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    Enchantment — Aura

    Dance of the Dead

    Illustrated by Randy Gallegos

    EDHREC Rank #2,285
    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 1 generic mana black mana . If the player does, untap that creature.

    Rulings (4)

    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.

    Apr 1, 2008

    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.

    Apr 1, 2008

    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).

    Apr 1, 2008

    Legality

    Formats by platform

    Commander

    Competitive

    Community & retro

    Printings (3)

    Dance of the Dead — Masters Edition II
    ME2#83
    Masters Edition II
    Dance of the Dead — Pro Tour Collector Set
    PTC#ll118$24.37
    Pro Tour Collector Set