Phyrexian Altar + Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist + Semblance Anvil + Dress Down

Phyrexian Altar

Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist

Semblance Anvil

Dress Down

How it works

1. Cast Malevolent Hermit from your graveyard for its disturb cost by paying , causing it to enter the battlefield as Benevolent Geist.
2. Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Benevolent Geist, adding .
3. Benevolent Geist is not exiled due to Dress Down removing its ability.
4. Repeat.

This intricate loop turns a graveyard into an infinite engine by relying on Benevolent Geist's disturb cost, which is heavily discounted by Semblance Anvil to make casting it cheap and repeatable. Phyrexian Altar acts as the sacrifice outlet that feeds you mana while binning the creature, but the true brilliance of the combo lies in Dress Down. Because Dress Down strips away all creature abilities while it is on the battlefield, it successfully suppresses the exile clause on the back half of Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist, allowing the card to return to the graveyard instead of being permanently removed.