---
name: "Animate Dead"
mana_cost: "{1}{B}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Enchantment — Aura"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Enchant"]
set: "4ED"
set_name: "Fourth Edition"
collector_number: "118"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Anson Maddocks"
oracle_id: "c0d8fef4-65f4-4769-982d-b397d2b7e977"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/animate-dead-4ed"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Animate Dead
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{B}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Enchantment — Aura
- **Keywords:** Enchant

## Oracle Text
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.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Dance of the Dead](/printing/dance-of-the-dead-me2.md) — Enchantment — Aura
2. [Animate Graveyard](/printing/animate-graveyard-unf.md) — Enchantment — Aura
3. [Screams from Within](/printing/screams-from-within-soc.md) — Enchantment — Aura
4. [Death's Approach](/printing/deaths-approach-gtc.md) — Enchantment — Aura
5. [Unhallowed Pact](/printing/unhallowed-pact-cns.md) — Enchantment — Aura
6. [Unholy Indenture](/printing/unholy-indenture-m20.md) — Enchantment — Aura

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Fourth Edition (4ED) #118
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Anson Maddocks
- **Total Printings:** 60 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`