Golgari Thug + Phyrexian Altar + Vein Ripper + Gwenom, Remorseless

Golgari Thug

Phyrexian Altar

Vein Ripper

Gwenom, Remorseless

How it works

1. Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Golgari Thug.
2. When Golgari Thug dies, it and Vein Ripper trigger.
3. Resolve the Golgari Thug trigger, putting it from your graveyard onto the top of your library.
4. Resolve the Vein Ripper trigger, causing you to gain 2 life and target opponent to lose 2 life.
5. Cast Golgari Thug from the top of your library by paying 2 life.
6. Repeat.

This elegant loop leverages Phyrexian Altar as a reliable sacrifice outlet to continuously feed Golgari Thug into your graveyard, where its dredge ability and death trigger work in tandem to return it directly to the top of your library. From there, Gwenom, Remorseless cleverly bypasses traditional mana costs by letting you recast the Thug directly from the library while paying its mana value entirely with life. Finally, Vein Ripper oversees the entire process as a lethal engine, converting each iterative sacrifice and death into a compounding life drain that closes out the game.