Combos with Mirror of the Forebears

7 known combos in Commander — View Mirror of the Forebears

Results: Infinite card draw · Infinite Clue tokens · Infinite colored mana · Infinite damage to creatures · Infinite death triggers · Infinite draw triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite Food tokens · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite Treasure tokens · Put all artifact and creature cards from your library onto the battlefield · Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battleifeld
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  1. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Academy Manufactor and putting it onto the battlefield.
  2. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Cursed Mirror and putting it onto the battlefield as a copy of Academy Manufactor.
  3. Activate Clown Car's crew ability twice by tapping Magda and another Dwarf you control with power two or greater.
  4. Magda triggers twice, creating six Treasure, six Food and six Clue artifact tokens.
  5. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Maskwood Nexus and putting it onto the battlefield.
  6. Activate Clown Car's crew ability twice by tapping Academy Manufactor and Cursed Mirror.
  7. Magda triggers twice, creating six Treasure, six Food and six Clue artifact tokens.
  8. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Mirror of the Forebears and putting it onto the battlefield, naming any creature type.
  9. Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {1}.
  10. Activate Mirror of the Forebears by paying {1}, causing it to become a copy of Academy Manufactor until end of turn.
  11. Activate Clown Car's crew ability by tapping Mirror of the Forebears.
  12. Magda triggers, creating nine Treasure, nine Food and nine Clue artifact tokens.
  13. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Xorn and putting it onto the battlefield.
  14. Activate Clown Car's crew ability by tapping Xorn.
  15. Magda triggers, creating eighteen Treasure, eighteen Food and eighteen Clue artifact tokens.
  16. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Dwarven Scorcher and putting it onto the battlefield.
  17. Activate Clown Car's crew ability by tapping Dwarven Scorcher.
  18. Magda triggers, creating eighteen Treasure, eighteen Food and eighteen Clue artifact tokens.
  19. Activate Dwarven Scorcher by sacrificing it, targeting any creature.
  20. Holding priority, activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Elixir of Immortality and putting it onto the battlefield.
  21. Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {2}.
  22. Activate Elixir of Immortality by paying {2} and tapping it, causing you to gain five life and shuffle your graveyard into your library.
  23. Repeat from step 16.
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Results: Infinite card draw · Infinite Clue tokens · Infinite colored mana · Infinite damage to creatures · Infinite death triggers · Infinite draw triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite Food tokens · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite Treasure tokens · Put all artifact and creature cards from your library onto the battlefield · Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battleifeld
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  1. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Academy Manufactor and putting it onto the battlefield.
  2. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Sculpting Steel and putting it onto the battlefield as a copy of Academy Manufactor.
  3. Activate Clown Car's crew ability twice by tapping Magda and another Dwarf you control with power two or greater.
  4. Magda triggers twice, creating six Treasure, six Food and six Clue artifact tokens.
  5. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Maskwood Nexus and putting it onto the battlefield.
  6. Activate Clown Car's crew ability twice by tapping Academy Manufactor and Sculpting Steel.
  7. Magda triggers twice, creating six Treasure, six Food and six Clue artifact tokens.
  8. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Mirror of the Forebears and putting it onto the battlefield, naming any creature type.
  9. Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {1}.
  10. Activate Mirror of the Forebears by paying {1}, causing it to become a copy of Academy Manufactor until end of turn.
  11. Activate Clown Car's crew ability by tapping Mirror of the Forebears.
  12. Magda triggers, creating nine Treasure, nine Food and nine Clue artifact tokens.
  13. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Xorn and putting it onto the battlefield.
  14. Activate Clown Car's crew ability by tapping Xorn.
  15. Magda triggers, creating eighteen Treasure, eighteen Food and eighteen Clue artifact tokens.
  16. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Dwarven Scorcher and putting it onto the battlefield.
  17. Activate Clown Car's crew ability by tapping Dwarven Scorcher.
  18. Magda triggers, creating eighteen Treasure, eighteen Food and eighteen Clue artifact tokens.
  19. Activate Dwarven Scorcher by sacrificing it, targeting any creature.
  20. Holding priority, activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Elixir of Immortality and putting it onto the battlefield.
  21. Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {2}.
  22. Activate Elixir of Immortality by paying {2} and tapping it, causing you to gain five life and shuffle your graveyard into your library.
