Oppression

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.

"Defeating an enemy is not nearly as satisfying as watching one suffer."
-The Western Paladin

Oppressive Rays

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block unless its controller pays .

Activated abilities of enchanted creature cost more to activate.

Oracle's Insight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": Scry 1, then draw a card." (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

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.

Orcish Oriflamme

Enchantment

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Ordeal of Erebos

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Ordeal of Erebos.

When you sacrifice Ordeal of Erebos, target player discards two cards.

Ordeal of Heliod

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Ordeal of Heliod.

When you sacrifice Ordeal of Heliod, you gain 10 life.

Ordeal of Nylea

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Ordeal of Nylea.

When you sacrifice Ordeal of Nylea, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Ordeal of Purphoros

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Ordeal of Purphoros.

When you sacrifice Ordeal of Purphoros, it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Ordeal of Thassa

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Ordeal of Thassa.

When you sacrifice Ordeal of Thassa, draw two cards.

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

Oubliette

Enchantment

When Oubliette enters the battlefield, exile target creature and all Auras attached to it. Note the number and kind of counters that were on that creature.

When Oubliette leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control tapped with the noted number and kind of counters on it. If you do, return the exiled Aura cards to the battlefield under their owner's control attached to that permanent.

Outpost Siege

Enchantment

As Outpost Siege enters the battlefield, choose Khans or Dragons.

• Khans - At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

• Dragons - Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, Outpost Siege deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Overabundance

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, and Overabundance deals 1 damage to him or her.

Overburden

Enchantment

Whenever a player puts a nontoken creature onto the battlefield, that player returns a land he or she controls to its owner's hand.

The Kipamu League knew what Keld refused to acknowledge: the land could support no more.

Overgrown Estate

Enchantment

Sacrifice a land: You gain 3 life.

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

Overgrowth

Enchantment - Aura

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

"Let the forest spread! From salt, stone, and fen, let the new trees rise."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

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.

Oversold Cemetery

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Ow

Enchantment

Whenever any creature damages a player, for each Ow card in play, that player says "Ow" once or Ow deals 1 damage to him or her.

Have you ever noticed how some flavor text has no relevance whatsoever to the card it's on?

Pacifism

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

For the first time in his life, Grakk felt a little warm and fuzzy inside.

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.

Painful Quandary

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless he or she discards a card.

"For each word spoken, one forgotten. For each thought, a memory rotten."
-Moriok incantation

Palace Siege

Enchantment

As Palace Siege enters the battlefield, choose Khans or Dragons.

• Khans - At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

• Dragons - At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Palliation Accord

Enchantment

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, put a shield counter on Palliation Accord.

Remove a shield counter from Palliation Accord: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

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

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

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.

Parallel Lives

Enchantment

If an effect would put one or more tokens onto the battlefield under your control, it puts twice that many of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.

"There will come a time when the only prey left will be each other."
-Ulrich of Krallenhorde Pack

Parallel Thoughts

Enchantment

When Parallel Thoughts enters the battlefield, search your library for seven cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library.

If you would draw a card, you may instead put the top card of the pile you exiled into your hand.

Paralyze

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Paralyze enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

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

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay . If he or she does, untap the creature.

Paralyzing Grasp

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

"Obviously, the Firemind's mission is worth more than a few goblins."
-Pelener, chamberlain of Niv-Mizzet

Parapet

Enchantment

You may cast Parapet 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.

Creatures you control get +0/+1.

There is no wall that can't be improved by making it taller.

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

Parasitic Implant

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, enchanted creature's controller sacrifices it and you put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Pariah

Enchantment - Aura

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

All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to enchanted creature instead.

"Why would I consider penance for my actions when I have so many subjects willing to do it for me?"
-Lord Konda

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.

Path of Bravery

Enchantment

As long as your life total is greater than or equal to your starting life total, creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, you gain life equal to the number of attacking creatures.

Patriarch's Desire

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/-2.

Threshold - Enchanted creature gets an additional +2/-2 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

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.

Peace of Mind

Enchantment

, Discard a card: You gain 3 life.

"What can a peasant get for free that an emperor can never buy?"
-Dal riddle

Pedantic Learning

Enchantment

Whenever a land card is put into your graveyard from your library, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Even the trivial can inspire.

Pegasus Refuge

Enchantment

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

The first Rath-born pegasus was so offended by the sky that it hid its eyes in the earth.
-Vec lore

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.

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.

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.

Pendrell Mists

Enchantment

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

As insubstantial-and as insistent-as appetite.

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.

Perilous Forays

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a land card with a basic land type and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"This is the place? This map has got to be wrong . . . ."
-Svania Trul, wayfinder novice, last words

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."

