Name
Dance of Many

Flavor Name
Dance Battle

Mana Cost

Type
Enchantment

Set
Secret Lair Drop

Rarity
Rare

Text

When this enchantment enters, create a token that's a copy of target nontoken creature.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, exile the token.
When the token leaves the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay .


Number
#442

Other Prints
Fifth Edition
Chronicles Foreign Black Border
Chronicles
The Dark
Masters Edition III

Legal Formats
Commander | Duel | Legacy | Oathbreaker | Premodern | Vintage

Availability
Paper

Rulings

(04/10/2004)
Destroying the creature that was copied will not cause the token creature to be destroyed as well.


(01/10/2009)
If Dance of Many leaves the battlefield before its first ability has resolved, its second ability will trigger and do nothing. Then its first ability will resolve and put a token onto the battlefield. That token won't have any connection to a Dance of Many permanent, so it won't be exiled when a Dance of Many leaves the battlefield.


(04/10/2004)
The ability is targeted and checks the validity of the target when put on the stack and when resolving. If the creature is not still there when the copy ability resolves, the ability doesn't resolve and no token is put onto the battlefield. This card remains on the battlefield as an enchantment with no token.


(04/10/2004)
Treat the token as entering as a copy of the chosen creature. If that creature normally gets counters when entering, the token creature gets counters.


(04/10/2004)
The mana cost is copied.


(04/10/2004)
Each Dance of Many is associated only with its token creature. If one Dance leaves the battlefield, only the corresponding token is affected, not all tokens from all instances of Dance of Many.


Artist
Caroline Gariba

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