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."

Amok

Enchantment

, Discard a card at random: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Crovax's rage was horrifying. Within moments only blood and shreds of flesh remained of the shapeshifter.

Flowstone Blade

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

"Remember the fable of the elf who came upon a cave of gold. In trying to free the largest piece, she was crushed by its weight."
-Karn, silver golem

Heat of Battle

Enchantment

Whenever a creature blocks, Heat of Battle deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

"Takara, it's me!" shouted Starke. It was no use-she obeyed Volrath.

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

Conviction

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

: Return Conviction to its owner's hand.

It was not the minotaur's shoulders but his soul that bore the heaviest weight.

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.

Pursuit of Knowledge

Enchantment

If you would draw a card, you may put a study counter on Pursuit of Knowledge instead.

Remove three study counters from Pursuit of Knowledge, Sacrifice Pursuit of Knowledge: Draw seven cards.

Samite Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, prevent that damage."

Knit bone, darn flesh,
Stitch skin, weave breath.
-Samite healing ritual

Convalescence

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 10 or less life, you gain 1 life.

Selenia had hurt Mirri terribly, but injuries of the flesh could be treated. The wounds she had torn in Crovax's soul would never close.

Limited Resources

Enchantment

When Limited Resources enters the battlefield, each player chooses five lands he or she controls and sacrifices the rest.

Players can't play lands as long as ten or more lands are on the battlefield.

Oath of Lieges

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player who controls more lands than he or she does and is his or her opponent. The first player may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle his or her library.

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.

Reconnaissance

Enchantment

: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it.

War favors the informed.

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.

Cunning

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

When enchanted creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice Cunning at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

". . . Dry-walkers die
We feed on sweet flesh . . . ."
-Rootwater Saga

Mind Over Matter

Enchantment

Discard a card: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Lyna turned to the figure beside her. "They're gone. What now?"
"As ever," said Urza, "we wait."

Oath of Scholars

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player who has more cards in hand than he or she does and is his or her opponent. The first player may discard his or her hand and draw three cards.

Cursed Flesh

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

A farewell to arms . . . and feet . . . and legs . . . .

Oath of Ghouls

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player whose graveyard has fewer creature cards in it than his or her graveyard does and is his or her opponent. The first player may return a creature card from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

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

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.

Dizzying Gaze

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

: Enchanted creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

"When I cut down my angel I only started my fall."
-Crovax

Oath of Mages

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player who has more life than he or she does and is his or her opponent. The first player may have Oath of Mages deal 1 damage to the second player.

Onslaught

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a creature spell, tap target creature.

The last thing to go through the mogg's mind was its teeth.

Pandemonium

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, that creature's controller may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature or player of his or her choice.

"If we cannot live proudly, we die so!"
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Paroxysm

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player reveals the top card of his or her library. If that card is a land card, destroy that creature. Otherwise, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Spellshock

Enchantment

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

A snap of fingers, a snap of teeth.

Bequeathal

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, you draw two cards.

"On my death, I give you this treasure: the knowledge that life is hard, yet too soon past."
-Dal funeral rite

Elven Palisade

Enchantment

Sacrifice a Forest: Target attacking creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

"Volrath is not the only one who can shape this world to serve him."
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Manabond

Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, you may reveal your hand and put all land cards from it onto the battlefield. If you do, discard your hand.

Oath of Druids

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player who controls more creatures than he or she does and is his or her opponent. The first player may reveal cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a creature card. If he or she does, that player puts that card onto the battlefield and all other cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard.

Predatory Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.

Hunger growls, never purrs.

Song of Serenity

Enchantment

Creatures that are enchanted can't attack or block.

Heartwood brings peace in great symphonies where dryads conduct the trees through every note.

Survival of the Fittest

Enchantment

, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Absolute Grace

Enchantment

All creatures have protection from black.

In pursuit of Urza, the Phyrexians sent countless foul legions into Serra's realm. Though beaten back, they left it tainted with uncleansable evil.

Absolute Law

Enchantment

All creatures have protection from red.

The strength of law is unwavering. It is an iron bar in a world of water.

Brilliant Halo

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

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

Defensive Formation

Enchantment

Rather than the attacking player, you assign the combat damage of each creature attacking you. You can divide that creature's combat damage as you choose among any of the creatures blocking it.

"Your enemies will pound upon the door of your defenses, but only you shall have the key, and it is the key of life."
-Song of All, canto 873

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.

Opal Archangel

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Archangel is an enchantment, Opal Archangel becomes a 5/5 Angel creature with flying and vigilance.

Opal Caryatid

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Caryatid is an enchantment, Opal Caryatid becomes a 2/2 Soldier creature.

Opal Gargoyle

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Gargoyle is an enchantment, Opal Gargoyle becomes a 2/2 Gargoyle creature with flying.

Opal Titan

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Titan is an enchantment, Opal Titan becomes a 4/4 Giant creature with protection from each of that spell's colors.

