That's A Combo!

Thanks to @knowledge-exploitation and @commandtower-solring-go for sharing the card and then bringing it to my attention, respectively, I decided to figure out a combo with this big guy...

This is a beefy wurm right here. There isn’t much else to say about it. But wait, Worldspine Wurm has a death trigger? Ooh baby! Let’s abuse this. 

First of all, we need a way to kill it but bring it back. If we can remove Worldspine Wurm from the graveyard before its shuffle ability resolves (which Gatherer rules inform me is possible), then we can prevent it from shuffling back into the library. 

Well it’s easiest to just bring it back to the battlefield and cut a corner, isn’t it? Two abilities do just that, and those are Persist (-1/-1 counters) and Undying (+1/+1 counters). 

Well, since I know of a useful card that removes -1/-1 counters, let’s go with Persist. 

Spending 2 mana of any kind to give Worldspine Wurm persist repeatedly seems doable. Then we remove the -1/-1 counters with Quillspike. 

Spending another mana to do this combo? This might get out of hand... Well fear not, because I will make this combo a 1 mana spent combo each time it’s done! 

We can sacrifice the Worldspine Wurm with Ashnod’s Altar!

Ashnod’s Altar (which is seeing a reprint in EMA) allows us to sacrifice a creature (the Worldspine Wurm with persist) to generate 2 colorless mana. Once we have the Worldspine Wurm back on the battlefield, we can spend that two mana to give it persist again, then spend either a Black or Green mana to remove that -1/-1 counter from it and then sacrifice it again! This combo is essentially spending 1 Black or Green mana to make three 5/5 green Wurms with trample!

By “inherently combo”, I mean this card can not only bring you a combo, it can be cast via combo. 

My group has used this card for a bit and it’s a fun one. Since MaRo said revealing your library was a difficult mechanic to use for new cards, I’ve been sitting with this card stuck in my head. 

This is the most unique tutor in game, and it only works in Temur colors. You know what that means... EDH!!!

Two commanders that work wonderfully with this card are Maelstrom Wanderer (which will be featured in Eternal Masters!!) and Riku of Two Reflections.

How Guided Passage becomes part of the combo is you reveal it with Cascade from Maelstrom Wanderer’s ability. That is a triple tutor for free, if you asked me!

With Riku, you can combo the card with his copy ability! YOU GET 6 CARDS FOR 5 MANA!! 6 CARDS!! 5 MANA!! THE VALUE!!! One of my best friends runs this card in his Riku of Two Reflections artifact deck and it kicks ass, since he gets two artifacts, one being a creature, and usually an artifact land. 

I like having big creatures that can kill on turn 4. Don’t we all? And I’m not even gunna use blue...

This guy, Quillspike, likes to filter -1/-1 counters away from your creatures. That’s really cool to use with Persist creatures and all, but how can we just keep generating -1/-1 counters instead? We’re also gunna need a lot of mana to keep activating this filter...

Devoted Druid gives us that mana when tapped. We can also then use Devoted Druid’s second ability to untap her and put a -1/-1 counter on her. Awesome! 

SO LET’S START WITH INFINITE MANA!!!

Soulbond Deadeye Navigator to Palinchron, continuously bouncing each of them to continuously untap your lands and net 5 mana per flicker. 

This is a really common infinite mana combo in Blue EDH. But I like ETB effects in EDH, and so does my friend playing Maelstrom. 

Let’s look at some great options in every different color for ETB effects, starting with the face of EDH, SAD ROBOT!!

Now that we have infinite mana, let’s dump all our basic lands! WHEEEE!

Or instead, we can filter our graveyard back into our hand and dump those cards back onto the battlefield! All we need is an Eternal Witness! 

Let’s load this battlefield up with creatures now!

And tokens will do just fine!

Flickering sure is fun, but what if I want cards out of my own library I don’t yet have? 

The answer is simple. Play black!

It’s a Demonic Tutor on a stick!

So what about getting rid of other peoples’ libraries? We love blue, clearly, let’s put it to use! 

Milling every other players’ libraries seems a little mean, though... right? 

NOT MEAN ENOUGH!!!

Yes. Pauper, too, has infinite combos. It’s time to promote some Pauper!

Yeah, Oreskos Sun Guide definitely seems like a good pauper card. Life is neat to have in pauper. So how can we just untap it as much as we want to keep gaining that two life?

Freed from the Real is a common??? WHAAAAAT!? Yes, it’s pauper legal! And for U, you can untap the Oreskos Sun Guide for easy life. But wait... How was it tapped to begin with?

Let’s get it to produce mana! 

Now, here is how most formats would go about having creatures produce mana: Paradise Mantle.

Oh, but wait, Paradise Mantle is uncommon. There goes our mana production...

BOOM! Enchantments are just as good to me! Now Oreskos Sun Guide has “tap to add one mana of any color to your mana pool”! Tap the guide to make a U, use that U to untap via Freed from the Real. You just gained two life. Now go ahead and do it again! And Again! And Again! ... You get the idea. 

LONG LIVE PAUPER!

I think of this page every day and what combos I can post for everyone to see and know. I’m not forgetting to post, I’m just distracted as of late by “higher” priorities.