Spreading Seas

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Spreading Seas enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted land is an Island.

Most inhabitants of Zendikar have given up on the idea of an accurate map.

Squandered Resources

Enchantment

Sacrifice a land: Add to your mana pool one mana of any type the sacrificed land could produce.

"He traded sand for skins, skins for gold, gold for life. In the end, he traded life for sand."
-Afari, Tales

Squee's Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

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

Squeeze

Enchantment

Sorcery spells cost more to cast.

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

Squirrel Nest

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Put a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token onto the battlefield."

In the Krosan Forest, you've got to keep an eye out for the squirrels.

Stab Wound

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 2 life.

Stamina

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has vigilance.

Sacrifice Stamina: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Stand or Fall

Enchantment

At the beginning of combat on your turn, separate all creatures defending player controls into two piles. Only creatures in the pile of that player's choice can block this turn.

Standstill

Enchantment

When a player casts a spell, sacrifice Standstill. If you do, each of that player's opponents draws three cards.

"Take your time."

Stasis

Enchantment

Players skip their untap steps.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Stasis unless you pay .

Stasis Cell

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

: Attach Stasis Cell to target creature.

The Simic created the cells to preserve their experiments. The Azorius put the cells to use on the guilty.

Stasis Cocoon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

Enchanted artifact's activated abilities can't be activated. If enchanted artifact is a creature, it can't attack or block.

Though the grip of a golem is strong, the grip of Auriok magic is far stronger.

Stasis Snare

Enchantment

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

When Stasis Snare enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Stasis Snare leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

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

Steal Artifact

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

You control enchanted artifact.

Steal Enchantment

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant enchantment

You control enchanted enchantment.

"Why should I flatter another with imitation when I can satisfy myself through possession?"
-Ertai, wizard adept

Steam Vines

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it and Steam Vines deals 1 damage to that land's controller. That player attaches Steam Vines to a land of his or her choice.

Steel of the Godhead

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As long as enchanted creature is white, it gets +1/+1 and has lifelink. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and is unblockable.

Steely Resolve

Enchantment

As Steely Resolve enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Creatures of the chosen type have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

No one in Wirewood understands what is happening. They just know it's unnatural-and coming from Krosa.

Sterling Grove

Enchantment

Other enchantments you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

, Sacrifice Sterling Grove: Search your library for an enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

Still Life

Enchantment

: Still Life becomes a 4/3 Centaur creature until end of turn. It's still an enchantment.

The centaurs' simple magic can undo a basilisk's gaze, but only for a short time.

Stonehands

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.

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

"Trust in the power of stone. Stone is strong; stone shatters swords; stone breaks bones. Trust in stone."
-Lovisa Coldeyes,
Balduvian Chieftain

Stony Silence

Enchantment

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Let moss grow over gargoyles
-Gavony saying meaning
"forget painful memories"

Storm Front

Enchantment

: Tap target creature with flying.

The calmest day on Rath would be thought a storm anywhere else.

Storm World

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Storm World deals X damage to that player, where X is 4 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

Stormbind

Enchantment

, Discard a card at random: Stormbind deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Once, our people could call down the storm itself to do our bidding."
-Lovisa Coldeyes,
Balduvian Chieftain

Stormcaller's Boon

Enchantment

Sacrifice Stormcaller's Boon: Creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

Cascade (When you cast this 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.)

Story Circle

Enchantment

As Story Circle enters the battlefield, choose a color.

: The next time a source of your choice of the chosen color would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Strands of Night

Enchantment

, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a Swamp: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"I have seen the night torn into thin darkling strips and woven into shapes too bleak for dreams."
-Crovax

Strands of Undeath

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Strands of Undeath enters the battlefield, target player discards two cards.

: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Why limit yourself to mortal law when you can outlive those who enforce it?"
-Czaric, Orzhov prelate

Stranglehold

Enchantment

Your opponents can't search libraries.

If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.

The correct answer to a barbarian's riddle is to choke on your cleverness and die.

Stratus Walk

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Stratus Walk enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has flying.

Enchanted creature can block only creatures with flying.

Street Savvy

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and can block creatures with landwalk abilities as though they didn't have those abilities.

"It takes more than swift feet and dark shadows to slip by me unnoticed."

Strength from the Fallen

Enchantment

Constellation - Whenever Strength from the Fallen or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Strength of Isolation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2 and has protection from black.

