First printed in Ice Age (1995)
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 
. If the player does, untap that creature.
- Illustrated by
- Randy Gallegos
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (4)
- 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.43 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
75 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite blinking, Infinite creature tokens…: Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward + Dance of the Dead
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite blinking of permanents…: Dance of the Dead + Worldgorger Dragon
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Dance of the Dead + Leonin Relic-Warder
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Animate Dead + Dance of the Dead + Sun Titan + Viscera Seer
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Altar of Dementia + Animate Dead + Dance of the Dead + Sun Titan
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Animate Dead + Ashnod's Altar + Dance of the Dead + Sun Titan
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Animate Dead + Dance of the Dead + Phyrexian Altar + Sun Titan
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Animate Dead + Carrion Feeder + Dance of the Dead + Sun Titan
- Return all nonland permanents to owner's hand each turn, Lock: Dance of the Dead + Kederekt Leviathan
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Animate Dead + Dance of the Dead + Sun Titan + Umbral Collar Zealot
