How it works
Steps
- 1Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Lingering Tormentor.
- 2When Lingering Tormentor dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- 3Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability.
- 4Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Lingering Tormentor.
- 5When Lingering Tormentor dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 6Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability.
- 7Repeat.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Spicy tier?
Spellbook classifies this as Spicy — not for these brackets.