Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer + Preston, the Vanisher + Soul Warden + Ephemerate

Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer

Preston, the Vanisher

Soul Warden

Ephemerate

How it works

1. Cast Ephemerate by paying , blinking Ratchet, causing it to enter the battlefield as Ratchet, Field Medic.
2. When Ratchet, Field Medic enters the battlefield, Preston and Soul Warden trigger.
3. Resolve the Preston trigger, creating a token copy of Ratchet, Field Medic that is a 0/1 Illusion.
4. Put the nontoken Ratchet into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
5. Choose not to return Ratchet to the command zone from your graveyard.
6. When the Ratchet, Field Medic token enters the battlefield, Soul Warden triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
7. The Ratchet, Field Medic token triggers, causing you to convert it into Ratchet, Rescue Racer, and return Ratchet from your graveyard to the battlefield.
8. When Ratchet, Field Medic enters the battlefield, Preston and Soul Warden trigger.
9. Resolve the Preston trigger, creating a token copy of Ratchet, Field Medic that is a 0/1 Illusion.
10. Put the nontoken Ratchet into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
11. Choose not to return Ratchet to the command zone from your graveyard.
12. The Ratchet, Rescue Racer token triggers, as well as Soul Warden.
13. Resolve the Ratchet, Rescue Racer trigger, causing you to convert it into Ratchet, Field Medic.
14. Put one of the Ratchet, Field Medic tokens into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
15. Resolve the Soul Warden trigger, causing you to gain 1 life.
16. Repeat from step 7.

This intricate engine turns a simple blink into an unstoppable perpetual motion machine by continuously exploiting the dual faces of Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer. By casting Ephemerate, you kickstart the loop by sending the original Ratchet into play, where Soul Warden rewards you with life while Preston, the Vanisher creates a doomed copy that immediately triggers the legend rule. Because Ratchet's back face converts itself and pulls its true self straight out of the graveyard whenever a nontoken artifact hits the dirt, every iteration feeds the next cycle of life gain and cyclical rebirth.