Animate Dead price & price history

What Animate Dead costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.

Animate Dead price today

$6.07

€6.04

30 days -16.3%

as of 2026-11-09

All-time high
$8.54
All-time low
$0.99
1-year average
$5.84
Data since
2025-07-24

Animate Dead has traded between $0.99 and $8.54, averaging $5.84 over the past year. It appears in 55,109 of the commander decks we track.

Card details

Card 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.

Type
Enchantment — Aura
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Rarity
uncommon
Latest printing
The Zeta Set
First printed
1993-08-05
Commander legality
Legal

Animate Dead in the deckdiver.app commander deck database

Decks running it
55,109

of 970,456 commander decks, 5.7%.

Median deck price
$724

most of those decks cost $199 to $4,404.

Median power level
6.9

runs 4.8 to 8.6 across those decks.

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Real decks that run Animate Dead

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Budget build
$207
price
6.3
power
2.5
salt
Bracket 4 (Optimized)
{U}{B}{G}midrange
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Typical build
$667
price
5.1
power
4.0
salt
Bracket 4 (Optimized)
{W}{B}{R}combo
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High-end build
$3,879
price
8.4
power
5.1
salt
Bracket 5 (cEDH)
{B}midrange
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