Master Chef + Umbral Collar Zealot

Master Chef

Umbral Collar Zealot

How it works

1. Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing the persist creature.
2. When the persist creature dies, it triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a -1/-1 counter on it due to your commander's ability granted to it by Master Chef.
3. Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability
4. Repeat.

This clever loop relies on a persistent creature returning from the graveyard time and again, completely bypassing its usual -1/-1 counter drawback thanks to the generous static buff provided by Master Chef. As the creature keeps cycling back, Umbral Collar Zealot stands ready to repeatedly sacrifice it, letting you churn through your deck with infinite surveil triggers. Every iteration feeds your death, sacrifice, enter-the-battlefield, and leave-the-battlefield tallies, turning a modest sacrifice outlet into an engine of endless value.