Tree of Perdition + God-Pharaoh's Gift + Warstorm Surge

Tree of Perdition

God-Pharaoh's Gift

Warstorm Surge

How it works

1. At the beginning of your combat phase, God-Pharaoh's Gift triggers, exiling Tree of Perdition from your graveyard and creating a token copy of it that is a 4/4 Zombie with haste.
2. When the Tree of Perdition token enters the battlefield, Warstorm Surge triggers.
3. Holding priority, activate the Tree of Perdition token by tapping it, swapping an opponent's life total with Tree of Perdition's toughness.
4. Resolve the Warstorm Surge trigger, causing the Tree of Perdition token to deal damage equal to its power to the opponent whose life total was swapped.
5. The opponent loses the game due to having 0 life.

This clever loop weaponizes the graveyard by letting God-Pharaoh's Gift resurrect Tree of Perdition as a hasty 4/4 token right at the start of combat. As that token enters the battlefield, Warstorm Surge triggers to deal damage equal to its power, but you first exploit the stack by tapping the Tree of Perdition token to swap your opponent's life total to 13. When Warstorm Surge's damage finally resolves, the token's 4 power is more than enough to obliterate that newly reduced life total and instantly win you the game.