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Dance of the Dead

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Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Dance of the Dead

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Enchant Dead Creature

Card Text:

Take target creature from any graveyard and put it directly into play under your control, tapped, with +1/+1. Treat that creature as though it were just summoned. The creature does not untap during its controller's untap phase. At the end of his or her upkeep, its controller may pay an additional o1oB to untap it. If Dance of the Dead is removed, bury the creature in its owner's graveyard.

Expansion:

Ice Age

Rarity:

Uncommon

All Sets:

Artist:

Randy Gallegos

Language:

English

Rulings

10/4/2004	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.
4/1/2008	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 the battlefield 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).
4/1/2008	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.
4/1/2008	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.