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Reassembling Skeleton

Creature — Skeleton Warrior

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$0.30
EDHREC rank
#755
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Reassembling Skeleton card art
Reassembling Skeleton is a repeatable sacrifice outlet fodder that pays for itself — two mana and it walks back from the graveyard on its own, turn after turn. The engine it enables with Pitiless Plunderer or Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist is the point: a creature that refuses to stay dead is worth more than its 1/1 body suggests.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

75.0% of decks · synergy 0.57

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist runs Reassembling Skeleton as a core loop piece — sacrifice it to Ashnod's ability to produce a Powerstone token, pay two mana to return it, repeat every turn for continuous artifact generation and graveyard triggers.

02

Grist, Voracious Larva

56.5% of decks · synergy 0.52

Grist, Voracious Larva cares about Insects dying, but Reassembling Skeleton earns its slot as a reliable, self-recurring sacrifice body that keeps the graveyard churning and death-trigger payoffs firing every turn.

03

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER

68.4% of decks · synergy 0.51

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER decks lean on creatures dying repeatedly to accrue counters and value, and Reassembling Skeleton is the cleanest low-cost creature that guarantees a death trigger on demand every single turn.

04
Teysa Karlov

Teysa Karlov

60.1% of decks · synergy 0.51

Teysa Karlov doubles death triggers, so Reassembling Skeleton — a creature that can die on a schedule — becomes a consistent source of double-trigger value with virtually no opportunity cost.

05
Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder

Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder

54.6% of decks · synergy 0.49

Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder prizes repeated death events for treasure and plunder payoffs, and Reassembling Skeleton is one of the cheapest creatures in the format that lets you manufacture those deaths whenever you have two black mana open.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Reassembling Skeleton does its best work — sacrifice-focused commanders turn it into a permanent engine piece rather than a one-shot threat, and the format's long games give it time to generate disproportionate value from a two-mana investment. In Modern and Pioneer it sees fringe play in aristocrats shells, but the competition for two-drop recursive creatures is steep and it rarely makes the cut outside of dedicated graveyard loops. Legacy and Vintage have the tools to abuse it more explosively, but also have so many faster engines that Reassembling Skeleton is a footnote. Standard legality makes it accessible to newer players building sacrifice themes, where the self-recursion is genuinely powerful at that power level.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.30 bulk tier

At $0.30, Reassembling Skeleton is pure bulk — a card you pick up in a trade binder without thinking twice. Wide printings have kept the price floor low and there's no pressure pushing it higher, so grab copies freely and don't expect the number to move.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.