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Aftermath Analyst

Creature — Elf Detective

When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
{3}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Murders at Karlov Manor
Price
$1.10
EDHREC rank
#658
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Aftermath Analyst card art
Aftermath Analyst returns all lands from your graveyard to the battlefield — tapped — for two mana, which is a backbreaking rate whenever your graveyard is stocked. The cost is that it exiles itself on resolution, so you're trading the body for a one-shot landfall chain; pair it with Shifting Woodland or lean into Hearthhull, the Worldseed and the payoff justifies the sacrifice every time.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Hearthhull, the Worldseed

Hearthhull, the Worldseed

87.2% of decks · synergy 0.71

Hearthhull, the Worldseed is the flagship home: Aftermath Analyst's mass land recursion floods the battlefield with landfall triggers, and Hearthhull's ability to turn those triggers into card advantage and threats makes every recovered land pull double duty.

02
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods

67.5% of decks · synergy 0.62

Lumra, Bellow of the Woods rewards putting lands into the graveyard, and Aftermath Analyst converts that buildup into an immediate board presence — every land returning triggers Lumra again, creating a cascading landfall storm from a single two-mana investment.

03
Six

Six

67.1% of decks · synergy 0.62

Six runs a self-mill-heavy gameplan that fills the graveyard fast, and Aftermath Analyst is the payoff that converts a cluttered yard into a fully restocked mana base mid-game.

04
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

59.9% of decks · synergy 0.53

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis incentivizes cramming as many permanents into the graveyard as possible, and Aftermath Analyst turns those discarded and milled lands into an explosive mana recovery engine that gets Hogaak back online after a board wipe.

05
Yuma, Proud Protector

Yuma, Proud Protector

53.9% of decks · synergy 0.52

Yuma, Proud Protector puts lands into the graveyard as a core mechanic, and Aftermath Analyst closes the loop by bouncing all of them back to the battlefield at once — fueling one massive wave of Yuma triggers from a single activation.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Aftermath Analyst does its best work: singleton graveyard-matters decks have no trouble filling the yard with lands, and a single resolved activation can accelerate you multiple turns ahead of the table. In competitive EDH, the ceiling is lower since graveyards get hated out regularly, but in midrange and battlecruiser pods it frequently generates an uncontested burst of mana. In Modern and Pioneer, Aftermath Analyst is a fringe role-player in landfall and graveyard-synergy shells, though the exile-on-resolution clause limits it to specialized strategies that can generate enough value from the land returns to offset the missing body. Legacy has the velocity to set it up quickly but rarely needs it given the format's more powerful options. Standard is technically legal and there are functional landfall shells, but the card hasn't broken through as a staple there.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.10 cheap tier

At $1.10, Aftermath Analyst sits squarely in the bulk-rare tier — easy to pick up for any budget. It sees enough play across multiple Commander archetypes to stay at that floor rather than sliding further, but don't expect a spike unless a new graveyard-lands commander arrives and pushes demand.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.