Zzzyxas's Abyss

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy all nonland permanents with the first name alphabetically among nonland permanents in play.

Tired of always being picked last, the wizard Zzzyxas created the ultimate revenge.

Zur's Weirding

Enchantment

Players play with their hands revealed.

If a player would draw a card, he or she reveals it instead. Then any other player may pay 2 life. If a player does, put that card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player draws a card.

Zombie Infestation

Enchantment

Discard two cards: Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Zephyr Net

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has defender and flying.

Faeries hang beings that interest them as ornaments in the sky, each clique competing to outshine the prize of the last.

Zephyr Charge

Enchantment

: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"All armies prefer high ground to low and sunny places to dark."-Sun Tzu, Art of War, trans. Giles

Zephid's Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Spells will shun you, as will everyone else.

Zendikar Resurgent

Enchantment

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana to your mana pool of any type that land produced. (The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.)

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Zektar Shrine Expedition

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a quest counter on Zektar Shrine Expedition.

Remove three quest counters from Zektar Shrine Expedition and sacrifice it: Put a 7/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Yoke of the Damned

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When a creature dies, destroy enchanted creature.

The demon's yoke is part leash, part noose.

Yet Another Æther Vortex

Enchantment

All creatures have haste.

Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.

Noninstant, nonsorcery cards on top of a library are in play under their owner's control in addition to being in that library.

It puts the "vortex" in "flavortext."

Yawgmoth's Edict

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a white spell, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

The warping of bodies and souls has become the heart of Yawgmoth's existence.

Yawgmoth's Bargain

Enchantment

Skip your draw step.

Pay 1 life: Draw a card.

He craves only one commodity.

Yawgmoth's Agenda

Enchantment

You can't cast more than one spell each turn.

You may play cards from your graveyard.

If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Yavimaya's Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

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

Xenograft

Enchantment

As Xenograft enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Each creature you control is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

"I despise Vorinclex and his slobberings about ‘evolution.' Only I know true progress."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Xenagos, God of Revels

Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Xenagos isn't a creature.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gains haste and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that creature's power.

Wurmweaver Coil

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant green creature

Enchanted creature gets +6/+6.

, Sacrifice Wurmweaver Coil: Put a 6/6 green Wurm creature token onto the battlefield.

Some use magic to spy through walls. Others use it to crush them.

Writ of Passage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, if its power is 2 or less, it's unblockable this turn.

Forecast - , Reveal Writ of Passage from your hand: Target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Wreath of Geists

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Before you travel the woods of Kessig, first get permission from those who died trying.

Wrath of Marit Lage

Enchantment

When Wrath of Marit Lage enters the battlefield, tap all red creatures.

Red creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"Marit Lage lies frozen in a glacier's heart. Still her dreams take form in our world, stealing the heat from our souls."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Wound Reflection

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life he or she lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

The mission of the Nighthearth, Illulia's cult of murderous cinders, is to intensify every pain suffered in Shadowmoor.

Worship

Enchantment

If you control a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

"Believe in the ideal, not the idol."
-Serra

Worms of the Earth

Enchantment

Players can't play lands.

Lands can't enter the battlefield.

At the beginning of each upkeep, any player may sacrifice two lands or have Worms of the Earth deal 5 damage to him or her. If a player does either, destroy Worms of the Earth.

The ground collapsed, leaving nothing but the great Worms' mucous residues.

Words of Worship

Enchantment

: The next time you would draw a card this turn, you gain 5 life instead.

"The faithful don't succumb to terror, nor are they ruled by passion. They adhere to order, for order is life."
-Volume I, The Book of Faith

Words of Wind

Enchantment

: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each player returns a permanent he or she controls to its owner's hand instead.

"Be logical in all things. Do not allow instinct or passion to cloud your mind."
-Volume II, The Book of Insight

Words of Wilding

Enchantment

: The next time you would draw a card this turn, put a 2/2 green Bear creature token onto the battlefield instead.

"Instinct is undaunted by terror, unchained by logic. It is the path from which all other paths diverge."
-Volume V, The Book of Life

Words of Waste

Enchantment

: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each opponent discards a card instead.

"Terror corrupts order and paralyzes instinct."
-Volume III, The Book of Decay

Words of War

Enchantment

: The next time you would draw a card this turn, Words of War deals 2 damage to target creature or player instead.

"Passions can't be shackled by laws or mastered with logic. The choice is freedom or death."
-Volume IV, The Book of Fire

Wordmail

Enchant Creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each word in its name.

"Suck on it, Stangg"
-Sol'kanar the Swamp King

Wolfcaller's Howl

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put X 2/2 green Wolf creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the number of your opponents with four or more cards in hand.

"Knowledge is a stain that only instinct and ferocity can cleanse."
-Drarg, wolfcaller

Withering Wisps

Enchantment

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Withering Wisps.

: Withering Wisps deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Activate this ability no more times each turn than the number of snow Swamps you control.

