Orcish Mine

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Orcish Mine enters the battlefield with three ore counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, remove an ore counter from Orcish Mine.

When the last ore counter is removed from Orcish Mine, destroy enchanted land and Orcish Mine deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

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

Dystopia

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep-Pay 1 life. (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, that player sacrifices a green or white permanent.

Krovikan Plague

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant non-Wall creature you control

When Krovikan Plague enters the battlefield, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Tap enchanted creature: Krovikan Plague deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Put a -0/-1 counter on enchanted creature. Activate this ability only if enchanted creature is untapped.

Phyrexian Boon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 as long as it's black. Otherwise, it gets -1/-2.

"Phyrexia's touch is painful to all but the blackest of hearts."
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

False Demise

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

"Far too many of our missing ‘dead' seem to be turning up in Varchild's ranks!"
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Tidal Control

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.)

Pay 2 life or : Counter target red or green spell. Any player may activate this ability.

Bestial Fury

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Bestial Fury enters the battlefield, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked, it gets +4/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Noble Steeds

Enchantment

: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"Only an animal born in the wild has sufficient heart to be a true Knight's steed."
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Frozen Solid

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

"Guard, fetch me a mallet."
-Heidar, Rimewind master

Phyrexian Etchings

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 end step, draw a card for each age counter on Phyrexian Etchings.

When Phyrexian Etchings is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose 2 life for each age counter on it.

Surging Might

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Forsaken Wastes

World Enchantment

Players can't gain life.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life.

Whenever Forsaken Wastes becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.

Thirst

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Thirst enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Thirst unless you pay .

The first of the Thousand Deaths.

Cycle of Life

Enchantment

Return Cycle of Life to its owner's hand: Target creature you cast this turn becomes 0/1 until your next upkeep. At the beginning of your next upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Thus does nature assert herself.

Hall of Gemstone

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses a color. Until end of turn, lands tapped for mana produce mana of the chosen color instead of any other color.

Roots of Life

Enchantment

As Roots of Life enters the battlefield, choose Island or Swamp.

Whenever a land of the chosen type an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

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

Mangara's Equity

Enchantment

As Mangara's Equity enters the battlefield, choose black or red.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Mangara's Equity unless you pay .

Whenever a creature of the chosen color deals damage to you or a white creature you control, Mangara's Equity deals that much damage to that creature.

Prismatic Circle

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.)

As Prismatic Circle enters the battlefield, choose a color.

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

Ritual of Steel

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Ritual of Steel enters the battlefield, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.

"Our soldiers are blessed with lizard scales as hard and cold as steel."
-Sidar Jabari

Sacred Mesa

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Sacred Mesa unless you sacrifice a Pegasus.

: Put a 1/1 white Pegasus creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"Do not go there, do not go / unless you rise on wings, unless you walk on hooves."
-"Song to the Sun," Femeref song

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

Grim Feast

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, Grim Feast deals 1 damage to you.

Whenever a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you gain life equal to its toughness.

"Hmmm-midnight snack."

Reparations

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell that targets you or a creature you control, you may draw a card.

"Sorry I burned down your village. Here's some gold."

Unfulfilled Desires

Enchantment

, Pay 1 life: Draw a card, then discard a card.

"Like Day from Night, / I'll live my life apart from you, just glimpsing you across the sky, / because you cannot change, my dear, and nor can I."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

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.

Blanket of Night

Enchantment

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

"Kaervek imprisoned Mangara out of jealousy, but he taints Jamuraa simply out of spite."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Desolation

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, each player who tapped a land for mana this turn sacrifices a land. Desolation deals 2 damage to each player who sacrificed a Plains this way.

"Kill a creature, destroy the present. Kill the land, destroy the future."
-Kaervek

Necromancy

Enchantment

You may cast Necromancy 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.

When Necromancy enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Teferi's Realm

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses artifact, creature, land, or non-Aura enchantment. All nontoken permanents of that type phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during his or her next untap step.)

"Fire is dead. Water has killed him."
-From The Stories of Nature

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

Katabatic Winds

Enchantment

Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)

Creatures with flying can't attack or block, and their activated abilities with in their costs can't be activated.

Wind will win, whatever we wish.

Heat Wave

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.)

Blue creatures can't block creatures you control.

Nonblue creatures can't block creatures you control unless their controller pays 1 life for each blocking creature he or she controls.

