Karmic Guide 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, protection from black Echo(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
How it works : Karmic Guide
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Your permanent's echo ability will trigger at the beginning of your upkeep if it entered the battlefield since the beginning of your last upkeep, or if you gained control of it since the beginning of your last upkeep.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Paying for echo is always optional. When the echo triggered ability resolves, if you can't pay the echo cost or choose not to, you sacrifice that permanent.
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
Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Viscera Seer
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing Karmic Guide.
- 2Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing Reveillark.
- 3When Reveillark dies, it triggers, returning Karmic Guide and up to one other creature with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 4When Karmic Guide enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Reveillark from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 5Resolve the Viscera Seer ability from step 2.
- 6Repeat.
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#2
Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Ashnod's Altar
Infinite colorless manaInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Karmic Guide.
- 2Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Reveillark.
- 3When Reveillark dies, it triggers, returning Karmic Guide and up to one other creature with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 4When Karmic Guide enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Reveillark from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 5Repeat.
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#3
Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Altar of Dementia
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite mill
- 1Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Karmic Guide.
- 2Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Reveillark.
- 3When Reveillark dies, it triggers, returning Karmic Guide and up to one other creature with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 4When Karmic Guide enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Reveillark from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 5Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability from step 2.
- 6Repeat.
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#4
Preston, the Vanisher + Felidar Guardian + Karmic Guide
Exile all nonland permanents opponents controlInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite blinking of permanents
- 1Cast Karmic Guide by paying its mana cost.
- 2When Karmic Guide enters, it triggers, returning Felidar Guardian from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 3When Felidar Guardian enters, it and Preston trigger.
- 4Resolve the Felidar Guardian trigger, blinking another permanent you control.
- 5Resolve the Preston trigger, creating a token copy of Felidar Guardian that is a 0/1 Illusion.
- 6When the Felidar Guardian token enters the battlefield, it triggers, blinking the nontoken Felidar Guardian.
- 7Repeat from step 3.
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#5
Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Phyrexian Altar
Infinite colored manaInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Karmic Guide.
- 2Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Reveillark.
- 3When Reveillark dies, it triggers, returning Karmic Guide and up to one other creature with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 4When Karmic Guide enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Reveillark from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 5Repeat.
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#6
Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Carrion Feeder
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Activate Carrion Feeder by sacrificing Karmic Guide.
- 2Activate Carrion Feeder by sacrificing Reveillark.
- 3When Reveillark dies, it triggers, returning Karmic Guide and up to one other creature with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 4When Karmic Guide enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Reveillark from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 5Resolve the Carrion Feeder ability from step 2.
- 6Repeat.
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#7
Karmic Guide + Reveillark + Goblin Bombardment
Infinite damageInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing Karmic Guide.
- 2Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing Reveillark.
- 3When Reveillark dies, it triggers, returning Karmic Guide and up to one other creature with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 4When Karmic Guide enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning Reveillark from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 5Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability from step 2.
- 6Repeat.
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#8
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Goblin Bombardment + Karmic Guide
Infinite creature tokens with hasteInfinite damageInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETB
- 1Activate Kiki-Jiki by tapping it, targeting Karmic Guide
- 2Holding priority, activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing Kiki-Jiki, dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 3Resolve the Kiki-Jiki ability, creating a token copy of Karmic Guide with haste.
- 4When the Karmic Guide token enters, it triggers, returning Kiki-JIki from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 5Repeat.
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Legal formats
modernlegacyvintagepennycommanderoathbreakerduelpremodernpredh
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