Perplexing Chimera

Enchantment Creature - Chimera

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may exchange control of Perplexing Chimera and that spell. If you do, you may choose new targets for the spell. (If the spell becomes a permanent, you control that permanent.)

Personal Sanctuary

Enchantment

During your turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

"There is a place deep within my soul where no foe can intrude and no tyrant can conquer."
-Sarlena, paladin of the Northern Verge

Persuasion

Enchantment - Aura

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

You control enchanted creature.

"Protocol demands that you bow down before me. I always stand on protocol."

Pestilence

Enchantment

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

: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Petrified Plating

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Suspend 2- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Phantasmal Terrain

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

As Phantasmal Terrain enters the battlefield, choose a basic land type.

Enchanted land is the chosen type.

Phantom Wings

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

Sacrifice Phantom Wings: Return enchanted creature to its owner's hand.

"But you said 'when goats fly!'" Squee whined.

Pharika, God of Affliction

Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

Indestructible

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

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Its owner puts a 1/1 black and green Snake enchantment creature token with deathtouch onto the battlefield.

Phenax, God of Deception

Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to blue and black is less than seven, Phenax isn't a creature.

Creatures you control have ": Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is this creature's toughness."

Phyresis

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"Perfection is at hand. You have been freed of weakness and made compleat."
-Sheoldred, Whispering One

Phyrexian Arena

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

A drop of humanity for a sea of power.

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

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.

Phyrexian Reclamation

Enchantment

, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Death is no excuse to stop working.

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

Phyrexian Unlife

Enchantment

You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.

As long as you have 0 or less life, all damage is dealt to you as though its source had infect. (Damage is dealt to you in the form of poison counters.)

Pillar Tombs of Aku

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may sacrifice a creature. If that player doesn't, he or she loses 5 life and you sacrifice Pillar Tombs of Aku.

"Aku, City of Hidden Graves / Aku, City of Lost Kings / Aku, welcome me."
-Pillar tomb inscription

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."

Pin to the Earth

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -6/-0.

"Mortal strength, like mortal hope, is so easily crushed."
-Thassa, god of the sea

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.

Planar Collapse

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Planar Collapse and destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

With heavy heart, Urza doused one world's light to rekindle another's.

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

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.

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 Mirth

Enchantment

: Target opponent reveals a card at random from his or her hand. You gain life equal to that card's converted mana cost.

"I enjoy a good joke as much as the next guy."
-Commodore Guff

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.

Pledge of Loyalty

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has protection from the colors of permanents you control. This effect doesn't remove Pledge of Loyalty.

Urza convinced many Dominarians not only to set aside their differences, but to embrace them.

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.)

Pollenbright Wings

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Polluted Bonds

Enchantment

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

The mystic bond between spellcasters and the land is just as vulnerable to attack as the casters themselves.

Pooling Venom

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.

: Destroy enchanted land.

The land can only hold so much poison before it begins to bite back.

Porphyry Nodes

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can't be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them.

When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Porphyry Nodes.

Possibility Storm

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a spell from his or her hand, that player exiles it, then exiles cards from the top of his or her library until he or she exiles a card that shares a card type with it. That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then he or she puts all cards exiled with Possibility Storm on the bottom of his or her library in a random order.

Power Artifact

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

Enchanted artifact's activated abilities cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the amount of mana an ability costs to activate to less than one mana.

Power Leak

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant enchantment

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, that player may pay any amount of mana. Power Leak deals 2 damage to that player. Prevent X of that damage, where X is the amount of mana that player paid this way.

Power of Fire

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

The cinders believe their flame was stolen by one they call the Extinguisher. All who now wield fire draw their desperate wrath.

Power Surge

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Power Surge deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands he or she controlled at the beginning of this turn.

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.)

Powerleech

Enchantment

Whenever an artifact an opponent controls becomes tapped or an opponent activates an artifact's ability without in its activation cost, you gain 1 life.

The Forest of Argoth has developed a resistance to mechanical intrusion.

Powerstone Minefield

Enchantment

Whenever a creature attacks or blocks, Powerstone Minefield deals 2 damage to it.

"We have fought this far and lost too much. We will not turn back."
-Grizzlegom

Precognition

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of target opponent's library. If you do, you may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.

A gleam like struggling sunlight penetrated Selenia's dark thoughts.

Predator's Gambit

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Enchanted creature has intimidate as long as its controller controls no other creatures. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Predatory Advantage

Enchantment

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player didn't cast a creature spell this turn, put a 2/2 green Lizard creature token onto the battlefield.

Those who forget their past are doomed to be eaten by it.

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.

Predatory Urge

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to this creature."