Fruit of the First Tree

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is its toughness.

"I will be the ancestor my descendants call upon for aid. On that day I will take up my sword for my family once more."

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.

Retreat to Emeria

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, choose one -

• Put a 1/1 white Kor Ally creature token onto the battlefield.

• Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Dampening Pulse

Enchantment

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.

"Quiet now, you dreadful vermin."-Noyan Dar, Tazeem roilmage

From Beyond

Enchantment

Devoid (This card has no color.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

, Sacrifice From Beyond: Search your library for an Eldrazi card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Iona's Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has vigilance, and can block an additional creature.

"Walk now in my light. When the rest of the world closes its eyes, you will still see."
-Iona

Isolation Zone

Enchantment

When Isolation Zone enters the battlefield, exile target creature or enchantment an opponent controls until Isolation Zone leaves the battlefield. (That permanent returns under its owner's control.)

When properly aligned, hedrons become powerful tools of binding.

Pyromancer's Assault

Enchantment

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, Pyromancer's Assault deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Never ask a pyromancer if that's the best she's got.

Cathars' Crusade

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Avacyn's holy warriors kept hope alive in her darkest hours. Now they will carry that hope across Innistrad.

Commander's Authority

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 1/1 white Human creature token onto the battlefield."

"Wear her symbol with honor, a sign of faith upheld and honest deeds bravely done."

Arcane Melee

Enchantment

Instant and sorcery spells cost less to cast.

Debates between wizards are never purely academic.

Demonic Rising

Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, if you control exactly one creature, put a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Which is the greater folly, summoning the demon or expecting gratitude from it?

Descent into Madness

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a despair counter on Descent into Madness, then each player exiles X permanents he or she controls and/or cards from his or her hand, where X is the number of despair counters on Descent into Madness.

The stairs lead down in both directions.

Exquisite Blood

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Even as humans regained the upper hand, some still willingly traded their lives for a chance at immortality.

Homicidal Seclusion

Enchantment

As long as you control exactly one creature, that creature gets +3/+1 and has lifelink.

"Damned crows and their endless squawking . . . blocks out the voices in my head . . ."
-Hermit of Hanne Hall

Battle of Wits

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 200 or more cards in your library, you win the game.

There is no loftier ambition than the pursuit of knowledge.

Mind Control

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

"Every primitive mind has a motive. Easy to find, and eminently exploitable."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Call to the Grave

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a non-Zombie creature.

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Call to the Grave.

Curse of Echoes

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

Whenever enchanted player casts an instant or sorcery spell, each other player may copy that spell and may choose new targets for the copy he or she controls.

Curse of Misfortunes

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library for a Curse card that doesn't have the same name as a Curse attached to enchanted player, put it onto the battlefield attached to that player, then shuffle your library.

Curse of Thirst

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, Curse of Thirst deals damage to that player equal to the number of Curses attached to him or her.

"May you drink until you drown but never be sated."
-Odila, witch of Morkrut

Curse of Bloodletting

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

If a source would deal damage to enchanted player, it deals double that damage to that player instead.

It is the demon's mark, an infernal claim on the flesh of the guilty.

Lost in the Woods

Enchantment

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a Forest card, remove that creature from combat. Then put the revealed card on the bottom of your library.

Curse of Death's Hold

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

Creatures enchanted player controls get -1/-1.

"May you and all your kin waste and wither until your clan is no more!"

Heretic's Punishment

Enchantment

: Choose target creature or player, then put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. Heretic's Punishment deals damage to that creature or player equal to the highest converted mana cost among those cards.

Gutter Grime

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a slime counter on Gutter Grime, then put a green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of slime counters on Gutter Grime."

Knightly Valor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Knightly Valor enters the battlefield, put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

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

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.

Search the City

Enchantment

When Search the City enters the battlefield, exile the top five cards of your library.

Whenever you play a card with the same name as one of the exiled cards, you may put one of those cards with that name into its owner's hand. Then if there are no cards exiled with Search the City, sacrifice it. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.

Pyroconvergence

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, Pyroconvergence deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"The Izzet are an equation that turns lunacy into explosions."
-Leonos, Azorius arbiter

Righteous Authority

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each card in its controller's hand.

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

Righteous Cause

Enchantment

Whenever a creature attacks, you gain 1 life.

