Toph, the First Metalbender + Toph, Hardheaded Teacher + Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Dimir Aqueduct

Toph, the First Metalbender

Toph, Hardheaded Teacher

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Dimir Aqueduct

How it works

1. Cast the artifact by paying 0.
2. Toph, Hardheaded Teacher triggers, earthbending Dimir Aqueduct.
3. Resolve the artifact spell.
4. Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Dimir Aqueduct.
5. When Dimir Aqueduct dies, Toph, Hardheaded Teach triggers, returning Dimir Aqueduct from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
6. When Dimir Aqueduct enters, it triggers, returning the artifact cast in step 1 from the battlefield to your hand, as it's a land due to Toph, the First Metalbender.
7. Resolve the Shilgengar ability
8. Repeat.

This clever engine transforms ordinary artifacts into a renewable resource by leveraging Toph, the First Metalbender, whose static ability turns your nontoken artifacts into lands. Once this foundation is laid, casting a zero-mana artifact triggers Toph, Hardheaded Teacher to animate Dimir Aqueduct, setting up a loop where Shilgengar, Sire of Famine sacrifices the animated land. Thanks to Dimir Aqueduct's own bounce ability—combined with its new land type courtesy of the first Toph—its death and subsequent return to the battlefield effortlessly bounces your original artifact back to hand to repeat the cycle indefinitely, fueling Shilgengar's sacrifice outlet for an endless tide of Blood tokens and triggers.