the front side of Fain, the Broker
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the front side of Thornbite Staff
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Crystalline Crawler
the back of a classic MtG card
the front side of Tenacious Dead
the back of a classic MtG card

Color Identity: B

Initial Card State

  1.  All permanents on the battlefield.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. Thornbite Staff attached to Fain.
  2. Fain does not have summoning sickness.

Mana Needed

  1. one generic manaone black mana available.

Steps

  1. Activate Fain's first ability by tapping it and sacrificing Tenacious Dead.
  2. Tenacious Dead dies, triggering itself and Fain.
  3. Resolve the Fain trigger, untapping it.
  4. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, causing you to pay one generic manaone black mana to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
  5. Resolve the Fain ability from step 1, putting two +1/+1 counters on Crystalline Crawler.
  6. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability twice by removing two counters from it, adding one black manaone black mana.
  7. Repeat.

Results

  1. Infinite death triggers.
  2. Infinite creature ETB.
  3. Infinite creature LTB.
  4. Infinite creature sacrifice triggers.

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