Animar, Soul of Elements + Cloudstone Curio + Life Finds a Way

Animar, Soul of Elements

Cloudstone Curio

Life Finds a Way

How it works

1. Cast the creature by paying 0 due to Animar.
2. Animar triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
3. When the creature enters the battlefield, Life Finds A Way triggers, as well as Cloudstone Curio if the creature isn't an artifact.
4. Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, if applicable, choosing to return nothing to your hand.
5. Resolve the Life Finds A Way trigger, creating a copy of a nonartifact creature token you control.
6. When the creature token enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning the creature cast in step 1 to your hand from the battlefield.
7. Repeat.

This ingenious loop is powered by Animar, Soul of Elements, whose cost-reduction ability eventually drops your creature spells to a mana cost of zero as it accumulates +1/+1 counters. Once the creature is cast for free, Cloudstone Curio enables a perpetual bounce-and-recast chain by letting the entering tokens and creatures return each other to your hand. Meanwhile, Life Finds a Way acts as the engine's multiplier, turning every creature entry into a fresh token copy that feeds right back into the Curio's trigger.