Bulwark

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, Bulwark deals X damage to target opponent, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus the number of cards in that player's hand.

"It will be the goblin's first bath, and its last."
-Fire Eye, viashino bey

Buoyancy

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

Saprazzan merfolk become legged on land, but some find it quicker to bring the water with them.

Burden of Guilt

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Tap enchanted creature.

"Grab an axe and defend the gate! Your despair is an extravagance we can ill afford."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Bureaucracy

Enchantment

Pursuant to subsection 3.1 (4) of Richard's Rules of Order, during the upkeep of each participant in this game of the Magic: The Gathering® trading card game (hereafter known as "PLAYER"), that PLAYER performs all actions in the sequence of previously added actions (hereafter known as "ACTION QUEUE"), in the order those actions were added, then adds another action to the end of the ACTION QUEUE. All actions must be simple physical or verbal actions that a player can perform while sitting in a chair, without jeopardizing the health and security of said PLAYER.

If any PLAYER does not perform all the prescribed actions in the correct order, sacrifice Bureaucracy and said PLAYER discards his or her complement of cards in hand (hereafter known as "HAND").

Burgeoning

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"The plants said, ‘We will fight the stone with root and stem and seed. We are patient. We will win.'"
-Skyshroud myth of the forest

Burning Anger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player."

"With rage as your forge, your hammer can smite anything."

Burning Cinder Fury of Crimson Chaos Fire

Enchantment

Whenever any player taps a card, that player gives control of that card to an opponent at end of turn.

If a player does not tap any nonland cards during his or her turn, Burning Cinder Fury of Crimson Chaos Fire deals 3 damage to that player at end of turn.

Burning Earth

Enchantment

Whenever a player taps a nonbasic land for mana, Burning Earth deals 1 damage to that player.

"Your world is formed from the same power that wraps my burning hand around your throat."-Shrazik, lavamancer

Burning Sands

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller sacrifices a land.

"Pain teaches lessons no scholar can."
-Kamahl, pit fighter

Burning Vengeance

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, Burning Vengeance deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Mist is the geists' sorrow. Wind is their pain. Fire is their vengeance.

Burrowing

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has mountainwalk.

Cabal Shrine

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards X cards, where X is the number of cards in all graveyards with the same name as that spell.

Cadaverous Bloom

Enchantment

Exile a card from your hand: Add or to your mana pool.

"It's filthy work, planting them."
-Kifimbo, Shadow Guildmage

Cage of Hands

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

: Return Cage of Hands to its owner's hand.

"Our own actions built the prisons that now hold us. Our hands reached too far and tried to hold too much."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Cagemail

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and can't attack.

"Power often costs too high a price."
-Commander Eesha

Call of the Wild

Enchantment

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

Thinking of dinner made Squee realize that the forest was probably thinking the same thing.

Call to Arms

Enchantment

As Call to Arms enters the battlefield, choose a color and an opponent.

White creatures get +1/+1 as long as the chosen color is the most common color among nontoken permanents the chosen player controls but isn't tied for most common.

When the chosen color isn't the most common color among nontoken permanents the chosen player controls or is tied for most common, sacrifice Call to Arms.

Call to Serve

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant nonblack creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2, has flying, and is an Angel in addition to its other types.

Grace is a gift, never a reward.

Call to the Grave

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a non-Zombie creature.

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Call to the Grave.

Call to the Kindred

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top five cards of your library. If you do, you may put a creature card that shares a creature type with enchanted creature from among them onto the battlefield, then you put the rest of those cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Canopy Cover

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

Enchanted creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.

Capashen Standard

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

, Sacrifice Capashen Standard: Draw a card.

Benalia has no need for peacocks to serve as symbols of vanity. The Capashens strut more proudly than any bird.

Captivating Glance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your end step, clash with an opponent. If you win, gain control of enchanted creature. Otherwise, that player gains control of enchanted creature. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Captive Flame

Enchantment

: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Kills and cooks your food in one easy stroke."

Carapace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.

Sacrifice Carapace: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Now that's a fashion statement."
-Devin, faerie noble

Cardboard Carapace

Enchantment - Aura

For each other Cardboard Carapace card you have with you, enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Errata: This does not count any Cardboard Carapace cards in play that you control or in your graveyard, hand, or library.

. . . that exciting . . . about . . .

Caribou Range

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land you control

Enchanted land has ", : Put a 0/1 white Caribou creature token onto the battlefield."

Sacrifice a Caribou token: You gain 1 life.

Carnival of Souls

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life and add to your mana pool.

"‘Davvol, blast those elves.' ‘Davvol, transport those troops.' No one cares that today is my birthday."

Carpet of Flowers

Enchantment

At the beginning of each of your main phases, if you haven't added mana to your mana pool with this ability this turn, you may add up to X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is the number of Islands target opponent controls.

Carry Away

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Equipment

When Carry Away enters the battlefield, unattach enchanted Equipment.

You control enchanted Equipment.

Stealing goblin weapons would be easier if the goblins were smart enough to let go.

