Aftermath Analyst + Strands of Night + Overgrown Estate + Horizon Explorer
How it works
- Activate Overgrown Estate by sacrificing any land, causing you to gain 3 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 untapped due to Horizon Explorer.
- Activate any number of lands by tapping them, adding at least 3.
- 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 self-sustaining loop relies on a clever cycle of sacrifice and resurrection to flood the battlefield with your entire land base. You start by using Overgrown Estate to feed lands into your graveyard while mitigating the life cost, eventually loading up enough fodder—including a Swamp—while Horizon Explorer ensures your returning lands enter ready to tap for mana. Once the graveyard is sufficiently stocked, Aftermath Analyst sacrifices itself to pull every single land straight back to play. From there, Strands of Night steps in to bring Aftermath Analyst right back from the dead by paying the life and sacrificing that crucial Swamp, allowing the Analyst's entry trigger to mill you further as you repeat the entire process for boundless mana, lifegain, and landfall.