Hua Tuo, Honored Physician + Verdant Succession + Thornbite Staff + Umbral Collar Zealot

Hua Tuo, Honored Physician

Verdant Succession

Thornbite Staff

Umbral Collar Zealot

How it works

1. During your precombat main phase, activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing the additional nontoken green creature.
2. When the creature dies, Verdant Succession and Hua Tuo trigger.
3. Holding priority, activate Hua Tuo by tapping it, putting the creature from your graveyard onto the top of your library.
4. Resolve the Hua Tuo trigger from step 2, untapping it.
5. Resolve the Verdant Succession trigger, searching your library for the sacrificed creature and putting it onto the battlefield.
6. Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability from step 1, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
7. Repeat.

This clever loop turns your graveyard into a perpetual engine by pairing the recursive safety net of Verdant Succession with Hua Tuo, Honored Physician, ensuring the sacrificed green creature can always be intercepted and returned to the top of your library before it gets lost to the void. Umbral Collar Zealot serves as the willing executioner for this cycle, letting you constantly sacrifice your creatures to fuel its surveil ability. Meanwhile, Thornbite Staff provides the crucial untap mechanism through its triggered ability whenever a creature dies, keeping Hua Tuo refreshed and ready to repeat the process indefinitely.