How can you create a combo with The Balrog, Durin's Bane, Phyrexian Altar, Open the Graves?
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[START OF COMBO]This combo can be formed with The Balrog, Durin's Bane, Phyrexian Altar, Open the Graves

Color identity: BR
Mana cost: {B}{R}
Steps:
  1. Cast The Balrog from the command zone by paying {B}{R}.
  2. Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing The Balrog, adding {B}.
  3. Choose to return The Balrog to the command zone from your graveyard.
  4. When The Balrog dies, it and Open the Graves trigger.
  5. Resolve the Balrog trigger, destroying any artifact and/or creature an opponent controls.
  6. Resolve the Open the Graves trigger, creating a 2/2 Zombie creature token.
  7. Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the Zombie, adding {R}.
  8. Repeat.[END OF COMBO STEPS]

Result:
  - Infinite commander casts
  - Infinite death triggers
  - Infinite enters the battlefield
  - Infinite leaves the battlefield
  - Infinite sacrifice triggers
  - Infinite storm count[END OF COMBO RESULT][END OF COMBO]

Other prerequisites:
  - The Balrog, Durin's Bane must be in the command zone
  - Phyrexian Altar must be on the battlefield
  - Open the Graves must be on the battlefield
  - There have been a number of permanents sacrificed this turn equal to five plus The Balrog's commander tax.
[END OF COMBO PREREQUISITES]
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