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Nine Lives + Fractured Identity + Cleansing Nova + Courageous Resolve

W manaU mana
Nine Lives
Nine Lives
Fractured Identity
Fractured Identity
Cleansing Nova
Cleansing Nova
Courageous Resolve
Courageous Resolve
Each opponent loses the game

How it works

  1. Cast Courageous Resolve by paying 2W mana.
  2. Cast Fractured Identity by paying 3W manaU mana, 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 Cleansing Nova 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 brilliant political gambit centers around giving your opponents copies of Nine Lives via Fractured Identity, saddling them with its dangerous static ability where leaving the battlefield means losing the game. To safely trigger this mass exodus without falling prey to your own original Nine Lives, you cast Courageous Resolve while at 5 or less life, exploiting its fateful hour clause so you cannot lose the game when your own enchantment heads to the graveyard. Finally, you cast Cleansing Nova to wipe the slate clean of all enchantments at once, sending every copy of Nine Lives off the battlefield simultaneously and forcing each of your opponents to instantly lose the game.

Legal in:CommanderLegacyOathbreakerVintage
4 decks$2.12