Dualcaster Mage + Graceful Reprieve + Bartolomé del Presidio

Dualcaster Mage

Graceful Reprieve

Bartolomé del Presidio

How it works

1. Cast Graceful Reprieve by paying its mana cost.
2. Holding priority, cast Dualcaster Mage by paying its mana cost.
3. When Dualcaster Mage enters, it triggers, copying Graceful Reprieve, with the copy targeting Dualcaster Mage.
4. Resolve the copy of Graceful Reprieve.
5. Holding priority, activate Bartolomé del Presidio by sacrificing Dualcaster Mage.
6. When Dualcaster Mage dies, Graceful Reprieve triggers, returning Dualcaster Mage from your graveyard to the battlefield.
7. Repeat from step 3.
8. Resolve all Bartolomé del Presidio abilities from step 5.

This elegant loop transforms a simple recursion spell into an endless engine of life and death. By using Bartolomé del Presidio to feed on your creatures, you trigger the safety net provided by Graceful Reprieve to pull Dualcaster Mage right back out of the graveyard whenever it perishes. Each time Dualcaster Mage drops back onto the battlefield, its enter-the-battlefield ability steps in to copy that very same Graceful Reprieve, ensuring the cycle can start anew while steadily pumping up Bartolomé del Presidio with endless +1/+1 counters.