Prerequisites
- Animate Dead in your graveyard
- Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer in your graveyard
- Loyal Retainers in your graveyard
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den in your graveyard
- Phyrexian Altar on the battlefield
- Lurrus and You have not cast a spell using Lurrus this turn
- It is your precombat main phase
- available
Steps
- Cast Animate Dead from your graveyard by paying , returning Liliana, Heretical Healer from your graveyard to the battlefield with Animate Dead attached
- Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Lurrus, adding
- When Lurrus dies, Liliana, Heretical Healer triggers, causing you to exile it and return it to the battlefield as Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, and create a 2/2 Zombie creature token
- Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the Zombie, adding
- Activate Liliana, Defiant Necromancer's second loyalty ability by removing three loyalty counters from it
- Liliana dies as a state-based action due to having zero loyalty
- Resolve the Liliana ability, returning Loyal Retainers from your graveyard to the battlefield
- Activate Loyal Retainers by sacrificing it, returning Lurrus from your graveyard to the battlefield
- Repeat
Results
Required Cards 5
Animate Dead
Enchantment — Aura
Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric // Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana
Loyal Retainers
Creature — Human Advisor
Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Legendary Creature — Cat Nightmare