the front side of Xavier Sal, Infested Captain
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the front side of Haunted One
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the front side of Thornbite Staff
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the front side of Bloodthrone Vampire
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Color Identity: B, G, U

Initial Card State

  1.  All permanents on the battlefield.
  2.  Xavier Sal must be your commander.

Notable Prerequisites

  1. There is at least one counter on a permanent you control except Xavier Sal.
  2. Xavier Sal does not have summoning sickness.
  3. Thornbite Staff attached to Xavier Sal.
  4. You control at least one additional nontoken Human, Fungus and/or Pirate that has no more than one +1/+1 counter on it.

Steps

  1. Activate Xavier Sal's first ability by tapping it and removing a +1/+1 counter from the additional nontoken Human, Fungus and/or Pirate if it has one, or any counter from another permanent you control otherwise.
  2. Xavier Sal triggers, causing it and all other creatures you control that share a creature type with it to get +2/+0 and gain undying until end of turn.
  3. Resolve the Xavier Sal ability, causing you to populate.
  4. Activate Bloodthrone Vampire by sacrificing the additional Human, Fungus and/or Pirate.
  5. When the creature dies, its undying ability and Xavier Sal trigger.
  6. Resolve the creature's undying trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
  7. Resolve the Xavier Sal trigger, untapping it.
  8. Resolve the Bloodthrone Vampire ability.
  9. Repeat.

Results

  1. Infinite creature ETB.
  2. Infinite creature LTB.
  3. Infinite creature sacrifice triggers.
  4. Infinite death triggers.
  5. Infinite power for certain creatures until end of turn.
  6. Infinitely large creature until end of turn.

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