Nine Lives + Fractured Identity + Austere Command + Courageous Resolve

Nine Lives

Fractured Identity

Austere Command

Courageous Resolve

How it works

1. Cast Courageous Resolve by paying 2.
2. Cast Fractured Identity by paying 3, exiling Nine Lives and causing each opponent to create a token copy of it.
3. Nine Lives leaves the battlefield, however you cannot lose the game due to Courageous Resolve.
4. Cast Austere Command by paying its mana cost, destroying all enchantments.
5. When each opponent's Nine Lives leaves the battlefield, they each trigger, causing each opponent to lose the game.

This clever puzzle turns your own protection against you into a lethal weapon for your opponents, beginning with Nine Lives to absorb damage safely while quietly stacking up incarnation counters. By casting Fractured Identity, you exile your own enchantment and hand a token copy of Nine Lives to every single opponent at the table, forcing them to inherit that same ticking time bomb. Because Courageous Resolve grants you temporary immunity to losing the game (while keeping your life total low enough to satisfy its fateful hour condition), you can safely cast Austere Command to wipe every enchantment off the board at once. When all of those token copies of Nine Lives leave the battlefield simultaneously, their leaves-the-battlefield triggers go on the stack and instantly eliminate every opponent, securing your victory.