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Don't mistake isolation for safety.

Strength of Lunacy

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has protection from white.

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Don't confuse lunacy with courage.

Strength of Unity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Domain - Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each basic land type among lands you control.

All Dominarians agreed on one thing: they would not go down without a fight.

Stupefying Touch

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Stupefying Touch enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature's activated abilities can't be activated.

Just because your eyes are open doesn't mean you're awake.

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.

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

Suleiman's Legacy

Enchantment

When Suleiman's Legacy enters the battlefield, destroy all Djinns and Efreets. They can't be regenerated.

Whenever a Djinn or Efreet enters the battlefield, destroy it. It can't be regenerated.

With Suleiman's ascension to power, the djinn and efreets of ancient Rabiah learned humility.

Sulfuric Vapors

Enchantment

If a red spell would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 1 to that permanent or player instead.

It was the dragons who first learned to chase their prey into the vapors before igniting them.

Sulfuric Vortex

Enchantment

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

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

Sultai Ascendancy

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest back on top of your library in any order.

Sultai Runemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Enchanted creature has deathtouch as long as you control a green or blue permanent. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Sun Clasp

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

: Return enchanted creature to its owner's hand.

"And darkness shall be cast from me
For my soul resides in the Sun."
-Femeref dirge

Sunbond

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has "Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature."

"I was not chosen for my faith in the gods. Sometimes the gods must put their faith in us."
-Elspeth

Sunken City

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Sunken City unless you pay .

Blue creatures get +1/+1.

Sunken Field

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Counter target spell unless its controller pays ."

The land is heavy with promise, the harvest ripe with betrayal.

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

Sunspring Expedition

Enchantment

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

Remove three quest counters from Sunspring Expedition and sacrifice it: You gain 8 life.

Suppression Field

Enchantment

Activated abilities cost more to activate unless they're mana abilities.

The most feared of Azorius punishments is to be freed-sent back out into the world, stripped of all magical defenses.

Surging Might

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Survival of the Fittest

Enchantment

, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Suspension Field

Enchantment

When Suspension Field enters the battlefield, you may exile target creature with toughness 3 or greater until Suspension Field leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

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.

Swirl the Mists

Enchantment

As Swirl the Mists enters the battlefield, choose a color word.

All instances of color words in the text of spells and permanents are changed to the chosen color word.

Sylvan Echoes

Enchantment

Whenever you clash and win, you may draw a card. (This ability triggers after the clash ends.)

It takes a huntmaster's eye to discern the contours of mythical prey.

Sylvan Library

Enchantment

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Symbiotic Deployment

Enchantment

Skip your draw step.

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

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

Tahngarth's Rage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 as long as it's attacking. Otherwise, it gets -2/-1.

"Taste my horns!"
-Tahngarth of the Weatherlight

Tainted Æther

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, its controller sacrifices a creature or land.

Pockets of Æther can be so foul they melt flesh from bone.

Tainted Well

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Tainted Well enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted land is a Swamp.

"No, you get the water. I ain't thirsty."
-Squee

Take Possession

Enchantment - Aura

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Enchant permanent

You control enchanted permanent.

Takklemaggot

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -0/-1 counter on that creature.

When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller chooses a creature that Takklemaggot could enchant. If he or she does, return Takklemaggot to the battlefield under your control attached to that creature. If he or she doesn't, return Takklemaggot to the battlefield under your control as a non-Aura enchantment. It loses "enchant creature" and gains "At the beginning of that player's upkeep, Takklemaggot deals 1 damage to him or her."

Talons of Falkenrath

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn."

Tangle Kelp

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Tangle Kelp enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if it attacked during its controller's last turn.

Task Mage Assembly

Enchantment

When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Task Mage Assembly.

: Task Mage Assembly deals 1 damage to target creature. Any player may activate this ability but only any time he or she could cast a sorcery.

Taste for Mayhem

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.

Hellbent - Enchanted creature gets an additional +2/+0 as long as you have no cards in hand.

The taste of blood breaks down what little self-control the Rakdos possess.

Tattoo Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has protection from enchantments. This effect doesn't remove Tattoo Ward.

Sacrifice Tattoo Ward: Destroy target enchantment.

Tectonic Instability

Enchantment

Whenever a land enters the battlefield, tap all lands its controller controls.