"Until the world unites in vengeful fury and Phage is destroyed, I will not stay my hand."
-Akroma, angelic avenger

Coma Veil

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact or creature

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

Etherium does not know sleep. Only magic can teach it the resting state of cold steel.

Where Ancients Tread

Enchantment

Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Where Ancients Tread deal 5 damage to target creature or player.

"Never subtle nor cryptic is the reckoning of the mighty."
-Mayael the Anima

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."

Screams of the Damned

Enchantment

, Exile a card from your graveyard: Screams of the Damned deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

It's important to face your inner demons . . . unless they're the kind of demons that can kill you.

Traveling Plague

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a plague counter on Traveling Plague.

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each plague counter on Traveling Plague.

When enchanted creature leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller returns Traveling Plague from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield.

Burning Sands

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller sacrifices a land.

"Pain teaches lessons no scholar can."
-Kamahl, pit fighter

Verdant Succession

Enchantment

Whenever a green nontoken creature dies, that creature's controller may search his or her library for a card with the same name as that creature and put it onto the battlefield. If that player does, he or she shuffles his or her library.

Numbing Dose

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact or creature

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

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

Xenograft

Enchantment

As Xenograft enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Each creature you control is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

"I despise Vorinclex and his slobberings about ‘evolution.' Only I know true progress."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Corrupted Conscience

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted 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.)

Karn's creation is now his master.

Inexorable Tide

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

"See how gratefully this world accepts our blessings."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

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

Asceticism

Enchantment

Creatures you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

: Regenerate target creature.

"Let my ignominy build walls thicker than iron and stronger than darksteel."
-Thrun, the last troll

Mammoth Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Near-Death Experience

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly 1 life, you win the game.

Lands ravaged, cities in ruins, so many lives sacrificed, and yet there was no other word for it but victory.

Drake Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Gravitational Shift

Enchantment

Creatures with flying get +2/+0.

Creatures without flying get -2/-0.

As they awakened, the Eldrazi reasserted their mastery over all of Zendikar's natural forces.

Vapor Snare

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Vapor Snare unless you return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Rumbling Aftershocks

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a kicked spell, you may have Rumbling Aftershocks deal damage to target creature or player equal to the number of times that spell was kicked.

"I like it here. You always get a little more for your mana."
-Chandra Nalaar

Vastwood Zendikon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a 6/4 green Elemental creature. It's still a land.

When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Gigantiform

Enchantment - Aura

Kicker

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature is 8/8 and has trample.

When Gigantiform enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, you may search your library for a card named Gigantiform, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

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.

Finest Hour

Enchantment

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap that creature. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Maelstrom Nexus

Enchantment

The first spell you cast each turn has cascade. (When you cast your first spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Sanguine Bond

Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
-Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

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.

Suicidal Charge

Enchantment

Sacrifice Suicidal Charge: Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. Those creatures attack this turn if able.

"They think they're winning. But they're just lining up to be dinner."
-Rakka Mar

Gift of the Deity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

As long as enchanted creature is green, it gets +1/+1 and all creatures able to block it do so.

Boon Reflection

Enchantment

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Kithkin healers chant the clan songs of both their parents over the broth to double its curative effect.

Biting Tether

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.

A chain of lies as strong as steel.

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.

Flourishing Defenses

Enchantment

Whenever a -1/-1 counter is placed on a creature, you may put a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.

Many horrors take the bait of brave elf volunteers walking alone, only to fall to the blades of rescuers lurking nearby.

Enchanted Evening

Enchantment

All permanents are enchantments in addition to their other types.

In the reflection, she saw the rough shell of the world sloughing away, revealing the truth shining underneath.

Dire Undercurrents

Enchantment

Whenever a blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target player draw a card.

Whenever a black creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target player discard a card.

Runes of the Deus

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As long as enchanted creature is red, it gets +1/+1 and has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

As long as enchanted creature is green, it gets +1/+1 and has trample.

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.

Angelic Chorus

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to its toughness.

The harmony of the glorious is a dirge to the wicked.

Sunken Hope

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns a creature he or she controls to its owner's hand.

"I don't concern myself with my enemy's hopes. Hopes follow the tides. They will retreat soon enough."
-Ambassador Laquatus

Cowardice

Enchantment

Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, return that creature to its owner's hand. (It won't be affected by the spell or ability.)

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."
-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Death Pits of Rath

Enchantment

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it. It can't be regenerated.

