Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Umbral Collar Zealot + Visionary Augmenter

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight

Umbral Collar Zealot

Visionary Augmenter

How it works

1. Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing Visionary Augmenter.
2. When Visionary Augmenter dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
3. When Visionary Augmenter enters, its fabricate ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
4. Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
5. Repeat.

This elegant loop uses Isilu, Carrier of Twilight—the back face of Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn—to grant your nontoken creatures persist, letting Visionary Augmenter return from the graveyard with a -1/-1 counter whenever it dies. Umbral Collar Zealot provides the sacrifice outlet to send Visionary Augmenter to the graveyard while letting you surveil through your deck repeatedly. As Visionary Augmenter returns, its fabricate ability triggers to place a +1/+1 counter on it, which immediately neutralizes the -1/-1 counter through state-based actions and keeps the creature fresh for another sacrifice.