How it works
Prerequisites
- Hidetsugu does not have summoning sickness.
- Creatures you control can tap to produce at least .
Steps
- 1Activate all mana-producing creatures you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Cast Walking Ballista by paying .
- 3Walking Ballista enters the battlefield and dies as a state-based action due to having zero toughness.
- 4Intruder Alarm and Mortuary trigger.
- 5Resolve the Intruder Alarm trigger, untapping all creatures.
- 6Resolve the Mortuary trigger, putting Walking Ballista on top of your library from your graveyard.
- 7Activate Hidetsugu's second ability by paying and tapping it, exiling Walking Ballista from the top of your library and allowing you cast it this turn.
- 8Repeat an arbitrarily large number of times.
- 9Cast Walking Ballista from exile by paying an arbitrarily large amount of mana, causing Walking Ballista to enter with half that many +1/+1 counters on it.
- 10Activate Walking Ballista's second ability by removing a +1/+1 counter from it, dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 11Repeat step 10.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?