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

Soul Stair Expedition

Enchantment

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

Remove three quest counters from Soul Stair Expedition and sacrifice it: Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Soulcatchers' Aerie

Enchantment

Whenever a Bird is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put a feather counter on Soulcatchers' Aerie.

Bird creatures get +1/+1 for each feather counter on Soulcatchers' Aerie.

Spatial Binding

Enchantment

Pay 1 life: Until your next upkeep, target permanent can't phase out.

Time is the one shackle you can't break.
-Zhalfirin aphorism

Spawning Grounds

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant landEnchanted land has ": Put a 5/5 green Beast creature token with trample onto the battlefield."

It's the only water source in miles of desert, but the local tribes avoid it at all costs.

Spear of Heliod

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

, : Destroy target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.

Legend speaks of the Sun Spear, the mighty weapon that can strike any point in Theros, even the depths of the Underworld.

Spearpoint Oread

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

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.)

First strike

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has first strike.

Spectra Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from all colors. This effect doesn't remove Auras. (It can't be blocked, targeted, or dealt damage by anything that's white, blue, black, red, or green.)

Spectral Cloak

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has shroud as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Spectral Flight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

"The church looks down on binding spirits into armor, but now I can look down on them."
-Dierk, geistmage

Spectral Prison

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice Spectral Prison.

Spectral Shield

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and can't be the target of spells.

"What can be a stronger shield than concealment? Have you ever defeated an enemy you didn't know existed?"
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Spellshock

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a spell, Spellshock deals 2 damage to that player.

A snap of fingers, a snap of teeth.

Spellweaver Volute

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant instant card in a graveyard

Whenever you cast a sorcery spell, copy the enchanted instant card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you do, exile the enchanted card and attach Spellweaver Volute to another instant card in a graveyard.

Sphere of Duty

Enchantment

If a green source would deal damage to you, prevent 2 of that damage.

Duty subdues instinct.

Sphere of Grace

Enchantment

If a black source would deal damage to you, prevent 2 of that damage.

Grace repels darkness.

Sphere of Law

Enchantment

If a red source would deal damage to you, prevent 2 of that damage.

Law smothers anarchy.

Sphere of Purity

Enchantment

If an artifact would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Purity rejects artifice.

Sphere of Reason

Enchantment

If a blue source would deal damage to you, prevent 2 of that damage.

Reason exposes deception.

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.