Twilight Shepherd + Thran Vigil + Bartolomé del Presidio

Twilight Shepherd

Thran Vigil

Bartolomé del Presidio

How it works

1. Activate Bartolomé del Presidio by sacrificing Twilight Shepherd.
2. When Twilight Shepherd dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
3. Thran Vigil triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on Twilight Shepherd.
4. Resolve the Bartolomé del Presidio ability.
5. Repeat.

This engine is a masterclass in counter-cancellation, orchestrated by the sacrifice outlet Bartolomé del Presidio to churn through your graveyard endlessly. When you feed Twilight Shepherd to the cause, its persist ability brings it right back with a -1/-1 counter, but the clever addition of Thran Vigil steps in the moment the Shepherd leaves your graveyard to place a neutralizing +1/+1 counter instead. Because these two opposing counters annihilate each other as a state-based action, the Twilight Shepherd is completely cleared of any -1/-1 markers and remains perpetually ready to die another day, generating an infinite storm of creature sacrifices, enters-the-battlefield triggers, and growing stat boosts.