Escape Routes

Enchantment

: Return target white or black creature you control to its owner's hand.

"I'll get you to safety-or whatever passes for safety these days."
-Urborg ferry pilot

Planeswalker's Mischief

Enchantment

: Target opponent reveals a card at random from his or her hand. If it's an instant or sorcery card, exile it. You may cast it without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.) At the beginning of the next end step, if you haven't cast it, return it to its owner's hand. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Planeswalker's Scorn

Enchantment

: Target opponent reveals a card at random from his or her hand. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the revealed card's converted mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Deadapult

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a Zombie: Deadapult deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Nothing ruins your day like a blazing zombie."
-Tahngarth

Insolence

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, Insolence deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.

"Sacrificing mortal dragons to satisfy your immortal hunger ends here."
-Darigaaz, to Rith

Planeswalker's Fury

Enchantment

: Target opponent reveals a card at random from his or her hand. Planeswalker's Fury deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to that player. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Planeswalker's Favor

Enchantment

: Target opponent reveals a card at random from his or her hand. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the revealed card's converted mana cost.

Freyalise strengthens her faithful.

Destructive Flow

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a nonbasic land.

Stage two of the Phyrexian invasion included the complete alteration of Dominaria's landscape.

Dralnu's Crusade

Enchantment

Goblin creatures get +1/+1.

All Goblins are black and are Zombies in addition to their other creature types.

"Don't you agree that mogg intellects are improved by zombification?"
-Lord Dralnu

Keldon Twilight

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's end step, if no creatures attacked this turn, that player sacrifices a creature he or she controlled since the beginning of the turn.

Phyrexian Tyranny

Enchantment

Whenever a player draws a card, that player loses 2 life unless he or she pays .

"He is Yawgmoth's reward to me. I shall kill him a hundred times a day."
-Crovax, to Ertai

Dega Sanctuary

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a black or red permanent, you gain 2 life. If you control a black permanent and a red permanent, you gain 4 life instead.

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.

Foul Presence

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and has ": Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn."

The Phyrexians have one word that means both "evolution" and "pain."

Necra Sanctuary

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a green or white permanent, target player loses 1 life. If you control a green permanent and a white permanent, that player loses 3 life instead.

Bloodfire Infusion

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

, Sacrifice enchanted creature: Bloodfire Infusion deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to each creature.

Raka Sanctuary

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a white or blue permanent, Raka Sanctuary deals 1 damage to target creature. If you control a white permanent and a blue permanent, Raka Sanctuary deals 3 damage to that creature instead.

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.

Ana Sanctuary

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a blue or black permanent, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If you control a blue permanent and a black permanent, that creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn instead.

Symbiotic Deployment

Enchantment

Skip your draw step.

, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Draw a card.

"You know your orders. I know your hearts. Now the stronghold will know defeat."
-Eladamri

Goblin Trenches

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a land: Put two 1/1 red and white Goblin Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

The ground rose and formed into thousands of tiny warriors. This fight was far from over.

Overgrown Estate

Enchantment

Sacrifice a land: You gain 3 life.

The decay of Crovax's ancestral home matched the state of his soul.

Pernicious Deed

Enchantment

, Sacrifice Pernicious Deed: Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with converted mana cost X or less.

"Yawgmoth," Freyalise whispered as she set the bomb, "now you will pay for your treachery."

Quicksilver Dagger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target player. You draw a card."

The dwarves call their quicksilver techniques "improvisational weaponsmithing."

Soul Link

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

They danced like puppets to a tune only Yawgmoth could hear.

Floating Shield

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As Floating Shield enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Floating Shield.

Sacrifice Floating Shield: Target creature gains protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

Mortiphobia

Enchantment

, Discard a card: Exile target card from a graveyard.

, Sacrifice Mortiphobia: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Shade's Form

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."

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

Pyromania

Enchantment

, Discard a card at random: Pyromania deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

, Sacrifice Pyromania: Pyromania deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Narcissism

Enchantment

, Discard a card: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

, Sacrifice Narcissism: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Solitary Confinement

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Solitary Confinement unless you discard a card.

