Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward + Against All Odds + Possessed Skaab

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward

Against All Odds

Possessed Skaab

How it works

1. Cast Against All Odds by paying its mana cost, blinking Abdel Adrian.
2. Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield, returning Possessed Skaab and all other cards that were exiled with it to the battlefield.
3. Abdel Adrian and Possessed Skaab trigger.
4. Resolve the Possessed Skaab trigger, returning Against All Odds 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 Against All Odds.
6. Resolve the Abdel Adrian trigger, exiling Possessed Skaab 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 clever loop turns Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward into a permanent-blinking engine by using Against All Odds to cycle him in and out of exile. Every time Abdel Adrian returns, he swallows up your mana-producing permanents along with Possessed Skaab, whose enter-the-battlefield ability conveniently plucks Against All Odds right back out of your graveyard to your hand. Possessed Skaab’s replacement effect ensuring it gets exiled upon death doesn't even slow you down, because Abdel Adrian's own exile trigger safely scoops it up alongside everything else to perpetuate the cycle.