Despondency

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-0.

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

Desolation

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, each player who tapped a land for mana this turn sacrifices a land. Desolation deals 2 damage to each player who sacrificed a Plains this way.

"Kill a creature, destroy the present. Kill the land, destroy the future."
-Kaervek

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.

Descendants' Path

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card that shares a creature type with a creature you control, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Otherwise, put that card on the bottom of your library.

Dense Foliage

Enchantment

Creatures can't be the targets of spells.

"Big plants not only good for hidin', but full o' tasty bugs, too."
-Squee, goblin cabin hand

Dense Canopy

Enchantment

Creatures with flying can block only creatures with flying.

The orochi learned how to move swiftly and surely along the forest floor, like fish darting through gull-watched waters.

Demonic Torment

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

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?

Demonic Appetite

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

"Morality is just shorthand for the constraints of being powerless."
-Ob Nixilis

Delusions of Mediocrity

Enchantment

When Delusions of Mediocrity enters the battlefield, you gain 10 life.

When Delusions of Mediocrity leaves the battlefield, you lose 10 life.

When nothing but second best will do.

Delaying Shield

Enchantment

If damage would be dealt to you, put that many delay counters on Delaying Shield instead.

At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all delay counters from Delaying Shield. For each delay counter removed this way, you lose 1 life unless you pay .

Dehydration

Enchantment - Aura

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

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

The viashino used the spell to dry foods for crossing the Great Desert. The Suq'Ata later discovered its use in war.

Dega Sanctuary

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a black or red permanent, you gain 2 life. If you control a black permanent and a red permanent, you gain 4 life instead.

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

Defensive Formation

Enchantment

Rather than the attacking player, you assign the combat damage of each creature attacking you. You can divide that creature's combat damage as you choose among any of the creatures blocking it.

"Your enemies will pound upon the door of your defenses, but only you shall have the key, and it is the key of life."
-Song of All, canto 873

Defense of the Heart

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls three or more creatures, sacrifice Defense of the Heart, search your library for up to two creature cards, and put those cards onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Defang

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Once vampires are disarmed, they're given wooden swords and forced to assist in the training of Midnight Duelists.

Deep Water

Enchantment

: Until end of turn, if you tap a land you control for mana, it produces instead of any other type.

Decree of Silence

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, counter that spell and put a depletion counter on Decree of Silence. If there are three or more depletion counters on Decree of Silence, sacrifice it.

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

When you cycle Decree of Silence, you may counter target spell.

Decomposition

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant black creature

Enchanted creature has "Cumulative upkeep-Pay 1 life." (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.)

When enchanted creature dies, its controller loses 2 life.

Declaration of Naught

Enchantment

As Declaration of Naught enters the battlefield, name a card.

: Counter target spell with the chosen name.

Every story, even a faerie tale, comes to an end.

Decaying Soil

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile a card from your graveyard.

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Decaying Soil has "Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return that card to your hand."

Debtors' Knell

Enchantment

( can be paid with either or .)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Debtor's Pulpit

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Tap target creature."

"You may not be able to pay. But you can still kneel."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Debilitating Injury

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

"If weakness does not exist within the Temur then we shall force it upon them."
-Sidisi, khan of the Sultai

Deathreap Ritual

Enchantment

Morbid - At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

"All who set foot in Paliano are pawns in someone's play for power."
-Marchesa, the Black Rose

Deathgrip

Enchantment

: Counter target green spell.

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

Death's Approach

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -X/-X, where X is the number of creature cards in its controller's graveyard.

"It's cold in the grave, and the dead crave your warmth. Who are you to deny them?"
-Strava, Dimir mage

Death Watch

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, its controller loses life equal to its power and you gain life equal to its toughness.

"Watch death wait / Wait, death, watch / Steal breath swiftly / but steal life slowly."
-Suq'Ata dirge

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"

Death Pit Offering

Enchantment

When Death Pit Offering enters the battlefield, sacrifice all creatures you control.

Creatures you control get +2/+2.

"Kill them all and feed them to the new recruits."
-Crovax, ascendant evincar

Death Match

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, that creature's controller may have target creature of his or her choice get -3/-3 until end of turn.

The Cabal breeds many things for the pit fights, but it never breeds compassion.

Deadly Wanderings

Enchantment

As long as you control exactly one creature, that creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch and lifelink.

"Seclusion is only an option for the strong."
-Sorin Markov

Deadfall

Enchantment

Creatures with forestwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have forestwalk.

Deadbridge Chant

Enchantment

When Deadbridge Chant enters the battlefield, put the top ten cards of your library into your graveyard.

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Deadapult

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a Zombie: Deadapult deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Nothing ruins your day like a blazing zombie."
-Tahngarth

Dead Weight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

The crueler vampires' idea of free-range farming.

Daybreak Coronet

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature with another Aura attached to it

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has first strike, vigilance, and lifelink. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Day of the Dragons

Enchantment

When Day of the Dragons enters the battlefield, exile all creatures you control. Then put that many 5/5 red Dragon creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

When Day of the Dragons leaves the battlefield, sacrifice all Dragons you control. Then return the exiled cards to the battlefield under your control.