Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer + Preston, the Vanisher + Healer of the Pride + Ephemerate

Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer

Preston, the Vanisher

Healer of the Pride

Ephemerate

How it works

1. Cast Ephemerate by paying , blinking Ratchet, causing it to enter the battlefield as Ratchet, Field Medic.
2. When Ratchet, Field Medic enters the battlefield, Preston and Healer of the Pride trigger.
3. Resolve the Preston trigger, creating a token copy of Ratchet, Field Medic that is a 0/1 Illusion.
4. Put the nontoken Ratchet into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
5. Choose not to return Ratchet to the command zone from your graveyard.
6. When the Ratchet, Field Medic token enters the battlefield, Healer of the Pride triggers, causing you to gain 2 life.
7. The Ratchet, Field Medic token triggers, causing you to convert it into Ratchet, Rescue Racer, and return Ratchet from your graveyard to the battlefield.
8. When Ratchet, Field Medic enters the battlefield, Preston and Healer of the Pride trigger.
9. Resolve the Preston trigger, creating a token copy of Ratchet, Field Medic that is a 0/1 Illusion.
10. Put the nontoken Ratchet into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
11. Choose not to return Ratchet to the command zone from your graveyard.
12. The Ratchet, Rescue Racer token triggers, as well as Healer of the Pride.
13. Resolve the Ratchet, Rescue Racer trigger, causing you to convert it into Ratchet, Field Medic.
14. Put one of the Ratchet, Field Medic tokens into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
15. Resolve the Healer of the Pride trigger, causing you to gain 2 life.
16. Repeat from step 7.

This clever loop sets up an infinite engine using the double-faced mechanics of Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer alongside Preston, the Vanisher and Healer of the Pride. Ephemerate acts as the initial catalyst, but the true perpetual motion relies on Healer of the Pride turning every creature entry into life gain, which continuously flips Ratchet back and forth between its two faces while utilizing its resurrection ability to pull the original from the graveyard. Meanwhile, Preston, the Vanisher duplicates the entering Ratchet to keep the board state cycling, letting the legendary rule feed the graveyard while the triggers endlessly compound into infinite life gain, enter-the-battlefield events, and death triggers.