Combos with Insidious Roots
15 known combos in Commander — View Insidious Roots
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite self-discard triggers
Show steps
- Activate Tortured Existence by paying {B} and discarding a creature card, returning another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- Insidious Roots triggers, creating a creature token.
- Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the creature token, adding {B}.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Show steps
- Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Reassembling Skeleton, adding {B}.
- Activate Reassembling Skeleton by paying {1}{B}, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- Insidious Roots triggers, creating a creature token and putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the creature token, adding {1}.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite ETB
· Infinite self-discard triggers
· Infinite tapped creature tokens
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Show steps
- Activate Tortured Existence by paying {B} and discarding a creature card, returning any other creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- Insidious Roots triggers, creating a 0/1 Plant creature token, then putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- Activate the Plant by tapping it, adding {B}.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite self-discard triggers
· Infinite tapped creature tokens
Show steps
- Activate Tortured Existence by paying {B} and discarding a creature card, returning any other creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- Insidious Roots triggers, creating a 0/1 Plant creature token, then putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- Activate the Plant by tapping it, adding {B}.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite colorless mana
· Infinite creature tokens
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite lifegain
· Infinite lifegain triggers
· Infinite lifeloss
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
· Infinite card draw
· Infinite draw triggers
· Infinite Food tokens
Show steps
- Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Cauldron Familiar, adding {C}{C}.
- Activate Cauldron Familiar by sacrificing a Food, returning Cauldron Familiar to the battlefield from your graveyard.
- Cauldron Familiar and Insidious Roots trigger.
- Resolve the Insidious Roots trigger, creating a 0/1 green Plant creature token and a Food artifact token, and then putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- Resolve the Cauldron Familiar trigger, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- Repeat
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite colorless mana
· Infinite lifegain triggers
· Infinite lifegain
· Infinite lifeloss
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Show steps
- Activate Cauldron Familiar by sacrificing a Food.
- Ygra triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on it.
- Resolve the Cauldron Familiar ability, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- Cauldron Familiar and Insidious Roots trigger.
- Resolve the Insidious Roots trigger, creating a 0/1 Plant creature token and putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- Resolve the Cauldron Familiar trigger, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Cauldron Familiar.
- When Cauldron Familiar dies, Ygra triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on it.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite creature tokens
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite lifegain
· Infinite lifegain triggers
· Infinite lifeloss
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
· Infinite card draw
· Infinite draw triggers
· Infinite Food tokens
Show steps
- Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing Cauldron Familiar, causing you to scry 1.
- Activate Cauldron Familiar by sacrificing a Food, returning Cauldron Familiar to the battlefield from your graveyard.
- Cauldron Familiar and Insidious Roots trigger.
- Resolve the Insidious Roots trigger, creating a 0/1 green Plant creature token and a Food artifact token, and then putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- Resolve the Cauldron Familiar trigger, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- Repeat
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite mill
· Infinite self-mill
· Infinite self-discard triggers
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Show steps
- Activate Tortured Existence by paying {B} and discarding a creature card, returning another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- Insidious Roots triggers, creating a creature token.
- Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing the creature token.
- When the creature token dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability.
- Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {B}.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite colored mana
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Show steps
- Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Nether Traitor, adding one mana of any color.
- Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing another creature, adding {B}.
- When the creature dies, Nether Traitor triggers, causing you to pay {B} to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- Insidious Roots triggers, creating a creature token.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite colorless mana
· Infinite self-discard triggers
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Show steps
- Activate Tortured Existence by paying {B} and discarding a creature card, returning another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- Insidious Roots triggers, creating a creature token.
- Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing the creature token, adding {C}{C}.
- When the creature token dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {B}.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
· Infinite lifegain triggers
· Infinite lifegain
· Infinite lifeloss
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Show steps
- Activate Cauldron Familiar by sacrificing a Food.
- Ygra triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on it.
- Resolve the Cauldron Familiar ability, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- Cauldron Familiar and Insidious Roots trigger.
- Resolve the Insidious Roots trigger, creating a 0/1 Plant creature token and putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- Resolve the Cauldron Familiar trigger, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing Cauldron Familiar.
- When Cauldron Familiar dies, Ygra triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on it.
- Resolve the Viscera Seer ability.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite self-discard triggers
· Infinite tapped creature tokens
Show steps
- Activate Tortured Existence by paying {B} and discarding a creature card, returning any other creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- Insidious Roots triggers, creating a 0/1 Plant creature token, then putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- Activate the Plant by tapping it, adding {B}.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite colored mana
· Infinite creature tokens
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite lifegain
· Infinite lifegain triggers
· Infinite lifeloss
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
· Infinite card draw
· Infinite draw triggers
· Infinite Food tokens
Show steps
- Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Cauldron Familiar, adding one mana of any color.
- Activate Cauldron Familiar by sacrificing a Food, returning Cauldron Familiar to the battlefield from your graveyard.
- Cauldron Familiar and Insidious Roots trigger.
- Resolve the Insidious Roots trigger, creating a 0/1 green Plant creature token and a Food artifact token, and then putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- Resolve the Cauldron Familiar trigger, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- Repeat
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite scry 1
· Infinite self-discard triggers
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Show steps
- Activate Tortured Existence by paying {B} and discarding a creature card, returning another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
- Insidious Roots triggers, creating a creature token.
- Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing the creature token.
- When the creature token dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- Resolve the Viscera Seer ability.
- Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {B}.
- Repeat.
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite colored mana
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite lifegain triggers
· Infinite lifegain
· Infinite lifeloss
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
Show steps
- Activate Cauldron Familiar by sacrificing a Food.
- Ygra triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on it.
- Resolve the Cauldron Familiar ability, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- Cauldron Familiar and Insidious Roots trigger.
- Resolve the Insidious Roots trigger, creating a 0/1 Plant creature token and putting a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.
- Resolve the Cauldron Familiar trigger, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Cauldron Familiar.
- When Cauldron Familiar dies, Ygra triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on it.
- Repeat.
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