Cauldron of Souls + Shilgengar, Sire of Famine Combos
7 known combos featuring both cards in Commander
Infinite LTB
Infinite ETB
Infinite sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite Blood tokens
Combo 1 with Dross Scorpion + Mycosynth Lattice
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite Blood tokens
Steps
- Activate Cauldron of Souls by tapping it, giving the creature with bloodthirst persist until end of turn.
- Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing the creature with bloodthirst.
- When the creature dies, its persist ability and Dross Scorpion trigger.
- Resolve the persist trigger, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield, which enters the battlefield with at least one +1/+1 counter on it due to its bloodthirst ability.
- Resolve the Dross Scorpion trigger, untapping Cauldron of Souls.
- Resolve the Shilgengar ability
- Repeat.
Combo 2 with Dross Scorpion + Biotransference
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite Blood tokens
Show steps
- Activate Cauldron of Souls by tapping it, giving the creature with bloodthirst persist until end of turn.
- Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing the creature with bloodthirst.
- When the creature dies, its persist ability and Dross Scorpion trigger.
- Resolve the persist trigger, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield, which enters the battlefield with at least one +1/+1 counter on it due to its bloodthirst ability.
- Resolve the Dross Scorpion trigger, untapping Cauldron of Souls.
- Resolve the Shilgengar ability
- Repeat.
Combo 3 with Dross Scorpion + Arsenal Thresher
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite Blood tokens
Show steps
- Activate Cauldron of Souls by tapping it, giving Arsenal Thresher persist until end of turn.
- Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Arsenal Thresher.
- When Arsenal Thresher dies, its persist ability and Dross Scorpion trigger.
- Resolve the Dross Scorpion trigger, untapping Cauldron of Souls.
- Resolve the Arsenal Thresher trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it, and then choosing to reveal at least one artifact card from your hand to remove the -1/-1 counter.
- Resolve the Shilgengar ability
- Repeat.
Combo 4 with Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero + Extruder
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite Blood tokens
Show steps
- Activate Cauldron of Souls by tapping it, giving Gerrard persist until end of turn.
- Activate Extruder by sacrificing Cauldron of Souls, putting a +1/+1 counter on Gerrard.
- Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Gerrard.
- When Gerrard dies, it and its persist ability trigger.
- Resolve the Gerrard persist trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Resolve the second Gerrard trigger, failing to exile it as it has left your graveyard, and returning Cauldron of Souls from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- Resolve the Shilgengar ability from step 3
- Repeat.
Combo 5 with Dross Scorpion + Encroaching Mycosynth
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite Blood tokens
Show steps
- Activate Cauldron of Souls by tapping it, giving the creature with bloodthirst persist until end of turn.
- Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing the creature with bloodthirst.
- When the creature dies, its persist ability and Dross Scorpion trigger.
- Resolve the persist trigger, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield, which enters the battlefield with at least one +1/+1 counter on it due to its bloodthirst ability.
- Resolve the Dross Scorpion trigger, untapping Cauldron of Souls.
- Resolve the Shilgengar ability
- Repeat.
Combo 6 with Szarel, Genesis Shepherd + Clock of Omens
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite Blood tokens
Show steps
- Activate Cauldron of Souls by tapping it, giving two nontoken artifact creatures persist until end of turn.
- Activate Clock of Omens by tapping the nontoken artifact creatures, untapping Cauldron of Souls.
- Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing one of the nontoken artifact creatures that doesn't have a -1/-1 counter on it.
- When the creature dies, its persist ability and Szarel triggers.
- Resolve the persist trigger, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- Resolve the Szarel trigger, putting a number of +1/+1 counters on the other artifact creature.
- Resolve the Shilgengar ability.
- Repeat from step 3 once, instead sacrificing the creature who had counters placed on it in step 6.
- Repeat from step 1.
Combo 7 with Derevi, Empyrial Tactician + Aerith Gainsborough
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite Blood tokens
· Infinite +1/+1 counters on legendary creatures you control
Show steps
- Activate Cauldron of Souls by tapping it, giving Derevi and Aerith persist until end of turn.
- Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Derevi.
- When Derevi dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- When Derevi enters the battlefield, it triggers, untapping Cauldron of Souls.
- Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Aerith.
- When Aerith dies, it triggers twice.
- Resolve Aerith's persist trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Resolve the second Aerith trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on each legendary creature you control, thus removing the -1/-1 counters from Aerith and Derevi.
- Resolve the Shilgengar abilities from steps 2 and 5.
- Repeat.
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