Defiant Salvager 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
Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
How it works : Defiant Salvager
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You can sacrifice Defiant Salvager to activate its own ability. It won't receive a counter, but abilities that trigger on the sacrifice or watch for a creature dying will see it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If you sacrifice an artifact creature to activate Defiant Salvager's ability, you put one +1/+1 counter on Defiant Salvager, not two.
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
Tayam, Luminous Enigma + Cathodion + Defiant Salvager
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creatureInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing Cathodion.
- 2Cathodion triggers, adding
. - 3Resolve the Defiant Salvager ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 4Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing your persist/undying creature.
- 5The creature's persist/undying ability triggers, returning it to the battlefield with a vigilance counter and the appropriate choice of a +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter.
- 6Resolve the Defiant Salvager ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 7Activate Tayam by paying
and removing both counters from your persist/undying creature and one counter from another creature, milling three cards and returning Cathodion from your graveyard to the battlefield. - 8Repeat.
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#2
Defiant Salvager + Melira, Sylvok Outcast
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creatureInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing the creature with persist.
- 2When that creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a -1/-1 counter on it due to Melira
- 3Resolve the Defiant Salvager ability.
- 4Repeat.
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#3
Peregrin Took + Cauldron Familiar + Insidious Roots + Defiant Salvager
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creatureInfinite +1/+1 counters on certain creaturesInfinite Food tokensInfinite card draw
- 1Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing Cauldron Familiar.
- 2Activate Cauldron Familiar by sacrificing a Food, returning Cauldron Familiar to the battlefield from your graveyard.
- 3Cauldron Familiar and Insidious Roots trigger.
- 4Resolve the Insidious Roots trigger, creating a token and a Food token.
- 5Resolve the Cauldron Familiar trigger, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- 6Repeat
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#4
Ygra, Eater of All + Cauldron Familiar + Insidious Roots + Defiant Salvager
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creatureInfinite +1/+1 counters on certain creaturesInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Cauldron Familiar by sacrificing a Food.
- 2Ygra triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on it.
- 3Resolve the Cauldron Familiar ability, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 4Cauldron Familiar and Insidious Roots trigger.
- 5Resolve the Insidious Roots trigger, creating a creature token.
- 6Resolve the Cauldron Familiar trigger, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- 7Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing Cauldron Familiar.
- 8When Cauldron Familiar dies, Ygra triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on it.
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#5
Sly Requisitioner + Salvaging Station + Defiant Salvager
Infinite card drawInfinite draw triggersNear-infinite colorless manaNear-infinite creature ETB
- 1Activate Salvaging Station by tapping it, returning the artifact from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 2Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing the artifact.
- 3Sly Requisitioner triggers, creating a 1/1 Servo artifact creature token.
- 4Resolve Defiant Salvager's ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 5Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing the Servo.
- 6When the Servo dies, Salvaging Station triggers, untapping Salvaging Station.
- 7Resolve Defiant Salvager's ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 8Repeat.
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#6
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest + One with the Kami + Defiant Salvager
Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you controlInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing another modified creature with power one or greater.
- 2When the creature dies, Mazirek and One with the Kami triggers.
- 3Resolve the One with the Kami trigger, creating a number of 1/1 Spirit creature tokens equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
- 4Resolve the Mazirek trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- 5Resolve the Defiant Salvager ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on it
- 6Repeat.
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#7
Camellia, the Seedmiser + Defiant Salvager + Tippy-Toe, Terrific Partner
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creatureInfinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing a Food.
- 2Camellia triggers, creating a 1/1 Squirrel creature token and a Food artifact token due to Tippy-Toe.
- 3Resolve the Defiant Salvager ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 4Repeat.
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#8
Beifong's Bounty Hunters + Defiant Salvager + Eusocial Engineering
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creatureInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing another nonland creature you control.
- 2When the creature dies, Beifong's Bounty Hunters triggers, earthbending a land.
- 3Resolve the Defiant Salvager ability.
- 4Activate Defiant Salvager by sacrificing the land.
- 5When the land dies, Beifong's Bounty Hunters triggers, returning the land from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
- 6When the land enters, Eusocial Engineering triggers, creating a creature token.
- 7Resolve the Defiant Salvager ability.
- 8Repeat.
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Legal formats
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