Dead Weight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

The crueler vampires' idea of free-range farming.

Endless Ranks of the Dead

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

With Thraben's army recalled to its city walls, outlying villages were left to fend for themselves.

Gruesome Deformity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has intimidate. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

She wanted to inspire terror wherever she went. The demons happily granted her wish.

Heartless Summoning

Enchantment

Creature spells you cast cost less to cast.

Creatures you control get -1/-1.

"They won't be winning any beauty pageants, but they'll do the trick."
-Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

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

Burning Vengeance

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, Burning Vengeance deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Mist is the geists' sorrow. Wind is their pain. Fire is their vengeance.

Curse of Stalked Prey

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to enchanted player, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

"Innocent thorns can fill the air with your bloodscent. Don't stray from the path."
-Elmut, crossway watcher

Curse of the Nightly Hunt

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

Creatures enchanted player controls attack each turn if able.

When the moon rises and the bloodlust takes hold, nothing matters but the kill.

Curse of the Pierced Heart

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player

At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, Curse of the Pierced Heart deals 1 damage to that player.

"May your veins weep, and may every vampire take notice."
-Stensian curse

Furor of the Bitten

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and attacks each turn if able.

Those who only believe themselves infected with lycanthropy can be as dangerous as those who really are.

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.

Full Moon's Rise

Enchantment

Werewolf creatures you control get +1/+0 and have trample.

Sacrifice Full Moon's Rise: Regenerate all Werewolf creatures you control.

Some lycanthropes wish they could abandon their weak human shapes and revel in the power of the wolf.

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."

Parallel Lives

Enchantment

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

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

Wreath of Geists

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Before you travel the woods of Kessig, first get permission from those who died trying.

Arrest

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

"We will prove your guilt. We don't arrest the innocent, you know."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Ethereal Armor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control and has first strike.

Metal is scarce, smiths are pricey, and plate mail is heavy.

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.

Martial Law

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

"The good of society matters much more than the inconvenience of a few."
-Agmand Sarv, Azorius hussar

Rest in Peace

Enchantment

When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.

If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Some corpses the Golgari cannot claim. Some souls the Orzhov cannot shackle.

Security Blockade

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

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

Enchanted land has ": Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn."

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.

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.

Chronic Flooding

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

With the Izzet occupied elsewhere, many of their public works fell into disrepair.

Conjured Currency

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exchange control of Conjured Currency and target permanent you neither own nor control.

A bargain in Keyhole Downs is always too good to be true.

Paralyzing Grasp

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

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.

Deviant Glee

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has ": This creature gains trample until end of turn."

"You just need the right incentive to fulfill my dreams."

Grave Betrayal

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

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.

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.

Underworld Connections

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ", Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

If you're looking for it, it's available. The question is how much you're willing to pay.

Guild Feud

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent reveals the top three cards of his or her library, may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield, then puts the rest into his or her graveyard. You do the same with the top three cards of your library. If two creatures are put onto the battlefield this way, those creatures fight each other.

Pursuit of Flight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has ": This creature gains flying until end of turn."

"Watch the voltage. We don't need another charred, crashing viashino."
-Bori Andon, Izzet blastseeker

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

Racecourse Fury

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Target creature gains haste until end of turn."

Close finishes are settled by who can dismount and get to weapons first.

Death's Presence

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the power of the creature that died.

"We traffic in flesh, not souls. Still, it's a shame to let anything go to waste."
-Cevraya, Golgari shaman

Mana Bloom

Enchantment

Mana Bloom enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

Remove a charge counter from Mana Bloom: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only once each turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Mana Bloom has no charge counters on it, return it to its owner's hand.

Urban Burgeoning

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has "Untap this land during each other player's untap step."

The ruins of Old Prahv became a wildspace, although all birdsong was silenced by lingering Azorius magic.

Collective Blessing

Enchantment

Creatures you control get +3/+3.

Senators of Azorius often hired agents to spy on the Selesnya. They were told to record every spore and root they saw, as each could become a deadly foe.

Detention Sphere

Enchantment

When Detention Sphere enters the battlefield, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

When Detention Sphere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Havoc Festival

Enchantment

Players can't gain life.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses half his or her life, rounded up.

"We can't control enemies who have no regard for their own survival."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

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.

Growing Ranks

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"We will grow an army large enough to withstand the Izzet's madness."
-Trostani

Crescendo of War

Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a strife counter on Crescendo of War.

Attacking creatures get +1/+0 for each strife counter on Crescendo of War.

Blocking creatures you control get +1/+0 for each strife counter on Crescendo of War.

Ghostly Prison

Enchantment

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays for each creature he or she controls that's attacking you.

"May the memory of our fallen heroes ensnare the violent hearts of lesser men."
-Great Threshold of Monserkat inscription

Journey to Nowhere

Enchantment

When Journey to Nowhere enters the battlefield, exile target creature.

When Journey to Nowhere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Martyr's Bond

Enchantment

Whenever Martyr's Bond or another nonland permanent you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a permanent that shares a card type with it.

"Our lives are connected by divine law. The truth of this will be made evident in time."
-Zedruu the Greathearted

Prison Term

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may attach Prison Term to that creature.

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

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

Vow of Duty

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has vigilance, and can't attack you or a planeswalker you control.

