AI DraftFeb 26, 2026
Aftermath Analyst + Nissa, Resurgent Animist + Shifting Woodland + Zuran Orb
Overview
Sacrificing Aftermath Analyst as the cost of its activated ability returns all lands from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped when that ability resolves; each land that enters that way will cause Nissa, Resurgent Animist’s landfall ability to trigger (one trigger per land), you may order those triggers as you put them on the stack (Ruling [2024-11-08]), and each resolved landfall adds one mana and on the second resolution that turn you get Nissa’s reveal-and-draw effect. Shifting Woodland returned this way will enter as a land (and enters tapped per the return effect and its own enter-tapped replacement), and if Delirium is satisfied you can later activate its copy ability; if Shifting Woodland becomes a copy of another permanent this turn, effects that applied to it before it became a copy continue to apply (Ruling [2024-06-07]). Zuran Orb’s activated ability can be used to sacrifice any land (including one returned this way) to gain 2 life. [Ruling [2024-11-08]] [Ruling [2024-06-07]]
Step 1
Aftermath Analyst enters the battlefield first (if it hasn’t yet); when it entered its triggered ability to mill three cards resolved earlier, so the graveyard now includes those milled cards (this earlier mill is relevant to Delirium and graveyard contents).
Step 2
You activate Aftermath Analyst’s activated ability by paying 
and sacrificing the creature as part of the cost; the sacrifice happens while paying costs and the activated ability is put on the stack.
and sacrificing the creature as part of the cost; the sacrifice happens while paying costs and the activated ability is put on the stack. Step 3
When Aftermath Analyst’s activated ability resolves, it returns all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped (those lands enter the battlefield simultaneously).
Step 4
Each land that entered the battlefield this way causes Nissa, Resurgent Animist’s landfall ability to trigger once (one trigger per land that entered). You create one landfall trigger for each entering land. [Ruling [2024-11-08]]
Step 5
You may put those landfall triggers on the stack in any order (you choose the order as you put them on the stack). The last trigger you put on the stack will resolve first. [Ruling [2024-11-08]]
Step 6
Each time a landfall trigger from Nissa resolves it adds one mana of any color; the second time Nissa’s landfall ability resolves that turn, after adding the mana it instructs you to reveal cards until you reveal an Elf or Elemental and put that card into your hand. Subsequent landfall resolutions that turn only add mana. [Ruling [2023-05-12]]
Step 7
Shifting Woodland that was returned is now a land on the battlefield and it entered tapped due to the return effect; it also has its own "enters tapped unless you control a Forest" replacement effect but the net result is that it is on the battlefield tapped.
Step 8
If Delirium (four or more card types among cards in your graveyard) is satisfied, you can activate Shifting Woodland’s 
copy ability later; if it becomes a copy of a permanent card in your graveyard this turn, any continuous effects or counters that applied to Shifting Woodland before it became a copy continue to apply to it. [Ruling [2024-06-07]]
copy ability later; if it becomes a copy of a permanent card in your graveyard this turn, any continuous effects or counters that applied to Shifting Woodland before it became a copy continue to apply to it. [Ruling [2024-06-07]]Step 9
You may activate Zuran Orb’s ability at any time you have priority to sacrifice a land (including a land that was just returned) as the cost to gain 2 life; sacrificing the land as the cost will remove it from the battlefield but does not itself cause a land to enter and thus does not trigger landfall.
Resolution
When you activate Aftermath Analyst’s , Sacrifice this creature ability, the sacrifice happens as part of paying the cost and the ability goes on the stack; when that ability resolves it returns all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, and for each land that enters that way Nissa, Resurgent Animist’s landfall ability triggers (one trigger per land) — you put those triggers on the stack in any order and they resolve in last-in-first-out order, each adding one mana and the second resolved landfall this turn performs Nissa’s reveal effect (Ruling [2024-11-08]). Shifting Woodland that returns this way is a land that entered the battlefield (and enters tapped); if it later becomes a copy of some permanent in your graveyard this turn it remains subject to any continuous effects and counters that applied to it before it became a copy (Ruling [2024-06-07]). You may activate Zuran Orb’s “Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life” ability by sacrificing any land you control (including one returned) as the cost; sacrificing a land for Zuran Orb does not itself cause landfall because it’s a sacrifice, not a land entering. [Ruling [2024-06-07]] [Ruling [2024-11-08]]
, Sacrifice this creature ability, the sacrifice happens as part of paying the cost and the ability goes on the stack; when that ability resolves it returns all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, and for each land that enters that way Nissa, Resurgent Animist’s landfall ability triggers (one trigger per land) — you put those triggers on the stack in any order and they resolve in last-in-first-out order, each adding one mana and the second resolved landfall this turn performs Nissa’s reveal effect (Ruling [2024-11-08]). Shifting Woodland that returns this way is a land that entered the battlefield (and enters tapped); if it later becomes a copy of some permanent in your graveyard this turn it remains subject to any continuous effects and counters that applied to it before it became a copy (Ruling [2024-06-07]). You may activate Zuran Orb’s “Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life” ability by sacrificing any land you control (including one returned) as the cost; sacrificing a land for Zuran Orb does not itself cause landfall because it’s a sacrifice, not a land entering. [Ruling [2024-06-07]] [Ruling [2024-11-08]]Feedback