Dark Privilege

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"As you breathe your last, understand why I accept such forbidden gifts."
-Purraj of Urborg

Dark Prophecy

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

When the bog ran short on small animals, Ekri turned to the surrounding farmlands.

Dark Suspicions

Enchantment

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player loses X life, where X is the number of cards in that player's hand minus the number of cards in your hand.

"After four thousand years, you learn to plan for betrayal."
-Urza

Dark Tutelage

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
-Seneca, Epistles, trans. Gummere

Darkest Hour

Enchantment

All creatures are black.

The eclipse made it clear whose side the sky was on.

Darksteel Mutation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creatureEnchanted creature is a 0/1 Insect artifact creature with indestructible and loses all other abilities.

Infinitely powerless.

Dauthi Embrace

Enchantment

: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

"The Dauthi army grows by screams and bounds."
-Lyna, Soltari emissary

Dawn of the Dead

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Dawn's Reflection

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds two mana in any combination of colors to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Only Sylvok magic could truly capture the perfection of a Mirrodin sunrise.

Day of Destiny

Legendary Enchantment

Legendary creatures you control get +2/+2.

"Rise like the sun, stand like the mountain, charge like the lion, die as a hero."
-General Takeno

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.

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.)

Dead Weight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

The crueler vampires' idea of free-range farming.

Deadapult

Enchantment

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

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

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.

Deadfall

Enchantment

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

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

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.

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 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 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'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'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

Deathgrip

Enchantment

: Counter target green spell.

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

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

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

Deep Water

Enchantment

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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

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 Torment

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Destructive Flow

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a nonbasic land.

Stage two of the Phyrexian invasion included the complete alteration of Dominaria's landscape.

Destructive Urge

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a land.

Red sky at night, dragon's delight.

Detainment Spell

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

: Attach Detainment Spell to target creature.

Bind the mind rather than the wrist, and you stop the intent to harm before it starts.

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.

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."

Diabolic Servitude

Enchantment

When Diabolic Servitude enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

When the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude dies, exile it and return Diabolic Servitude to its owner's hand.

When Diabolic Servitude leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude.

Dictate of Erebos

Enchantment

Flash

Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

"I take no pleasure in your suffering, but it is necessary. Once you accept your fate you'll find eternity more tolerable."

Dictate of Heliod

Enchantment

Flash

Creatures you control get +2/+2.

"In our war Heliod gave mortals some favor, yet other times he withheld aid. Are we still no more than game pieces to him?"
-Polyxene the Doubter

Dictate of Karametra

Enchantment

Flash

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana to his or her mana pool of any type that land produced.

"I refuse to let the folly of mortals endanger the home I made for them."

Dictate of Kruphix

Enchantment

Flash

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

"Knowledge is cruel. It will break your heart and test your allegiances. Are you certain you want this curse?"

Dictate of the Twin Gods

Enchantment

Flash

If a source would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Iroas and Mogis are as different in appearance as they are in personality.

Diplomatic Immunity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Shroud (This permanent can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Enchanted creature has shroud.

Dire Undercurrents

Enchantment

Whenever a blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target player draw a card.

Whenever a black creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target player discard a card.

Disappear

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Return enchanted creature and Disappear to their owners' hands.

If at first you don't succeed, run away and hide.

Discordant Dirge

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Discordant Dirge.

, Sacrifice Discordant Dirge: Look at target opponent's hand and choose up to X cards from it, where X is the number of verse counters on Discordant Dirge. That player discards those cards.

Dismiss into Dream

Enchantment

Each creature your opponents control is an Illusion in addition to its other types and has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

"You trust in the shadows of a breeze."-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Dispersing Orb

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a permanent: Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"Like the seas, the Æther is fickle and ever-changing. If we can control one, we can master the other."
-Riptide Project director

Disruption Aura

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

Enchanted artifact has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay its mana cost."

Vedalken weapons sold to outsiders are as dependable as the vedalken themselves.

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

Diversionary Tactics

Enchantment

Tap two untapped creatures you control: Tap target creature.

"It's the oldest trick in the book," said Guff. "And I ought to know-I wrote it."

Divine Favor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Divine Favor enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

With an armory of light, even the squire may champion her people.