  23. Repeat from step 16.
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Results: Infinite card draw · Infinite Clue tokens · Infinite colored mana · Infinite damage to creatures · Infinite death triggers · Infinite draw triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite Food tokens · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite Treasure tokens · Put all artifact and creature cards from your library onto the battlefield · Put all artifact cards and a subset of creature cards from your library onto the battleifeld
Show steps
  1. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Academy Manufactor and putting it onto the battlefield.
  2. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Cursed Mirror and putting it onto the battlefield as a copy of Academy Manufactor.
  3. Activate Clown Car's crew ability twice by tapping Magda and another Dwarf you control with power two or greater.
  4. Magda triggers twice, creating six Treasure, six Food and six Clue artifact tokens.
  5. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Maskwood Nexus and putting it onto the battlefield.
  6. Activate Clown Car's crew ability twice by tapping Academy Manufactor and Cursed Mirror.
  7. Magda triggers twice, creating six Treasure, six Food and six Clue artifact tokens.
  8. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Mirror of the Forebears and putting it onto the battlefield, naming any creature type.
  9. Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {1}.
  10. Activate Mirror of the Forebears by paying {1}, causing it to become a copy of Academy Manufactor until end of turn.
  11. Activate Clown Car's crew ability by tapping Mirror of the Forebears.
  12. Magda triggers, creating nine Treasure, nine Food and nine Clue artifact tokens.
  13. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Sculpting Steel and putting it onto the battlefield as a copy of Academy Manufactor.
  14. Activate Clown Car's crew ability by tapping Sculpting Steel.
  15. Magda triggers, creating 27 Treasure, 27 Food and 27 Clue artifact tokens.
  16. Activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Dwarven Scorcher and putting it onto the battlefield.
  17. Activate Clown Car's crew ability by tapping Dwarven Scorcher.
  18. Magda triggers, creating 27 Treasure, 27 Food and 27 Clue artifact tokens.
  19. Activate Dwarven Scorcher by sacrificing it, targeting any creature.
  20. Holding priority, activate Magda by sacrificing five Treasures, searching your library for Elixir of Immortality and putting it onto the battlefield.
  21. Activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding {2}.
  22. Activate Elixir of Immortality by paying {2} and tapping it, causing you to gain five life and shuffle your graveyard into your library.
  23. Repeat from step 16.
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Results: Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB
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  1. Activate Mirror of the Forebears by paying {1}, making it a copy of Sharuum.
  2. Put Sharuum into the graveyard due to the legend rule, returning to the command zone.
  3. Cast Sharuum from the command zone by paying {3}{W}{U}{B} plus commander tax.
  4. Sharuum dies due to the legend rule.
  5. Sharuum enters the battlefield triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  6. Repeat from step 4.
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Results: Infinite self-mill
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  1. Activate Mirror of the Forebears by paying {1}, causing it to become a copy of Mirror-Mad Phantasm until end of turn.
  2. Activate Mirror of the Forebears by paying {1}{U}, shuffling Mirror of the Forebears into your library and milling your entire library due to it not having a card named Mirror-Mad Phantasm in it.
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Results: Win the game
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  1. Cast Astral Dragon by paying {6}{U}{U}.
  2. When Astral Dragon enters the battlefield, it triggers, creating two token copies of Mirror of the Forebears that are 3/3 Dragons in addition to their other types.
  3. Choose to name "Human" as the Mirror of the Forebears tokens enter the battlefield.
  4. Activate the three Mirror of the Forebears by paying {3}, causing each of them to become a copy of Biovisionary until end of turn.
  5. At the beginning of your end step, Biovisionary and each Mirror of the Forebears trigger.
  6. Resolve the first trigger, causing you to win the game.
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 Etali either from your hand or from the command zone by paying {5}{R}{R} plus commander tax, if applicable.
  2. When Etali enters the battlefield, it triggers.
  3. Holding priority, activate Mirror of the Forebears by paying {1}, choosing to have it become a copy of Etali until end of turn.
  4. Choose to put Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  5. If Etali is your commander, choose not to return it to the command zone from your graveyard.
  6. Hua Tuo triggers, untapping itself.
  7. Activate Hua Tuo by tapping it, putting Etali on top of your library from your graveyard.
  8. Resolve the Etali trigger from step 2, 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.
  9. Choose to put Etali into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
  10. If Etali is your commander, choose not to return it to the command zone from your graveyard.
  11. Etali enters-the-battlefield ability and Hua Tuo trigger.
  12. Resolve the Hua Tuo trigger, untapping it.
  13. Repeat from step 7.
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