Aftermath Analyst + Strands of Night + Zuran Orb + Nissa, Resurgent Animist
How it works
- Activate Zuran Orb by sacrificing any land, causing you to gain 2 life.
- Repeat step 1 until you have at least six land cards in your graveyard, with one of those cards being a Swamp.
- Activate Aftermath Analyst by paying 3 and sacrificing it, returning all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
- When the lands enter, Nissa triggers that many times, adding B/G for each trigger.
- Activate Strands of Night by paying and 2 life and sacrificing a Swamp, returning Aftermath Analyst from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- When Aftermath Analyst enters, it triggers, causing you to mill three cards.
- Repeat.
This ingenious loop relies on a self-sustaining cycle of sacrifice and resurrection to flood the battlefield with your entire land base. You start by using Zuran Orb to feed lands into your graveyard, providing the fodder needed to fuel Strands of Night, which pays life and sacrifices a Swamp to bring back Aftermath Analyst. Once Aftermath Analyst returns, its entrance triggers its self-mill ability and sets up its activated ability to dump every single land from your graveyard straight onto the battlefield tapped. That massive wave of land drops wakes up Nissa, Resurgent Animist, whose landfall triggers generate an abundance of colored mana to fund the entire operation while continuously digging through your library for Elves and Elementals.