Kitchen Finks + Archangel of Thune + Bartolomé del Presidio

Kitchen Finks

Archangel of Thune

Bartolomé del Presidio

How it works

1. Activate Bartolomé del Presidio by sacrificing Kitchen Finks.
2. When Kitchen Finks dies, its persist ability triggers, returning Kitchen Finks from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
3. When Kitchen Finks enters the battlefield, it triggers, causing you to gain 2 life.
4. Archangel of Thune triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
5. Resolve the Bartolomé del Presidio ability.
6. Repeat.

This elegant loop revolves around the clever interplay of Kitchen Finks and its persist ability, which normally brings it back from the grave hindered by a -1/-1 counter. Enter Archangel of Thune, whose static ability turns the life you gain from the Finks's entry into a permanent buff, distributing +1/+1 counters to your entire team. Because counters of opposite types annihilate each other through state-based actions, that incoming positive counter neatly erases the -1/-1 counter, resetting the Finks so it can be fed to Bartolomé del Presidio all over again. By repeatedly sacrificing and recurring your creatures this way, you orchestrate an endless cycle of sacrifice, death, and lifegain triggers that leaves your board unimaginably massive.