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- Legendary Creature — Human Noble VillainB
Copy engine: one card makes a copy of a creature every turn, and the other's enter-the-battlefield effect rewards each copy. Real, repeatable value — the partner can't untap or re-enter the copier, so it never goes infinite.
- Legendary Creature — Human RogueBG
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Chevill, Bane of Monsters's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Legendary Planeswalker — MinscGR
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Creature — Vampire Warlock // InstantB
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Bloodline Recollector's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Legendary Creature — Human Cleric RebelRW
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 EnchantmentB
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling The Meathook Massacre's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Legendary Creature — Vampire AssassinB
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Mari, the Killing Quill's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- EnchantmentB
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Quest for the Gravelord's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Legendary Creature — Human WarlockBRU
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.
- Creature — ZombieB
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.
- Enchantment — AuraG
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Bequeathal's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Legendary Creature — Human Warrior VillainBG
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Kraven the Hunter's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain // Legendary Creature — Goblin Human VillainBRU
Shefet Archfiend has cycling, and Norman Osborn pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
- Creature — ZombieBR
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.
- ArtifactC
Shefet Archfiend has cycling, and Currency Converter pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
- Legendary Creature — Skeleton RogueB
Shefet Archfiend has cycling, and Tinybones, Trinket Thief pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
- Legendary Planeswalker — TeferiU
Shefet Archfiend has cycling, and Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
- Legendary Creature — Human SamuraiB
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Toshiro Umezawa's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Legendary Creature — Human Rebel WarlockW
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.
- InstantB
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Malicious Affliction's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Creature — Drix WarlockB
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 — NixilisB
Shefet Archfiend has cycling, and Ob Nixilis Reignited pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
- EnchantmentW
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Enduring Renewal's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Creature — Human PirateGU
Shefet Archfiend has cycling, and Emerald Collector pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
- Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Zombie ElfBG
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Glissa, the Traitor's death-trigger or removal payoff.
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Synergies with cards played only on MTG Arena (including Arena rebalances). They aren't available in paper Magic.
Confidence:StrongSolidPlausibleTentativeSpeculative
- Creature — Human MonkR
Copy engine: one card makes a copy of a creature every turn, and the other's enter-the-battlefield effect rewards each copy. Real, repeatable value — the partner can't untap or re-enter the copier, so it never goes infinite.
- Legendary Planeswalker — MinscGR
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling A-Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Enchantment — AuraU
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling A-Public Enemy's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Creature — Ogre WarlockB
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Underbridge Warlock's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Creature — Elf WarlockBG
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Perennial Gravewarden's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Legendary Creature — Octopus AdvisorBUW
Shefet Archfiend has cycling, and A-Queza, Augur of Agonies pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
- Enchantment — AuraG
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling A-Most Wanted's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Creature — DinosaurB
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Terrors of the Track's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Creature — Tiefling ClericB
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling A-Death-Priest of Myrkul's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Creature — VampireB
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling A-Blood Artist's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Legendary Creature — Vampire KnightBW
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Arvad, Weatherlight Smuggler's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Creature — Human SoldierW
Shefet Archfiend has cycling, and Benalish Partisan pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
- Artifact — EquipmentRW
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling Bladehold Cleaver's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Legendary Creature — Djinn NobleU
Shefet Archfiend has cycling, and Calim, Djinn Emperor pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
- EnchantmentB
Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
- Artifact Creature — Phyrexian ShapeshifterU
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 Elf WarlockBG
Shefet Archfiend produces damage that can kill creatures, enabling A-Shessra, Death's Whisper's death-trigger or removal payoff.
- Enchantment — ClassU
Shefet Archfiend has cycling, and A-Wizard Class pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
- Enchantment Creature — NightmareB
Fear of Ridicule creates token copies, feeding Shefet Archfiend's ETB or copy payoff.
- Creature — Bat ClericB
Both cards trigger when a creature enters the battlefield — they fire together.
- Creature — HumanC
Ominous Traveler bounces a permanent, enabling Shefet Archfiend's recast / spell-cast trigger.
- EnchantmentG
Both cards trigger when a creature enters the battlefield — they fire together.
- Legendary Creature — Human AssassinG
Both cards trigger when a creature enters the battlefield — they fire together.
- Creature — InsectG
Both cards trigger when a creature enters the battlefield — they fire together.
- Legendary Creature — Human NobleGRW
Both cards trigger when a creature enters the battlefield — they fire together.
Demon of Dark Schemes3BBBCreature — DemonB
Harvester of Misery3BBCreature — SpiritB
Inner Demon2BBEnchantment — AuraB
Archfiend of Sorrows5BBCreature — DemonB
Havoc Demon5BBCreature — DemonB
Gurmag Rakshasa4BBCreature — DemonB
Gloomdrifter3BCreature — Zombie MinionB
Black Dragon5BBCreature — DragonB
Yoked Plowbeast5WWCreature — BeastW
Miasma Demon4BBCreature — DemonB
Massacre Wurm3BBBCreature — Phyrexian WurmB
Farbog Boneflinger4BCreature — ZombieB