Rot Hulk + Godhead of Awe + Kaervek, the Spiteful + Vengeful Dead

Rot Hulk

Godhead of Awe

Kaervek, the Spiteful

Vengeful Dead

How it works

1. Cast Rot Hulk by paying 5.
2. Rot Hulk dies as a state-based action due to having zero toughness.
3. Rot Hulk's enter the battlefield trigger is put onto the stack.
4. Resolve the Rot Hulk trigger, returning Rot Hulk and Vengeful Dead from your graveyard to the battlefield.
5. Rot Hulk and Vengeful Dead die as a state-based action due to having zero toughness.
6. The Vengeful Dead and Rot Hulk triggers are put on the stack.
7. Resolve the Vengeful Dead trigger, causing each opponent to lose 1 life.
8. Repeat from step 4.

This brilliant loop relies on a harsh static environment engineered by Godhead of Awe and Kaervek, the Spiteful, which together impose a permanent base-and-buff reduction that instantly shrinks any creature to zero toughness the moment it touches the battlefield. When you cast Rot Hulk, its enter-the-battlefield trigger ignores the lethal state-based actions long enough to pull both itself and Vengeful Dead straight back out of the graveyard. As those returning bodies immediately succumb to the board-state's math again, Vengeful Dead triggers its own death ability to drain your opponents' life totals with every single iteration.