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Dance of the Dead

Pro Tour Collector Set #ll118 uncommon
Enchantment — Aura |
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Dance of the Dead

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Live Value $24.37
Foil Multiplier: Flat Baseline (1.0x)
Reprint Profile:
Printed 3 times ELEVATED

Reprinted 3x total; appeared once in a dedicated reprint set (Masters Edition II).

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Card Value: $24.37
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Rarity
uncommon
Set Origin
Daily Shift
0.00%
EDHREC Rank
#2,277
Mana Cost
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Oracle Data

Card Type Enchantment — Aura
Color Identity Black
🖋️ Curator's Notes
Enchant creature card in a graveyard

When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay 1B. If the player does, untap that creature.
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Official Judge Precedents

4 Precedents

If more than one Dance of the Dead ends up on a creature, each contributes a +1/+1. But you only have to pay the untap cost once. You may pay for each one, however, and untap the card more than once during upkeep.

This is a new wording. Dance of the Dead is now an Aura. You target a creature card in a graveyard when you cast it. It enters attached to that card. Then it returns that card to the battlefield, and attaches itself to that card again (since the card is treated as a new object on the battlefield).

If the creature card put onto the battlefield has protection from black (or anything that prevents this from legally being attached), this won't be able to attach to it. Then this will go to the graveyard as a state-based action, causing the creature to be sacrificed.

Once the creature is returned to the battlefield, Dance of the Dead can't be attached to anything other than it (unless Dance of the Dead somehow manages to put a different creature onto the battlefield). Attempting to move Dance of the Dead to another creature won't work.

📜 Technical Attributes
Release Date: 1996-05-01
Artist Reference: Randy Gallegos
Border Profile: gold
✨ Variants & Finishes
Available Finishes Standard
Promo Status NO
Edition Status Reprint

Sanctioned Formats

standard not_legal
modern not_legal
legacy legal
commander legal
pioneer not_legal
pauper not_legal
vintage legal
brawl not_legal
explorer not_legal
penny not_legal
predh legal
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