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Reanimate

Sorcery MV 1

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

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

Combos with Reanimate

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Buried Alive Chainer, Dementia Master Viscera Seer Kokusho, the Evening Star Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Buried Alive Chainer, Dementia Master Viscera Seer Gray Merchant of Asphodel Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    • Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Inalla, Archmage Ritualist Spellseeker Culling the Weak Shallow Grave Burnt Offering Finale of Promise Entomb Archaeomancer Unearth Infinite
    • Infinite creature tokens with haste
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2025-09-19

    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

    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

    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

    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

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

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Reanimate, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 26
Games played 7
Win rate 42.9%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Terra, Herald of Hope 2 0 —
Syr Konrad, the Grim 1 2 —
Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 1 —
Ghoulcaller Gisa 1 1 —
Mahadi, Emporium Master 1 1 —
The Mycotyrant 1 1 —
Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer 1 1 —
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 4 decks
  • Mardu 4 decks
  • Golgari 3 decks
  • Rakdos 3 decks
  • Orzhov 3 decks
  • Jund 1 deck
  • Dimir 1 deck
  • Sultai 1 deck
  • Grixis 1 deck
  • Abzan 1 deck

Every version of Reanimate

16 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Reanimate — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.