Blightbeetle + Umbral Collar Zealot + Donate

Blightbeetle

Umbral Collar Zealot

Donate

How it works

1. Donate Blightbeetle to an opponent
2. Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing the undying creature.
3. When the undying creature dies, its undying ability triggers, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield without a +1/+1 counter on it due to Blightbeetle.
4. Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
5. Repeat from step 2.

By using **Donate** to hand your opponent a **Blightbeetle**, you weaponize its static ability—which prevents your opponents' creatures from ever receiving +1/+1 counters—against their own mechanics. This clever exchange turns **Umbral Collar Zealot** into an infinite sacrifice engine with any undying creature, because the Beetle completely shuts down undying's self-counter penalty. As the creature repeatedly dies and returns to the battlefield without ever accumulating counters, you generate endless leaves-the-battlefield, entry, death, and sacrifice triggers alongside an infinite amount of surveils.