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Grave Researcher // Reanimate SOS 0085 · rare

Grave Researcher · {2}{B} · Creature — Troll Warlock · 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.) · Power / toughness: 3/3 // Reanimate · {B} · Sorcery · Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Grave Researcher · {2}{B} · Creature — Troll Warlock · 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.) · Power / toughness: 3/3

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

Price
from $1.893 printings
Win rate
55.6% GIH 9,620 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 5,348 wins in 9,620 card-in-hand instances.

9,385 distinct games · 3,598 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026.

17Lands file dated Jun 5, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

55.6%when drawn (GIH)

+0.2 pp vs 55.4% average · 9,620 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · average from 582,914 games

#171 of 320 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 2.1 on average (12,457 packs).

21 of 42 black cards · 6 of 7 black rare cards.

Taken at pick2.24,720 picks
Makes the deck83.6%4,720 picks with known usage
When played54.9%21,475.7 matchesBenched 54.5%
2,768.3 matches
When drawn55.6%9,620 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 56.5% · 3,855 instances
● Drawn later 55.0% · 5,765 instances

In hand 55.6% · 9,620 instances
Unseen in deck 54.8% · 12,584 instances
+0.7 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn55.6%9,620 instances21 of 42
Opening hand56.5%3,855 instances12 of 42
Drawn later55.0%5,765 instances28 of 42
In the deck55.3%22,398 instances17 of 46
Without seeing it54.8%12,584 instances15 of 44
Improvement when drawn+0.7 pp9,620 instances / 12,584 instances21 of 42
When benched54.5%2,768.3 matches39 of 47
Makes the deck83.6%4,720 picks with known usage7 of 47
Pick (last seen)2.112,457 packs7 of 47
Taken at2.24,720 picks7 of 47

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Silverquill Repartee Aggro WB58.4%3,422 instancesWitherbloom Lifegain Swarm BG55.0%2,419 instancesBlack–Red BR62.5%8 instances · under 100Blue–Black UB60.0%5 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (55.6% · 9,620 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Cheerful Osteomancer+5.6 pp5,364 games with both in the deck · 1,016 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 47% of 320 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026

Collect

3 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

SOS 0085 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · prerelease-silverquill · prerelease-witherbloom$1.89
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster · prerelease-lorehold · prerelease-prismari · prerelease-quandrix · prerelease-silverquill · prerelease-witherbloom$2.02

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · 15.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 795 packs (0.13%) · 3.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 57 packs (1.75%) · 41.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-lorehold · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-prismari · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-quandrix · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-silverquill · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-silverquill · Modeled · About 1 in 24 packs (4.17%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a prerelease-witherbloom · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-witherbloom · Modeled · About 1 in 24 packs (4.08%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterWildcard of any rarity100%Wildcard of any rarity
Play BoosterRare or mythic rare100%Rare or mythic rare
Play BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Collector BoosterTraditional foil rare or mythic85.7%Rare

Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Izzy, SOS 85 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