Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Healer of the Pride + Herd Baloth

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Healer of the Pride

Herd Baloth

How it works

1. Gain life.
2. Heliod triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on Herd Baloth.
3. Herd Baloth triggers, creating a creature token.
4. When the creature token enters the battlefield, Healer of the Pride triggers, causing you to gain 2 life.
5. Repeat from step 2.

This brilliant loop transforms a single instance of life gain into an uncontainable cascade of growth and creation, completely legal in formats like Commander, Legacy, Modern, Oathbreaker, and Vintage. The engine kicks off when Heliod, Sun-Crowned reacts to your initial lifegain by placing a +1/+1 counter on Herd Baloth. That counter placement is all the catalyst Herd Baloth needs to trigger and spawn a 4/4 green Beast token, which in turn causes Healer of the Pride to trigger upon entering the battlefield. That fresh dose of life hits your total and feeds right back into Heliod, Sun-Crowned, sustaining the loop indefinitely to generate infinite creature tokens, infinite +1/+1 counters, and infinite life.