How it works
Steps
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Strangleroot Geist, adding .
- 2Strangleroot Geist's undying ability and Mortician Beetle trigger.
- 3Resolve the Strangleroot Geist trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 and a vigilance counter.
- 4Resolve the Mortician Beetle trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 5Activate Tayam by paying , removing a +1/+1 counter from Mortician Beetle and removing both counters from Strangleroot Geist.
- 6Holding priority, activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Strangleroot Geist, adding .
- 7Strangleroot Geist's undying ability and Mortician Beetle trigger.
- 8Resolve the Strangleroot Geist trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 and a vigilance counter.
- 9Resolve the Mortician Beetle trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 10Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Strangleroot Geist, adding .
- 11Mortician Beetle triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on itself.
- 12Resolve the Tayam ability from step 5, causing yourself to mill three cards and return Strangleroot Geist from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 13Repeat.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?