Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Phyrexian Altar + Marionette Apprentice

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight

Phyrexian Altar

Marionette Apprentice

How it works

1. Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Marionette Apprentice.
2. When Marionette Apprentice dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
3. When Marionette Apprentice enters, its fabricate ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
4. Repeat.

This loop relies on the clever synergy between Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight and Phyrexian Altar to turn Marionette Apprentice's own resurrection into a self-sustaining engine. With the back face granting persist to your nontoken creatures, sacrificing Marionette Apprentice to Phyrexian Altar generates the mana needed to keep going while triggering its Fabricate ability to cancel out the -1/-1 counter with a +1/+1 counter upon its return. Meanwhile, Marionette Apprentice's artifact and creature status turns every single iteration of this cycle into life loss for your opponents, draining them out while generating infinite resources.