Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder | Hardened Academic (and one other card)

Persist Creature

Cards

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

If you have a way to kill
Evereth and ({1} magic symbol) ({BR} magic symbol) available, you can do so after putting a significant amount of +1/+1 counters on it to deal damage to each opponent using its second ability.

Bracket tag

SpicyBracket 3-4+

Probably 3 or 4, but hard to classify

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