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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.
• 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.
• Currency Converter

  1

  ArtifactC

  Rogue Artificial Intelligence has cycling, and Currency Converter pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
• 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.
• Necropotence

  BBB

  EnchantmentB

  Rogue Artificial Intelligence has cycling, and Necropotence pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
• Chandra, Flameshaper

  5RR

  Legendary Planeswalker — ChandraR

  Copy engine: one card makes copies of a creature — once a turn, or once for each time you pay its cost — and each copy pays off: the creature's enter-the-battlefield effect fires again, or the hasty copy uses its tap ability. Real, repeatable value — every copy has its turn or its price, so it never goes infinite on its own.
• 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.
• The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster

  1WU

  Legendary Creature — Human God HeroUW

  Blink engine: one card blinks creatures — once a turn, once a combat, or each time you pay — and the other's enter-the-battlefield effect fires again on every blink. Real, repeatable value — never infinite on its own.
• Midnight Oil

  2BB

  EnchantmentB

  Rogue Artificial Intelligence has cycling, and Midnight Oil pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
• Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

  3U

  Legendary Enchantment Creature — GodU

  Blink engine: one card blinks creatures — once a turn, once a combat, or each time you pay — and the other's enter-the-battlefield effect fires again on every blink. Real, repeatable value — never infinite on its own.
• 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.).
• Insidious Roots

  BG

  EnchantmentBG

  Rogue Artificial Intelligence has cycling, and Insidious Roots pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
• The Mind Stone

  1W

  Legendary Artifact — Infinity StoneW

  Blink engine: one card blinks creatures — once a turn, once a combat, or each time you pay — and the other's enter-the-battlefield effect fires again on every blink. Real, repeatable value — never infinite on its own.
• Lazotep Chancellor

  UB

  Creature — Zombie WizardBU

  Rogue Artificial Intelligence has cycling, and Lazotep Chancellor pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
• 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.
• Soulherder

  1WU

  Creature — SpiritUW

  Blink engine: one card blinks creatures — once a turn, once a combat, or each time you pay — and the other's enter-the-battlefield effect fires again on every blink. Real, repeatable value — never infinite on its own.
• Don & Leo, Problem Solvers

  3W/UW/U

  Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja TurtleUW

  Blink engine: one card blinks creatures — once a turn, once a combat, or each time you pay — and the other's enter-the-battlefield effect fires again on every blink. Real, repeatable value — never infinite on its own.
• Vash, Freelance Archaeologist

  1BG

  Legendary Creature — Human Rogue ScientistBG

  Rogue Artificial Intelligence has cycling, and Vash, Freelance Archaeologist pays off whenever a card is cycled — the Astral Slide / Lightning Rift engine shape.
• 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.
• 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.