Equipoise

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, for each land target player controls in excess of the number you control, choose a land he or she controls, then the chosen permanents phase out. Repeat this process for artifacts and creatures. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before that player untaps during his or her next untap step.)

Corrosion

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 upkeep, put a rust counter on each artifact target opponent controls. Then destroy each artifact with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of rust counters on it. Artifacts destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

When Corrosion leaves the battlefield, remove all rust counters from all permanents.

Righteous War

Enchantment

White creatures you control have protection from black.

Black creatures you control have protection from white.

"This is a war without neutrality."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Infernal Tribute

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a nontoken permanent: Draw a card.

"I would not barter my soul for any of the filth that they called power. So they took it from me and damned me to solitude."
-Crovax

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.

Downdraft

Enchantment

: Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Sacrifice Downdraft: Downdraft deals 2 damage to each creature with flying.

Heat Stroke

Enchantment

At end of combat, destroy each creature that blocked or was blocked this turn.

"Stroke of heat or stroke of blade. Choose your fate, traitor."
-Maraxus of Keld, to Starke

Empyrial Armor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.

"An angel appeared in the smoldering skies above the fray, her clothes as flames, her armor as fire."
-"Hymn of Angelfire"

Inner Sanctum

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep-Pay 2 life. (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.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.

"Save me from Maraxus," Starke pleaded, "or condemn me to his wrath. Either way, do not ignore me!"

Dauthi Embrace

Enchantment

: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

"The Dauthi army grows by screams and bounds."
-Lyna, Soltari emissary

Broken Fall

Enchantment

Return Broken Fall to its owner's hand: Regenerate target creature.

"I think I used up all my good luck and all my bad luck in the same fall."
-Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Ancient Runes

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Ancient Runes deals damage to that player equal to the number of artifacts he or she controls.

Ertai volunteered to open the portal. He figured he owed it one.

Hand to Hand

Enchantment

During combat, players can't cast instant spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.

The match between Tahngarth and Greven was close only in the mind of the minotaur.

Hanna's Custody

Enchantment

All artifacts have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

"I protect the Legacy with my life if necessary, for its purpose is far more important than my own."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Orim's Prayer

Enchantment

Whenever one or more creatures attack you, you gain 1 life for each attacking creature.

"As usual, there will be time for prayer only after the worst happens."
-Orim, Samite healer

Bottomless Pit

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

"I'm sure it came with the place. I don't think you build one on purpose."
-Gerrard

Invasion Plans

Enchantment

All creatures block each turn if able.

The attacking player chooses how each creature blocks each turn.

Gerrard studied the globe as Mirri kept watch. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "This is Dominaria!"

Contemplation

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life.

"How fascinating it is to watch the machinations of one's own mind play themselves out."
-Volrath

Hidden Retreat

Enchantment

Put a card from your hand on top of your library: Prevent all damage that would be dealt by target instant or sorcery spell this turn.

After an hour in the hidey-hole, Squee seriously pondered the advantages of danger over boredom.

Penance

Enchantment

Put a card from your hand on top of your library: The next time a black or red source of your choice would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

Shackles

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

: Return Shackles to its owner's hand.

Shackles of gold are still shackles.

Recurring Nightmare

Enchantment

Sacrifice a creature, Return Recurring Nightmare to its owner's hand: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"I am confined by sleep and defined by nightmare."
-Crovax

Spellshock

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a spell, Spellshock deals 2 damage to that player.

A snap of fingers, a snap of teeth.

Opal Acrolith

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Acrolith is an enchantment, Opal Acrolith becomes a 2/4 Soldier creature.

: Opal Acrolith becomes an enchantment.

Attunement

Enchantment

Return Attunement to its owner's hand: Draw three cards, then discard four cards.

"The solution can hide for only so long."
-Urza

Back to Basics

Enchantment

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"A ruler wears a crown while the rest of us wear hats, but which would you rather have when it's raining?"
-Barrin, Principia

Douse

Enchantment

: Counter target red spell.

The academy's libraries were protected by fire-prevention spells. Even after the disaster, the books were intact-though forever sealed in time.

Veiled Crocodile

Enchantment

When a player has no cards in hand, if Veiled Crocodile is an enchantment, Veiled Crocodile becomes a 4/4 Crocodile creature.

Some roads are paved with bad intentions.

Veiled Serpent

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Serpent is an enchantment, Veiled Serpent becomes a 4/4 Serpent creature that can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Contamination

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Contamination unless you sacrifice a creature.

