Warren Soultrader + Mm'menon, Uthros Exile + Cruel Celebrant

Warren Soultrader

Mm'menon, Uthros Exile

Cruel Celebrant

How it works

1. Activate Warren Soultrader by paying 1 life and sacrificing the persist creature.
2. When the persist creature dies, its persist ability and Cruel Celebrant trigger.
3. Resolve the persist trigger, returning the persist creature from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
4. Resolve the Cruel Celebrant trigger, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
5. Resolve the Warren Soultrader ability, creating a Treasure token.
6. When the Treasure enters, Mm'menon triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on the persist creature.
7. Repeat.

This clever loop hinges on a persistent creature returning from the graveyard, only to be immediately offered up to Warren Soultrader to fuel a steady stream of Treasure tokens and life drain via Cruel Celebrant. The secret sauce that keeps this engine running indefinitely is Mm'menon, Uthros Exile, whose passive ability swoops in to place a +1/+1 counter on the creature whenever a Treasure token enters the battlefield. Because Magic's +1/+1 and -1/+1 counters instantly annihilate each other upon meeting, that persistent creature is left totally clean of counters and ready to be sacrificed all over again.