Air Bladder

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

Enchanted creature can block only creatures with flying.

Random mutations among Rootwater merfolk were common-and disturbing.

Æther Barrier

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a creature spell, that player sacrifices a permanent unless he or she pays .

"Creatures fade in and out of existence. It's an unfortunate side effect. The losses are tolerable."
-Belbe

Fanatical Devotion

Enchantment

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate target creature.

The Oracle told Eladamri he would save his people by abandoning them. His followers adopted that ideal.

Flowstone Surge

Enchantment

Creatures you control get +1/-1.

The army was never at a loss for weapons; Crovax was their forge.

Laccolith Rig

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature. If you do, the first creature assigns no combat damage this turn.

Lashknife

Enchantment - Aura

If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay Lashknife's mana cost.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has first strike.

Those it won't scare, it scars.

Mana Cache

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's end step, put a charge counter on Mana Cache for each untapped land that player controls.

Remove a charge counter from Mana Cache: Add to your mana pool. Any player may activate this ability but only during his or her turn before the end step.

Noble Stand

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control blocks, you gain 2 life.

Soldiers will always endanger their lives to defend many other lives.

Overlaid Terrain

Enchantment

As Overlaid Terrain enters the battlefield, sacrifice all lands you control.

Lands you control have ": Add two mana of any one color to your mana pool."

One must reap before one can sow.

Parallax Dementia

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Fading 1 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with one fade counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Enchanted creature gets +3/+2.

When Parallax Dementia leaves the battlefield, destroy enchanted creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Parallax Nexus

Enchantment

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Remove a fade counter from Parallax Nexus: Target opponent exiles a card from his or her hand. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

When Parallax Nexus leaves the battlefield, each player returns to his or her hand all cards he or she owns exiled with Parallax Nexus.

Parallax Tide

Enchantment

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Remove a fade counter from Parallax Tide: Exile target land.

When Parallax Tide leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards he or she owns exiled with Parallax Tide.

Parallax Wave

Enchantment

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Remove a fade counter from Parallax Wave: Exile target creature.

When Parallax Wave leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards he or she owns exiled with Parallax Wave.

Rising Waters

Enchantment

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

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player untaps a land he or she controls.

Rising waters, sinking hope.

Saproling Burst

Enchantment

Fading 7 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with seven fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Remove a fade counter from Saproling Burst: Put a green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on Saproling Burst."

When Saproling Burst leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens put onto the battlefield with Saproling Burst. They can't be regenerated.

Saproling Cluster

Enchantment

, Discard a card: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield. Any player may activate this ability.

Seal of Cleansing

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Cleansing: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I am the purifier, the light that clears all shadows."
-Seal inscription

Seal of Doom

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Doom: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

"I am the banisher, the ill will that snuffs the final candle."
-Seal inscription

Seal of Fire

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Fire: Seal of Fire deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"I am the romancer, the passion that consumes the flesh."
-Seal inscription

Seal of Removal

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Removal: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"I am the unraveler, the loosened thread that will not hold."
-Seal inscription

Seal of Strength

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Strength: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"I am the feeder, the morsel that revives the starving."
-Seal inscription

Spiritual Asylum

Enchantment

Creatures and lands you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

When a creature you control attacks, sacrifice Spiritual Asylum.

Trapped in safety is still trapped.

Ancestral Mask

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each other enchantment on the battlefield.

The masks, like the ancient trees they're grown from, lend strength to the dryads.

Armistice

Enchantment

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

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

Black Market

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add to your mana pool for each charge counter on Black Market.

Briar Patch

Enchantment

Whenever a creature attacks you, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn.

As easily as the dryads could close a fist, so could the branches and underbrush entangle.

Buoyancy

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

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

Cave Sense

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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.

Cho-Manno's Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

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

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

Close Quarters

Enchantment

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

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

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.

Conspiracy

Enchantment

As Conspiracy enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield, creature spells you control, and creatures you control are the chosen type.

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

Customs Depot

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay . If you do, draw a card, then discard a card.

A bribe is always faster than filling out paperwork.

Diplomatic Immunity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Shroud (This permanent can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Enchanted creature has shroud.

Embargo

Enchantment

Nonland permanents don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

Ferocity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked, you may put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"You lot go on ahead. I'll keep killing them until it sticks."
-Tahngarth

Flaming Sword

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

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

"It's not Talruum crystal, but I must admit-it gets the job done."
-Tahngarth

Food Chain

Enchantment

Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is the exiled creature's converted mana cost plus one. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Foster

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay . If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

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

Game Preserve

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of his or her library. If all cards revealed this way are creature cards, put those cards onto the battlefield under their owners' control.

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.

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

Insubordination

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the end step of enchanted creature's controller, Insubordination deals 2 damage to that player unless that creature attacked this turn.

Intimidation

Enchantment

Creatures you control have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"If they move, kill them. In fact, kill one now to make sure the other understands."

