| Name | Grave Researcher // Reanimate  |
|---|---|
| Type | Creature — troll warlock |
| Description | At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.) Put target creature cardSee more |
| Artist | Izzy & Izzy |
| Set | Secrets of Strixhaven #85 |
| Wallpaper |  download |
| Image |  download |
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Grave Researcher // Reanimate, Creature — troll warlock , designed by Izzy & Izzy first released in Mar, 2026 in the set Secrets of Strixhaven and was printed exactly in 2 different ways. It see play in 1 formats: Commander.
This card would fit best in a graveyard-centric midrange or reanimator deck, especially in Commander or slower casual formats where filling the graveyard is easy and games go long enough to benefit from repeated value. The surveil 1 each upkeep helps stock your graveyard and smooth draws, naturally enabling the “prepared” condition, while the reanimation effect rewards you for self-mill or discard strategies—particularly in decks built around cheating high–mana value creatures into play (e.g., big demons, dragons, or ETB value creatures). However, compared to staple reanimation spells like **Reanimate**, **Animate Dead**, **Necromancy**, or **Persist**, this card is significantly slower and more conditional; even **Victimize** or **Exhume** are more efficient in most formats. Its strength would be in grindy Commander decks that value repeatable graveyard setup and late-game flexibility rather than raw speed. Overall, it’s likely too slow for competitive Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy reani
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