Ashaya, Soul of the Wild + Blossoming Tortoise + Spawning Pit + Mind Transfer Protocol + Brad Boimler, Eager Ensign
How it works
- Animate Spawning Pit using Mind Transfer Protocol
- Activate Spawning Pit's second ability by removing two charge counters from it due to Blossoming Tortoise, creating a 2/2 Spawn artifact creature token.
- Activate Spawning Pit's first ability by sacrificing the Spawn, putting two charge counters on it.
- Repeat from step 2.
This ingenious loop turns a modest artifact into an infinite engine by leveraging a clever cascade of permanent type transformations and cost reductions. First, Mind Transfer Protocol animates Spawning Pit into an artifact creature, allowing Blossoming Tortoise to step in with its second ability to make the Pit's counter-removal activation cost a meager zero mana. Meanwhile, Ashaya, Soul of the Wild quietly ensures every nontoken creature you control is also a Forest land, letting Blossoming Tortoise's passive pump buff your creatures while the activation discounts flow. Once the engine is primed, sacrificing and recreating tokens endlessly triggers itself, and if Brad Boimler, Eager Ensign joins the fray while tapped, his replacement effect delightfully amplifies any counters you happen to gather along the way.