How it works
Prerequisites
- Your life total is at least ten.
- Your devotion to black is at least ten or you have at least two opponents.
Steps
- 1Activate Dimir House Guard by sacrificing Gray Merchant, regenerating it the next time it would die this turn.
- 2Activate Chainer by paying nine life, returning Gray Merchant from your graveyard to the battlefield as a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
- 3Gray Merchant enters the battlefield, causing each opponent to lose life equal to your devotion to black and causing you to gain life equal to the amount of life lost this way.
- 4Repeat.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?