Mikaeus, the Unhallowed | Yawgmoth, Thran Physician | Gray Merchant of Asphodel

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Your life total is at least 2.
You control at least one additional nontoken non-Human creature with toughness two or greater.

Activate
Yawgmoth by paying 1 life and sacrificing Gray Merchant, targeting any other nontoken non-Human creature you control.
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 life equal to your devotion to black, and causing you to gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Resolve the
Yawgmoth ability from step 1, putting a -1/-1 counter on the additional creature and causing you to draw a card.
Activate
Yawgmoth by paying 1 life and sacrificing the additional creature, targeting Gray Merchant.
The creature dies, triggering its undying ability, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Resolve the
Yawgmoth ability, putting a -1/-1 counter on Gray Merchant and causing you to draw a card.
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.

Your life total

Your devotion to black

Life needed to kill the table2against 3 opponents

Every opponent dies in loop 5

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