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.
Freed from the Real + Gyre Engineer
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins +1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 3,014 decks
Paradigm Shift + Laboratory Maniac
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins −1 · Single opponent +1 · Works with 5 mana · 2,990 decks
Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra + Spark Double
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 7 mana · 2,965 decks
Sanctum Weaver + Gauntlets of Light
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins +1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 2,898 decks
Dualcaster Mage + Planar Incision
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 2,828 decks
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Hyrax Tower Scout
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 2,821 decks
Najeela, the Blade-Blossom + Sword of Feast and Famine
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 2,761 decks
Éomer, Marshal of Rohan + Blade of Selves
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 2,748 decks
Basking Broodscale + Blade of the Bloodchief
Stays5 of 11Speed +4 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 3 mana · 2,665 decks
Uba Mask + Drannith Magistrate
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins −1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 2,568 decks
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Deceiver Exarch
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 2,509 decks
Omen Machine + Drannith Magistrate
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 2,403 decks
Shrieking Drake + Earthcraft
Stays5 of 11Speed +4 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 2 mana · 2,309 decks
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Pestermite
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 2,212 decks
Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki + Village Bell-Ringer
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 2,197 decks
Naru Meha, Master Wizard + Twinflame
Stays5 of 11Speed +4 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 4 mana · 2,173 decks
Zethi, Arcane Blademaster + Teferi's Protection
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 2,139 decks
Breath of Fury + Determined Iteration
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 2,087 decks
Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds + Midnight Guard
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 2,070 decks
Redshift, Rocketeer Chief + Aggravated Assault
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 2,053 decks
Panoptic Mirror + Time Warp
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 1,935 decks
Animar, Soul of Elements + Palinchron
Stays5 of 11Speed +4 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 3 mana · 1,898 decks
Parallax Wave + Felidar Guardian
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins +2 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 1,816 decks
Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset + The Peregrine Dynamo
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins +2 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 7 mana · 1,696 decks
Screams from Within + Warehouse Tabby
Stays5 of 11Speed +4 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 4 mana · 1,687 decks
Loyal Retainers + Saffi Eriksdotter
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins +1 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 1,615 decks
Basking Broodscale + Sadistic Glee
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 1,610 decks
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Auton Soldier
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 1,568 decks
Divining Witch + Laboratory Maniac
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent +1 · Works with 7 mana · 1,568 decks
Jace, Cunning Castaway + Doubling Season
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 8 mana · 1,539 decks
Goblin Sharpshooter + Splinter Twin
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins +2 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 7 mana · 1,538 decks
The Reaver Cleaver + Time Sieve
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 1,477 decks
Intruder Alarm + Dream Stalker
Stays5 of 11Speed +4 · What it produces +2 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 3 mana · 1,459 decks
Dualcaster Mage + Flicker of Fate
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +2 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 1,429 decks
Umbral Mantle + Heronblade Elite
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 1,405 decks
Jorn, God of Winter // Kaldring, the Rimestaff + Stasis
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 1,366 decks
Possibility Storm + Drannith Magistrate
Stays5 of 11Speed +2 · What it produces +3 · Setup 0 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 7 mana · 1,359 decks
Twitching Doll + Pemmin's Aura
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 1,337 decks
All Will Be One + Quest for Pure Flame
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 6 mana · 1,336 decks
Ilharg, the Raze-Boar + Medomai the Ageless
Stays5 of 11Speed +3 · What it produces +3 · Setup −1 · Wins 0 · Single opponent 0 · Works with 5 mana · 1,272 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.