Alela, Artful Provocateur + Cathars' Crusade + Ancestral Statue + Crystalline Crawler + Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Alela, Artful Provocateur

Cathars' Crusade

Ancestral Statue

Crystalline Crawler

Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

How it works

1. Cast Ancestral Statue by paying 4.
2. Alela triggers, creating a 1/1 Faerie creature token.
3. When the Faerie enters the battlefield, Cathars' Crusade triggers twice, putting two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
4. When Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, it and Cathars' Crusade trigger twice.
5. Resolve the Ancestral Statue triggers, returning it and the Faerie from the battlefield to your hand.
6. Resolve the Cathars' Crusade triggers, putting two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
7. Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability four times by removing four +1/+1 counters from it, adding 4.
8. Repeat.

This clever loop turns the self-bouncing nature of Ancestral Statue into an engine of exponential growth. Whenever you cast the Statue, Alela, Artful Provocateur provides a fresh token to fuel Cathars' Crusade, and Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines steps in to double all of these entry triggers—including the Statue's own self-bounce. Meanwhile, Crystalline Crawler acts as our mana battery, turning the counters accumulated from Cathars' Crusade into the exact four mana needed to recast the Statue.