Anax, Hardened in the Forge + Myr Retriever + Workshop Assistant + Thermopod + Helm of Awakening

Anax, Hardened in the Forge

Myr Retriever

Workshop Assistant

Thermopod

Helm of Awakening

How it works

1. Activate Thermopod's second ability by sacrificing Workshop Assistant, adding .
2. When Workshop Assistant dies, it and Anax trigger.
3. Resolve the Anax trigger, creating a 1/1 Satyr creature token.
4. Resolve the Workshop Assistant trigger, returning Myr Retriever from your graveyard to your hand.
5. Cast Myr Retriever by paying 1.
6. Activate Thermopod's second ability by sacrificing Myr Retriever, adding .
7. When Myr Retriever dies, it and Anax trigger.
8. Resolve the Anax trigger, creating a 1/1 Satyr creature token.
9. Resolve the Myr Retriever trigger, returning Workshop Assistant from your graveyard to your hand.
10. Activate Thermopod's second ability by sacrificing the Satyr, adding .
11. Cast Workshop Assistant by paying 2.
12. Repeat.

This looping engine relies on a clever recursion loop between your graveyard and hand, fueled by the mana-generating sacrifice outlet provided by Thermopod. As you alternate sacrificing Myr Retriever and Workshop Assistant to Thermopod, each one's death trigger grabs the other back from the graveyard so you can endlessly recast them. The discount from Helm of Awakening makes recasting these artifacts remarkably cheap, while Anax, Hardened in the Forge watches the carnage unfold and generates a growing army of Satyr tokens every time a nontoken creature hits the graveyard.