---
name: "Animate Dead"
mana_cost: "{1}{B}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Enchantment — Aura"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Enchant"]
set: "SOC"
set_name: "Secrets of Strixhaven Commander"
collector_number: "207"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Bastien L. Deharme"
oracle_id: "c0d8fef4-65f4-4769-982d-b397d2b7e977"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/animate-dead-soc"
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. [Web](/printing/web-3ed.md) — Enchantment — Aura
2. [Unholy Strength](/printing/unholy-strength-7ed.md) — Enchantment — Aura
3. [Wings of Aesthir](/printing/wings-of-aesthir-me2.md) — Enchantment — Aura
4. [Psychic Venom](/printing/psychic-venom-5ed.md) — Enchantment — Aura
5. [Phyresis](/printing/phyresis-mbs.md) — Enchantment — Aura
6. [Blighted Burgeoning](/printing/blighted-burgeoning-mom.md) — Enchantment — Aura

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) #207
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Bastien L. Deharme
- **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`