"I prefer loyalty to be a matter of respect, not of magic. But one does what one must."
-Kaalia of the Vast

Memory Erosion

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"The Filigree Texts do not compel you to act in accordance with their precepts. They only specify the consequences should you fail."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

Propaganda

Enchantment

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays for each creature he or she controls that's attacking you.

"You've failed Gerrard. You've failed the Legacy. You've failed yourself. I can do no more."
-Volrath, to Karn

Cradle of Vitality

Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.

Naya's trees grow tall and sturdy. Their foliage intertwines to form dewcups, rainwater pools where the elves gather to celebrate life.

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.

Banewasp Affliction

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.

The consuming undeath of Grixis terrifies the survivors of Vithia, but its fauna is just as fearsome.

Crucible of Fire

Enchantment

Dragon creatures you control get +3/+3.

"The dragon is a perfect marriage of power and the will to use it."
-Sarkhan Vol

Goblin Assault

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

Goblin creatures attack each turn if able.

A goblin raid is a delicate gambit-a blend of stealth, precision, and screaming death.

Lightning Talons

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"This is going to hurt a lot, but on the bright side, you'll be dead soon."
-Sedris, the Traitor King

Vicious Shadows

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, you may have Vicious Shadows deal damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"Thrashes of the ancient past still linger in spirit and shadow, desperate to sink their claws into our souls."
-Rakka Mar

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

Lush Growth

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a Mountain, Forest, and Plains.

Naya's bounty spills over upon itself. Each leaf and flower struggles against the next with thrashing thorns, acidic pollen, and strangling roots.

Mighty Emergence

Enchantment

Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you may put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Why settle for mere enormity?

Ooze Garden

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a non-Ooze creature: Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the sacrificed creature's power. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Jund has little necromancy. Instead, the flesh of its dead gives rise to algal fiends.

Savage Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Necrogenesis

Enchantment

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

"Those may be the squirms of one life ending or of another beginning. Either way, I'd leave it alone."
-Rakka Mar

Exclusion Ritual

Enchantment

Imprint - When Exclusion Ritual enters the battlefield, exile target nonland permanent.

Players can't cast spells with the same name as the exiled card.

"Your desires have become our discretion."
-Izathel, priest of the Annex

Forced Worship

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack.

: Return Forced Worship to its owner's hand.

Imprisonment teaches revenge. Hobbling teaches resignation.

Phyrexian Unlife

Enchantment

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

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

Defensive Stance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/+1.

"It isn't for fighting. It's for when the fighting's gone bad."
-Kara Vrist, Mirran resistance

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.

Psychic Surgery

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent shuffles his or her library, you may look at the top two cards of that library. You may exile one of those cards. Then put the rest on top of that library in any order.

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

Enslave

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, enchanted creature deals 1 damage to its owner.

Phyrexia extended its command until there was nothing left to take.

Evil Presence

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a Swamp.

"The Accorders would lament the transformation of their cherished lands, had they lived to see it."
-Sheoldred, Whispering One

Glistening Oil

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has infect.

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

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

Parasitic Implant

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Bludgeon Brawl

Enchantment

Each noncreature, non-Equipment artifact is an Equipment with equip and "Equipped creature gets +X/+0," where X is that artifact's converted mana cost.

Viridian Harvest

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

When enchanted artifact is put into a graveyard, you gain 6 life.

"In the midst of horror beyond imagining, I still see things that lift my heart."
-Ezuri

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.

Phyresis

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

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

True Conviction

Enchantment

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Dozens of spells known only to the Auriok elders were lost, but the next generation, galvanized by war, devised even more potent magic.

Vigil for the Lost

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain X life.

"As she grew cold in my arms, I swore an oath that her funeral pyre would be dwarfed by a bonfire of our enemies."

Bonds of Quicksilver

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchant creature

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

The sea's reach extends beyond its shores.

Dissipation Field

Enchantment

Whenever a permanent deals damage to you, return it to its owner's hand.

"Strike me once, shame on you. Strike me twice . . . Well, let's just see if you can."
-Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

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

Volition Reins

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant permanent

When Volition Reins enters the battlefield, if enchanted permanent is tapped, untap it.

You control enchanted permanent.

"Glorifying the will is a mistake. It is simply one more force to be mastered."

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

Relic Putrescence

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped, its controller gets a poison counter.

"Until we shed the curse of sentience, we must endure its grotesque handiwork."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Furnace Celebration

Enchantment

Whenever you sacrifice another permanent, you may pay . If you do, Furnace Celebration deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Reduce. Reuse. Wreak havoc.

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

Viridian Revel

Enchantment

Whenever an artifact is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you may draw a card.

"Let them have their revel. Soon those who won't submit will be turned. Those who won't be turned will die."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Eldrazi Conscription

Tribal Enchantment - Eldrazi Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +10/+10 and has trample and annihilator 2. (Whenever it attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents.)

The barest taste of Eldrazi power shatters both realms and identities.

Eland Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+4.

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

Guard Duty

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has defender.

"I was told these were standard issue. Do I look standard to you?"

Hyena Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

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

Lightmine Field

Enchantment

Whenever one or more creatures attack, Lightmine Field deals damage to each of those creatures equal to the number of attacking creatures.

If you want to kill a lot of goblins, just make sure your defenses look like fun.

Luminous Wake

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, you gain 4 life.

"If destiny's champions have arisen to fight the Ancient Ones, then let me, too, do my part."
-Ravuel of Graypelt