| Name | Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead  |
|---|---|
| Type | Creature — orc warlock |
| Description | This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. |
| Artist | Diego Gisbert & Diego Gisbert |
| Set | Secrets of Strixhaven #76 |
| Wallpaper |  download |
| Image |  download |
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Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead, Creature — orc warlock , designed by Diego Gisbert & Diego Gisbert first released in Apr, 2026 in the set Secrets of Strixhaven.
Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead would fit best in a grindy black midrange or aristocrats-style deck that values recursion and incremental card advantage, especially in formats where creature-based synergy (sacrifice outlets, ETB effects, death triggers) is central, since getting a creature back to hand lets you reuse powerful creatures or combo pieces; it could also function in slower graveyard-focused Commander decks that want redundancy in recursion effects. However, in most competitive formats this effect is underpowered compared to alternatives like Reanimate, Animate Dead, Unearth, Agadeem’s Awakening, or even Call of the Death-Dweller, which either return creatures directly to the battlefield or provide more immediate board impact and tempo, making a simple Raise Dead-style effect relatively inefficient unless the “prepared” mechanic provides strong flexibility; overall, it’s likely playable in casual or synergy-driven decks but probably not strong enough for high-level compet
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