"Think of the problems we'll face if you uproot entire continents," said Urza.
"I have," replied Teferi, "but the alternative is worse."

Teferi's Care

Enchantment

, Sacrifice an enchantment: Destroy target enchantment.

: Counter target enchantment spell.

"If I do nothing else, I will protect my people."
-Teferi

Teferi's Curse

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact or creature

Enchanted permanent 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.)

"Stepping through time is like riding a camel. It may get you where you want to go, but the ride is rarely pleasant."
-Teferi

Teferi's Moat

Enchantment

As Teferi's Moat enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Creatures of the chosen color without flying can't attack you.

"Isolation is not the answer."
-Urza, to Teferi.

Teferi's Realm

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses artifact, creature, land, or non-Aura enchantment. All nontoken permanents of that type phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during his or her next untap step.)

"Fire is dead. Water has killed him."
-From The Stories of Nature

Teferi's Veil

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it phases out at end of combat. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

"I don't like to speak ill of 'walkers . . . but just what did Teferi think he was doing?"
-Ertai, wizard adept

Telekinetic Bonds

Enchantment

Whenever a player discards a card, you may pay . If you do, you may tap or untap target permanent.

"Nature's been fired. The oceans are under new management."
-Ambassador Laquatus

Telepathy

Enchantment

Your opponents play with their hands revealed.

"The most disappointing thing about learning telepathy is finding out how boring people really are."
-Teferi, fourth-level student

Tempered Steel

Enchantment

Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2.

"Death shall prevail as long as our will falls to rust. May necessity anneal our resolve."
-Ghalma the Shaper

Temporal Distortion

Enchantment

Whenever a creature or land becomes tapped, put an hourglass counter on it.

Permanents with hourglass counters on them don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, remove all hourglass counters from permanents that player controls.

Temporal Isolation

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has shadow. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Temur Ascendancy

Enchantment

Creatures you control have haste.

Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card.

Temur Runemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Enchanted creature has trample as long as you control a blue or red permanent.

Terra Eternal

Enchantment

All lands are indestructible.

"If this world could make a wish, it would be to survive the parasites who loot its treasures and threaten its life force."
-Saidah, Joraga hunter

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.

Test of Endurance

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game.

"If we have learned nothing else, we have learned to survive."
-Mystic elder

Testament of Faith

Enchantment

: Testament of Faith becomes an X/X Wall creature with defender until end of turn. It's still an enchantment.

"Belief in the Ancestor is admirable, but our enemies often demand something more . . . tangible."
-Pianna, nomad captain

Thassa's Devourer

Enchantment Creature - Elemental

Constellation - Whenever Thassa's Devourer or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

When mortals claim there are places Thassa cannot reach, the sea god laughs.

Thassa's Emissary

Enchantment Creature - Crab

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 Thassa's Emissary or enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

Thassa's Ire

Enchantment

: You may tap or untap target creature.

The sailor had never seen a god before. Now she had gazed upon Thassa. Shortly she would see Athreos, and then she would meet Erebos.

Thassa, God of the Sea

Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

The Abyss

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, destroy target nonartifact creature that player controls of his or her choice. It can't be regenerated.

"An immense river of oblivion is sweeping us away into a nameless abyss." -Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse

The Brute

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+0.

: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed."
-Samuel Butler

Thelon's Chant

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Thelon's Chant unless you pay .

Whenever a player puts a Swamp onto the battlefield, Thelon's Chant deals 3 damage to that player unless he or she puts a -1/-1 counter on a creature he or she controls.

Thelon's Curse

Enchantment

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

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may choose any number of tapped blue creatures he or she controls and pay for each creature chosen this way. If the player does, untap those creatures.

Think Tank

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.

Cephalids seek knowledge not to better themselves, but to best others.

Thirst

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Thirst enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Thirst unless you pay .

The first of the Thousand Deaths.

Thought Lash

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep-Exile the top card of your library. (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.)

When a player doesn't pay Thought Lash's cumulative upkeep, that player exiles all cards from his or her library.

Exile the top card of your library: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Thought Reflection

Enchantment

If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.

Knowledge fills the mind of a fool and opens the mind of the sage.

Thoughtleech

Enchantment

Whenever an Island an opponent controls becomes tapped, you may gain 1 life.

"Their thoughts flow through my mind, and I am healed."
-Fyndhorn elder