Card

Dance of the Dead

Mana cost {1}{B}

Enchantment — Aura

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.

Part of 75 known combos, 4 of them two-card. 4 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Uncommon · ICE · #118
Cheapest printing
€14.38
EDHREC salt
0.47
Color identity
Black
Keywords
Enchant

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

Why

  • Two-card combo with Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, Worldgorger Dragon, Leonin Relic-Warder, Kederekt Leviathan (early with Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward, Worldgorger Dragon, Kederekt Leviathan)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

75 known combos, 4 of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2008-04-01 · Wizards of the Coast
    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).
  • 2008-04-01 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.
  • 2008-04-01 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.
  • 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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