Cards/MagicFest 2026/Dance of the Dead
Dance of the Dead
Enchantment — Aura
Oracle Text
creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses " creature card in a graveyard" and gains " 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.
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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.
Print Details
- Set
- MagicFest 2026 (PF26)
- Number
- #14
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Jarel Threat
- Frame
- 2015
- Border
- Black
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Foil
Value
No recorded value.