Cayth, Famed Mechanist + Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Cayth, Famed Mechanist

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

How it works

1. Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing the persist creature.
2. When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
3. When the persist creature enters the battlefield, its fabricate ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
4. Resolve the Shilgengar ability
5. Repeat.

This ingenious loop turns Shilgengar, Sire of Famine and Cayth, Famed Mechanist into an endless engine of sacrifice and resurrection. Shilgengar happily converts your creatures into Blood tokens while waiting to reanimate your entire graveyard for a modest price. Meanwhile, Cayth grants every entering creature fabricate 1, ensuring that your persisted creatures always arrive with a +1/+1 counter ready to wipe away any pesky -1/-1 counters and keep the loop grinding endlessly.