Umbral Collar Zealot + Master Biomancer

Umbral Collar Zealot

Master Biomancer

How it works

1. Activate Umbral Collar Zealot by sacrificing the persist creature.
2. When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a -1/-1 counter on it due to Master Biomancer
3. Resolve the Umbral Collar Zealot ability.
4. Repeat

This ingenious little engine relies on the interplay between Master Biomancer and a persist creature to completely bypass the mechanic's built-in drawback. Because Master Biomancer grants massive power boosts to entering creatures, your returning persist threat drops with enough fresh +1/+1 counters to instantly cancel out its new -1/-1 counter. Meanwhile, Umbral Collar Zealot acts as the perfect sacrifice outlet, letting you feed your looping creature endlessly while filtering your library with surveil triggers.