How it works
Steps
- 1Cast Ephemerate by paying , blinking Lumbering Battlement.
- 2When Lumbering Battlement enters the battlefield, it and Preston trigger.
- 3Resolve the Lumbering Battlement trigger, exiling Fiend Hunter until Lumbering Battlement leaves the battlefield.
- 4When Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield, its second ability triggers, returning any cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owner's control.
- 5Resolve the Preston trigger, creating a copy of Lumbering Battlement that is a 0/1 Illusion.
- 6When the token Lumbering Battlement enters the battlefield, it triggers, exiling the nontoken Lumbering Battlement until the token Lumbering Battlement leaves the battlefield.
- 7The nontoken Lumbering Battlement leaves the battlefield, returning Fiend Hunter from exile to the battlefield.
- 8When Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield, its first ability and Preston trigger.
- 9Resolve the Preston trigger, creating a token copy of Fiend Hunter that is a 0/1 Illusion.
- 10When the token Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield, it triggers, choose not to exile a creature.
- 11Resolve the Fiend Hunter trigger, exiling the token Lumbering Battlement.
- 12The token Lumbering Battlement leaves the battlefield, returning the nontoken Lumbering Battlement from exile to the battlefield.
- 13Repeat from step 2.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?