Kuro, Pitlord + Vizkopa Guildmage + Oketra's Last Mercy

Kuro, Pitlord

Vizkopa Guildmage

Oketra's Last Mercy

How it works

1. Activate Vizkopa Guildmage by paying 1, causing each opponent to lose life whenever you gain life this turn.
2. Activate Kuro by paying 1 life, targeting any creature.
3. Repeat step 2 until you have one life.
4. Resolve all Kuro abilities, giving the creature -1/-1 for each ability.
5. Cast Oketra's Last Mercy by paying 1, causing your life total to become forty.
6. Vizkopa Guildmage triggers, causing each opponent to lose thirty-nine life.
7. Each opponent loses the game due to having zero or less life.

This dark conversion relies on Vizkopa Guildmage's second activated ability to translate massive life gains directly into lethal damage for your opponents. To set up the kill, you channel Kuro, Pitlord's activated ability repeatedly, paying life to shrink enemy creatures until your own life total dwindles to a razor-thin margin of one. Once you are on the brink of defeat, you cast Oketra's Last Mercy to violently reset your life total back to your starting maximum, which triggers the Guildmage and drains the table for a devastating amount of life lost all at once.