Animar, Soul of Elements + Hullbreaker Horror

Animar, Soul of Elements

Hullbreaker Horror

How it works

1. Cast any creature card by paying 0 due to Animar.
2. Animar and Hullbreaker Horror triggers.
3. Resolve the Animar trigger, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
4. Resolve the Hullbreaker Horror trigger, returning another creature that can be cast by paying 0 due to Animar from the battlefield to your hand.
5. Resolve the creature spell cast in step 1.
6. Repeat.

This elegant loop turns Animar, Soul of Elements into a self-contained cost-reduction engine once it accumulates enough +1/+1 counters to make certain creature spells free. With Hullbreaker Horror sitting on your battlefield, every time you cast one of those zero-cost creatures, the Horror triggers and bounces another free-to-cast creature right back to your hand. Meanwhile, Animar's own trigger grows larger with each cast, feeding right back into the engine to fuel infinite creature enters-the-battlefield triggers, leaves-the-battlefield triggers, storm count, and counters.