the front side of Tayam, Luminous Enigma
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the front side of Cathodion
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the front side of Hammerhead, Maggia Boss
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Creature with Persist or Undying
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Color Identity: W, B, G

Cards

  1. Tayam, Luminous Enigma
  2. Cathodion
  3. Hammerhead, Maggia Boss
  4. Creature with Persist or Undying

Initial Card State

  1.  All permanents on the battlefield.

Easy Prerequisites

  1. The Creature with Persist or Undying doesn't have a -1/-1 or +1/+1 counter on it respective to its ability.

Steps

  1. Activate Hammerhead by sacrificing Cathodion.
  2. Cathodion triggers, adding one colorless manaone colorless manaone colorless mana.
  3. Resolve the Hammerhead ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on Hammerhead.
  4. Activate Hammerhead by sacrificing your persist/undying creature.
  5. The creature's persist/undying ability triggers, returning it to the battlefield with a vigilance counter and the appropriate choice of a +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter.
  6. Resolve the Hammerhead ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on Hammerhead.
  7. Activate Tayam by paying three generic mana, removing both counters from your persist/undying creature and one counter from another creature, causing yourself to mill three cards and return Cathodion from your graveyard to the battlefield.
  8. 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.
  6. Infinite self-mill.

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