Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman2/1$1.55
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legal in Commander
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Combos 152
Eternal Witness + Snap + Gaea's Cradle
- Infinite green mana
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite untap of lands you control
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You control a mana-producing land that can tap to produce at least {U}. You control at least [#] creatures. You control four or more creatures.
Steps
Activate Gaea's Cradle by tapping it, adding at least {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate another land by tapping it, adding at least {U}. Cast Snap by paying {1}{U}, returning Eternal Witness from the battlefield to your hand and untapping Gaea's Cradle and the land tapped in step 2. Cast Eternal Witness by paying {1}{G}{G}. When Eternal Witness enters, it triggers, returning Snap from your graveyard to your hand. Repeat.
Eternal Witness + Ghostly Flicker + Peregrine Drake
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite untap of lands you control
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You control up to five lands that can tap to produce at least {2}{U}.
Steps
Activate up to five lands by tapping them, adding at least {2}{U}. Cast Ghostly Flicker by paying {2}{U}, blinking Eternal Witness and Peregrine Drake. When Eternal Witness and Peregrine Drake enter the battlefield, their abilities trigger. Resolve the Eternal Witness trigger, returning Ghostly Flicker to your hand from your graveyard. Resolve the Peregrine Drake trigger, untapping up to five lands. Repeat.
Eternal Witness + Doppelgang
- Infinite copies of all permanents
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
- Infinite casts of instants and sorceries in your hand and graveyard
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
There are four permanents on the battlefield that can collectively tap to produce at least {2}{G}{U}.
Steps
Cast Doppelgang by paying {15}{G}{U}, creating five token copies of Eternal Witness and of the four mana-producing permanents. When the Eternal Witness tokens enter the battlefield, they trigger, returning Doppelgang and up to four other cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate seventeen of the mana-producing permanent tokens by tapping them, adding at least {15}{G}{U}. Repeat. Once you have infinite tokens and mana, you may instead target any other permanents using Doppelgang.
Eternal Witness + Living Death + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite colored mana
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have at least four additional creature cards in your graveyard and/or on the battlefield.
Steps
Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Eternal Witness and all other creatures you control, adding {B} for each creature sacrificed. Cast Living Death by paying {3}{B}{B}, causing each player to exile all creatures from their graveyard, sacrifice all creatures they control, then return the exiled cards to the battlefield. When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Living Death from your graveyard to your hand. Repeat any number of times.
Eternal Witness + Displace + Peregrine Drake
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite untap of lands you control
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You control up to five lands that can tap to produce at least {2}{U}.
Steps
Activate up to five lands by tapping them, adding at least {2}{U}. Cast Displace by paying {2}{U}, blinking Eternal Witness and Peregrine Drake When Eternal Witness and Peregrine Drake enter the battlefield, their abilities trigger. Resolve the Eternal Witness trigger, returning Displace from your graveyard to your hand. Resolve the Peregrine Drake trigger, untapping up to five lands. Repeat.
Eternal Witness + Displacer Kitten + Dark Ritual
- Infinite black mana
- Cast a subset of spells in your graveyard
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard that has legal targets and that can be cast using {B}{B}.
Steps
Cast Dark Ritual by paying {B}. Displacer Kitten triggers, blinking Eternal Witness. When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning the other instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand. Resolve Dark Ritual, adding {B}{B}{B}. Cast the other instant or sorcery by paying its mana cost. Displacer Kitten triggers, blinking Eternal Witness. When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Dark Ritual from your graveyard to your hand. Resolve the instant or sorcery. Repeat.
Eternal Witness + Saw in Half + Cabal Ritual
- Infinite creature tokens
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
You have at least seven cards in your graveyard.
Steps
Cast Cabal Ritual by paying {1}{B}, adding {B}{B}{B}{B}{B}. Cast Saw in Half by paying {2}{B}, destroying Eternal Witness and creating two token copies of it with base power equal to half the destroyed creature's power and base toughness equal to half the destroyed creature's toughness, rounding up each time. When the Eternal Witness tokens enter the battlefield, they trigger, returning Saw in Half and Cabal Ritual from your graveyard to your hand. Repeat.
Eternal Witness + Rise of the Dark Realms + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite colored mana
- Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Before you start
The number of nontoken creatures you control plus the number of creature cards in all graveyards is at least nine.
Steps
Activate Phyrexian Altar twice by sacrificing Eternal Witness, adding {B}. Repeat step 1 for each other nontoken creature you control. Cast Rise of the Dark Realms by paying {7}{B}{B}, returning all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control. When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Rise of the Dark Realms to your hand from your graveyard. Repeat.
Eternal Witness + Phyrexian Altar + Unearth
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite magecraft triggers
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Sacrifice Eternal Witness to Phyrexian Altar, for {B}. Cast Unearth, returning Eternal Witness from your graveyard to the battlefield. Eternal Witness enters, returning Unearth from your graveyard to your hand. Repeat.
Eternal Witness + Kaya's Ghostform + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
Commander Spellbook ↗How it works
Steps
Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Eternal Witness, adding {B}. When Eternal Witness dies, Kaya's Ghostform triggers, returning Eternal Witness from your graveyard to the battlefield. When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Kaya's Ghostform from your graveyard to your hand. Cast Kaya's Ghostform by paying {B}, attaching it to Eternal Witness. Repeat.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook. Only combos of 2 or 3 named cards are listed.
Best commanders
Commanders whose abilities work with this card and share its colors, from what the cards do.
- The Fourteenth DoctorThe Fourteenth Doctor copies creatures, which Eternal Witness can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- Yarok, the DesecratedYarok, the Desecrated copies your triggered abilities, which Eternal Witness can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- Mister FantasticMister Fantastic copies your triggered abilities, which Eternal Witness can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- Emiel the BlessedEmiel the Blessed blinks / re-enters your creatures, which Eternal Witness can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- Moritte of the FrostMoritte of the Frost copies creatures, which Eternal Witness can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- The MimeoplasmThe Mimeoplasm copies creatures, which Eternal Witness can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- Ulalek, Fused AtrocityUlalek, Fused Atrocity copies your triggered abilities, which Eternal Witness can use because it has an enter-the-battlefield trigger.
- Sachi, Daughter of SeshiroEternal Witness is a Shaman, which Sachi, Daughter of Seshiro can use.
- Kogla, the Titan ApeEternal Witness is a Human, which Kogla, the Titan Ape can use.
- Sigarda, Font of BlessingsEternal Witness is a Human, which Sigarda, Font of Blessings can use.