How it works
Prerequisites
- Aspiring Champion does not have summoning sickness, and cannot be blocked by an opponent.
- Your life total is at least 3.
Steps
- 1Cast Vampiric Tutor by paying , searching your library for Blightsteel Colossus and putting it on top of your library, then causing you to lose 2 life.
- 2Deal combat damage to an opponent using Aspiring Champion.
- 3Aspiring Champion triggers, causing you to sacrifice it, then reveal Blightsteel Colossus from the top of your library and put it onto the battlefield as a Demon due to Maskwood Nexus, then causing Blightsteel Colossus to give each opponent eleven poison counters.
- 4Each opponent loses the game as a state-based action due to having ten or more poison counters.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Powerful tier?
Spellbook classifies this as Powerful — not for these brackets.