Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Scurry Oak + Zulaport Cutthroat

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Scurry Oak

Zulaport Cutthroat

How it works

1. Cast Yawgmoth by paying 2.
2. When Yawgmoth enters the battlefield, Scurry Oak's evolve ability triggers.
3. Holding priority, activate Yawgmoth by paying 1 life and sacrificing a creature.
4. When the creature dies, Zulaport Cutthroat triggers, causing you to gain 1 life and each opponent to lose 1 life.
5. Resolve the Yawgmoth ability, putting a -1/-1 counter on Scurry Oak and causing you to draw a card.
6. Resolve the Scurry Oak trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on it, triggering Scurry Oak's second ability.
7. Holding priority, activate Yawgmoth by paying 1 life and sacrificing a creature.
8. When the creature dies, Zulaport Cutthroat triggers, causing you to gain 1 life and each opponent to lose 1 life.
9. Resolve the Yawgmoth ability, putting a -1/-1 counter on Scurry Oak and causing you to draw a card.
10. Resolve the Scurry Oak trigger, creating a 1/1 Squirrel creature token.
11. When the Squirrel enters the battlefield, Scurry Oak's evolve ability triggers.
12. Repeat from step 6.

This elegant loop is held together by the careful counter-balancing of Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Scurry Oak, where Yawgmoth's sacrifice engine provides the fuel while Scurry Oak cleverly mitigates the drawback by placing and resetting its own counters through evolve and its token generation. Every time you pay life and sacrifice a creature to Yawgmoth's activated ability, Zulaport Cutthroat turns that death into a drain on your opponents and a life buffer for you, effectively offsetting the life you pay to the Physician. The -1/-1 counter from Yawgmoth shrinks Scurry Oak just enough for its evolve trigger to fire when a new Squirrel token enters, instantly generating a fresh sacrifice target and letting you churn through your entire deck while draining the table dry.