Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Bartolomé del Presidio + Cultivator of Blades

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight

Bartolomé del Presidio

Cultivator of Blades

How it works

1. Activate Bartolomé del Presidio by sacrificing Cultivator of Blades.
2. When Cultivator of Blades dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
3. When Cultivator of Blades enters, its fabricate ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
4. Resolve the Bartolomé del Presidio ability.
5. Repeat.

This cunning sacrifice loop centers around the flip-side of Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight, whose static ability grants persist to your other nontoken creatures. When you sacrifice Cultivator of Blades to Bartolomé del Presidio, persist returns Cultivator of Blades to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter, but its fabricate ability immediately triggers to place a +1/+1 counter on it. Because -1/-1 and +1/+1 counters annihilate each other as a state-based action, Cultivator of Blades is left completely clean of counters and ready to be fed back into Bartolomé del Presidio's sacrifice outlet indefinitely.