Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward + Scholar of the Ages + Acrobatic Maneuver

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward

Scholar of the Ages

Acrobatic Maneuver

How it works

1. Cast Acrobatic Maneuver by paying its mana cost, blinking Abdel Adrian.
2. Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield, returning Scholar of the Ages and all other cards that were exiled with it to the battlefield.
3. Abdel Adrian and Scholar of the Ages trigger.
4. Resolve the Scholar of the Ages trigger, returning Acrobatic Maneuver from your graveyard to your hand.
5. Holding priority, activate any number of nonland permanents you control by tapping them, adding at least enough mana to cast Acrobatic Maneuver.
6. Resolve the Abdel Adrian trigger, exiling Scholar of the Ages and the mana-producing permanents until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield, and creating a 1/1 Soldier creature token for each permanent exiled this way.
7. Repeat.

This elegant loop centers on Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, whose entry triggers a mass exile of your own permanents to flood the board with 1/1 Soldier tokens. By using Acrobatic Maneuver to blink Abdel Adrian, you reset the whole engine, returning Scholar of the Ages to the battlefield alongside whatever mana sources you previously tucked away. Scholar of the Ages then immediately triggers to pull Acrobatic Maneuver right back out of your graveyard and into your hand, letting you recast it to draw endlessly and repeat the cycle while tapping those mana-producing permanents along the way.