Card
Reanimate
Mana cost {B}
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 3 known combos. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · TMP · #151
- Cheapest printing
- €8.15
- EDHREC salt
- 0.79
- Color identity
- Black
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
3 known combos.
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Buried Alive + Reanimate + Chainer, Dementia Master + Viscera Seer + Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Buried Alive + Reanimate + Chainer, Dementia Master + Viscera Seer + Kokusho, the Evening Star
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain
View on Commander Spellbook - Inalla, Archmage Ritualist + Spellseeker + Culling the Weak + Shallow Grave + Burnt Offering + Finale of Promise + Reanimate + Entomb + Archaeomancer + Unearth
Produces: Infinite lifeloss, Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
The amount of life you lose is determined by the mana value of the card in your graveyard, not the creature once it's on the battlefield. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If any abilities trigger on the creature entering the battlefield, those abilities resolve after you lose life. If losing life results in you losing the game, those abilities won't resolve. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, the creature you control from Reanimate is exiled. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
You lose life after the creature is already on the battlefield. Any abilities it has that interact with loss of life, such as that of Platinum Emperion, apply to that loss of life. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If a card in a graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast