Grave Researcher // Reanimate

Grave Researcher // Reanimate

Creature — Troll Warlock // Sorcery

Mana cost: {2}{B} // {B}

How we read this card

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, this creature becomes prepared.

triggered — surveils

triggered —

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

on-cast — brings a card back

on-cast —

Causes: surveil, prepare a creature, put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, make a player lose life.

Cares about: an upkeep, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

you surveil — 233 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Researcher is one).

When Grave Researcher // Reanimate surveils:

  1. Mirko, Obsessive Theorist — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Prudent Fateseer // Peer Review — gives +1/+0
  3. Diviner of Victory // Unwind History — gets +1/+1
  4. Saheeli, Consul of Oversight — makes a token
  5. Copy Catchers — makes a token
  6. Proft, Consulting Detective — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Matoya, Archon Elder — draws you 1 card
  8. Denzilore Fatehold — puts a counter on a creature
  9. Whispering Snitch — deals 1 damage
  10. Blood Operative — makes you lose life

5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Researcher is one).

When Grave Researcher // Reanimate leaves a graveyard:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Researcher is one).

When Grave Researcher // Reanimate leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Researcher is one).

When Grave Researcher // Reanimate makes a player lose life:

  1. The Master of Lake-town — mills a card
  2. Intermediate Chirography — puts a counter on a creature
  3. Vilis, Broker of Blood — draws you that many cards
  4. Vengeful Warchief — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Wax-Wane Witness — gets +1/+0
  6. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  7. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  8. Lich's Mastery — triggers
  9. Lich's Tomb — sacrifices a permanent
  10. Gonti's Machinations — puts a counter on a permanent you control

46 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Researcher is one).

When Grave Researcher // Reanimate is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  8. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

426 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Researcher is one).

Grave Researcher // Reanimate puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — can bring back
  2. Harness the Storm — can bring back

442 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Researcher is one).

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — When Grave Researcher // Reanimate attacks, Far Fortune, End Boss deals 1 damage

131 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Researcher is one).

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — When Grave Researcher // Reanimate enters, Riku of Two Reflections makes a token

32 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Researcher is one).

  1. Embalmed Ascendant — When Embalmed Ascendant enters thanks to Grave Researcher // Reanimate, it makes a token
  2. Gastal Thrillseeker — When Gastal Thrillseeker enters thanks to Grave Researcher // Reanimate, it deals 1 damage
  3. Precursor Golem — When Precursor Golem enters thanks to Grave Researcher // Reanimate, it makes 2 tokens
  4. Conciliator's Duelist — When Conciliator's Duelist enters thanks to Grave Researcher // Reanimate, it draws you 1 card
  5. Pollywog Prodigy — When Grave Researcher // Reanimate enters, Pollywog Prodigy puts a counter on itself
  6. Gastal Raider — When Gastal Raider enters thanks to Grave Researcher // Reanimate, it makes an opponent discard a card
  7. Deluge Virtuoso — When Deluge Virtuoso enters thanks to Grave Researcher // Reanimate, it taps a creature an opponent controls

363 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Grave Researcher is one).

  1. Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette — When Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette enters thanks to Grave Researcher // Reanimate, it becomes prepared

66 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.