How it works
Prerequisites
- Creature with Persist or Undying
Steps
- 1Activate Sensei's Divining Top's second ability by tapping it, causing you to draw a card and put Sensei's Divining Top on top of your library from the battlefield.
- 2If the persist or undying creature does not have a -1/-1 or +1/+1 counter on it, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the creature, adding
- 3When the creature dies, its persist or undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with either a -1/-1 or +1/+1 counter on it.
- 4Cast Sensei's Divining Top from the top of your library by paying and removing the +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter from the persist or undying creature.
- 5Repeat.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?