Animate Dead
Enchantment — Aura · 
Animate Dead is part of 102 combos legal in Commander. Often combined with Dance of the Dead and Sun Titan.
Animate Dead
Enchantment — Aura
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.
- Mana value
- 2
- Keywords
- Enchant
- Color identity
Frequently combined with
The cards that most often join Animate Dead in its 100 most popular combos.
Roles in combos
Animate Dead can stand in for these generic cards, so it also fits the combos that require them.
What Animate Dead provides to the combos it is part of.
- Aura that Returns Creatures to BF
Combos with Animate Dead
102 combos legal in Commander.
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Animate Dead
Results in combo:
Infinite blinking
Infinite creature tokens
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite blinking of nonland permanents
Color Identity: B, R
Cards in combo:
Worldgorger Dragon
Animate Dead
Results in combo:
Infinite death triggers
Infinite blinking of permanents
Infinite colored mana
Infinite colorless mana
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Leonin Relic-Warder
Animate Dead
Results in combo:
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Sun Titan
Karmic Guide
Animate Dead
Altar of Dementia
Results in combo:
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite mill
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Sun Titan
Karmic Guide
Animate Dead
Ashnod's Altar
Results in combo:
Infinite colorless mana
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Color Identity: B
Cards in combo:
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Buried Alive
Animate Dead
Chainer, Dementia Master
Viscera Seer
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
+2 other prerequisites
Results in combo:
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite lifegain
Infinite lifegain triggers
Infinite lifeloss
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite scry 1
Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
Color Identity: U, B
Cards in combo:
Kederekt Leviathan
Animate Dead
Results in combo:
Return all nonland permanents to owner's hand each turn
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Sun Titan
Karmic Guide
Animate Dead
Phyrexian Altar
Results in combo:
Infinite colored mana
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Animate Dead
Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead
Viscera Seer
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite scry 1
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Animate Dead
Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead
Altar of Dementia
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite mill
Infinite self-mill
Color Identity: R, W, B
Cards in combo:
Sun Titan
Karmic Guide
Animate Dead
Goblin Bombardment
Results in combo:
Infinite damage
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Animate Dead
Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead
Ashnod's Altar
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite colorless mana
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Animate Dead
Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead
Phyrexian Altar
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite colored mana
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Animate Dead
Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead
Carrion Feeder
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
Color Identity: B
Cards in combo:
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Buried Alive
Animate Dead
Chainer, Dementia Master
Viscera Seer
Kokusho, the Evening Star
+2 other prerequisites
Results in combo:
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite lifegain
Infinite lifegain triggers
Infinite lifeloss
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite scry 1
Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control
Color Identity: B, G, U
Cards in combo:
Muldrotha, the Gravetide
Phantasmal Image
Lion's Eye Diamond
Animate Dead
Results in combo:
Infinite artifact ETB
Infinite artifact LTB
Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
Infinite colored mana
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite storm count
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Animate Dead
Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead
Umbral Collar Zealot
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite surveil
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Animate Dead
Angel of Indemnity
Dance of the Dead
Altar of Dementia
Results in combo:
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite death triggers
Infinite mill
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite self-mill
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Animate Dead
Angel of Indemnity
Dance of the Dead
Viscera Seer
Results in combo:
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite death triggers
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite scry 1
Color Identity: W, B
Cards in combo:
Animate Dead
Sun Titan
Dance of the Dead
Bartolomé del Presidio
Results in combo:
Infinite creature LTB
Infinite creature ETB
Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
