Combos with Tenacious Dead

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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Ashnod's Altar Ashnod's Altar Pitiless Plunderer Pitiless Plunderer Zulaport Cutthroat Zulaport Cutthroat
Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite LTB
Show steps
  1. Sacrifice Tenacious Dead to Ashnod's Altar, generating {2}.
  2. Pitiless Plunderer, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Tenacious Dead trigger; stack the triggers to resolve in that order.
  3. Pitiless Plunderer generates a Treasure token; crack it to float {B}.
  4. Zulaport Cutthroat drains each opponent for 1.
  5. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying {1}{B} to return it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  6. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop, floating {1} with each iteration and draining opponent infinitely with Zulaport Cutthroat triggers.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Ashnod's Altar Ashnod's Altar Pitiless Plunderer Pitiless Plunderer Blood Artist Blood Artist
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite LTB · Infinite mill
Show steps
  1. Sacrifice Tenacious Dead to Ashnod's Altar, generating {2}.
  2. Pitiless Plunderer, Blood Artist, and Tenacious Dead trigger; stack the triggers to resolve in that order.
  3. Pitiless Plunderer generates a Treasure token; crack it to float {B}.
  4. Blood Artist drains each opponent for 1.
  5. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying {1}{B} to return it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  6. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop draining opponent infinitely with Blood Artist triggers.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Phyrexian Altar Phyrexian Altar Pitiless Plunderer Pitiless Plunderer Zulaport Cutthroat Zulaport Cutthroat
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite LTB
Show steps
  1. Sacrifice Tenacious Dead to Phyrexian Altar, generating {B}.
  2. Pitiless Plunderer, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Tenacious Dead trigger; stack the triggers to resolve in that order.
  3. Pitiless Plunderer generates a Treasure token; crack it to float {B}.
  4. Zulaport Cutthroat drains target opponent for 1.
  5. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying {1}{B} to return it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  6. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop, draining opponent infinitely with Zulaport Cutthroat triggers.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Phyrexian Altar Phyrexian Altar Pawn of Ulamog Pawn of Ulamog Zulaport Cutthroat Zulaport Cutthroat
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite LTB
Show steps
  1. Sacrifice Tenacious Dead to Phyrexian Altar, generating {B}.
  2. Pawn of Ulamog, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Tenacious Dead trigger; stack the triggers to resolve in that order.
  3. Pawn of Ulamog generates an Eldrazi Spawn token; sacrifice it to generate {1} (Zulaport Cutthroat triggers again).
  4. Resolve two Zulaport Cutthroat triggers, draining opponent for 2.
  5. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying {1}{B} to return it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  6. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop, draining opponent infinitely with Zulaport Cutthroat triggers.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Phyrexian Altar Phyrexian Altar Pawn of Ulamog Pawn of Ulamog Blood Artist Blood Artist
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite LTB · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss
Show steps
  1. Sacrifice Tenacious Dead to Phyrexian Altar, generating {B}.
  2. Pawn of Ulamog, Blood Artist, and Tenacious Dead trigger; stack the triggers to resolve in that order.
  3. Pawn of Ulamog generates an Eldrazi Spawn token; sacrifice it to generate {1} (Blood Artist triggers again).
  4. Resolve two Blood Artist triggers, draining opponent for 2.
  5. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying {1}{B} to return it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  6. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop, draining opponent infinitely with Blood Artist triggers.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Phyrexian Altar Phyrexian Altar Sifter of Skulls Sifter of Skulls Zulaport Cutthroat Zulaport Cutthroat
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite LTB
Show steps
  1. Sacrifice Tenacious Dead to Phyrexian Altar, generating {B}.
  2. Sifter of Skulls, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Tenacious Dead trigger; stack the triggers to resolve in that order.
  3. Sifter of Skulls generates an Eldrazi Scion token; sacrifice it to generate {1} (Zulaport Cutthroat triggers again).
  4. Resolve two Zulaport Cutthroat triggers, draining opponent for 2.
  5. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying {1}{B} to return it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  6. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop, draining opponent infinitely with Zulaport Cutthroat triggers.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Phyrexian Altar Phyrexian Altar Sifter of Skulls Sifter of Skulls Blood Artist Blood Artist
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite LTB
Show steps
  1. Sacrifice Tenacious Dead to Phyrexian Altar, generating {B}.
  2. Sifter of Skulls, Blood Artist, and Tenacious Dead trigger; stack the triggers to resolve in that order.
  3. Sifter of Skulls generates an Eldrazi Scion token; sacrifice it to generate {1} (Blood Artist triggers again).
  4. Resolve two Blood Artist triggers, draining opponent for 2.
  5. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying {1}{B} to return it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  6. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop, draining opponent infinitely with Blood Artist triggers.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Ashnod's Altar Ashnod's Altar Pitiless Plunderer Pitiless Plunderer Mayhem Devil Mayhem Devil
Results: Infinite colorless mana · Infinite damage · Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
