Kitchen Finks + Umbral Collar Zealot + Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Kitchen Finks

Umbral Collar Zealot

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

How it works

1. Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing Kitchen Finks.
2. When Kitchen Finks dies, its persist ability triggers, returning Kitchen Finks from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
3. When Kitchen Finks enters the battlefield, it triggers, causing you to gain 2 life.
4. Heliod triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on Kitchen Finks.
5. Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
6. Repeat.

This ingenious loop relies on a clever mechanical dance between persistent resurrection and divine intervention, turning a simple sacrifice into an endless engine. By using Umbral Collar Zealot to feed Kitchen Finks to the graveyard, you trigger its persist ability to bring it right back with a -1/-1 counter. That entrance immediately pads your life total, which awakens Heliod, Sun-Crowned's passive blessing to drop a +1/+1 counter onto the Finks—instantly neutralizing the -1/-1 counter through state-based actions. Because the creature is now free of counters again, the cycle can repeat indefinitely, netting you infinite life and infinite surveils while churning through your entire deck.