Kitchen Finks + Umbral Collar Zealot + Spider-Man, Peter Parker

Kitchen Finks

Umbral Collar Zealot

Spider-Man, Peter Parker

How it works

1. Activate Umbral Collar Zealot 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 Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
6. Repeat.

This clever loop hinges on the elegant interaction between Kitchen Finks and its persist ability, which normally brings it back from the grave with a debilitating -1/-1 counter. Umbral Collar Zealot provides the necessary outlet to endlessly sacrifice the Finks, while Spider-Man, Peter Parker acts as the crucial linchpin that salvages the entire engine; every time the Finks re-enters and its life-gain trigger resolves, Spider-Man grants a +1/-1-canceling +1/+1 counter that instantly wipes away the persist counter. Because those opposing counters annihilate each other through state-based actions, Kitchen Finks is left perpetually pristine and ready to die all over again, generating infinite sacrifice, death, and lifegain loops along with an infinite stream of surveils.