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Creature — Skeleton Warrior
LegalRank #755
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
1/1
Why is this card good?
Reassembling Skeleton is a humble but reliable engine piece because it's a creature you can sacrifice over and over for just . That repeatable body is exactly what aristocrats and sacrifice decks crave — endless fodder for Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Viscera Seer, or any "sacrifice a creature" outlet.
It also shines as recurring fuel for things like Ashnod's Altar (free mana loops), Mortician/Razaketh tutors, persistent attacker payoffs, and edict effects you control. Commanders like Teysa Karlov, Korvold, Meren, and Chatterfang all love a body that refuses to stay dead.
The downside: on its own it does almost nothing. It's a 1/1 that returns tapped, so it's terrible at blocking or attacking, and reanimating it costs mana each time, which adds up. If your deck has no sacrifice outlets or death/ETB triggers, it's just a bad creature.
Play it when you're building dedicated aristocrats or token-grind shells; skip it in midrange goodstuff decks that just want value bodies.
. That repeatable body is exactly what aristocrats and sacrifice decks crave — endless fodder for Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Viscera Seer, or any "sacrifice a creature" outlet.
It also shines as recurring fuel for things like Ashnod's Altar (free mana loops), Mortician/Razaketh tutors, persistent attacker payoffs, and edict effects you control. Commanders like Teysa Karlov, Korvold, Meren, and Chatterfang all love a body that refuses to stay dead.
The downside: on its own it does almost nothing. It's a 1/1 that returns tapped, so it's terrible at blocking or attacking, and reanimating it costs mana each time, which adds up. If your deck has no sacrifice outlets or death/ETB triggers, it's just a bad creature.
Play it when you're building dedicated aristocrats or token-grind shells; skip it in midrange goodstuff decks that just want value bodies.Related cards
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Printings (16)
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Played by these commanders
Teval, the Balanced Scale100% of 1
Sefris of the Hidden Ways100% of 1
Combos (8)
- Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton
→ Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB
- Pitiless Plunderer + Phyrexian Altar + Reassembling Skeleton
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Reassembling Skeleton + Phyrexian Altar + Pawn of Ulamog
→ Infinite death triggers, Infinite ETB, Infinite LTB
- Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Viscera Seer + Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers
- Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Viscera Seer + Teysa Karlov
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers
- Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Drivnod, Carnage Dominus + Carrion Feeder
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers, Infinite death triggers