Skip your draw step.

You have shroud. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Spirit Cairn

Enchantment

Whenever a player discards a card, you may pay . If you do, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

It marks the border between here and hereafter.

Unquestioned Authority

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Unquestioned Authority enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has protection from creatures.

"Only the Ancestor should be revered."
-Mystic heretic

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.

Planar Chaos

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, sacrifice Planar Chaos.

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player flips a coin. If he or she loses the flip, counter that spell.

Elephant Guide

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

When enchanted creature dies, put a 3/3 green Elephant creature token onto the battlefield.

Nature's strength outlives the strong.

Astral Slide

Enchantment

Whenever a player cycles a card, you may exile target creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"The hum of the universe is never off-key."
-Mystic elder

Convalescent Care

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you gain 3 life and draw a card.

Enlightenment comes most swiftly at life's end.

Sandskin

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by enchanted creature.

"Those who live by the sword will die by the sword. I choose to do neither."

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 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

Aggravated Assault

Enchantment

: Untap all creatures you control. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

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

Elvish Guidance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

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

"Old home never forgotten, new home ours forever."

Enchantress's Presence

Enchantment

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, draw a card.

"The wise learn from successes as well as mistakes."

Overwhelming Instinct

Enchantment

Whenever you attack with three or more creatures, draw a card.

The biggest difference between a victory and a massacre is which side you're on.

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

Faces of the Past

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, tap all untapped creatures that share a creature type with it or untap all tapped creatures that share a creature type with it.

The ties that bind can also strangle.

Pemmin's Aura

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Untap enchanted creature.

: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn.

: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

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

Unspeakable Symbol

Enchantment

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

The symbols are spread throughout Aphetto, marking sites where minions of the Raven Guild and the Cabal can seek refuge.

Sulfuric Vortex

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Sulfuric Vortex deals 2 damage to that player.

If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.

Alpha Status

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares a creature type with it.

The best leaders are made by their followers.

Domineer

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact creature

You control enchanted artifact creature.

Since they haven't seen their original master for millennia, golems are eager to take orders from anyone.

Necrogen Mists

Enchantment

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

Mephidross filled with roars of fury and wails of despair as the leonin fought to keep their memories from being pulled into the mists.

Relic Bane

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

Enchanted artifact has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life."

A sword that has seen cowardice in battle exacts the price of honor from its wielder.

Screams from Within

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1.

When enchanted creature dies, return Screams from Within from your graveyard to the battlefield.

There's no escaping an enemy that lives inside your head.

Disruption Aura

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

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

Vedalken weapons sold to outsiders are as dependable as the vedalken themselves.

Eyes of the Watcher

Enchantment

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay . If you do, scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Ion Storm

Enchantment

, Remove a +1/+1 counter or a charge counter from a permanent you control: Ion Storm deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

When enough artifacts lie too long in the same place, their magical radiation weakens reality, opening rifts of unpredictable destructive power.

Rite of Passage

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it. (The damage is dealt before the counter is put on.)

Every scar is a lesson, every battle a test of what you have learned.

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

Field of Reality

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked by Spirits.

: Return Field of Reality to its owner's hand.

"The scholars of the Minamo School understood the veil between their world and that of the kami. Moreover, they knew how to exploit it."
-Observations of the Kami War

Oni Possession

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

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

Enchanted creature is a Demon Spirit.

Honden of Infinite Rage

Legendary Enchantment - Shrine

At the beginning of your upkeep, Honden of Infinite Rage deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Shrines you control.

To the sorrow of all, its rage became focused on those who once stoked it.

Heartbeat of Spring

Enchantment

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana to his or her mana pool of any type that land produced.

"It is true that we monks hold the key to paradise, but most don't understand that the paradise we guard is the one within."
-Diary of Azusa

Serpent Skin

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Threads of Disloyalty

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature with converted mana cost 2 or less

You control enchanted creature.

"Over time, Konda grew ever more suspicious, fearing even his most loyal allies were being manipulated by unseen hands."
-The History of Kamigawa

Blessing of Leeches

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.

