Shifting Sky

Enchantment

As Shifting Sky enters the battlefield, choose a color.

All nonland permanents are the chosen color.

Master the sky and you rule everything beneath it.
-Metathran saying

Shimmer

Enchantment

As Shimmer enters the battlefield, choose a land type.

Each land of the chosen type has phasing. (It phases in or out before its controller untaps during each of his or her untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)

To buy unseen land, pay in unseen coin.
-Suq'Ata maxim

Shimmering Wings

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchanted creature has flying. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

: Return Shimmering Wings to its owner's hand.

"I leave words like ‘impossible' to the rabble. Whatever I imagine, I can create."
-Ixidor, reality sculptor

Shiv's Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Shivan Harvest

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonbasic land.

"The blood of your ancestors ran heavy on this soil. Now it's your turn to sacrifice for the glory of Shiv."
-Viashino heretic

Shrieking Affliction

Enchantment

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, he or she loses 3 life.

A gargoyle's voice reaches pitches that will shatter glass and warp bone.

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.

Siegecraft

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+4.

"They thought their fortress impregnable . . . until we marched up with ours, and blocked out the sun."
-Golran, dragonscale captain

Sight of the Scalelords

Enchantment

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with toughness 4 or greater get +2/+2 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

"The Silumgar creep around our borders and infiltrate our aeries. We must remain ever watchful."
-Golran, Dromoka captain

Sightless Brawler

Enchantment Creature - Human Warrior

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Sightless Brawler can't attack alone.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+2 and can't attack alone.

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.

Sigil of the Empty Throne

Enchantment

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When Asha left Bant, she ensured that the world would have protection and order in her absence.

Sigil of the Nayan Gods

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

As the elves learned the hymns of angels, the knights learned the roars of titans.

Sigil of the New Dawn

Enchantment

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return that card to your hand.

"We lay our dead to rest in a beautiful bed, in hopes that the Ancestor will think it a fit cradle for the next life."
-Mystic elder

Silkwrap

Enchantment

When Silkwrap enters the battlefield, exile target creature with converted mana cost 3 or less an opponent controls until Silkwrap leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Better scarves than scars.

Singing Bell Strike

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Singing Bell Strike enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

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

Enchanted creature has ": Untap this creature."

Sinister Possession

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 2 life.

"You caught something on a cold night's stroll? No, I'd say something caught you."
-Mezim Magrah, civic healer

Sinister Strength

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+1 and is black.

"I bless the living with a song of death."
-Lord Dralnu

Sinking Feeling

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Enchanted creature has ", Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature: Untap this creature."

Sinstriker's Will

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals damage equal to its power to target attacking or blocking creature."

"Steel rusts. Arrows break. But righteousness is always strong, always sharp."

Sisay's Ingenuity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Sisay's Ingenuity enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has ": Target creature becomes the color of your choice until end of turn."

Skeletal Grimace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ": Regenerate this creature."

"And then I realized we all have skeletons on the inside. Why wait until the bodies are dead to control them?"
-Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Skybind

Enchantment

Constellation - Whenever Skybind or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, exile target nonenchantment permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Skygames

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery."

Both Boros and Azorius scout the games in hopes of recruiting the finest athletes.

Skywise Teachings

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may pay . If you do, put a 2/2 blue Djinn Monk creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Ojutai's words must be translated from Draconic before his students can benefit from their wisdom.

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.

Sleeper's Robe

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Sleeping Potion

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Sleeping Potion enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

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

When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice Sleeping Potion.

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.

Sluggishness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't block.

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

Vark decided to lie down and think of a good excuse to quit working.

Smoke

Enchantment

Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps.

Smoldering Tar

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, target player loses 1 life.

Sacrifice Smoldering Tar: Smoldering Tar deals 4 damage to target creature. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Snake Cult Initiation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has poisonous 3. (Whenever it deals combat damage to a player, that player gets three poison counters. A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

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

Snake Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card."

Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

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."

Snow Devil

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

Enchanted creature has first strike as long as it's blocking and you control a snow land.

"Give me wings to fly and speed to strike. In return, the glory I earn shall be yours." -Steinar Icefist, Balduvian Shaman

Snowblind

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -X/-Y. If that creature is attacking, X is the number of snow lands defending player controls. Otherwise, X is the number of snow lands its controller controls. Y is equal to X or to enchanted creature's toughness minus 1, whichever is smaller.

Snowfall

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.)

Whenever an Island is tapped for mana, its controller may add to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces). If that Island is snow, its controller may add to his or her mana pool instead. Spend this mana only to pay cumulative upkeep costs.

Soar

Enchantment - Aura

You may cast Soar 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.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 and has flying.

"Would you give up your hands to fly? That is what the birds have done."
-The One Thousand Questions

Soaring Hope

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Soaring Hope enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

Enchanted creature has flying.

: Put Soaring Hope on top of its owner's library.

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.

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.

Song of the Dryads

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant permanent

Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Few who encounter the strange, human-like grove leave once the lilting chorus of the dryads reaches their ears.

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 Barrier

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, Soul Barrier deals 2 damage to that player unless he or she pays .

"The Soul selects her own Society-
Then-shuts the Door-"
-Emily Dickinson,
"The Soul selects her own Society"

Soul Bleed

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 1 life.

Whether the end comes swift or slow, it always comes too soon.

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.

Soul Echo

Enchantment

Soul Echo enters the battlefield with X echo counters on it.

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Soul Echo if there are no echo counters on it. Otherwise, target opponent may choose that for each 1 damage that would be dealt to you until your next upkeep, you remove an echo counter from Soul Echo instead.

Soul Kiss

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

, Pay 1 life: Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than three times each turn.

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.

Soul Ransom

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

Discard two cards: Soul Ransom's controller sacrifices it, then draws two cards. Only any opponent may activate this ability.

