Card text
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.)
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Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
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Mana cost
{2}{B} // {B}
Power / toughness
3/3
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Card text
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.
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyLegal
About Grave Researcher
This page covers the extended art printing of Grave Researcher (325), a Black Creature — Troll Warlock // Sorcery from Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS). It is printed at Rare rarity. The one keyword in its text is Surveil. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 7 more formats.
We track no other printing of 325 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
Secrets of Strixhaven is a main expansion, released April 2026. Grave Researcher has 1 other card in the database, listed further down the page.
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.
Card details
- Card number
- 325
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 24 April 2026
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Extended Art
- Type line
- Creature — Troll Warlock // Sorcery
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {2}{B} // {B}
- Power / toughness
- 3/3
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Grave Researcher
Other printings of Grave Researcher in Secrets of Strixhaven
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Grave Researcher in other sets
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