Animate Dead

Animate Dead

Enchantment — Aura

Mana cost: {1}{B}

How we read this card

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." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it.

triggered — brings a card back

triggered —

When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

triggered —

Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

static — shrinks a creature by -1/-0

Causes: put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, an Aura becomes attached.

Cares about: a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

an Aura enters the battlefield — 1,257 cards in the game can cause this (Animate Dead is one).

When Animate Dead enters:

  1. Tanglespan Lookout — draws you 1 card
  2. Chishiro, the Shattered Blade — makes a token

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Animate Dead is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Animate Dead:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Erebos's Titan — triggers

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Animate Dead is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Animate Dead:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

put a creature into a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Coils of the Medusa — Coils of the Medusa puts cards into the graveyard that Animate Dead can bring back

2,768 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Animate Dead is one).

When Animate Dead is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

255 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Animate Dead is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Animate Dead enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Animate Dead is one).

When Animate Dead enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

65 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature enters the battlefield — 18,448 cards in the game can cause this (Animate Dead is one).

When a creature enters thanks to Animate Dead:

  1. Riku of Two Reflections — makes a token
  2. Samwise Gamgee — makes a token
  3. Dual Nature — makes a token
  4. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — grants haste
  5. Preston, the Vanisher — makes a token
  6. Angelic Sell-Sword — makes a token
  7. Arni, Humble Scribe — untaps itself
  8. Saradoc, Master of Buckland — makes a token
  9. Lonis, Cryptozoologist — triggers
  10. Radiant Solar — triggers

23 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Animate Dead is one).

  1. Nurturing Presence — When a creature enters thanks to Animate Dead, Nurturing Presence gets +1/+1
  2. Airbender Ascension — When a creature enters thanks to Animate Dead, Airbender Ascension puts a quest counter on itself
  3. Master of Winds — When Master of Winds enters thanks to Animate Dead, it draws you 2 cards
  4. Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom — When a creature enters thanks to Animate Dead, Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom gains you 1 life
  5. Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple — When a creature enters thanks to Animate Dead, Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple gains you 1 life
  6. Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — When a creature enters thanks to Animate Dead, Daxos, Blessed by the Sun gains you 1 life
  7. Ephara's Enlightenment — When a creature enters thanks to Animate Dead, Ephara's Enlightenment triggers

318 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.