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• Rodolf Duskbringer

  5B

  Legendary Creature — Vampire AngelBW

  Lifegain pair: one card gains life while the other rewards lifegain. They reinforce each other in a lifegain deck.
• Reanimate

  B

  SorceryB

  Reanimate puts Captain Marvel, Shooting Star onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
• Grave Researcher // Reanimate

  2BB

  Creature — Troll Warlock // SorceryB

  Grave Researcher puts Captain Marvel, Shooting Star onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
• Rinoa, Angel Wing

  2W

  Legendary Creature — Human Rebel WarlockW

  Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
• Out of the Tombs

  2B

  EnchantmentB

  Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
• Isshin, Two Heavens as One

  RWB

  Legendary Creature — Human SamuraiBRW

  Isshin, Two Heavens as One makes Captain Marvel, Shooting Star's triggered ability trigger an additional time — each time it fires, you get it twice. Value, not a loop.
• Illicit Masquerade

  3B

  EnchantmentB

  Graveyard pair: one card brings creatures back from the graveyard repeatedly (or a creature that returns itself), and the other keeps feeding the loop — a recurring reanimator with a payoff, or a sacrifice outlet with a self-recurring creature.
• Avatar Kyoshi, Earthbender

  5GGG

  Legendary Creature — Human AvatarG

  Graveyard pair: one card brings creatures back from the graveyard repeatedly (or a creature that returns itself), and the other keeps feeding the loop — a recurring reanimator with a payoff, or a sacrifice outlet with a self-recurring creature.
• Recurring Nightmare

  2B

  EnchantmentB

  Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
• Windcrag Siege

  1RW

  EnchantmentRW

  Windcrag Siege makes Captain Marvel, Shooting Star's triggered ability trigger an additional time — each time it fires, you get it twice. Value, not a loop.
• Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry

  3U

  Creature — Spirit // Enchantment — AuraU

  One-shot copy enabler: a card enters as a copy of another (Phantasmal Image, Body Double, Phyrexian Metamorph), firing the partner's substantive ETB once. Not a repeating chain — fires once on entry — but valuable when the partner's ETB is combo-grade (graveyard reanimator, mana doubler, etc.).
• Hell's Caretaker

  3B

  Creature — HorrorB

  Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
• Animate Dead

  1B

  Enchantment — AuraB

  Animate Dead puts Captain Marvel, Shooting Star onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
• Exhume

  1B

  SorceryB

  Exhume puts Captain Marvel, Shooting Star onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
• Life // Death

  G1B

  Sorcery // SorceryBG

  Life puts Captain Marvel, Shooting Star onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
• Dance of the Dead

  1B

  Enchantment — AuraB

  Dance of the Dead puts Captain Marvel, Shooting Star onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
• Jackdaw Savior

  2W

  Creature — Bird ClericW

  Graveyard pair: one card brings creatures back from the graveyard repeatedly (or a creature that returns itself), and the other keeps feeding the loop — a recurring reanimator with a payoff, or a sacrifice outlet with a self-recurring creature.
• Soul Exchange

  BB

  SorceryB

  Soul Exchange puts Captain Marvel, Shooting Star onto the battlefield from a graveyard without casting it, so its mana cost is never paid.
• Wulfgar of Icewind Dale

  3RG

  Legendary Creature — Human BarbarianGR

  Wulfgar of Icewind Dale makes Captain Marvel, Shooting Star's triggered ability trigger an additional time — each time it fires, you get it twice. Value, not a loop.
• Ezri Dax, Newly Joined

  1W

  Legendary Creature — Trill AdvisorW

  One-shot copy enabler: a card enters as a copy of another (Phantasmal Image, Body Double, Phyrexian Metamorph), firing the partner's substantive ETB once. Not a repeating chain — fires once on entry — but valuable when the partner's ETB is combo-grade (graveyard reanimator, mana doubler, etc.).
• Slimefoot and Squee

  BRG

  Legendary Creature — Fungus GoblinBGR

  Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
• Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering

  1B2B

  Artifact // Sorcery — AdventureB

  Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
• Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

  4WB

  Legendary Enchantment Creature — GodBW

  Graveyard pair: one card brings creatures back from the graveyard repeatedly (or a creature that returns itself), and the other keeps feeding the loop — a recurring reanimator with a payoff, or a sacrifice outlet with a self-recurring creature.
• Demon of Dark Schemes

  3BBB

  Creature — DemonB

  Recursion engine: one card can reanimate repeatedly (an activated ability, or a return that comes back once a turn), and the other is a creature worth bringing back again and again — or a creature you recast from your graveyard beside a sacrifice outlet that doesn't pay for the recast. Real, repeatable value — not an infinite loop on its own.
• Annie Joins Up

  1RGW

  Legendary EnchantmentGRW

  Annie Joins Up makes Captain Marvel, Shooting Star's triggered ability trigger an additional time — each time it fires, you get it twice. Value, not a loop.