Trostani, Selesnya's Voice + Crystalline Crawler + Sunbond + Ancestral Statue

Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

Crystalline Crawler

Sunbond

Ancestral Statue

How it works

1. Cast Ancestral Statue by paying 4.
2. When Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, it and Trostani trigger.
3. Resolve the Ancestral Statue trigger, returning it from the battlefield to your hand.
4. Resolve the Trostani triggers, causing you to gain life equal to Ancestral Statue's toughness.
5. Crystalline Crawler triggers, putting four +1/+1 counters on itself.
6. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability four times by removing four +1/+1 counters from it, adding 4.
7. Repeat.

This brilliant loop begins when you cast Ancestral Statue, which triggers its own entry ability alongside Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, who rewards you with life equal to the Statue's toughness. Sunbond transforms that incoming life into a cascade of +1/+1 counters on Crystalline Crawler, which you can immediately strip away using the Crawler's own mana ability to pay for recasting the Ancestral Statue. Meanwhile, Ancestral Statue's mandatory self-bounce ensures it keeps returning to your hand, creating a self-sustaining engine fueled entirely by the Crawler's converted energy.