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the front side of Deadly Grub
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the front side of Phyrexian Altar
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Color Identity: W, B, G

Initial Card State

  1.  Deadly Grub in hand.
  2.  All other permanents on the battlefield.

Mana Needed

  1. ({5} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)   available.

Steps

  1. Cast Deadly Grub by paying ({2} magic symbol)  ({B} magic symbol)  .
  2. Deadly Grub enters the battlefield with three time counters and a vigilance counter on it.
  3. Activate Tayam by paying ({3} magic symbol)   and removing the three time counters from Deadly Grub.
  4. Deadly Grub's vanishing ability triggers, holding priority, activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Deadly Grub, adding ({1} magic symbol)  .
  5. Deadly Grub dies, triggering itself and Abzan Ascendancy.
  6. Resolve the Deadly Grub trigger, creating a 6/1 Insect creature token.
  7. Resolve the Abzan Ascendancy trigger, creating a 1/1 Spirit creature token.
  8. Activate Phyrexian Altar twice by sacrificing the Insect and Spirit tokens, adding ({2} magic symbol)  .
  9. Resolve the Deadly Grub trigger from step 4, doing nothing since Deadly Grub is no longer on the battlefield.
  10. Resolve the Tayam ability from step 3, causing you to mill three cards and return Deadly Grub from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  11. Repeat from step 2.

Results

  1. Infinite death triggers.
  2. Infinite ETB.
  3. Infinite LTB.
  4. Infinite sacrifice triggers.
  5. Infinite self-mill.

Metadata

  1. In 34 decks according to EDHREC.
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