Dance of the Dead Price
4 printings · 4 sets · first printed 1995
Dance of the Dead has been printed 4 times across 4 sets, first in 1995 and most recently in 2026. Right now the cheapest printing is Ice Age #118 at $15.13, while the most expensive is Pro Tour Collector Set #ll118 at $24.99. The median across 2 priced printings is $20.06. Reprint risk: ELEVATED — Reprinted 4x total; appeared once in a dedicated reprint set (Masters Edition II).
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Every Dance of the Dead Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Age #118 (U) Cheapest | 1995 | $15.13 | $9.00 |
| Pro Tour Collector Set #ll118 (U) | 1996 | $24.99 | $14.00 |
| MagicFest 2026 #14 (R) Foil | 2026 | — | — |
| Masters Edition II #83 (U) | 2008 | — | — |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
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
. If the player does, untap that creature.Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 4 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
4 PrecedentsIf 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.