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Umbral Collar Zealot + Hardened Academic + Persist Creature
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How it works
Prerequisites
- Persist Creature
Steps
- Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing the creature with persist.
- When that creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- Hardened Academic triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
- Remove a +1/+1 counter and a -1/-1 counter from that creature as a state-based action.
- Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability from step 1.
- Repeat.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?
1–2 · Exhibition & Core
Allowed in this bracket.
3 · Upgraded
Allowed in this bracket.
4–5 · Optimized & cEDH
All combos are allowed.
Based on Commander Spellbook