Royal Herbalist + Sunbond + Cryptic Trilobite

Royal Herbalist

Sunbond

Cryptic Trilobite

How it works

1. Activate Royal Herbalist by paying 2 and exiling the top card of your library, causing you to gain 1 life.
2. Cryptic Trilobite triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
3. Activate Cryptic Trilobite by removing a +1/+1 counter from it, adding CC that can only be spent to activate abilities.
4. Repeat.

This fascinating loop centers on Sunbond transforming any modest life gain into explosive growth for your enchanted creature, turning every single recovery into raw +1/+1 counters. Royal Herbalist provides the engine for this by constantly trading surplus mana and the top card of your library for precious life, which immediately fires off Sunbond's static ability. That cascade of counters is fed directly into Cryptic Trilobite, whose unique ability to convert its own counters into restricted mana conveniently pays for the Herbalist's activation cost while leaving a counter behind to sustain the cycle. As you loop these triggers, you can continuously exile your library and amass infinite life, all powered by the clever synergy between these three cards.