Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer + Sculpting Steel + Ashes of the Abhorrent

Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer

Sculpting Steel

Ashes of the Abhorrent

How it works

1. Cast Sculpting Steel by paying 3, causing it to enter the battlefield as a copy of Ratchet, Rescue Racer.
2. Put Ratchet into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
3. Choose to return Ratchet to the command zone from your graveyard.
4. Sculpting Steel triggers, failing to convert it.
5. Cast Ratchet from the command zone as Ratchet, Field Medic by paying 2 plus commander tax, if applicable.
6. Gain any amount of life.
7. Ratchet, Field Medic triggers, converting itself.
8. Put Ratchet into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
9. Choose not to return Ratchet to the command zone from your graveyard.
10. Ratchet, Field Medic and Ashes of the Abhorrent trigger.
11. Resolve the Ratchet, Field Medic trigger, returning itself from your graveyard to the battlefield.
12. Resolve the Ashes of the Abhorrent trigger, causing you to gain 1 life.
13. Repeat from step 7.

This intricate loop hinges on Ashes of the Abhorrent providing a passive life-gaining trigger whenever any creature dies, which conveniently fuels the very engine that keeps it running. With Sculpting Steel already on the battlefield posing as a legendary copy of Ratchet, Rescue Racer, you can circumvent the legend rule by letting the real commander—cast as Ratchet, Field Medic—hit the graveyard and trigger its own conversion ability. As Ratchet, Field Medic returns itself to the battlefield, Ashes of the Abhorrent gently rewards the ensuing state-based death by granting you life, looping the entire process infinitely.