Mikaeus, the Unhallowed | Hex Parasite | Ashnod's Altar

(and one other card)

Cards

Activate
Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Gray Merchant, adding .
Gray Merchant dies, triggering its undying ability, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Gray Merchant enters the battlefield, causing each opponent to lose at least five life and you to gain that much life.
Activate
Hex Parasite by paying and two life, removing the +1/+1 counter from Gray Merchant and giving
Hex Parasite +1/+0 until end of turn.
Repeat.

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Drain loop calculator

Plays the loop against every opponent. Every payment has to leave you at 1 life or more, and an opponent who dies stops feeding the drain.

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Life needed to kill the table1against 3 opponents

Every opponent dies in loop 5

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