Dualcaster Mage + Fake Your Own Death + Phantom Train

Dualcaster Mage

Fake Your Own Death

Phantom Train

How it works

1. Cast Fake Your Own Death by paying 1, targeting any creature.
2. Holding priority, cast Dualcaster Mage by paying 1.
3. When Dualcaster Mage enters the battlefield, it triggers, copying Fake Your Own Death, targeting Dualcaster Mage.
4. Resolve the copy of Fake Your Own Death.
5. Holding priority, activate Phantom Train by sacrificing Dualcaster Mage.
6. When Dualcaster Mage dies, it triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield and creating a Treasure token.
7. Repeat from step 3.
8. Resolve all Phantom Train abilities

This clever loop turns the flexibility of Dualcaster Mage into an engine by using its own copied spells to save it from the graveyard. When you cast Fake Your Own Death targeting any creature and respond with Dualcaster Mage, the Mage's enter-the-battlefield trigger copies the spell to target itself, ensuring it is prepared to return when it next perishes. Phantom Train then acts as the sacrificial outlet, allowing you to feed the Mage into its activation cost and put a +1/+1 counter on the vehicle while triggering the return effect. As Dualcaster Mage comes back to the battlefield, it triggers anew to copy the spell yet again, netting a Treasure token each iteration that can be sacrificed for any color of mana to keep the cycle going infinitely.