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Astral Dragon + Machine God's Effigy Combo

  • Prerequisites

    What do I need to start this combo?

    • Machine God's Effigy on the battlefield.
    • Astral Dragon in hand.
    • {6}{u}{u} available
  • Steps

    How does this combo work?

    • 1
      Cast Astral Dragon by paying {6}{u}{u}.
    • 2
      Astral Dragon enters the battlefield, targeting Machine God's Effigy.
    • 3
      Use Machine God's Effigy's ability to have both tokens instead enter as noncreature artifact token copies of Astral Dragon with "{tap}: Add {u}".
    • 4
      Both Astral Dragon copies trigger.
    • 5
      Repeat from step 2 any number of times, creating an additional Astral Dragon trigger on the stack each loop.
    • 6
      Once you have infinite Astral Dragon triggers, resolve them all, creating infinite copies of all noncreature permanents that are 3/3 Dragon creatures in addition to their other types.
    • 7
      You may also target Machine God's Effigy any number of times to create infinite noncreature artifact copies of all creatures.
  • Results

    What do I get from this combo?

    • Infinite blue mana
    • Infinite creature token copies of all noncreature permanents
    • Infinite creature tokens
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite noncreature artifact token copies of all creatures

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Commander Bracket Information

In which Commander Bracket(s) am I allowed to play this combo?

1-2

Exhibition and Core

(no 2-card combos)

The community has determined this is a true 2-card combo.

3

Upgraded

(no early game 2-card combos)

The community has determined this isn't an early game combo.

4-5

Optimized and CEDH

(all combos are allowed)

All combos are allowed.

Combo Voting

Does the community think this a true 2-card combo (both trivial prerequisites and significant results)? Do they think it can be executed before turn 6 or so?

Trivial Prerequisites
100%
Significant Results
94%
Early Game
31%
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