Soul Snare

Enchantment

, Sacrifice Soul Snare: Exile target creature that's attacking you or a planeswalker you control.

"Body and spirit are sworn enemies. They will take any excuse to be rid of each other."
-Tariel, Reckoner of Souls

Soul Stair Expedition

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a quest counter on Soul Stair Expedition.

Remove three quest counters from Soul Stair Expedition and sacrifice it: Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Soul Tithe

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant nonland permanent

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted permanent's controller, that player sacrifices it unless he or she pays , where X is its converted mana cost.

Soulcatchers' Aerie

Enchantment

Whenever a Bird is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put a feather counter on Soulcatchers' Aerie.

Bird creatures get +1/+1 for each feather counter on Soulcatchers' Aerie.

Spatial Binding

Enchantment

Pay 1 life: Until your next upkeep, target permanent can't phase out.

Time is the one shackle you can't break.
-Zhalfirin aphorism

Spawning Grounds

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant landEnchanted land has ": Put a 5/5 green Beast creature token with trample onto the battlefield."

It's the only water source in miles of desert, but the local tribes avoid it at all costs.

Spear of Heliod

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

, : Destroy target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.

Legend speaks of the Sun Spear, the mighty weapon that can strike any point in Theros, even the depths of the Underworld.

Spearpoint Oread

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

First strike

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has first strike.

Spectra Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from all colors. This effect doesn't remove Auras. (It can't be blocked, targeted, or dealt damage by anything that's white, blue, black, red, or green.)

Spectral Cloak

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has shroud as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Spectral Flight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

"The church looks down on binding spirits into armor, but now I can look down on them."
-Dierk, geistmage

Spectral Prison

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice Spectral Prison.

Spectral Shield

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and can't be the target of spells.

"What can be a stronger shield than concealment? Have you ever defeated an enemy you didn't know existed?"
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Spellshock

Enchantment

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

A snap of fingers, a snap of teeth.

Spellweaver Volute

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant instant card in a graveyard

Whenever you cast a sorcery spell, copy the enchanted instant card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you do, exile the enchanted card and attach Spellweaver Volute to another instant card in a graveyard.

Sphere of Duty

Enchantment

If a green source would deal damage to you, prevent 2 of that damage.

Duty subdues instinct.

Sphere of Grace

Enchantment

If a black source would deal damage to you, prevent 2 of that damage.

Grace repels darkness.

Sphere of Law

Enchantment

If a red source would deal damage to you, prevent 2 of that damage.

Law smothers anarchy.

Sphere of Purity

Enchantment

If an artifact would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Purity rejects artifice.

Sphere of Reason

Enchantment

If a blue source would deal damage to you, prevent 2 of that damage.

Reason exposes deception.

Sphere of Safety

Enchantment

Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

The Rakdos believe that all are eager to join their revels, even when told otherwise.

Sphere of Truth

Enchantment

If a white source would deal damage to you, prevent 2 of that damage.

Truth tempers fanaticism.

Spider Climb

Enchantment - Aura

You may cast Spider Climb 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.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+3 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Spider Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

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.

Spinal Graft

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

"This one has not screamed enough to show effective implantation. Kill it."
-Volrath

Spirespine

Enchantment Creature - Beast

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Spirespine blocks each turn if able.

Enchanted creature gets +4/+1 and blocks each turn if able.

Spirit Away

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

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

The fear of slipping from the geist's tenuous grip overwhelmed Tolo's joy at his first flight.

Spirit Bonds

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a Spirit: Target non-Spirit creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Designed by Justin Gary

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.

Spirit Link

Enchantment - Aura

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

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

"We are all inextricably linked, souls woven in tapestry."

Spirit Loop

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

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

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

Spirit Mantle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has protection from creatures.

The shield of unimpeachable purity is as strong as any wrought on the anvil.

Spirit Mirror

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no Reflection tokens on the battlefield, put a 2/2 white Reflection creature token onto the battlefield.

: Destroy target Reflection.

Spirit of Resistance

Enchantment

As long as you control a permanent of each color, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

"Our victory must come from all of Dominaria, or it will not come."
-Urza

Spirit of the Labyrinth

Enchantment Creature - Spirit

Each player can't draw more than one card each turn.

Students at the Dekatia Academy learn that being sent to study with her is a lesson in itself.

Spirit Shackle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, put a -0/-2 counter on it.

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.

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.

Spiritual Sanctuary

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls a Plains, he or she gains 1 life.

Spiteful Returned

Enchantment Creature - Zombie

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Whenever Spiteful Returned or enchanted creature attacks, defending player loses 2 life.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Spiteful Shadows

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to its controller.

"Let us remind these human cattle why they fear the shadows of this world."
-Aldreg, Skirsdag cultist

Spiteful Visions

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Whenever a player draws a card, Spiteful Visions deals 1 damage to that player.

Knowledge brings the sting of disillusionment, but the pain teaches perspective.

Splinter Twin

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": Put a token that's a copy of this creature onto the battlefield. That token has haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step."

"I know just the person for that job."

Splintering Wind

Enchantment

: Splintering Wind deals 1 damage to target creature. Put a 1/1 green Splinter creature token onto the battlefield. It has flying and "Cumulative upkeep ." When it leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to you and each creature you control. (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless he or she pays its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Sporogenesis

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fungus counter on target nontoken creature.

Whenever a creature with a fungus counter on it dies, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each fungus counter on that creature.

When Sporogenesis leaves the battlefield, remove all fungus counters from all creatures.

Spreading Algae

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Swamp

When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.

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

Spreading Plague

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, destroy all other creatures that share a color with it. They can't be regenerated.

The cruelest strain of plague keeps its hosts alive long enough to return home and infect their families.