How it works
Steps
- 1Cast Celestial Gatekeeper by paying .
- 2Celestial Gatekeeper enters the battlefield, triggering Dual Nature's first ability, creating a token copy of Celestial Gatekeeper.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the nontoken Celestial Gatekeeper, adding .
- 4Celestial Gatekeeper dies, triggering itself and Dual Nature's second ability.
- 5In response, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the Celestial Gatekeeper token, adding .
- 6The Celestial Gateekeeper token dies, triggering itself, exiling itself and returning Celestial Gatekeeper from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 7Celestial Gatekeeper enters the battlefield, triggering Dual Nature's first ability, creating a token copy of Celestial Gatekeeper.
- 8Resolve the nontoken Celestial Gateekeeper's trigger, failing to exile itself and returning up to two more Birds and/or Clerics from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 9If you returned a creature this way, Dual Nature's first ability triggers, creating a token copy of that creature.
- 10Repeat from step 3.
- 11Resolve all triggers from Dual Nature's second ability, exiling all tokens with the same name as a creature card that left the battlefield during this combo.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?