Postmortem Professor

Secrets of Strixhaven #93

Postmortem Professor - Secrets of Strixhaven

Type: Creature — Zombie Warlock

Mana cost: {1}{B}

Card text: This creature can't block. Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {1}{B}, Exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

P/T: 2/2

Rarity: rare

Artist: Nino Vecia

Released: April 24, 2026

Prices

$0.27 USD · $0.28 USD (Foil) · €0.19 EUR

Format Legality

FormatLegality
Standard✓ Legal
Pioneer✓ Legal
Modern✓ Legal
Legacy✓ Legal
Commander✓ Legal
Vintage✓ Legal
Pauper✗ Not Legal
Oathbreaker✓ Legal

Draft & Sealed Synergies

Best cards to pair with Postmortem Professor in Secrets of Strixhaven limited

common

Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
Creature — Orc Warlock // Sorcery

Cheerful Osteomancer returns creatures to hand, which can then be discarded to recur Postmortem Professor from the graveyard, creating a recursive engine.

Rubble Rouser
Rubble Rouser
Creature — Dwarf Sorcerer

Rubble Rouser lets you discard cards for value and exiles cards from your graveyard for mana, helping fill the graveyard with instants/sorceries to recur Postmortem Professor.

Seize the Spoils
Seize the Spoils
Sorcery

Seize the Spoils requires discarding a card and draws two, filling your graveyard with instants/sorceries to enable Postmortem Professor's recursion cost.

uncommon

Forum Necroscribe
Forum Necroscribe
Creature — Troll Warlock

Forum Necroscribe reanimates creatures when you cast Repartee spells, and Postmortem Professor can be recursed repeatedly to attack and drain life.

rare

Flashback
Flashback
Instant

Flashback gives instant/sorcery cards flashback, creating more spells to exile for Postmortem Professor's recursion while generating card advantage.

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