Withering Hex

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever a player cycles a card, put a plague counter on Withering Hex.

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each plague counter on Withering Hex.

Witch's Mist

Enchantment

, : Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

"Hear us, Overmother. Let the strong thrive under your gelatinous hand, and let the weak writhe under your serrated heel."
-Prayer of the devoted

Witch Hunt

Enchantment

Players can't gain life.At the beginning of your upkeep, Witch Hunt deals 4 damage to you.At the beginning of your end step, target opponent chosen at random gains control of Witch Hunt.

The accusations spread like hungry flames.

Winter's Night

World Enchantment

Whenever a player taps a snow land for mana, that player adds one mana to his or her mana pool of any type that land produced. That land doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Wings of Hope

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3 and has flying.

Urza knew Phyrexians would come through the air and sent his soldiers to greet them.

Wings of Aesthir

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has flying and first strike.

"For those of courage, even the sky holds no limit."
-Arnjlot Olasson, Sky Mage

Wind Zendikon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a 2/2 blue Elemental creature with flying. It's still a land.

When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Wild Research

Enchantment

: Search your library for an enchantment card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle your library.

: Search your library for an instant card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle your library.

Wild Pair

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness and put it onto the battlefield. If you do, shuffle your library.

Wild Growth

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Wild Evocation

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player reveals a card at random from his or her hand. If it's a land card, the player puts it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, the player casts it without paying its mana cost if able.

Wild Defiance

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of an instant or sorcery spell, that creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"When civilization reaches out its greedy hand, take it off at the wrist."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Widespread Panic

Enchantment

Whenever a spell or ability causes its controller to shuffle his or her library, that player puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library.

"How thin is the veneer of civilization! A modest measure of panic will wash it off completely."-Guard Erdrud of An Karras

Whitewater Naiads

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

Constellation - Whenever Whitewater Naiads or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Stand against the crash of the river's rapids and you will know the power of the naiads.

White Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove White Ward.

White Scarab

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked by white creatures.

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as an opponent controls a white permanent.

Whip Silk

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

: Return Whip Silk to its owner's hand.

Llanowar forges weapons of steel. Yavimaya grows her weapons within.

Whip of Erebos

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Creatures you control have lifelink.

, : Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Where Ancients Tread

Enchantment

Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Where Ancients Tread deal 5 damage to target creature or player.

"Never subtle nor cryptic is the reckoning of the mighty."
-Mayael the Anima

Wheel of Sun and Moon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant player

If a card would be put into enchanted player's graveyard from anywhere, instead that card is revealed and put on the bottom of that player's library.

Every life ends, but life itself never does.

Wellspring

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Wellspring enters the battlefield, gain control of enchanted land until end of turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, untap enchanted land. You gain control of that land until end of turn.

Well-Laid Plans

Enchantment

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to a creature by another creature if they share a color.

"I knew this day would come," said Urza. Looking at the destruction, Barrin sighed, "You don't have to revel in it."

Well of Ideas

Enchantment

When Well of Ideas enters the battlefield, draw two cards.

At the beginning of each other player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards.

Weight of the Underworld

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -3/-2.

Proud Alkmenos, who would not bow to Erebos in death, is now bowed by his own hubris for all eternity.

Weight of Conscience

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack.

Tap two untapped creatures you control that share a creature type: Exile enchanted creature.

Sometimes the weight of the world on your shoulders is a literal one.

Web of Inertia

Enchantment

At the beginning of each opponent's combat, that player may exile a card from his or her graveyard. If the player doesn't, creatures he or she controls can't attack you this turn.

Cephalids specialize in lose-lose situations.

Web

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Weakness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

"For strength to have any meaning, there must also be . . . you."

Way of the Thief

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Enchanted creature is unblockable as long as you control a Gate.

A true shortcut isn't a way other people don't know; it's a way other people can't go.

Wave of Terror

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 your draw step, destroy each creature with converted mana cost equal to the number of age counters on Wave of Terror. They can't be regenerated.

The sea of fear has endless depths.

Waste Not

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add to your mana pool.

Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Designed by the Magic community

Warstorm Surge

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, it deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

"Listen to the roar! Feel the thunder! The Immersturm shouts its approval with every bolt of lightning!"

Warped Devotion

Enchantment

Whenever a permanent is returned to a player's hand, that player discards a card.

"The spirit of the devout is easily crushed by the loss of hope."
-Fallen angel

Warp Artifact

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted artifact's controller, Warp Artifact deals 1 damage to that player.

Warmth

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a red spell, you gain 2 life.

"Flame grows gentle with but a little distance."
-Orim, Samite healer

Ward of Piety

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature this turn is dealt to target creature or player instead.

Reluctant to strike at the kami directly, some kitsune trained in more passive fighting techniques.

Ward of Lights

Enchantment - Aura

You may cast Ward of Lights as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Enchant creature

As Ward of Lights enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Ward of Lights.

