How it works
Prerequisites
- There's a creature card in your graveyard with mana value 4 or less.
Steps
- 1Cast Lively Dirge by paying plus an additional to select its second mode, targeting a card in your graveyard.
- 2Holding priority, cast Dualcaster Mage by paying its mana cost.
- 3When Dualcaster Mage enters, it triggers, targeting Lively Dirge.
- 4Holding priority, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Dualcaster Mage.
- 5Resolve the Dualcaster Mage trigger, copying Lively Dirge
- 6Resolve the Lively Dirge copy, returning Dualcaster Mage from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 7Repeat from step 3.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?