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Tenacious Dead + Pitiless Plunderer + Bartolomé del Presidio + Pawn of Ulamog

W manaB mana
Tenacious Dead
Tenacious Dead
Pitiless Plunderer
Pitiless Plunderer
Bartolomé del Presidio
Bartolomé del Presidio
Pawn of Ulamog
Pawn of Ulamog
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creatureInfinite artifact LTBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers

How it works

  1. Activate Bartolomé del Presidio by sacrificing Tenacious Dead.
  2. When Tenacious Dead dies, it, Pawn of Ulamog, and Pitiless Plunderer trigger.
  3. Resolve the Pitiless Plunderer trigger, creating a Treasure token.
  4. Resolve the Pawn of Ulamog trigger, creating a creature token.
  5. In response to the remaining trigger, activate Bartolomé del Presidio by sacrificing the creature token.
  6. When the creature token dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
  7. Resolve the Bartolomé del Presidio ability from step 5.
  8. Activate two Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding B manaB mana.
  9. Resolve the Tenacious Dead trigger, paying 1B mana to return it to the battlefield from your graveyard.
  10. Resolve the Bartolomé del Presidio ability from step 1.
  11. Repeat.

This insidious loop turns a simple graveyard returner into an endless engine of sacrifice by chaining together multiple death triggers. Whenever Bartolomé del Presidio consumes Tenacious Dead, Pitiless Plunderer immediately steps in to forge a Treasure token while Pawn of Ulamog conjures an Eldrazi Spawn token to feed right back into the sacrifice outlet. By cycling that extra spawn token into the sacrifice loop, you generate the exact black mana needed to fuel Tenacious Dead's self-resurrection ability over and over again. The end result is a continuously growing vampire that rewards your graveyard recursion with boundless mana and an infinite storm of sacrifices.

Legal in:CommanderLegacyModernOathbreakerVintage
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