Inviolability

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature.

A soldier's faith is magic strong enough to protect against any blade.

Kyren Negotiations

Enchantment

Tap an untapped creature you control: Kyren Negotiations deals 1 damage to target player.

Kyren goblins always speak in questions and never allow wrong answers.

Ley Line

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put a +1/+1 counter on target creature of his or her choice.

"I can feel the strength of the entire forest."
-Gerrard

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

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.

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

Muzzle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Clenched teeth do not bite.
-Cho-Arrim saying

Pretender's Claim

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked, tap all lands defending player controls.

The surest way to lose your holdings is to plead for them in Mercadia City's courts.

Putrefaction

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a green or white spell, that player discards a card.

"Do you want to be alive or whole?"
-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."

Security Detail

Enchantment

: Put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only if you control no creatures and only once each turn.

Snake Pit

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a blue or black spell, you may put a 1/1 green Snake creature token onto the battlefield.

If the ground is smooth, the way will be rough.
-Deepwood saying

Soothsaying

Enchantment

: Shuffle your library.

: Look at the top X cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

The vizier's wisdom proved invaluable in untangling the Mercadian knot of lies.

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.

Spidersilk Armor

Enchantment

Creatures you control get +0/+1 and have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.)

It hardly weighs anything, but it takes all day to remove.

Spiritual Focus

Enchantment

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard a card, you gain 2 life and you may draw a card.

Squeeze

Enchantment

Sorcery spells cost more to cast.

Any pirate would prefer Rishada's swift and cruel justice to Saprazzo's patient punishments.

Stamina

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has vigilance.

Sacrifice Stamina: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Statecraft

Enchantment

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

"Inside these walls, peace; outside, sharks. You choose."
-Saprazzan vizier

Sustenance

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a land: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Like the dryads, the forest itself willingly gives up some of its life for the sake of the future.

Territorial Dispute

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Territorial Dispute unless you sacrifice a land.

Players can't play lands.

Bit by bit, Mercadia City had forced the Cho-Arrim from their ancestral lands. They would be pushed no further.

Tiger Claws

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

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

Cho-Arrim martial artists emulate the beasts of their home.

Unnatural Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Unnatural Hunger deals damage to that player equal to that creature's power unless he or she sacrifices another creature.

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.

Vernal Equinox

Enchantment

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

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.

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.

Archery Training

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an arrow counter on Archery Training.

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature, where X is the number of arrow counters on Archery Training."

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

Æther Sting

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, Æther Sting deals 1 damage to that player.

When Gatha fell, he was called to account for each abomination he created.

Capashen Standard

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

, Sacrifice Capashen Standard: Draw a card.

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

Carnival of Souls

Enchantment

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

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

Chime of Night

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Disappear

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Return enchanted creature and Disappear to their owners' hands.

If at first you don't succeed, run away and hide.

Dying Wail

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, target player discards two cards.

This is a world of spiteful wasps that sting and kill even as they die.

Festering Wound

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an infection counter on Festering Wound.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Festering Wound deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of infection counters on Festering Wound.

Goblin Festival

Enchantment

: Goblin Festival deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Flip a coin. If you lose the flip, choose one of your opponents. That player gains control of Goblin Festival.

"What are we celebratin' again?"

Illuminated Wings

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

, Sacrifice Illuminated Wings: Draw a card.

For a moment, Urza thought not of war and destruction, but of the freedom of the skies.

Incendiary

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Incendiary.

When enchanted creature dies, Incendiary deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the number of fuse counters on Incendiary.

Lurking Jackals

Enchantment

When an opponent has 10 or less life, if Lurking Jackals is an enchantment, it becomes a 3/2 Hound creature.

Often it's not the hunter or the hunted but the opportunist who thrives in Rath.

Mark of Fury

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has haste.

At the beginning of the end step, return Mark of Fury to its owner's hand.

Many Keldon warriors bear the mark of intentional insanity.

Mask of Law and Grace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has protection from black and from red.

The archangels zealously drove Serra's light into every corner of their new home as if their creator still commanded them.

Mental Discipline

Enchantment

, Discard a card: Draw a card.

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

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.

Opalescence

Enchantment

Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost. It's still an enchantment.

Pattern of Rebirth

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller may search his or her library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield. If that player does, he or she shuffles his or her library.

Private Research

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on Private Research.

When enchanted creature dies, draw a card for each page counter on Private Research.

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.

Sigil of Sleep

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a player, return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand.

Arrows are only one way to remove an enemy.

Treachery

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Treachery enters the battlefield, untap up to five lands.

You control enchanted creature.

"The academy educates; I employ. It's a perfect arrangement."
-Gatha, Tolarian renegade

Twisted Experiment

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/-1.

Gatha showed remarkable prowess in increasing his subjects' stature. Their lifespans, however, were another matter.