lands you control.
  6. Cast Vadrok for its mutate cost by paying {1}{W/U}{R}{R}, merging it under the token Peregrine Drake mutated creature.
  7. The token Peregrine Drake mutated creature triggers once for each of its Vadrok abilities.
  8. Resolve one of these triggers, casting Heat Shimmer from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.
  9. Resolve Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of the Peregrine Drake mutated creature with haste.
  10. The token copy of the Peregrine Drake mutated creature triggers, untapping five lands you control.
  11. Resolve a second trigger from step 7, casting Snap from your graveyard without paying its mana cost, targeting the mutated creature that includes the nontoken Vadrok.
  12. Resolve Snap, returning Vadrok from the battlefield to your hand as well as multiple token creatures which cease to exist, and untapping two lands you control.
  13. Resolve any remaining triggers from step 7, casting any noncreature cards with mana value 3 or less that were not already cast since step 7 from your graveyard without paying their casting costs.
  14. Repeat from step 6, adding one additional token Vadrok to each new iteration of the Peregrine Drake mutated creature token.
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Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Timestream Navigator Timestream Navigator Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite turns · Lock
Show steps
  1. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying {2}{R}, creating a token copy of Timestream Navigator.
  2. At the beginning of your combat phase, Brudiclad triggers, creating a 2/1 Phyrexian Myr creature token, then choosing to have all tokens you control become copies of the Timestream Navigator token.
  3. Activate Timestream Navigator by paying {2}{U}{U} and tapping it and putting it onto the bottom of your library, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
  4. Move to your next turn.
  5. Repeat from step 2.
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Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Port Razer Port Razer Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite combat damage · Infinite combat phases · Infinite creature tokens with haste · Infinite ETB · Infinite mana creatures you control can produce · Infinite untap of creatures you control
Show steps
  1. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying {2}{R}, creating a token copy of Port Razer.
  2. Move to your combat phase.
  3. Brudiclad triggers, creating a 2/1 Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token and causing all creature tokens you control to become a copy of the Port Razer token.
  4. Deal combat damage with any Port Razer token.
  5. The Port Razer token triggers, causing you to untap all creatures you control and to get an additional combat phase after this one.
  6. Repeat from step 2.
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Cormela, Glamour Thief Cormela, Glamour Thief Runaway Steam-Kin Runaway Steam-Kin Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite magecraft triggers · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite storm count
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  1. If Runaway Steam-Kin has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, activate Runaway Steam-Kin by removing three +1/+1 counters from it, adding {R}{R}{R}.
  2. Activate Cormela by paying {1} and tapping it, adding {U}{B}{R} that can only be spent to cast instant and/or sorcery spells.
  3. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying {2}{R}.
  4. Runaway Steam-Kin triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on itself.
  5. Resolve Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of Cormela.
  6. Put the tapped Cormela into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  7. Cormela dies, triggering itself, returning Heat Shimmer from your graveyard to your hand.
  8. Repeat.
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Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Bloodthirster Bloodthirster Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite combat damage · Infinite combat phases · Infinite creature tokens with haste · Infinite ETB
Show steps
  1. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying {2}{R}, creating a token copy of Bloodthirster.
  2. Move to your combat phase.
  3. Brudiclad triggers, creating a 2/1 Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token and causing all creature tokens you control to become a copy of the Bloodthirster token.
  4. Deal combat damage with any Bloodthirster token.
  5. The Bloodthirster token triggers, causing you to untap it and to get an additional combat phase after this one.
  6. Repeat from step 2.
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Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness Hua Tuo, Honored Physician Hua Tuo, Honored Physician Thornbite Staff Thornbite Staff Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Cast any number of spells from opponents' libraries · Exile each opponent's library · Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite storm count · Near-infinite magecraft triggers
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  1. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying {2}{R}, creating a token copy of Etali with haste.
  2. Choose to put the nontoken Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  3. If Etali is your commander, choose not to return it to the command zone from your graveyard.
  4. The Etali token and Hua Tuo trigger.
  5. Resolve the Hua Tuo trigger untapping it.
  6. Activate Hua Tuo by tapping it, putting Etali on top of your library from your graveyard.
  7. Resolve the Etali token's trigger from step 4, causing you to exile cards from each player's library until you exile a nonland card, with you exiling Etali from your library, and cast Etali and any other nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
  8. Choose to put the nontoken Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  9. If Etali is your commander, choose not to return it to the command zone from your graveyard.
  10. The nontoken Etali and Hua Tuo trigger.
  11. Resolve the Hua Tuo trigger untapping it.
  12. Activate Hua Tuo by tapping it, putting Etali on top of your library from your graveyard.
  13. Resolve the nontoken Etali's trigger from step 10, causing you to exile cards from each player's library until you exile a nonland card, with you exiling Etali from your library, and cast Etali and any other nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
  14. Repeat from step 8.
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Storm-Kiln Artist Storm-Kiln Artist Flamehold Grappler Flamehold Grappler Narset's Reversal Narset's Reversal Heat Shimmer Heat Shimmer
Results: Infinite ETB · Infinite storm count · Infinite magecraft triggers · Infinite LTB · Infinite colored mana · Infinite creature tokens with haste · Infinite Treasure tokens
Show steps
  1. Cast Flamehold Grappler by paying {U}{R}{W}.
  2. When Flamehold Grappler enters the battlefield, it triggers, copying the next spell you cast this turn.
  3. Cast Heat Shimmer by paying its mana cost, targeting Flamehold Grappler.
  4. Flamehold Grappler and Storm-Kiln Artist trigger.
  5. Resolve the Storm-Kiln Artist trigger, creating a Treasure token.
  6. Resolve the Flamehold Grappler trigger, copying Heat Shimmer, with the copy targeting Flamehold Grappler.
  7. Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
  8. Resolve the copy of Heat Shimmer, creating a token copy of Flamehold Grappler.
  9. When the token Flamehold Grappler enters the battlefield, it triggers, copying the next spell you cast this turn.
  10. Holding priority, activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {U}{U}.
  11. Cast Narset's Reversal by paying {U}{U}, targeting Heat Shimmer
  12. Flamehold Grappler and Storm-Kiln Artist trigger.
  13. Resolve the Storm-Kiln Artist trigger, creating a Treasure token.
  14. Resolve the Flamehold Grappler trigger, copying Narset's Reversal, with the copy targeting the original Narset's Reversal.
  15. Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
  16. Resolve the copy of Narset's Reversal, returning the original Narset's Reversal to your hand and creating a copy of Narset's Reversal targeting Heat Shimmer.
  17. Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
  18. Resolve the Narset's Reversal copy, returning Heat Shimmer to your hand and creating a copy of Heat Shimmer targeting Flamehold Grappler.
  19. Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
  20. Resolve the Heat Shimmer copy, creating a token copy of Flamehold Grappler.
  21. When the token Flamehold Grappler enters the battlefield, it triggers, copying the next spell you cast.
  22. Activate up to four Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding enough mana to cast Heat Shimmer.
  23. Repeat from step 3.
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