Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Woe Strider Combos
20 known combos featuring both cards in Commander
Infinite LTB
Infinite ETB
Infinite sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite scry 1
Combo 1
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing the persist creature.
- When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers if it didn't have a -1/-1 counter on it, and its undying ability triggers if it didn't have a +1/+1 counter on it.
- Resolve the persist trigger, if applicable, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Resolve the undying trigger, if applicable, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
- Repeat.
Combo 2 with Luminous Broodmoth
Also requires:
Luminous Broodmoth
Luminous Broodmoth
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing the creature.
- When the creature dies, its undying ability triggers if it didn't have a +1/+1 counter, and Luminous Broodmoth triggers if the creature didn't have flying.
- Resolve the undying trigger, if applicable, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Luminous Broodmoth trigger, if applicable, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield with a flying counter on it if the creature is still in your graveyard.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
- Repeat.
Combo 3 with Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
Also requires:
Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing another nontoken non-Human creature
- When the creature dies, its undying ability triggers, returning the creature from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing the creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- When the creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider abilities from step 1 and 3.
- Repeat.
Combo 4 with Plague Belcher
Also requires:
Plague Belcher
Plague Belcher
Results:
Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Plague Belcher.
- When Plague Belcher dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- When Plague Belcher enters the battlefield, it triggers, putting a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 5 with Chainbreaker
Also requires:
Chainbreaker
Chainbreaker
Results:
Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Chainbreaker.
- When Chainbreaker dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to its replacement effect.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 6 with Crystalline Crawler
Also requires:
Crystalline Crawler
Crystalline Crawler
Results:
Infinite colored mana
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- If Crystalline Crawler has a +1/+1 counter on it, activate its first ability by removing a +1/+1 counter from it, adding one mana of any color.
- Repeat step 1 until Crystalline Crawler has no +1/+1 counters on it.
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Crystalline Crawler.
- Crystalline Crawler dies, triggering its undying ability, returning it to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability, causing you to scry 1.
- Repeat.
Combo 7 with Soulstinger
Also requires:
Soulstinger
Soulstinger
Results:
Infinite -1/-1 counters
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Soulstinger.
- When Soulstinger dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- When Soulstinger enters the battlefield, it triggers, putting a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 8 with Carnifex Demon
Also requires:
Carnifex Demon
Carnifex Demon
Results:
Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Carnifex Demon.
- When Carnifex Demon dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to its replacement effect.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 9 with Cinderhaze Wretch
Also requires:
Cinderhaze Wretch
Cinderhaze Wretch
Results:
Infinite death triggers
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Cinderhaze Wretch.
- Cinderhaze Wretch dies, triggering its undying ability, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability, causing you to scry 1.
- Activate Cinderhaze Wretch's second ability by putting a -1/-1 counter on it, untapping it.
- Repeat.
Combo 10 with Grim Poppet
Also requires:
Grim Poppet
Grim Poppet
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite scry 1
· Infinite -1/-1 counters
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Grim Poppet.
- When Grim Poppet dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to its replacement effect.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 11 with Moonshadow
Also requires:
Moonshadow
Moonshadow
Results:
Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Moonshadow.
- When Moonshadow dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to its replacement effect.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 12 with Pith Driller
Also requires:
Pith Driller
Pith Driller
Results:
Infinite death triggers
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrifiicing Pith Driller.
- When Pith Driller dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- When Pith Driller enters the battlefield, it triggers, putting a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability, causing you to scry 1.
- Repeat.
Combo 13 with Heirloom Auntie
Also requires:
Heirloom Auntie
Heirloom Auntie
Results:
Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Heirloom Auntie.
- When Heirloom Auntie dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to its replacement effect.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 14 with Spike Feeder
Also requires:
Spike Feeder
Spike Feeder
Results:
Infinite death triggers
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite lifegain
· Infinite lifegain triggers
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Spike Feeder.
- Spike Feeder's undying ability triggers, returning itself to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability, causing you to scry 1.
- Activate Spike Feeder's second ability three times by removing three +1/+1 counters from it, causing you to gain six life.
- Repeat.
Combo 15 with The Reaper, King No More
Also requires:
The Reaper, King No More
The Reaper, King No More
Results:
Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
· Infinite -1/-1 counters
· Infinite recursion of non-Human creatures you control
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing The Reaper.
- When The Reaper dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- When The Reaper enters the battlefield, it triggers, putting a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 16 with Dread Tiller
Also requires:
Dread Tiller
Dread Tiller
Results:
Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Dread Tiller.
- When Dread Tiller dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- When Dread Tiller enters the battlefield, it triggers, putting a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 17 with Reaping Willow
Also requires:
Reaping Willow
Reaping Willow
Results:
Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Reaping Willow.
- When Reaping Willow dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to its replacement effect.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 18 with Slumbering Walker
Also requires:
Slumbering Walker
Slumbering Walker
Results:
Infinite ETB
· Infinite LTB
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Slumbering Walker.
- When Slumbering Walker dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to its replacement effect.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability
- Repeat.
Combo 19 with Ashcloud Phoenix
Also requires:
Ashcloud Phoenix
Ashcloud Phoenix
Results:
Infinite LTB
· Infinite ETB
· Infinite sacrifice triggers
· Infinite death triggers
· Infinite scry 1
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Ashcloud Phoenix.
- When Ashcloud Phoenix dies, it triggers, as well as its undying ability if it does not have a +1/+1 counter on it.
- Resolve the first trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield face-down.
- Resolve the second trigger, doing nothing.
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Ashcloud Phoenix.
- When Ashcloud Phoenix dies, it triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- Resolve the Woe Strider abilities from steps 1 and 5, causing you to scry 1 twice.
- Repeat.
Combo 20 with Body Launderer + Felidar Guardian
Results:
Infinite card draw
· Infinite draw triggers
· Infinite looting
· Near-infinite blinking of permanents
· Near-infinite death triggers
· Near-infinite ETB
· Near-infinite LTB
· Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce
· Near-infinite sacrifice triggers
Show steps
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Felidar Guardian.
- When Felidar Guardian dies, its undying ability and Body Launderer's first ability trigger.
- Resolve the Body Launderer trigger, causing it to connive.
- Resolve the Felidar Guardian trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- When Felidar Guardian enters the battlefield, it triggers, targeting Body Launderer.
- Holding priority, activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Felidar Guardian.
- When Felidar Guardian dies, Body Launderer's first ability triggers, causing it to connive.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability from step 6, causing you to scry 1.
- Resolve the Felidar Guardian trigger from step 5, blinking Body Launderer.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability from step 1, causing you to scry 1.
- Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Body Launderer.
- When Body Launderer dies, its undying and second ability triggers.
- Resolve the undying trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- Resolve the second Body Launderer trigger, returning Felidar Guardian from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- When Felidar Guardian enters the battlefield, it triggers, blinking any other permanent you control.
- Resolve the Woe Strider ability from step 11, causing you to scry 1.
- Repeat.
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