  1. Sacrifice Tenacious Dead to Ashnod's Altar, generating {2}.
  2. Pitiless Plunderer, Mayhem Devil, and Tenacious Dead trigger; stack the triggers to resolve in that order.
  3. Pitiless Plunderer generates a Treasure token; crack it to float {B}.
  4. Mayhem Devil triggers again.
  5. Both Mayhem Devil triggers deals 1 damage each to an opponent for 2 damage.
  6. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying{1} {B} to return it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  7. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop inflicting damage to opponent infinitely with Mayhem Devil triggers.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Altar of Dementia Altar of Dementia Pitiless Plunderer Pitiless Plunderer Pawn of Ulamog Pawn of Ulamog
Results: Infinite colored mana · Infinite colorless mana · Infinite creature tokens with 0 power · Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite self-mill · Infinite mill · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite Treasure tokens
Show steps
  1. Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Tenacious Dead.
  2. When Tenacious Dead dies, it triggers itself, Pitiless Plunderer and Pawn of Ulamog.
  3. Resolve the Pitiless Plunderer trigger, creating a Treasure token.
  4. Resolve the Pawn of Ulamog trigger, creating a 0/1 Eldrazi Spawn creature token.
  5. Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability, causing target player to mill one card.
  6. Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding {B}.
  7. Activate the Eldrazi Spawn by sacrificing it, adding {C}.
  8. When the Eldrazi Spawn dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
  9. Resolve Tenacious Dead's ability from step 2, paying {1}{B} to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  10. Repeat any number of times.
  11. Once you have infinite Treasure tokens, you may repeat this loop spending mana from Treasures instead of Eldrazi Spawns in step 7, giving you infinite Eldrazi Spawn tokens.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Altar of Dementia Altar of Dementia Pitiless Plunderer Pitiless Plunderer Sifter of Skulls Sifter of Skulls
+1 more
Results: Infinite colored mana · Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite LTB · Infinite mill
Show steps
  1. Sacrifice Tenacious Dead to Altar of Dementia, milling target opponent for 2.
  2. Sifter of Skulls, Pitiless Plunderer, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Tenacious Dead trigger; stack the triggers to resolve in that order.
  3. Sifter of Skulls generates an Eldrazi Scion token; sacrifice it to float {1} (Pitiless Plunderer and Zulaport Cutthroat trigger again).
  4. Resolve two Pitiless Plunderer triggers, generating two Treasure tokens; crack one to float {B}.
  5. Resolve two Zulaport Cutthroat triggers, draining opponent for 2.
  6. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying {1}{B} to return it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  7. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop, gaining one Treasure token per loop and draining opponent infinitely with Zulaport Cutthroat triggers.
117 decks Colorless View on Commander Spellbook →
Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Altar of Dementia Altar of Dementia Pitiless Plunderer Pitiless Plunderer Sifter of Skulls Sifter of Skulls
+1 more
Results: Infinite colored mana · Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite lifegain · Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite LTB · Infinite mill
Show steps
  1. Sacrifice Tenacious Dead to Altar of Dementia, milling target opponent for 2.
  2. Sifter of Skulls, Pitiless Plunderer, Blood Artist, and Tenacious Dead trigger; stack the triggers to resolve in that order.
  3. Sifter of Skulls generates an Eldrazi Scion token; sacrifice it to float {1} (Pitiless Plunderer and Blood Artist trigger again).
  4. Resolve two Pitiless Plunderer triggers, generating two Treasure tokens; crack one to float {B}.
  5. Resolve two Blood Artist triggers, draining opponent for 2.
  6. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying {1}{B} to return it to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  7. Repeat the sacrifice-recursion loop, gaining one Treasure token per loop and draining opponent infinitely with Blood Artist triggers.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Ashnod's Altar Ashnod's Altar Mycosynth Lattice Mycosynth Lattice
Results: Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers · Infinite death triggers
Show steps
  1. Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Tenacious Dead, adding {C}{C}.
  2. Tenacious Dead dies, causing you to pay {2} to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  3. Repeat.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Ashnod's Altar Ashnod's Altar Chromatic Orrery Chromatic Orrery
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
  1. Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Tenacious Dead, adding {C}{C}.
  2. Tenacious Dead dies, causing you to pay {2} to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  3. Repeat.
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Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead Krark-Clan Ironworks Krark-Clan Ironworks Mycosynth Lattice Mycosynth Lattice
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
  1. Activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Tenacious Dead, adding {C}{C}.
  2. Tenacious Dead dies, causing you to pay {2} to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  3. Repeat.
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Fain, the Broker Fain, the Broker Thornbite Staff Thornbite Staff Crystalline Crawler Crystalline Crawler Tenacious Dead Tenacious Dead
Results: Infinite death triggers · Infinite ETB · Infinite LTB · Infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
  1. Activate Fain's first ability by tapping it and sacrificing Tenacious Dead.
  2. Tenacious Dead dies, triggering itself and Fain.
  3. Resolve the Fain trigger, untapping it.
  4. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, causing you to pay {1}{B} to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  5. Resolve the Fain ability from step 1, putting two +1/+1 counters on Crystalline Crawler.
  6. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability twice by removing two counters from it, adding {B}{B}.
  7. Repeat.
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