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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 Promos #85p
Wallpaper	download
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About Grave Researcher // Reanimate

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 3 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