Divine Intervention

Enchantment

Divine Intervention enters the battlefield with two intervention counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an intervention counter from Divine Intervention.

When you remove the last intervention counter from Divine Intervention, the game is a draw.

Divine Presence

Enchantment

If a source would deal 4 or more damage to a creature or player, that source deals 3 damage to that creature or player instead.

"Serra's light isn't easily extinguished."
-Reya Dawnbringer

Divine Sacrament

Enchantment

White creatures get +1/+1.

Threshold - White creatures get an additional +1/+1 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Their whispered prayers rally the nomads better than any war cry could.

Divine Transformation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

Glory surged through her and radiance surrounded her. All things were possible with the blessing of the Divine.

Dizzying Gaze

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

: Enchanted creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

"When I cut down my angel I only started my fall."
-Crovax

Domestication

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your end step, if enchanted creature's power is 4 or greater, sacrifice Domestication.

Domineer

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact creature

You control enchanted artifact creature.

Since they haven't seen their original master for millennia, golems are eager to take orders from anyone.

Doomwake Giant

Enchantment Creature - Giant

Constellation - Whenever Doomwake Giant or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Crippling fear precedes it. A foul stench accompanies it. Death follows in its wake.

Doubling Season

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.

If an effect would place one or more counters on a permanent you control, it places twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Douse

Enchantment

: Counter target red spell.

The academy's libraries were protected by fire-prevention spells. Even after the disaster, the books were intact-though forever sealed in time.

Dovescape

Enchantment

( can be paid with either or .)

Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, counter that spell. That player puts X 1/1 white and blue Bird creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the spell's converted mana cost.

Downdraft

Enchantment

: Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Sacrifice Downdraft: Downdraft deals 2 damage to each creature with flying.

Dragon Appeasement

Enchantment

Skip your draw step.

Whenever you sacrifice a creature, you may draw a card.

"Look there-they carry that one upon a sedan chair. It must be their leader. Wait . . . Oh! Perhaps not."
-Kaeda, aven scout

Dragon Breath

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has haste.

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

When a creature with converted mana cost 6 or greater enters the battlefield, you may return Dragon Breath from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Dragon Fangs

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

When a creature with converted mana cost 6 or greater enters the battlefield, you may return Dragon Fangs from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Dragon Grip

Enchantment - Aura

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you may cast Dragon Grip as though it had flash. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike.

Dragon Mantle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Dragon Mantle enters the battlefield, draw a card.

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

Dragon Roost

Enchantment

: Put a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Dragons erupt from peaks of chaos and flow from rivers of molten rage.

Dragon Scales

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2 and has vigilance.

When a creature with converted mana cost 6 or greater enters the battlefield, you may return Dragon Scales from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Dragon Shadow

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

When a creature with converted mana cost 6 or greater enters the battlefield, you may return Dragon Shadow from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Dragon Tempest

Enchantment

Whenever a creature with flying enters the battlefield under your control, it gains haste until end of turn.

Whenever a Dragon enters the battlefield under your control, it deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the number of Dragons you control.

Dragon Wings

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

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

When a creature with converted mana cost 6 or greater enters the battlefield, you may return Dragon Wings from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Drake Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.

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

Dralnu's Crusade

Enchantment

Goblin creatures get +1/+1.

All Goblins are black and are Zombies in addition to their other creature types.

"Don't you agree that mogg intellects are improved by zombification?"
-Lord Dralnu

Dread of Night

Enchantment

White creatures get -1/-1.

"These moonless, foreign skies keep me in thrall. Dark whispers echo in the night, and I cannot resist."
-Selenia, dark angel

Dreadbringer Lampads

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

Constellation - Whenever Dreadbringer Lampads or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Dream Coat

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Enchanted creature becomes the color or colors of your choice. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue." -Theognis, Elegies 1, 215

Dream Halls

Enchantment

Rather than pay the mana cost for a spell, its controller may discard a card that shares a color with that spell.

Within without.

Dream Leash

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant permanent

You can't choose an untapped permanent as Dream Leash's target as you cast Dream Leash.

You control enchanted permanent.

The tendrils of sorcery find easy purchase on the soft underbelly of dreams.