Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead

In Commander, Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead earns its slot in decks that loop discard outlets or care about having spells in hand to sacrifice — the adventure half is a real card you can cast or pitch, and the creature stays behind after you do. In Pauper it's competing in black midrange shells where a 2/2 with upside at three mana is genuinely on-rate, and the built-in recursion gives grind matchups staying power. Across Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy it's outclassed by more efficient recursion options, so it only shows up in dedicated adventure or spell-type synergy builds. Standard is where it sees the most casual play, pairing naturally with any aristocrats or adventure payoffs that happen to be in the format.