← All storiesGamingDeveloping story Magic's new Marvel set makes this utterly broken infinite combo even better
Magic: The Gathering's new Marvel Super Heroes set not only focuses on, well, the heroic parts of the Marvel universe, but also its iconic villains. One of those, set to play a big part in the Cinematic Universe’s next few movies, is Doctor Doom, which means you can expect multiple cards depicting Victor von Doom across the set. This includes a preconstructed Commander deck featuring Doom and Loki, but there's another Doom card coming to Magic that could be even more powerful — especially when combined with a few other classics. Some players have noticed that the Doctor Doom card has some notable similarities to Grave Titan since they both create two creature tokens when entering the battlefield. This means Doom can slot into a classic Grave Titan infinite combo that uses two other cards: Nim Deathmantle and Ashnod’s Altar. Whereas Grave Titan creates 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens when it enters or attacks, Doctor Doom creates two 3/3 Doombot creatures when it enters the battlefield. As long as you have one of those artifact creatures around (or a 'Plan'—a new mechanic for the set), Doctor Doom is indestructible. Here's how the combo works: Just as you would with Grave Titan, yo

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