Combo scores
Every two-card combo earns points for what can be measured: how fast it works, what it produces, whether it needs setup and how much it wins in tournaments. At 4 points or more it is banned. Data is measured every week and the new list is announced on the first Monday of each month; the next announcement is on November 2, 2026.
Until November 2, 2026 the official list stays frozen. Here you can see what would change that day.
At the November 2, 2026 announcement
- Stay banned
- 620
- Would leave the list
- 424
- Would join the list
- 1,313
Those on the official list, from closest to leaving to farthest. A combo leaves only if it stays below the line for the whole review month.
Kami of Whispered Hopes + High Alert
Would leave3 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 7 mana · 63 decks
Mind Over Matter + Quicksilver Dagger
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 9 mana · 57 decks
Heartless Hidetsugu + Corrupted Conscience
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 10 mana · 57 decks
Turnabout + Mirror Sheen
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 10 mana · 55 decks
Murderous Redcap + Surrak and Goreclaw
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 10 mana · 50 decks
Brago, King Eternal + Akki Battle Squad
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 10 mana · 48 decks
Elemental Mastery + Black Carriage
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 9 mana · 46 decks
Sharuum the Hegemon + Gigantoplasm
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 10 mana · 42 decks
Feast of Sanity + Flumph
Would leave3 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +1 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 32 decks
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born + Elemental Mastery
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 9 mana · 32 decks
Machine God's Effigy + Cinderhaze Wretch
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 9 mana · 28 decks
Fiend Hunter + Dual Nature
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 9 mana · 28 decks
Splinter Twin + Faces of the Past
Would leave3 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 7 mana · 27 decks
Murderous Redcap + Juniper Order Ranger
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 9 mana · 25 decks
Molten Echoes + Wispweaver Angel
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 10 mana · 25 decks
Machine God's Effigy + Barrenton Medic
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 9 mana · 24 decks
Hangar Scrounger + Aphetto Alchemist
Would leave3 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +1 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 17 decks
Faceless Butcher + Dual Nature
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 10 mana · 15 decks
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born + Presence of Gond
Would leave3 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 13 decks
Murderous Redcap + Combine Guildmage
Would leave3 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 8 decks
Black Carriage + Presence of Gond
Would leave3 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 8 decks
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second
Would leave3 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 7 decks
Intruder Alarm + Jungle Patrol
Would leave3 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 5 decks
Dargo, the Shipwrecker + Phyrexian Altar
Would leave3 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins +1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 10 mana · 5 decks
Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter
Stays4 of 11Speed +4 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins −1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 2 mana · 107,075 decks
Basalt Monolith + Forsaken Monument
Stays4 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 66,280 decks
Peregrin Took + Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
Stays4 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 61,375 decks
Bruvac the Grandiloquent + Maddening Cacophony
Stays4 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins −1 · Single opponent +1 · Works with 9 mana · 55,246 decks
Rings of Brighthearth + Basalt Monolith
Stays4 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 53,795 decks
The Reaver Cleaver + Aggravated Assault
Stays4 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins −1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 47,846 decks
Orcish Bowmasters + Peer into the Abyss
Stays4 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins +1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 9 mana · 46,618 decks
Sword of Feast and Famine + Aggravated Assault
Stays4 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins −1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 37,223 decks
Peregrin Took + Experimental Confectioner
Stays4 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins −1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 34,164 decks
Scurry Oak + Ivy Lane Denizen
Stays4 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins −1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 7 mana · 29,434 decks
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Quirion Ranger
Stays4 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 28,597 decks
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts
Stays4 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 10 mana · 28,018 decks
Storm-Kiln Artist + Haze of Rage
Stays4 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 27,594 decks
Basalt Monolith + Forensic Gadgeteer
Stays4 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins −1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 26,462 decks
Bloom Tender + Freed from the Real
Stays4 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 23,778 decks
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus + Heartless Hidetsugu
Stays4 of 11Speed +1 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 9 mana · 21,271 decks
How points add up
- Speed, by total mana until it works (both cards plus what running it costs): 4 or less +4, 5 or 6 +3, 7 or 8 +2, 9 or 10 +1.
- What it produces: +3 if it decides the game, if it makes infinite creature tokens, or if half of the verifier lists that include it already include a way to finish it; +2 for infinite mana or infinite creature deaths or enters; +1 for any other infinite that needs a third card.
- Setup: −1 if it needs something else on the battlefield, a card in the graveyard or a special state.
- Tournament wins, with 30 decks or more: +2 if it wins 1.15 times the norm or more, +1 if 1.05, −1 if 0.85 or less. Multiplayer uses cEDH; 1v1 uses Duel Commander.
- 1v1 only: +1 if it wins by an alternate win condition or mills an opponent’s library.
Scores calculated on October 29, 2026 with Commander Spellbook and Scryfall. Tournament data: TopDeck.gg and MTGTop8.