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Magic · Secret Lair Drop Series · #2189 · Rare

Animate Dead

Magic card price for Animate Dead: $44.54 market, from $43.20 at the cheapest listing, Normal printing, updated Oct 17, 2026. Full price history since Oct 16, 2025 below.

Market price · Normal · Oct 17, 2026
$44.54
−0.2% this week · +0.4% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days−0.2%
30 days+0.4%
90 days−2.0%
1 year+48.5%
All time+48.5%

Sellers right now

$43.20lowest listing$79.88highest
Market price$44.54
Mid listing$49.95
30-day avg$44.63

Market price is what a near-mint copy actually sold for. The cheapest listing is what a seller asks today — on thin markets the two differ a lot.

Where to buy

TCGplayer$44.54
Cardmarket$75.51 €67.10

EUR converted at 1.1253 (ECB reference rate). Shipping and condition not included.

One year

$19.3052-week low$47.6652-week high
In the range89%
All-time low$19.30
All-time high$47.66
First priceOct 16, 2025
Normal · market priceCardmarket (EU, in USD)
$15.87$38.29$60.72$83.14
$44.54
Oct 2025Feb 2026Jun 2026Oct 2026
TCGplayer · via tcgcsv · Cardmarket · via MTGJSONtcgrate.com

Price story

Animate Dead was released in October 2026. Launch-week prices are left out here: before supply arrives they are mostly guesses. The cheapest listing right now is $43.20, and the 30-day average market price is $44.63.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Normal$44.54$43.20$79.88−0.2%

The card in play

Type line
Enchantment — Aura
Rules text

Secret Lair x Iron Maiden: Album Art

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.

Flavor

Live After Death (1985)

Other printings of Animate Dead

25 more · $7.30 – $293.32
All printings
Animate Dead, Beta Edition — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Animate Dead Beta Edition $293.32 Animate Dead, Alpha Edition — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Animate Dead Alpha Edition $282.40 Animate Dead (7), Judge Promos — Magic card price +2.7% 7d Animate Dead Judge Promos · #7 $77.71 Animate Dead (IE), International Edition — Magic card price 0.0% 7d Animate Dead (IE) International Edition $60.03 Animate Dead (Rainbow Foil) (2189), Secret Lair Drop Series — Magic card price −1.2% 7d Animate Dead (Rainbow Foil) Secret Lair Drop Series · #2189 $55.06

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