Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight + Woe Strider + Chaotic Goo

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

Woe Strider

Chaotic Goo

How it works

1. Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Chaotic Goo.
2. When Chaotic Goo dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a -1/-1 counter on it due to its replacement effect.
3. Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
4. Repeat.

This loop turns your battlefield into a self-sustaining engine of life and death, anchored by Isilu, Carrier of Twilight granting persist to your nontoken creatures so they refuse to stay in the graveyard. When you feed Chaotic Goo to Woe Strider's sacrifice ability, the Goo hits the graveyard and instantly bounces right back thanks to Isilu's persistent blessing, neatly offsetting the -1/-1 counter it accumulates by utilizing its own inherent +1/+1 counters to reset its resilience. Meanwhile, Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn sits on the reverse side ready to weave your creature spells together with convoke, though the true brilliance of this setup is how Woe Strider lets you repeat the sacrifice indefinitely to sculpt your library with infinite scry triggers.