: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Mark of the Oni

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no Demons, sacrifice Mark of the Oni.

"As more oni walked Kamigawa, more darkness infested its inhabitants' souls."
-The History of Kamigawa

Kumano's Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

If a creature dealt damage by enchanted creature this turn would die, exile it instead.

Lifegift

Enchantment

Whenever a land enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

"Walk the world and you'll find your soul; search your soul and you'll discover the world."
-Diary of Azusa

Promise of Bunrei

Enchantment

When a creature you control dies, sacrifice Promise of Bunrei. If you do, put four 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"I am not afraid to die today nor afraid of what death will bring."

Freed from the Real

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Tap enchanted creature.

: Untap enchanted creature.

When a strong mind moves, form and energy shift to heed it.

Captive Flame

Enchantment

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

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

Molting Skin

Enchantment

Return Molting Skin to its owner's hand: Regenerate target creature.

"We have learned much from the orochi."

Light of Sanction

Enchantment

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

The Legion looks after its own.

Copy Enchantment

Enchantment

You may have Copy Enchantment enter the battlefield as a copy of any enchantment on the battlefield.

Simic mages create redundant backups of their experiments to reduce the consequences of catastrophe.

Halcyon Glaze

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a creature spell, Halcyon Glaze becomes a 4/4 Illusion creature with flying until end of turn. It's still an enchantment.

"Earth to æther, window to wonder, stillness to the sky."
-Glazing incantation

Galvanic Arc

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Galvanic Arc enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Enchanted creature has first strike.

Moldervine Cloak

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Golgari Germination

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

The Golgari don't bury their dead. They plant them.

Searing Meditation

Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, Searing Meditation deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"When I meditate I see the world as it should be. All that does not fit, I remove."
-Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Guardian's Magemark

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1.

The soldier moved with fluid poise, his awareness extending far beyond five senses.

Infiltrator's Magemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1 and can't be blocked except by creatures with defender.

"In secrecy is strength. None can oppose one who cannot be found."
-Szadek

Hissing Miasma

Enchantment

Whenever a creature attacks you, its controller loses 1 life.

All that remains when the fog finishes are neat piles of polished bones, like acid-etched glass. Orzhov servants collect them to make altar chimes.

Necromancer's Magemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1.

If a creature you control that's enchanted would die, return it to its owner's hand instead.

Fencer's Magemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1 and have first strike.

"The first blow is the most important. It often negates the need for a second."
-Agrus Kos

Hypervolt Grasp

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

: Return Hypervolt Grasp to its owner's hand.

Zap on. Zap off.

Beastmaster's Magemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1.

Whenever a creature you control that's enchanted becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

Pillory of the Sleepless

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life."

Nettling Curse

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

: Enchanted creature attacks this turn if able.

"I call them ‘Poke' and ‘Prod.'"
-Chagrach, Rakdos cursemage

Pain Magnification

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent is dealt 3 or more damage by a single source, that player discards a card.

The Rakdos make sure their victims remember their pain-or at least give up a little bit of their sanity in order to forget.

Plumes of Peace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Forecast - , Reveal Plumes of Peace from your hand: Tap target creature. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Shielding Plax

Enchantment - Aura

( can be paid with either or .)

Enchant creature

When Shielding Plax enters the battlefield, draw a card.

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

Griffin Guide

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

When enchanted creature dies, put a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Opal Guardian

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Guardian is an enchantment, Opal Guardian becomes a 3/4 Gargoyle creature with flying and protection from red.

It was a moment in time, cast in stone-a moment whose time had come again.

Pentarch Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As Pentarch Ward enters the battlefield, choose a color.

When Pentarch Ward enters the battlefield, draw a card.

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

Ophidian Eye

Enchantment - Aura

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Enchant creature

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

Paradox Haze

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant player

At the beginning of enchanted player's first upkeep each turn, that player gets an additional upkeep step after this step.

"Keep your pace steady through the haze, lest you step on the heels of your future self or trip the self a moment behind you."
-Teferi