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the front side of Zameck Guildmage
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Persist Creature
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Color Identity: B, G, U

Cards

  1. Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
  2. Zameck Guildmage
  3. Persist Creature

Initial Card State

  1.  All permanents on the battlefield.

Mana Needed

  1. one green manaone blue mana available.

Steps

  1. Activate Zameck Guildmage's first ability by paying one green manaone blue mana, causing your creatures to enter with an additional +1/+1 counter this turn.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 Zameck Guildmage.
  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 from step 2.

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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