Cast into Darkness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-0 and can't block.

In desperation the soldier prayed to Phenax, begging for the power to cheat the gorgon's gaze.

Cast Through Time

Enchantment

Instant and sorcery spells you control have rebound. (Exile the spell as it resolves if you cast it from your hand. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Casting of Bones

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, draw three cards, then discard one of them.

"Only a necromancer would create such a foul form of divination."
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Castle

Enchantment

Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

Cathars' Crusade

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Avacyn's holy warriors kept hope alive in her darkest hours. Now they will carry that hope across Innistrad.

Caustic Tar

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Target player loses 3 life."

"Twisted magic, twisted fate,
Force the land to ooze with hate."
-Cabal chant

Cave Sense

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has mountainwalk.

Cavern Lampad

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Intimidate

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has intimidate.

Caverns of Despair

World Enchantment

No more than two creatures can attack each combat.

No more than two creatures can block each combat.

Celestial Archon

Enchantment Creature - Archon

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Flying, first strike

Enchanted creature gets +4/+4 and has flying and first strike.

Celestial Convergence

Enchantment

Celestial Convergence enters the battlefield with seven omen counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an omen counter from Celestial Convergence. If there are no omen counters on Celestial Convergence, the player with the highest life total wins the game. If two or more players are tied for highest life total, the game is a draw.

Celestial Dawn

Enchantment

Lands you control are Plains.

Nonland cards you own that aren't on the battlefield, spells you control, and nonland permanents you control are white.

You may spend white mana as though it were mana of any color. You may spend other mana only as though it were colorless mana.

Celestial Mantle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, double its controller's life total.

Upon such armor, even a mountain would break.

Censorship

Enchantment

When Censorship comes into play, choose a CENSORED word.

Whenever any CENSORED player says the chosen CENSORED word, Censorship deals 2 CENSORED damage to him or her.

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Centaur Glade

Enchantment

: Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

The Mirari called to the centaurs, and all who heard it were forever changed.

Cephalid Shrine

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a spell, counter that spell unless that player pays , where X is the number of cards in all graveyards with the same name as the spell.

Cessation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack.

When Cessation is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Cessation to its owner's hand.

"The face of Light will shine upon them, and they will know war no more."
-Song of All, canto 918

Ceta Sanctuary

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a red or green permanent, draw a card, then discard a card. If you control a red permanent and a green permanent, instead draw two cards, then discard a card.

Chained to the Rocks

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Mountain you control

When Chained to the Rocks enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Chained to the Rocks leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Chains of Mephistopheles

Enchantment

If a player would draw a card except the first one he or she draws in his or her draw step each turn, that player discards a card instead. If the player discards a card this way, he or she draws a card. If the player doesn't discard a card this way, he or she puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Chamber of Manipulation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ", Discard a card: Gain control of target creature until end of turn."

Politics is just a subtle form of mind control-and cephalids are master politicians.

Chance Encounter

Enchantment

Whenever you win a coin flip, put a luck counter on Chance Encounter.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Chance Encounter has ten or more luck counters on it, you win the game.

The more unlikely the victory, the more memorable the success.

Chant of the Skifsang

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -13/-0.

The skifsang, seafarers of Nephalia, craft spells like other sailors craft nets-making them strong enough to snare even the deadliest catch.

Chaos Moon

Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, count the number of permanents. If the number is odd, until end of turn, red creatures get +1/+1 and whenever a player taps a Mountain for mana, that player adds to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces). If the number is even, until end of turn, red creatures get -1/-1 and if a player taps a Mountain for mana, that Mountain produces colorless mana instead of any other type.

Chaosphere

World Enchantment

Creatures with flying can block only creatures with flying.

Creatures without flying have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.)

"I dance the nothing dance, / Feet in the air, knives in the ground."
-Femeref chant

Charisma

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a creature, gain control of the other creature for as long as Charisma remains on the battlefield.

It was Gerrard's nature to lead and the Mercadians' to follow.

Charm School

Enchantment - Aura

When Charm School comes into play, choose a color and balance Charm School on your head.

Prevent all damage to you of the chosen color.

If Charm School falls off your head, sacrifice Charm School.

Checks and Balances

Enchantment

Whenever any spell is played, counter that spell if each player, other than the caster and his or her teammates, agrees to choose and discard a card. Those players must discard those cards after agreeing.

Checks and Balances may be played only in a game with three or more players.

Chill

Enchantment

Red spells cost more to cast.

"Temper, temper."
-Ertai, wizard adept

Chime of Night

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Chime of Night is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature.

Many sent to serve Davvol carried such instruments, as if to remind him who their true masters were.

Cho-Manno's Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

As Cho-Manno's Blessing enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Cho-Manno's Blessing.

Choke

Enchantment

Islands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"One day we shall walk where once was water."
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Chosen by Heliod

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Chosen by Heliod enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.

"Training and studies aid a soldier in meager amounts. The gods do the rest."
-Brigone, soldier of Meletis

Chromanticore

Enchantment Creature - Manticore

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, lifelink

Enchanted creature gets +4/+4 and has flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, and lifelink.