Remembrance

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that creature, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Rune of Protection: Artifacts

Enchantment

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

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

Rune of Protection: Black

Enchantment

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

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

Rune of Protection: Blue

Enchantment

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

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

Rune of Protection: Green

Enchantment

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

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

Rune of Protection: Lands

Enchantment

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

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

Rune of Protection: Red

Enchantment

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

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

Rune of Protection: White

Enchantment

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

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

Serra's Hymn

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Serra's Hymn.

Sacrifice Serra's Hymn: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of target creatures and/or players, divided as you choose, where X is the number of verse counters on Serra's Hymn.

Serra's Liturgy

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Serra's Liturgy.

, Sacrifice Serra's Liturgy: Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments, where X is the number of verse counters on Serra's Liturgy.

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

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

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.

Energy Field

Enchantment

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you by sources you don't control.

When a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, sacrifice Energy Field.

Hermetic Study

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

"Books can be replaced; a prize student cannot. Be patient."
-Urza, to Barrin

Launch

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

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

Lilting Refrain

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Lilting Refrain.

Sacrifice Lilting Refrain: Counter target spell unless its controller pays , where X is the number of verse counters on Lilting Refrain.

Lingering Mirage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is an Island.

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

Birds frozen in flight. Sea turned to glass. Tolaria hidden in a mirror.

Pendrell Flux

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay its mana cost."

Devoured by the mists, Tolaria was stuck in time, trapped between two eternal heartbeats.

Power Taint

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant enchantment

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, that player loses 2 life unless he or she pays .

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

Recantation

Enchantment

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

, Sacrifice Recantation: Return up to X target permanents to their owners' hands, where X is the number of verse counters on Recantation.

Veil of Birds

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veil of Birds is an enchantment, Veil of Birds becomes a 1/1 Bird creature with flying.

When wind marries sky, even the bride's veil sings her praises.

Veiled Apparition

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Apparition is an enchantment, Veiled Apparition becomes a 3/3 Illusion creature with flying and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Veiled Apparition unless you pay ."

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 Sentry

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Sentry is an enchantment, Veiled Sentry becomes an Illusion creature with power and toughness each equal to that spell's converted mana cost.

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.)

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.

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.

Despondency

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-0.

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

Diabolic Servitude

Enchantment

When Diabolic Servitude enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

When the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude dies, exile it and return Diabolic Servitude to its owner's hand.

When Diabolic Servitude leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude.

Discordant Dirge

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Discordant Dirge.

, Sacrifice Discordant Dirge: Look at target opponent's hand and choose up to X cards from it, where X is the number of verse counters on Discordant Dirge. That player discards those cards.

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

Parasitic Bond

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Parasitic Bond deals 2 damage to that player.

"All bonds are parasitic. Only rulership is pure."
-Gix, Yawgmoth praetor

Planar Void

Enchantment

Whenever another card is put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile that card.

"Planeswalking isn't about walking. It's about falling and screaming."
-Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast

Sicken

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1.

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

Urza dared to attack Phyrexia. Slowly, it retaliated.

Vampiric Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Whenever a creature dealt damage by enchanted creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

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.

Antagonism

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's end step, Antagonism deals 2 damage to that player unless one of his or her opponents was dealt damage this turn.

Bravado

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control.

"We drive the dragons from our home. Why should we fear you?"
-Fire Eye, viashino bey

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

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.

Fiery Mantle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Rumbling Crescendo

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Rumbling Crescendo.

, Sacrifice Rumbling Crescendo: Destroy up to X target lands, where X is the number of verse counters on Rumbling Crescendo.

Scald

Enchantment

Whenever a player taps an Island for mana, Scald deals 1 damage to that player.

"Shiv may be surrounded by water, but the mountains go far deeper."
-Fire Eye, viashino bey

Sneak Attack

Enchantment

: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice the creature at the beginning of the next end step.

"Nothin' beat surprise-'cept rock."

Sulfuric Vapors

Enchantment

If a red spell would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 1 to that permanent or player instead.

It was the dragons who first learned to chase their prey into the vapors before igniting them.

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.

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.

Crosswinds

Enchantment

Creatures with flying get -2/-0.

Harbin's ornithopter had been trapped for two days within the currents of the storm. When the skies cleared, all he could see was a horizon of trees.

Exploration

Enchantment

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

The first explorers found Argoth a storehouse of natural wealth-towering forests grown over rich veins of ore.

Fortitude

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate enchanted creature.

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

Gaea's Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has trample.

: Regenerate enchanted creature.

The forest rose to the battle, not to save the people but to save itself.

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.

Hidden Ancients

Enchantment

When an opponent casts an enchantment spell, if Hidden Ancients is an enchantment, Hidden Ancients becomes a 5/5 Treefolk creature.

The only alert the invaders had was the rustling of leaves on a day without wind.