Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Umbral Collar Zealot + Marionette Apprentice

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight

Umbral Collar Zealot

Marionette Apprentice

How it works

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

This elegant loop turns a modest zealot and an artificer into a relentless engine of recycling and doom, all supercharged by the versatile back half of Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight. While Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight grants your nontoken creatures persist, Umbral Collar Zealot provides the sacrifice outlet needed to repeatedly send Marionette Apprentice to the graveyard. Each time Marionette Apprentice dies and returns, its fabricate ability places a +1/+1 counter that cancels out the incoming -1/+1 counter from persist, allowing the cycle to repeat indefinitely. Meanwhile, Marionette Apprentice's drain ability effortlessly converts this endless chain of creature sacrifices into lethal life loss for your opponents.