Volo, Guide to Monsters | Food Chain | Ancestral Statue
Color Identity: G, U
Initial Card State
- Ancestral Statue in hand.
- Volo and Food Chain on the battlefield.
Notable Prerequisites
- You do not control another Golem or have a Golem in your graveyard.
- You have another creature card in hand that is not a Golem and that does not share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature in your graveyard.
- If the additional creature has multiple differently colored mana symbols in its mana cost, an additional mana of each but one of those symbols will be required.
Mana Needed
- ({4} magic symbol) plus enough mana to cast the additional creature available.
Steps
- Cast the additional creature by paying its mana cost.
- Volo triggers, copying the creature spell.
- Resolve both creature spells.
- Activate Food Chain by exiling the creature token, adding at least one mana of any color that can only be spent to cast creature spells.
- Cast Ancestral Statue by paying ({4} magic symbol) .
- Volo triggers, copying Ancestral Statue.
- Resolve the copy of the Ancestral Statue spell.
- When the token Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning a nontoken creature from the battlefield to your hand.
- Activate Food Chain by exiling the Ancestral Statue token, adding five mana of any color that can only be spent to cast creature spells.
- Resolve the original Ancestral Statue spell cast in step 5.
- When the nontoken Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- Repeat.
Results
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells.
- Infinite ETB.
- Infinite LTB.
- Infinite storm count.
Metadata
- In 19 decks according to EDHREC.
Bracket Tag
This combo has been estimated to be Exhibition (Bracket 1+).
