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Persist Creature
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Color Identity: R, W, B

Cards

  1. Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
  2. Hardened Academic
  3. Persist Creature

Initial Card State

  1.  All permanents on the battlefield.

Steps

  1. Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing the creature with persist.
  2. When that creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
  3. Hardened Academic triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
  4. Remove a +1/+1 counter and a -1/-1 counter from that creature as a state-based action.
  5. Resolve the Shilgengar ability from step 1.
  6. Repeat.

Results

  1. Infinite Blood tokens.
  2. Infinite artifact tokens.
  3. Infinite creature ETB.
  4. Infinite creature LTB.
  5. Infinite creature sacrifice triggers.
  6. Infinite death triggers.

Metadata

  1. In 8 decks according to EDHREC.

Bracket Tag

This combo has been estimated to be Oddball (Bracket 2-3+).



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Variants of this combo

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