Junji, the Midnight Sky + Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Blood Artist + Karmic Guide

Junji, the Midnight Sky

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Blood Artist

Karmic Guide

How it works

1. Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Karmic Guide.
2. When Karmic Guide dies, Blood Artist triggers, causing you to gain 1 life and target opponent to lose 1 life.
3. Resolve the Shilgengar ability.
4. Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Junji.
5. When Junji dies, it and Blood Artist trigger.
6. Resolve the Blood Artist trigger, causing you to gain 1 life and target opponent to lose 1 life.
7. Resolve the Junji trigger, returning Karmic Guide from your graveyard to the battlefield and causing you to lose 2 life.
8. When Karmic Guide enters, it triggers, returning Junji from your graveyard to the battlefield.
9. Resolve the Shilgengar ability.
10. Repeat.

This elegant loop transforms Shilgengar, Sire of Famine into an engine of continuous sacrifice by turning Karmic Guide and Junji, the Midnight Sky into a self-sustaining sacrifice loop. As you alternate sacrificing Karmic Guide and Junji to Shilgengar, Karmic Guide's entry ability constantly plucks Junji back from the grave while Junji's death trigger reciprocates to bring back Karmic Guide. Meanwhile, Blood Artist quietly watches the procession, turning every single one of these countless life-and-death cycles into an inevitable drain on your opponents' life totals.