Aspiring Champion + Blightsteel Colossus + Worldly Tutor + Maskwood Nexus
How it works
- Cast Worldly Tutor by paying , searching your library for Blightsteel Colossus and putting it on top of your library.
- Deal combat damage to an opponent using Aspiring Champion.
- Aspiring Champion triggers, causing you to sacrifice it, then reveal Blightsteel Colossus from the top of your library and put it onto the battlefield as a Demon due to Maskwood Nexus, then causing Blightsteel Colossus to give each opponent eleven poison counters.
- Each opponent loses the game as a state-based action due to having ten or more poison counters.
This clever setup revolves around stacking the top of your deck with Worldly Tutor so that Aspiring Champion can convert its combat damage trigger into an explosive cheat-into-play effect. The passive presence of Maskwood Nexus is the true linchpin here, granting every creature type to your cards—including Blightsteel Colossus—ensuring that the artifact leviathan enters the battlefield classified specifically as a Demon. Because Maskwood Nexus makes Blightsteel Colossus a Demon, the sacrifice of Aspiring Champion triggers the second half of its ability, prompting the Colossus to immediately deal damage equal to its power to each opponent. Since Blightsteel Colossus naturally boasts an eleven-power frame coupled with infect, that triggered damage instantly showers your foes in eleven poison counters and spells immediate defeat for the entire table.