War's Toll

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, tap all lands that player controls.

If a creature an opponent controls attacks, all creatures that opponent controls attack if able.

Razia, archangel of war, demands total commitment.

War Tax

Enchantment

: This turn, creatures can't attack unless their controller pays for each attacking creature he or she controls.

The worst thing about being a depraved pirate is having to work with a bunch of depraved pirates.

War Dance

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on War Dance.

Sacrifice War Dance: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of verse counters on War Dance.

War Cadence

Enchantment

: This turn, creatures can't block unless their controller pays for each blocking creature he or she controls.

The rhythm isn't a call to arms, but a signal that the goblins have made a new enemy.

Wanderlust

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Wanderlust deals 1 damage to that player.

Vow of Wildness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3, has trample, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"Savagery is the birthright of every creature that draws breath-or wishes it could."
-Karador, Ghost Chieftain

Vow of Malice

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"I grant you blades-on the condition that they are not pointed at me."
-Damia, Sage of Stone

Vow of Lightning

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has first strike, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"Ruhan would never agree to such terms."
-Ruhan of the Fomori

Vow of Flight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"Soaring is wasted on the winged."
-Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Vow of Duty

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has vigilance, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"I prefer loyalty to be a matter of respect, not of magic. But one does what one must."
-Kaalia of the Vast

Volrath's Motion Sensor

Enchantment - Aura

When Volrath's Motion Sensor comes into play, choose target hand controlled by an opponent. Enchanted player balances Volrath's Motion Sensor on the back of that hand.

If Volrath's Motion Sensor falls off the hand, sacrifice Volrath's Motion Sensor and that player loses 3 life.

Volrath's Gardens

Enchantment

, Tap an untapped creature you control: You gain 2 life. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"Watch yourself," warned Starke. "These plants aren't nice when they're hungry."

Volrath's Dungeon

Enchantment

Pay 5 life: Destroy Volrath's Dungeon. Any player may activate this ability but only during his or her turn.

Discard a card: Target player puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Volrath's Curse

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. That creature's controller may sacrifice a permanent for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

: Return Volrath's Curse to its owner's hand.

Volition Reins

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant permanent

When Volition Reins enters the battlefield, if enchanted permanent is tapped, untap it.

You control enchanted permanent.

"Glorifying the will is a mistake. It is simply one more force to be mastered."

Volcanic Strength

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has mountainwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

The mountains bend to no one.

Visions of Brutality

Enchantment - Aura

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't block.

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, its controller loses that much life.

Viscerid Armor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

: Return Viscerid Armor to its owner's hand.

A fallen Viscerid's only tribute is to be worn by a comrade.

Virulent Plague

Enchantment

Creature tokens get -2/-2.

"This pestilence robs us of glorious death in battle. We starve to death with full bellies and drown trying to slake our unnatural thirst."
-Kerai Hatesinger, Kolaghan warrior

Viridian Revel

Enchantment

Whenever an artifact is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you may draw a card.

"Let them have their revel. Soon those who won't submit will be turned. Those who won't be turned will die."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Viridian Harvest

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

When enchanted artifact is put into a graveyard, you gain 6 life.

"In the midst of horror beyond imagining, I still see things that lift my heart."
-Ezuri

Viper's Kiss

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

"I could heal a snakebite. Looks like you got bitten by a constellation."
-Aescalos, healer of Pharika

Vineweft

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

: Return Vineweft from your graveyard to your hand.

Fortified by the wilds.

Vile Requiem

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Vile Requiem.

, Sacrifice Vile Requiem: Destroy up to X target nonblack creatures, where X is the number of verse counters on Vile Requiem. They can't be regenerated.

Vile Consumption

Enchantment

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay 1 life."

The plague moved faster than an army and was far more deadly.

Vigilante Justice

Enchantment

Whenever a Human enters the battlefield under your control, Vigilante Justice deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

It begins as a whisper and ends with the red roar of fire.

Vigilance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

"Put a spear in a peasant's hands, and you have an expendable troop. Put a purpose in his heart, and you win a warrior."
-Sensei Golden-Tail

Vigil for the Lost

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain X life.

"As she grew cold in my arms, I swore an oath that her funeral pyre would be dwarfed by a bonfire of our enemies."

Vicious Shadows

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, you may have Vicious Shadows deal damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"Thrashes of the ancient past still linger in spirit and shadow, desperate to sink their claws into our souls."
-Rakka Mar

Veteran's Voice

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Tap enchanted creature: Target creature other than the creature tapped this way gets +2/+1 until end of turn. Activate this ability only if enchanted creature is untapped.

"Good soldiers rely first upon their training, then upon their instincts." -King Darien of Kjeldor

Vernal Equinox

Enchantment

Any player may cast creature and enchantment cards as though they had flash.

Vernal Bloom

Enchantment

Whenever a Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Spring breathes the magic of new life.