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Confidence:StrongSolidPlausibleTentativeSpeculative
- SorceryB
Reanimate puts Nihiloor onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Creature — Bird ClericW
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
- Legendary Creature — Human WarriorRW
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
- Legendary Creature — Vampire ClericBW
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
- Creature — Troll Warlock // SorceryB
Grave Researcher puts Nihiloor onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
- Creature — Frog WizardU
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
- Legendary Creature — Human Rebel WarlockW
Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
- EnchantmentB
Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
- EnchantmentB
Graveyard pair: one card brings creatures back from the graveyard repeatedly (or a creature that returns itself), and the other keeps feeding the loop — a recurring reanimator with a payoff, or a sacrifice outlet with a self-recurring creature.
- Legendary Artifact Creature — ConstructGW
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
- Legendary Creature — Human AvatarG
Graveyard pair: one card brings creatures back from the graveyard repeatedly (or a creature that returns itself), and the other keeps feeding the loop — a recurring reanimator with a payoff, or a sacrifice outlet with a self-recurring creature.
- Legendary Planeswalker — ChandraR
Copy engine: one card makes copies of a creature — once a turn, or once for each time you pay its cost — and each copy pays off: the creature's enter-the-battlefield effect fires again, or the hasty copy uses its tap ability. Real, repeatable value — every copy has its turn or its price, so it never goes infinite on its own.
- Legendary Creature — Human KnightBUW
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
- 3GGWWLegendary Creature — Dinosaur VampireGW
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
- Legendary Creature — Human KnightR
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
- Legendary Creature — Human God HeroUW
Blink engine: one card blinks creatures — once a turn, once a combat, or each time you pay — and the other's enter-the-battlefield effect fires again on every blink. Real, repeatable value — never infinite on its own.
- Legendary Creature — Human WarriorR
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
- Legendary Creature — Giant ScoutGU
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
- Legendary Enchantment Creature — GodU
Blink engine: one card blinks creatures — once a turn, once a combat, or each time you pay — and the other's enter-the-battlefield effect fires again on every blink. Real, repeatable value — never infinite on its own.
- Creature — Spirit // Enchantment — AuraU
One-shot copy enabler: a card enters as a copy of another (Phantasmal Image, Body Double, Phyrexian Metamorph), firing the partner's substantive ETB once. Not a repeating chain — fires once on entry — but valuable when the partner's ETB is combo-grade (graveyard reanimator, mana doubler, etc.).
- Legendary Creature — Human MonkGW
Both cards trigger when a permanent attacks — they fire together.
Brutal Hordechief3BCreature — Orc WarriorBRW
Campaign of Vengeance3WBEnchantmentBW
Archnemesis1UBEnchantment — AuraBU
Mind Flayer3UUCreature — HorrorU
Mishra, Claimed by Gix2BRLegendary Creature — Phyrexian Human ArtificerBR
Sauron, the Lidless Eye3BRLegendary Creature — Avatar HorrorBR
Tenured Inkcaster4BCreature — Vampire WarlockB
Shroudstomper3WWBBCreature — ElementalBW
Blossoming Bogbeast4GCreature — BeastG
Sanctum Seeker2BBCreature — Vampire KnightB
Sneering Shadewriter4BCreature — Vampire WarlockB
Glidedive Duo4BCreature — Bat LizardB