How it works
Prerequisites
- Your life total is at least 2.
- You control at least one additional nontoken non-Human creature with toughness two or greater.
Steps
- 1Activate Yawgmoth by paying 1 life and sacrificing Gray Merchant, targeting any other nontoken non-Human creature you control.
- 2Gray Merchant dies, triggering its undying ability, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 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 life lost this way.
- 4Resolve the Yawgmoth ability from step 1, putting a -1/-1 counter on the additional creature and causing you to draw a card.
- 5Activate Yawgmoth by paying 1 life and sacrificing the additional creature, targeting Gray Merchant.
- 6The creature dies, triggering its undying ability, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 7Resolve the Yawgmoth ability, putting a -1/-1 counter on Gray Merchant and causing you to draw a card.
- 8Repeat.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?