Animate Dead
Mana cost {1}{B}.
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.
Animate Dead is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Fourth Edition printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€6.12) · TCGplayer ($7.38) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €5.15 and €6.97 in that time.
How often Animate Dead is played
Animate Dead is maindecked in 4 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (3%), averaging 1.0 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 75 decks that can cast black cards, 4 of them play it (5%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Animate Dead
- Reanimator (2x)
Tournament decks with Animate Dead
- Reanimator: 2nd Place at Octobeerians Tournament '26 (1× mainboard)
- Reanimator: 5th Place at Technoliga Valenciana (1× mainboard)
- Reanimator: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (1× mainboard)
- 5 Colors: 3rd Place at Final Liga Madrileña (1× mainboard)
