AI DraftFeb 26, 2026
Bastion of Remembrance + Gravecrawler + Warren Soultrader
Overview
With Bastion of Remembrance on the battlefield, Warren Soultrader on the battlefield, and Gravecrawler in your graveyard, you can repeatedly: activate Warren’s ability (pay 1 life, sacrifice Gravecrawler as “another creature”), trigger Bastion’s “whenever a creature you control dies” ability to make each opponent lose 1 life and you gain 1 life, have Warren create a Treasure, then spend that Treasure to cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard (allowed because you control a Zombie), and repeat — producing a loop that drains opponents and leaves your life unchanged so long as you never drop to 0 life when paying Warren’s life cost. Token and graveyard details follow , game-order and state-based checks follow , and the lose-at-0 rule is .
Step 1
Have Bastion of Remembrance and Warren Soultrader on the battlefield and Gravecrawler in your graveyard; Warren is a Zombie, satisfying Gravecrawler’s casting condition .
Step 2
Activate Warren Soultrader’s ability: pay 1 life and sacrifice another creature (sacrificing Gravecrawler). The payment of 1 life and the sacrifice are costs paid as part of activating the ability; the sacrifice puts Gravecrawler into your graveyard immediately .
Step 3
Because Gravecrawler died, Bastion of Remembrance’s triggered ability triggers ("Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life"); triggered abilities are put on the stack after state-based actions are checked and after the activation step .
Step 4
If you paid 1 life as part of the activation and that payment brought you to 0 or less at the same time the creature died, you will lose the game before Bastion’s trigger is placed on the stack (see Ruling [2020-04-17] and rule ). Therefore you must ensure you don’t drop to 0 when paying the cost.
Step 5
Assuming you did not drop to 0, Bastion’s trigger will be placed on the stack (it will resolve before Warren’s ability that creates the Treasure, because Warren’s activated ability was placed on the stack first and the triggered ability goes on top when triggers are processed) and when it resolves each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Step 6
After that trigger resolves, resolve Warren Soultrader’s activated ability to create a Treasure token .
Step 7
Use the Treasure to pay 
to cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard (Gravecrawler’s special permission to be cast from the graveyard requires you to control a Zombie as you cast it; Warren Soultrader is that Zombie at cast time) .
to cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard (Gravecrawler’s special permission to be cast from the graveyard requires you to control a Zombie as you cast it; Warren Soultrader is that Zombie at cast time) .Step 8
Once Gravecrawler is on the stack, Ruling [2011-01-22] says it doesn’t matter if you subsequently stop controlling the Zombie that let you cast it. Let the spell resolve; Gravecrawler re-enters the battlefield.
Step 9
Repeat: sacrifice Gravecrawler to Warren (pay 1 life), Bastion triggers (opponents lose 1, you gain 1), create another Treasure, and recast Gravecrawler. Each full cycle leaves your life where it started (pay 1, then gain 1) but causes each opponent to lose 1 life per cycle.
Resolution
If you control Bastion of Remembrance and Warren Soultrader and Gravecrawler is in your graveyard, you can repeatedly sacrifice Gravecrawler to Warren’s activated ability, creating a Treasure and causing Bastion to trigger so each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life; you may then use the Treasure to pay and cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard (you control a Zombie), recast it, and repeat. This loop is legal and can be repeated until some external factor stops it, provided you never activate Warren’s ability in a way that causes you to be at 0 or less life simultaneously with the creature’s death (see Ruling [2020-04-17] and rule ). Also note that once Gravecrawler is on the stack, whether you later lose the Zombie that let you cast it doesn’t matter for that cast (Ruling [2011-01-22]).
and cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard (you control a Zombie), recast it, and repeat. This loop is legal and can be repeated until some external factor stops it, provided you never activate Warren’s ability in a way that causes you to be at 0 or less life simultaneously with the creature’s death (see Ruling [2020-04-17] and rule ). Also note that once Gravecrawler is on the stack, whether you later lose the Zombie that let you cast it doesn’t matter for that cast (Ruling [2011-01-22]).Feedback