Olivia, Mobilized for War + Umbral Collar Zealot + Weatherlight Compleated

Olivia, Mobilized for War

Umbral Collar Zealot

Weatherlight Compleated

How it works

1. Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing the persist creature.
2. When the persist creature dies, it and Weatherlight Compleated trigger.
3. Resolve the Weatherlight Compleated trigger, putting a phyresis counter on it and causing you to draw a card.
4. Resolve the persist creature's trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
5. When the persist creature enters the battlefield, Olivia triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on the persist creature and causing you to discard a card.
6. Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
7. Repeat.

This clever engine turns a persist creature's loop into a self-sustaining card-drawing machine by relying on the clever interaction of its support pieces. Umbral Collar Zealot provides the sacrifice outlet that triggers your creature's return, while Weatherlight Compleated takes advantage of those constant deaths to rapidly accumulate phyresis counters and convert every iteration into card draw. Meanwhile, Olivia, Mobilized for War steps in whenever the creature enters the battlefield anew, granting it a +1/+1 counter that instantly neutralizes the incoming -1/-1 counter from persist—allowing the creature to die and repeat the cycle endlessly.