Chromatic Armor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As Chromatic Armor enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Chromatic Armor enters the battlefield with a sleight counter on it.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by sources of the last chosen color.

: Put a sleight counter on Chromatic Armor and choose a color. X is the number of sleight counters on Chromatic Armor.

Chronic Flooding

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

With the Izzet occupied elsewhere, many of their public works fell into disrepair.

Circle of Affliction

Enchantment

As Circle of Affliction enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Whenever a source of the chosen color deals damage to you, you may pay . If you do, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Circle of Despair

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature or player this turn, prevent that damage.

"Life is a resource that should belong only to the strong."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Circle of Flame

Enchantment

Whenever a creature without flying attacks you or a planeswalker you control, Circle of Flame deals 1 damage to that creature.

"Which do you think is a better deterrent: a moat of water or one of fire?"
-Chandra Nalaar

Circle of Protection: Art

Enchantment

As Circle of Protection: Art comes into play, choose an artist.

: The next time a source of your choice by the chosen artist would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

: Return Circle of Protection: Art to its owner's hand.

Circle of Protection: Artifacts

Enchantment

: The next time an artifact source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: Black

Enchantment

: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: Blue

Enchantment

: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: Green

Enchantment

: The next time a green source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: Red

Enchantment

: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: Shadow

Enchantment

: The next time a creature of your choice with shadow would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: White

Enchantment

: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Solace

Enchantment

As Circle of Solace enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

: The next time a creature of the chosen type would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Citadel of Pain

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's end step, Citadel of Pain deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands he or she controls.

"Battle is our religion. This fortress is our temple."
-Latulla, Keldon overseer

Citadel Siege

Enchantment

As Citadel Siege enters the battlefield, choose Khans or Dragons.

• Khans - At the beginning of combat on your turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.

• Dragons - At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, tap target creature that player controls.

City of Solitude

Enchantment

Players can cast spells and activate abilities only during their own turns.

"My horizon was the arcing petals, my new home resplendent with spires of weeds and pillows of fragrant pollen."
-Naimah, Femeref philosopher

Claim of Erebos

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ", : Target player loses 2 life."

Priests of Erebos give an occasional reminder to mortals who have forgotten their mortality.

Clash of Realities

Enchantment

All Spirits have "When this permanent enters the battlefield, you may have it deal 3 damage to target non-Spirit creature."

Non-Spirit creatures have "When this creature enters the battlefield, you may have it deal 3 damage to target Spirit creature."

Claustrophobia

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Claustrophobia enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Six feet of earth muffled his cries.

Claws of Valakut

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 for each Mountain you control and has first strike.

"Swords may sunder. Shields may fail. My will is stronger than steel, and my flesh and bone far more deadly."

Clinging Darkness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -4/-1.

There's an experience worse than blindness-it's the certainty that your vision is perfect and the horror that there's no world around you to see.

Cloak of Confusion

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Whenever enchanted creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may have it assign no combat damage this turn. If you do, defending player discards a card at random.

Cloak of Invisibility

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has phasing and can't be blocked except by Walls. (It phases in or out before its controller untaps during each of his or her untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)

"Useful . . . if you can find it."
-Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader

Cloak of Mists

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature is unblockable.

"All we could lose, we did. All we could keep, we do. And both are shrouded by mists."
-Barrin, master wizard

Close Quarters

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, Close Quarters deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

The Mercadians' ineptitude in close combat sometimes accidentally pays off.

Cloud Cover

Enchantment

Whenever another permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may return that permanent to its owner's hand.

Cloudform

Enchantment

When Cloudform enters the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with enchant creature. Manifest the top card of your library and attach Cloudform to it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Enchanted creature has flying and hexproof.

Clout of the Dominus

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

As long as enchanted creature is red, it gets +1/+1 and has haste.

Cloven Casting

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a multicolored instant or sorcery spell, you may pay . If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"Let us flee to the deep jungle. Our city is no longer safe-and I suspect neither is the fallback retreat."

Clutch of Undeath

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 as long as it's a Zombie. Otherwise, it gets -3/-3.

The hand of death recognizes its own.

Coalition Flag

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Enchanted creature is a Flagbearer.

While choosing targets as part of casting a spell or activating an ability, your opponents must choose at least one Flagbearer on the battlefield if able.

Coastal Piracy

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

"I don't like to think of myself as a pirate. I'm more like a stimulator of the local economy."

Cocoon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during your untap step if Cocoon has a pupa counter on it.

When Cocoon enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature and put three pupa counters on Cocoon.

At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a pupa counter from Cocoon. If you can't, sacrifice it, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature, and that creature gains flying. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Coils of the Medusa

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/-1.

Sacrifice Coils of the Medusa: Destroy all non-Wall creatures blocking enchanted creature.

Serpentine locks shape ornate rocks.

Cold Snap

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Cold Snap deals damage to that player equal to the number of snow lands he or she controls.

Who knows from whence the winter comes?