Dance of the Dead

Dance of the 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." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped 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/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

static — gives +1/+1

static — keeps permanents from untapping

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

triggered — untaps a permanent

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

Cares about: an upkeep, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

a creature untaps — 519 cards in the game can cause this (Dance of the Dead is one).

  1. Fishing Pole — When a creature untaps thanks to Dance of the Dead, Fishing Pole triggers

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

When Dance of the 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 (Dance of the Dead is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Dance of the 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 (Dance of the Dead is one).

When a creature leaves a graveyard thanks to Dance of the 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 Dance of the 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 (Dance of the Dead is one).

When Dance of the 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 (Dance of the Dead is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Dance of the Dead enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

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

When Dance of the 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 (Dance of the Dead is one).

When a creature enters thanks to Dance of the 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 (Dance of the Dead is one).

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

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