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.

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 Farm

Enchantment

: Choose a card in your hand. Covering the artist's name, reveal the card to target player. If that player cannot name the artist, reveal the artist's name and put a Squirrel token into play. Treat this token as a 1/1 green creature.

"And the ignorant shall fall to the squirrels."
-Chip 2:54

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

Staying Power

Enchantment

As long as Staying Power is in play, "until end of turn" and "this turn" effects don't end.

Mongo's fleas no longer bothered him. But the family of goblins that had moved in behind his left ear was starting to get really irritating.

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.