Minecraft – How to clear 2 items from the inventory, with one being a specific name

In order to increment by 1 anytime a player dies, the objective must be type deathCount. Something like this would work:

/scoreboard objectives add deaths deathCount Deaths

If you're making dummy objectives, you're using a similar command except with "dummy" in place of "deathCount." A dummy objective can only be changed with the following commands:

/scoreboard players add (player) (objective) (value)

/scoreboard players remove (player) (objective) (value), and

/scoreboard players set (player) (objective) (value)

The syntax for clear is as following:

/clear [player] [item] [data] [maxCount] [dataTag]

Your command is as following:

/clear @a torch 1 1 {display:{Name:"Special Torch"}}

You are trying to clear (for everyone in the server) torches with a data value of 1, a max count of 1 and a name of "Special Torch".

Seeing as there are no torches with a data value of 1, try using the following:

/clear @a torch 0 1 {display:{Name:"Special Torch"}}