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the front side of Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
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Persist Creature
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Color Identity: U, B

Cards

  1. Metallic Mimic
  2. Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
  3. Persist Creature

Initial Card State

  1.  All permanents on the battlefield.

Easy Prerequisites

  1. One of the Persist Creature's creature types is chosen with Metallic Mimic.

Steps

  1. Activate Grimgrin by sacrificing the Persist Creature.
  2. When the Persist Creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it and at least one +1/+1 counter on it due to Metallic Mimic.
  3. Remove a -1/-1 counter and a +1/+1 counter from that creature as a state-based action.
  4. Resolve the Grimgrin ability.
  5. Repeat.

Results

  1. Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature.
  2. Infinite creature ETB.
  3. Infinite creature LTB.
  4. Infinite creature sacrifice triggers.
  5. Infinite death triggers.

Metadata

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OddballBracket 2-3+

Probably 2 or 3, but hard to classify

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