How it works
Steps
- 1Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Mistmoon Griffin.
- 2Mistmoon Griffin dies, triggering itself and Hofri Ghostforge.
- 3Resolve the Hofri Ghostforge trigger, exiling Mistmoon Griffin from your graveyard and creating a token copy of Mistmoon Griffin that has "When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to your graveyard".
- 4Resolve the Mistmoon Griffin trigger, returning nothing from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 5Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability from step 1, causing target player to mill cards equal to Mistmoon Griffin's power.
- 6Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing the Mistmoon Griffin token.
- 7The Mistmoon Griffin token dies, triggering itself twice.
- 8Resolve the Mistmoon Griffin token's trigger granted by Hofri Ghostforge, returning Mistmoon Griffin from exile to your graveyard.
- 9Resolve the other Mistmoon Griffin trigger, returning Mistmoon Griffin from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 10Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability from step 6, causing target player to mill cards equal to Mistmoon Griffin's power.
- 11Repeat.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Spicy tier?
Spellbook classifies this as Spicy — not for these brackets.