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MTGGoldfish's October 21 Against the Odds build gives Denzilore Fatehold a concrete Standard combo plan alongside its normal creature-pressure game. The new Azorius list combines the Reality Fracture Sphinx with Invisible Woman, Sue Storm, an enters-the-battlefield surveil engine and another Hero.
The loop starts with Denzilore, Sue Storm, Proctor of Potential or Gossip's Talent, and that additional Hero on the battlefield. When a creature enters, the surveil engine triggers. Surveilling triggers Denzilore, which puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Putting counters on a Hero other than Sue Storm allows her to create a 0/4 Wall token. That Wall enters, supplies another surveil trigger and starts the process again.
The repeat produces as many Walls and counters as the player chooses to make. Sue Storm's token creation is optional, giving the player a way to stop. The extra Hero is essential: Sue Storm does not satisfy her own “other Hero” condition. In this list, Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer fills that role and can help recover a surveilled Sue Storm when cast.
Matoya, Archon Elder adds card draw whenever the player scries or surveils. It is a payoff rather than a necessary loop component. Its draws also impose a limit: continuing to draw beyond an empty library loses the game. The demonstration removes Matoya once enough cards have been drawn, then grows an attacker further. The Walls themselves have defender; creating them is not automatically a same-turn combat win.
The creator reports a 6–1 test record, with the complete infinite combo achieved only once. Most of the build's strength in that small session came from stacking surveil engines, finding cards and making an ordinary attacking team large. That makes the combo a secondary plan, not evidence that Standard has a reliable new dominant deck.
Removal of a key creature, disruption of the surveil engine and Arena's repeated-click demands all matter. The current value is a demonstrated new construction with an aggressive fallback—not a tournament-backed metagame claim.
The loop starts with Denzilore, Sue Storm, Proctor of Potential or Gossip's Talent, and that additional Hero on the battlefield. When a creature enters, the surveil engine triggers. Surveilling triggers Denzilore, which puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Putting counters on a Hero other than Sue Storm allows her to create a 0/4 Wall token. That Wall enters, supplies another surveil trigger and starts the process again.
The repeat produces as many Walls and counters as the player chooses to make. Sue Storm's token creation is optional, giving the player a way to stop. The extra Hero is essential: Sue Storm does not satisfy her own “other Hero” condition. In this list, Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer fills that role and can help recover a surveilled Sue Storm when cast.
Matoya, Archon Elder adds card draw whenever the player scries or surveils. It is a payoff rather than a necessary loop component. Its draws also impose a limit: continuing to draw beyond an empty library loses the game. The demonstration removes Matoya once enough cards have been drawn, then grows an attacker further. The Walls themselves have defender; creating them is not automatically a same-turn combat win.
The creator reports a 6–1 test record, with the complete infinite combo achieved only once. Most of the build's strength in that small session came from stacking surveil engines, finding cards and making an ordinary attacking team large. That makes the combo a secondary plan, not evidence that Standard has a reliable new dominant deck.
Removal of a key creature, disruption of the surveil engine and Arena's repeated-click demands all matter. The current value is a demonstrated new construction with an aggressive fallback—not a tournament-backed metagame claim.
Original source: Against the Odds: Denzilore, But Infinite! (Standard) ↗MTGGoldfish