Animate Dead of Premium Deck Series: Graveborn

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters, if it’s on the battlefield, it loses “enchant creature card in a graveyard” and gains “enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead.” Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature’s controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

PD3 · EN Anthony Jones
2011-11-18

standard
future
historic
timeless
gladiator
pioneer
explorer
modern
legacy
pauper
vintage
penny
commander
oathbreaker
standardbrawl
brawl
alchemy
paupercommander
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oldschool
premodern
predh
usdeurfoiltix
6.050.02
EDHREC
Rareza Tipo Color Cmc L/T
Enchantment — Aura 2
Foil Nonfoil Promo Fecha
★ ✗ 2011-11-18
Booster Digital Oversized Reserved
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Paper Mtgo Digital Astral Sega
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Keywords
Set Name Set Code Set Type
Premium Deck Series: Graveborn PD3 PREMIUMDECK
release: setsize: 50 totalsetsize: 30
onlyFoil: yes onlyNonFoil: no
Nombre ID
BORDER COLOR BLACK
FRAME 2003
Date Source Comment
08-06-2016 wotc Abilities such as shroud and protection function only on the battlefield unless otherwise specified. A creature card with shroud may be targeted by Animate Dead, and Animate Dead will become attached to the creature that enters the battlefield.
08-06-2016 wotc If the creature put onto the battlefield has protection from black—or if the creature can't legally be enchanted by Animate Dead for another reason—Animate Dead won't be able to attach to it. It will be put into the graveyard as a state-based action, causing its delayed triggered ability to trigger. When the trigger resolves, if the creature's still on the battlefield, its controller will sacrifice it.
08-06-2016 wotc Animate Dead is an Aura, albeit with an unusual enchant ability. You target a creature card in a graveyard when you cast it. It enters the battlefield attached to that card. Then it returns that card to the battlefield, and attaches itself to the card again (since the card is a new object on the battlefield). Animate Dead itself never moves into a graveyard during this process.
08-06-2016 wotc Once the creature is returned to the battlefield, Animate Dead can't be attached to anything other than it (unless Animate Dead somehow manages to put a different creature onto the battlefield). Attempting to move Animate Dead to another creature won't work.
08-06-2016 wotc If Animate Dead isn't on the battlefield as its triggered ability resolves, none of its effects happen. The creature card won't be returned to the battlefield.