Animate Dead

{1}{B} · Enchantment — Aura · from $7.25

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

Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Format legality

Standard: Not legal
Pioneer: Not legal
Modern: Not legal
Legacy: Legal
Vintage: Legal
Pauper: Not legal
Premodern: Legal

Tournament decks playing Animate Dead

Orzhov Solitude (Legacy, 4.6% of the meta): 1 in the main deck of 9% of lists
W U B R G (Premodern, 3.1% of the meta): 1 in the main deck of 76% of lists
Orzhov (Premodern, 2.6% of the meta): 1.3 in the main deck of 10% of lists
5c Unmask (Legacy, 2.5% of the meta): 4 in the main deck of 100% of lists
Dimir Midrange (Legacy, 2.1% of the meta): 2.7 in the main deck of 11% of lists
Grixis Reanimator (Legacy, 2.0% of the meta): 4 in the main deck of 100% of lists
W U B R G (Putrid Imp) (Premodern, 1.6% of the meta): 1.5 in the main deck of 73% of lists
Sultai Reanimator (Legacy, 0.4% of the meta): 4 in the main deck of 100% of lists
Rea Show (Legacy, 0.3% of the meta): 2.5 in the main deck of 80% of lists
Rakdos Reanimator (Legacy, 0.3% of the meta): 4 in the main deck of 40% of lists
Golgari Reanimator (Legacy, 0.1% of the meta): 4 in the main deck of 100% of lists
4c Reanimator (Legacy, 0.1% of the meta): 4 in the main deck of 100% of lists

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