Melira, Sylvok Outcast + Umbral Collar Zealot + Scuzzback Marauders

Melira, Sylvok Outcast

Umbral Collar Zealot

Scuzzback Marauders

How it works

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

This clever loop relies on Melira, Sylvok Outcast and her passive ability to prevent creatures you control from ever receiving -1/-1 counters, which completely bypasses the traditional penalty of the persist mechanic. When you sacrifice Scuzzback Marauders to Umbral Collar Zealot, its persist triggers and returns it to the battlefield completely clean instead of hindered. Because Melira neutralizes the counter restriction, you can feed Scuzzback Marauders back into Umbral Collar Zealot endlessly, setting up a perpetual loop that continuously surveils your library while generating infinite enters-the-battlefield, leaves-the-battlefield, and death triggers.