Essential Magic: The Gathering cards against reanimation strategies

Relic provides both targeted and mass graveyard exile. Its ability to slowly pick off cards from a graveyard can disrupt early reanimation attempts, while the mass exile option offers a powerful reset when needed.

Crypt Incursion provides targeted exile for multiple creature cards from graveyards and offers a significant life gain bonus, which can be crucial against aggressive reanimation strategies.

This card offers a powerful turn-zero play against graveyard strategies, effectively preventing them from ever establishing a graveyard. It's particularly strong in formats where you expect to face reanimation consistently, as it can be on the battlefield before your opponent even takes a turn.

Farewell is a versatile and powerful board wipe that can selectively exile graveyards, among other permanent types. This flexibility makes it an excellent answer to a wide range of threats, including reanimation, especially in Commander where its higher mana cost is less prohibitive.

As a zero-mana artifact, Tormod's Crypt offers an incredibly efficient, instant-speed way to disrupt a graveyard. It's a classic piece of graveyard hate, especially useful for surprising opponents or responding to a reanimation spell on the stack.

Similar to Relic, Soul-Guide Lantern offers flexibility with both targeted and mass graveyard exile. The added benefit of drawing a card when sacrificed makes it a less 'dead' draw in matchups where graveyard hate isn't critical.

Scavenging Ooze provides repeatable, incremental graveyard hate that also grows a threat and gains life. Its ability to be played at instant speed (by activating its ability) makes it excellent for responding to reanimation spells.

This artifact is a powerful preventative measure, stopping creatures from being reanimated or tutored directly to the battlefield from the library. It also shuts down flashback and other abilities that cast spells from the graveyard.

As a land, Bojuka Bog offers 'free' graveyard hate, as it doesn't take up a spell slot in your deck. It's a popular choice in Commander for its ability to disrupt an opponent's graveyard without costing mana or a card from hand.

This card provides repeatable graveyard exile that also scales into a significant threat. It's a strong choice for both disrupting reanimation and presenting a win condition.

Similar to Grafdigger's Cage but broader, Weathered Runestone prevents any nonland permanent from entering the battlefield from graveyards or libraries, making it effective against a wider range of reanimation and tutoring effects.

Kaya offers flexible graveyard interaction, from targeted exile to a full graveyard wipe as her ultimate. Her ability to gain life is also a nice bonus.

Soulless Jailer provides a targeted hate effect against noncreature spells from the graveyard (like flashback reanimation spells) and activated abilities of creatures in the graveyard, which can be crucial against certain reanimation enablers.

This new artifact offers repeatable, instant-speed graveyard exile with a value-generating payoff in the form of Mutagen tokens. It's a versatile tool that can disrupt reanimation while also contributing to your board state.

This creature provides incidental graveyard hate upon entering the battlefield and then acts as a mana dork, making it a flexible and efficient inclusion in green decks.

Surgical Extraction is a potent, low-cost, instant-speed way to remove a key reanimation target or reanimation spell from an opponent's graveyard and prevent them from using other copies.

Similar to Surgical Extraction, Extirpate offers the powerful 'exile all copies' effect, but with Split Second, meaning opponents cannot respond to it. This makes it an uncounterable way to deal with a crucial graveyard card.

This card offers a powerful, potentially free, instant-speed graveyard wipe, making it an excellent reactive tool against decks that rapidly fill their graveyard.

Kaya's Guile is a versatile instant with multiple modes, including the ability to exile a target card from a graveyard. Its flexibility makes it a strong inclusion in Orzhov decks, allowing it to adapt to various board states while still offering graveyard interaction.