How it works
Steps
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Safehold Elite, adding .
- 2Safehold Elite's persist ability and Mortician Beetle trigger.
- 3Resolve the Safehold Elite 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 Safehold Elite.
- 6Holding priority, activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Safehold Elite, adding .
- 7Safehold Elite's persist ability and Mortician Beetle trigger.
- 8Resolve the Safehold Elite 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 Safehold Elite, 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 Safehold Elite from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 13Repeat.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?