How it works
Steps
- 1Cast Replenish by paying , returning Summon: Esper Valigarmanda and the read-ahead Saga from your graveyard to the battlefield. Choose to have the read-ahead Saga enter with enough lore counters on it to trigger its final chapter ability.
- 2Summon: Esper Valigarmanda's first chapter ability and each chapter ability from the read-ahead Saga trigger.
- 3Resolve the Summon: Esper Valigarmanda trigger, exiling Replenish from your graveyard.
- 4Resolve each trigger from the read-ahead Saga, and put it into your graveyard when you resolve its final chapter ability.
- 5Resourceful Defense triggers, putting a number of lore counters on Summon: Esper Valigarmanda equal to the number of lore counters that were on the read-ahead Saga, triggering Summon: Esper Valigarmanda's second, third and fourth chapter abilities.
- 6Resolve the second and third chapter triggers, adding for each lore counter on Summon: Esper Valigarmanda.
- 7Resolve the fourth chapter trigger, adding for each lore counter on Summon: Esper Valigarmanda and causing you to pay to cast Replenish from exile, returning Summon: Esper Valigarmanda and the read-ahead Saga from your graveyard to the battlefield. Choose to have the read-ahead Saga enter with enough lore counters on it to trigger its final chapter ability.
- 8Repeat from step 2.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?