Infinite
Sword of the Meek + Grinding Station
Unbounded targeted mill or self-mill, plus unbounded 1/1 Phyrexian Germ creation and artifact entry, leave, and sacrifice events.
Required Cards
Setup
- Ekthi and Grinding Station are under your control.
- Grinding Station can untap before each activation.
- Sword is sacrificed after its living-weapon trigger is stacked but before that trigger resolves.
- Ekthi remains on the battlefield as the Germ enters so it enters as a 1/1.
Sequence
- Control Ekthi and an untapped Grinding Station, then have Sword of the Meek enter the battlefield.
- Put Sword's granted living-weapon trigger and Grinding Station's artifact-entry untap trigger on the stack, and resolve the Station untap if needed.
- With the living-weapon trigger still pending, tap Grinding Station and sacrifice Sword as the activation cost to mill the target player three cards.
- Resolve living weapon. It creates a 0/0 Phyrexian Germ that enters as a 1/1 because it is another Phyrexian under Ekthi.
- Sword triggers from the graveyard; choose to return it attached to that Germ.
- Sword's entry creates the next living-weapon and Station untap triggers; repeat the same ordered sequence.
Interruption Points
- Remove Ekthi before the Germ enters; without the anthem, Sword does not see a 1/1 enter.
- Counter the pending living-weapon trigger.
- Exile Sword from the graveyard or counter its return trigger.
- Remove, tap, or disable Grinding Station before the next activation.
- Counter a Grinding Station activation to prevent that iteration's mill.
Ekthi, Contaminator Priest role: Ekthi grants living weapon and makes the Phyrexian Germ enter as a 1/1.
Timing: Activate Grinding Station while the relevant living-weapon trigger is pending.
Rules notes: The active player receives priority after triggered abilities are put on the stack and can activate Grinding Station before living weapon resolves. Sword's graveyard return is optional. Earlier Germs remain 1/1 after Sword moves because Ekthi continues to give other Phyrexians +1/+1. Living weapon timing: Living weapon is a triggered ability. The controller can activate a sacrifice outlet after the trigger is on the stack and before it resolves. Sword return condition: Ekthi's continuous +1/+1 applies as the other Phyrexian Germ enters, so Sword in the graveyard sees a 1/1 creature enter. Taxonomy boundary: Use equipment-attachment and creature-token-generation. Phyrexian is Typal, living weapon is keyword metadata, artifacts is draft, combo is unmapped, and both requested archetypes remain raw candidates.
Last reviewed: Aug 23, 2026
