Dance of the Dead
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Enchantment — Aura
- Set
- MagicFest 2026 #14 (rare)
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}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.
Dance of the Dead has 4 printings, first in Ice Age (1995). EDHREC ranks it #2,302 among Commander cards. It appears most in K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth decks (4,738 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Dance of the Dead most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth: 4,738 decks
- Celes, Rune Knight: 1,836 decks
- Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin: 1,829 decks
- Muldrotha, the Gravetide: 1,658 decks
- Raffine, Scheming Seer: 1,610 decks
- Hashaton, Scarab's Fist: 1,473 decks
- Anje Falkenrath: 1,418 decks
- Deadpool, Trading Card: 1,139 decks
Often played with Dance of the Dead
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.