Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Bartolomé del Presidio + Marionette Apprentice

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

Bartolomé del Presidio

Marionette Apprentice

How it works

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

This clever loop turns Isilu, Carrier of Twilight—the night-side of Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn—into an engine of endless rebirth by granting every other nontoken creature persist. When you sacrifice Marionette Apprentice to Bartolomé del Presidio, it immediately returns with a -1/-1 counter due to that static persist ability, but its fabricate trigger promptly drops a +1/+1 counter on it to cancel the penalty out. Because the -1/-1 and +1/-1 counters annihilate each other as a state-based action, the Apprentice is left completely clean and ready to be sacrificed all over again. Meanwhile, Marionette Apprentice's final ability turns every single iteration of this cycle into unyielding life drain for your opponents, closing out the game on the spot.