Grave Researcher // Reanimate

Creature — Troll Warlock // Sorcery

Illustrated by Izzy

F

EDHREC Rank #2,360

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

Rulings (20)

If a prepare spell with one or more targets has no legal targets when it tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. Since the spell was cast, the associated permanent will still not be prepared.

Mar 20, 2026

If a card in a graveyard has X generic mana in its mana cost, X is 0.

Mar 20, 2026

Creating a copy of a creature's prepare spell in exile ignores copy exceptions applied to that creature that would affect the copiable values of that spell. For example, say a player casts Croaking Counterpart (a sorcery that says "Create a token that's a copy of target non-Frog creature, except it's a 1/1 green Frog.") targeting Goblin Glasswright. The token copy of Goblin Glasswright will enter prepared as a 1/1 green Frog creature, but the copy of Craft with Pride in exile will still be a red sorcery. The copy of Craft with Pride won't be green, a creature, or a Frog, and it won't have power or toughness.

Mar 20, 2026