Cleaving Reaper is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
Flying, trample Pay 3 life: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you had an Angel or Berserker enter the battlefield under your control this turn.
How it works : Cleaving Reaper
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The Angel or Berserker doesn't have to still be under your control in order to activate Cleaving Reaper's ability. Additionally, the Angel or Berserker could have entered the battlefield under your control at any point in the turn, even before Cleaving Reaper was put into the graveyard.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Cleaving Reaper + Feast of Sanity + Faith of the Devoted + Skirge Familiar
Infinite lifegain triggersInfinite lifelossInfinite self-discard triggers
- 1Activate Skirge Familiar by discarding Cleaving Reaper, adding
. - 2Faith of the Devoted and Feast of Sanity trigger.
- 3Resolve the Feast of Sanity trigger, dealing 1 damage to any target and causing you to gain 1 life.
- 4Resolve the Faith of the Devoted trigger, causing you to pay
to cause each opponent to lose 2 life and you to gain 2 life. - 5Activate Cleaving Reaper by paying 3 life, returning it to your hand from your graveyard.
- 6Repeat.
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#2
Prize Pig + Peace of Mind + Cleaving Reaper
Infinite lifegain triggersInfinite self-discard triggers
- 1Activate Prize Pig by tapping it, adding
. - 2Activate Peace of Mind by paying and discarding Cleaving Reaper, causing you to gain three life.
- 3Prize Pig triggers, putting three ribbon counters on it, then removing all ribbon counters on it and untapping it.
- 4Activate Cleaving Reaper by paying three life, returning it from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Repeat.
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#3
Cleaving Reaper + Tormod, the Desecrator + Peace of Mind + Phyrexian Altar
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite lifegain triggersInfinite creature LTB
- 1Pay 3 life to return Cleaving Reaper from your graveyard to your hand.
- 2Tormod triggers, creating a tapped 2/2 Zombie token.
- 3Sacrifice the Zombie token to Phyrexian Altar for .
- 4Pay and discard Cleaving Reaper to gain 3 life.
- 5Repeat.
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#4
Cleaving Reaper + Desecrated Tomb + Peace of Mind + Phyrexian Altar
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite lifegain triggersInfinite creature LTB
- 1Pay 3 life to return Cleaving Reaper from your graveyard to your hand.
- 2Tormod triggers, creating a 1/1 Bat token.
- 3Sacrifice the Bat token to Phyrexian Altar for .
- 4Pay and discard Cleaving Reaper to gain 3 life.
- 5Repeat.
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#5
Cleaving Reaper + Feast of Sanity + Faith of the Devoted + Mind Over Matter
Infinite lifegain triggersInfinite lifelossInfinite self-discard triggers
- 1Activate a mana-producing permanent by tapping it, adding at least .
- 2Activate Mind over Matter by discarding Cleaving Reaper, targeting the mana-producing permanent.
- 3Faith of the Devoted and Feast of Sanity trigger.
- 4Resolve the Feast of Sanity trigger, dealing 1 damage to any target and causing you to gain 1 life.
- 5Resolve the Faith of the Devoted trigger, causing you to pay to cause each opponent to lose 2 life and you to gain 2 life.
- 6Resolve the Mind over Matter ability, untapping the mana-producing permanent.
- 7Activate Cleaving Reaper by paying 3 life, returning it to your hand from your graveyard.
- 8Repeat.
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Legal formats
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