Kitchen Finks + Phantom Train + Spider-Man, Peter Parker

Kitchen Finks

Phantom Train

Spider-Man, Peter Parker

How it works

1. Activate Phantom Train 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. Spider-Man triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on Kitchen Finks.
5. Resolve the Phantom Train ability.
6. Repeat.

This clever loop relies on the eternal resilience of Kitchen Finks, which keeps returning from the graveyard via persist with a -1/-1 counter, while its entry trigger generates the lifegain needed to fuel Spider-Man, Peter Parker. That lifegain triggers Spider-Man to place a +1/+1 counter on the Finks, which immediately neutralizes the -1/-1 counter through state-based actions so the persist ability can trigger again on the next iteration. Meanwhile, Phantom Train acts as the sacrifice outlet that keeps the cycle moving while also growing into a massive threat thanks to its own ability.