Melira, Sylvok Outcast + Woe Strider + Glen Elendra Archmage

Melira, Sylvok Outcast

Woe Strider

Glen Elendra Archmage

How it works

1. Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Glen Elendra Archmage.
2. When Glen Elendra Archmage 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 Woe Strider ability
4. Repeat.

This elegant loop turns a persistent counter-strategy into an engine for infinite value, completely bypassing the drawback that normally limits recursion. While Woe Strider acts as the dedicated sacrifice outlet that feeds the loop and filters your draws with scry, Glen Elendra Archmage provides the sacrifice fodder whose persist ability would normally self-limit by accumulating -1/-1 counters. That is where Melira, Sylvok Outcast steps in, utilizing her static ability to completely prevent -1/-1 counters from ever being placed on your creatures. Without that counter to mark its demise, the Archmage returns to the battlefield endlessly fresh, generating an infinite stream of creature leaves-the-battlefield, death, and entry triggers for you to exploit.