Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow + Thornbite Staff + Animation Module + Pitiless Plunderer

Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow

Thornbite Staff

Animation Module

Pitiless Plunderer

How it works

1. Activate Embrose by tapping it, putting a +1/+1 counter on another creature you control with toughness equal to 1, and then dealing 2 damage to that creature.
2. The creature dies as a state-based action due to having 0 toughness.
3. Pitiless Plunderer and Animation Module trigger once, and Embrose triggers twice.
4. Resolve the Pitiless Plunderer trigger, creating a Treasure token.
5. Holding priority, activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding 1.
6. Resolve the Animation Module trigger, causing you to pay 1 to create a 1/1 Servo artifact creature token.
7. Resolve the first Embrose trigger, untapping it.
8. Resolve the second Embrose trigger, causing you to draw a card.
9. Repeat.

This elegant loop turns Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow into a self-contained executioner and archivist by leveraging Thornbite Staff to automatically untap the Dean every time a creature perishes. Pitiless Plunderer converts each of those deaths into the exact mana required to fund Animation Module's trigger, which replaces the fallen creature with a fresh Servo token. Finally, Embrose's own death-trigger draws you a card each cycle, letting you churn through your entire library while generating an infinite storm of deaths and artifact tokens.