Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Kitchen Finks + Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Kitchen Finks

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

How it works

1. Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Kitchen Finks.
2. When Kitchen Finks dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
3. When Kitchen Finks enters, it triggers, causing you to gain 2 life.
4. Resolve the Shilgengar ability.
5. Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Kitchen Finks.
6. When Kitchen Finks dies, its undying ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
7. When Kitchen Finks enters, it triggers, causing you to gain 2 life.
8. Resolve the Shilgengar ability.
9. Repeat.

This clever loop centers on the counter-canceling synergy between two mechanics granted to Kitchen Finks. With Mikaeus, the Unhallowed boosting non-Humans and granting them undying, Kitchen Finks returns from the dead with a +1/+1 counter whenever it dies without one—while its native persist ability normally brings it back with a -1/-1 counter. Because +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters annihilate each other as a state-based action upon entering the battlefield, Kitchen Finks is perpetually wiped clean of counters every time it loops. Shilgengar, Sire of Famine acts as the sac outlet that continuously feeds this cycle, rewarding your sacrifices by churning out an endless supply of Blood tokens.