Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward + Repository Skaab + Illusionist's Stratagem

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward

Repository Skaab

Illusionist's Stratagem

How it works

1. Cast Illusionist's Stratagem by paying its mana cost, blinking Abdel Adrian.
2. Abdel Adrian leaves and re-enters the battlefield, causing all cards exiled with it to be returned to the battlefield. Abdel Adrian and Repository Skaab's exploit ability trigger.
3. Resolve the Repository Skaab trigger, exploiting another creature and triggering its second ability.
4. Holding priority, activate any number of permanents by tapping them, adding at least the cost of Illusionist's Stratagem.
5. Resolve the Repository Skaab trigger, returning Illusionist's Stratagem from your graveyard to your hand.
6. Resolve the Abdel Adrian trigger, exiling the mana producing permanent(s) and Repository Skaab and creating that many 1/1 Soldier creature tokens.
7. Repeat.

This ingenious loop relies on Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward cycling back and forth through exile to repeatedly reset your board while generating a vast army of Soldier tokens. By targeting both Abdel Adrian and Repository Skaab with Illusionist's Stratagem, you blink them both and draw a card to fuel your hand. When Abdel Adrian leaves and re-enters, its enters-the-battlefield ability safely squirrels away your mana-producing permanents and Repository Skaab itself, only to return them instantly when Repository Skaab's exploit trigger sacrifices a creature to fish Illusionist's Stratagem right back out of your graveyard.