"Neither could I forget what I had read of these pits-that the sudden extinction of life formed no part of their most horrible plan."
-Edgar Allan Poe,
"The Pit and the Pendulum"

Horror of Horrors

Enchantment

Sacrifice a Swamp: Regenerate target black creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

Conquer

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

You control enchanted land.

"Every field watered in warriors' blood is sacred ground. Lay it not to waste, but claim it for our own-for glory, and for Stromgald!"
-Avram Garrisson,
Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Forbidden Crypt

Enchantment

If you would draw a card, return a card from your graveyard to your hand instead. If you can't, you lose the game.

If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile that card instead.

Nature's Revolt

Enchantment

All lands are 2/2 creatures that are still lands.

The land rises up to defend against those who would spoil its beauty.

Noble Purpose

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage, you gain that much life.

Fighting for the right reason is itself a source of strength.

Wrath of Marit Lage

Enchantment

When Wrath of Marit Lage enters the battlefield, tap all red creatures.

Red creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"Marit Lage lies frozen in a glacier's heart. Still her dreams take form in our world, stealing the heat from our souls."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Larceny

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Opportunity makes the thief.
-Roman proverb

Worms of the Earth

Enchantment

Players can't play lands.

Lands can't enter the battlefield.

At the beginning of each upkeep, any player may sacrifice two lands or have Worms of the Earth deal 5 damage to him or her. If a player does either, destroy Worms of the Earth.

The ground collapsed, leaving nothing but the great Worms' mucous residues.

Psychic Allergy

Enchantment

As Psychic Allergy enters the battlefield, choose a color.

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Psychic Allergy deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of nontoken permanents of the chosen color he or she controls.

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy Psychic Allergy unless you sacrifice two Islands.

Curse of Marit Lage

Enchantment

When Curse of Marit Lage enters the battlefield, tap all Islands.

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

"Our world has not felt her thundering steps in lifetimes, but Marit Lage's presence is still with us."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Tornado

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.)

, Pay 3 life for each velocity counter on Tornado: Destroy target permanent and put a velocity counter on Tornado. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Hibernation's End

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 you pay Hibernation's End's cumulative upkeep, you may search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of age counters on Hibernation's End and put it onto the battlefield. If you do, shuffle your library.

Bazaar of Wonders

World Enchantment

When Bazaar of Wonders enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.

Whenever a player casts a spell, counter it if a card with the same name is in a graveyard or a nontoken permanent with the same name is on the battlefield.

Energy Vortex

Enchantment

As Energy Vortex enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all energy counters from Energy Vortex.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Energy Vortex deals 3 damage to that player unless he or she pays for each energy counter on Energy Vortex.

: Put X energy counters on Energy Vortex. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Cadaverous Bloom

Enchantment

Exile a card from your hand: Add or to your mana pool.

"It's filthy work, planting them."
-Kifimbo, Shadow Guildmage

Malignant Growth

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 upkeep, put a growth counter on Malignant Growth.

At the beginning of each opponent's draw step, that player draws an additional card for each growth counter on Malignant Growth, then Malignant Growth deals damage to the player equal to the number of cards he or she drew this way.

Festering Evil

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, Festering Evil deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

, Sacrifice Festering Evil: Festering Evil deals 3 damage to each creature and each player.

Duplicity

Enchantment

When Duplicity enters the battlefield, exile the top five cards of your library face down.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile all cards from your hand face down. If you do, put all other cards you own exiled with Duplicity into your hand.

At the beginning of your end step, discard a card.

When you lose control of Duplicity, put all cards exiled with Duplicity into their owner's graveyard.

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.

Safeguard

Enchantment

: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn.

"I'm amused by wasted effort when it's not my own."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Dream Halls

Enchantment

Rather than pay the mana cost for a spell, its controller may discard a card that shares a color with that spell.

Within without.

Opal Archangel

Enchantment

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

Recantation

Enchantment

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

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

Discordant Dirge

Enchantment

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

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

Bulwark

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, Bulwark deals X damage to target opponent, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus the number of cards in that player's hand.

"It will be the goblin's first bath, and its last."
-Fire Eye, viashino bey

Rumbling Crescendo

Enchantment

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

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

Midsummer Revel

Enchantment

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

, Sacrifice Midsummer Revel: Put X 3/3 green Beast creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the number of verse counters on Midsummer Revel.

Subversion

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Kerrick's corrupt domain swelled like a blister on Tolaria's skin.