Arcbound Reclaimer + Showdown of the Skalds + Lion's Eye Diamond + Gwenom, Remorseless

Arcbound Reclaimer

Showdown of the Skalds

Lion's Eye Diamond

Gwenom, Remorseless

How it works

1. Cast Lion's Eye Diamond either from your hand by paying 0 or from the top of your library by paying 0 life.
2. Showdown of the Skalds triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Reclaimer.
3. Activate Lion's Eye Diamond by discarding your hand and sacrificing it.
4. Activate Arcbound Reclaimer by removing a +1/+1 counter from it, putting Lion's Eye Diamond from your graveyard onto the top of your library.
5. Repeat.

This clever loop transforms Lion's Eye Diamond's explosive mana generation into a recursive engine by leveraging Arcbound Reclaimer to constantly recycle the artifact from the graveyard back to the top of your library. To keep the loop going without running out of counters, Showdown of the Skalds steps in with its second and third lore counter abilities, turning every cast into fresh +1/+1 fuel for Arcbound Reclaimer to consume. Meanwhile, Gwenom, Remorseless provides the crucial top-deck access needed to continually replay the recycled Lion's Eye Diamond for free, bypassing its mana cost by paying life instead.