If a land is tapped for mana, it produces instead of any other type and amount.

Lurking Evil

Enchantment

Pay half your life, rounded up: Lurking Evil becomes a 4/4 Horror creature with flying.

"Ash is our air, darkness our flesh."
-Phyrexian Scriptures

Destructive Urge

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a land.

Red sky at night, dragon's delight.

Torch Song

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Torch Song.

, Sacrifice Torch Song: Torch Song deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the number of verse counters on Torch Song.

Greener Pastures

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls more lands than each other player, the player puts a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Retaliation

Enchantment

Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."

A foul, metallic stench clogged Urza's senses. It was then he knew his brother was no more.

Venomous Fangs

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a creature, destroy the other creature.

All the pain of the shattered forest contained in a single drop.

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

Martyr's Cause

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.

Dying is a soldier's talent.

Opal Avenger

Enchantment

When you have 10 or less life, if Opal Avenger is an enchantment, Opal Avenger becomes a 3/5 Soldier creature.

As the sun grew cold in the realm, the statue grew warm.

Opal Champion

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Champion is an enchantment, Opal Champion becomes a 3/3 Knight creature with first strike.

Aura Flux

Enchantment

Other enchantments have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay ."

To some, the Tolarian sunrise was a blinding flash; to others, a lingering glow.

Second Chance

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, sacrifice Second Chance and take an extra turn after this one.

The greatest gift is the opportunity to right one's wrongs.

Slow Motion

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player sacrifices that creature unless he or she pays .

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

Sleeper's Guile

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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

Ghitu War Cry

Enchantment

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

The war cry is not simply a shout but a sacrament.

Rivalry

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls more lands than each other player, Rivalry deals 2 damage to him or her.

The goblins revered it; the viashino defended it. Only Urza understood it.

Mental Discipline

Enchantment

, Discard a card: Draw a card.

Barrin drowned his doubts about Urza's project by delving ever deeper into its details.

Attrition

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

"I will trade life for life with the insurgents. Our resources, unlike theirs, are limitless."
-Davvol, Evincar of Rath

Repercussion

Enchantment

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, Repercussion deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Not all Keld's warriors are found on the battlefield.

Momentum

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a growth counter on Momentum.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each growth counter on Momentum.

Armistice

Enchantment

: You draw a card and target opponent gains 3 life.

We all must profit for peace to last.
-Mercadian saying

Common Cause

Enchantment

Nonartifact creatures get +2/+2 as long as they all share a color.

Mercadia City's troops are at their best when they have no enemy to fight.

Cornered Market

Enchantment

Players can't cast spells with the same name as a nontoken permanent.

Players can't play nonbasic lands with the same name as a nontoken permanent.

Don't step on the livelihood of other vendors, or they may step on you.
-Mercadian saying

Crackdown

Enchantment

Nonwhite creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"There is no place for mercy in defense of our lives."
-Ta-Spon, Cho-Arrim executioner

Moonlit Wake

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life.

"As long as Rushwood glows, no life is ever truly lost."
-Ta-Karnst, Cho-Arrim healer

Righteous Indignation

Enchantment

Whenever a creature blocks a black or red creature, the blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"You are the disease that plagues Mercadia. I am the healer's knife that will cut you out."

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.

High Seas

Enchantment

Red creature spells and green creature spells cost more to cast.

Bend as the wave breaks or it will break you as well.
-Saprazzan saying

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.

Haunted Crossroads

Enchantment

: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

It seemed as if no one wanted them to reach the Henge of Ramos-not even the dead.

Liability

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into a player's graveyard from the battlefield, that player loses 1 life.

Gerrard realized that the helpless woman they'd rescued from Rath was nothing of the sort.

Maggot Therapy

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/-2.

"If this is the cure, I'd hate to see the disease."
-Orim

Soul Channeling

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Driven by masters more terrible than the Mercadians could imagine, the dark overseers would pay any price to keep their shipwrights working.

Furious Assault

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a creature spell, Furious Assault deals 1 damage to target player.

"Does it burn, Saprazzan? Do you wish you had never raised arms against us?"
-Kyren overseer

Magistrate's Veto

Enchantment

White creatures and blue creatures can't block.

The magistrate had been the goblins' puppet for so long that he made the right decisions with little prompting.

Uphill Battle

Enchantment

Creatures played by your opponents enter the battlefield tapped.

Cho-Manno knew he had no choice but to ally with Gerrard. If that's what it took to free his people, he'd pay the price.