Serra's Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

The touch of Serra's angels bears hopes aloft and empowers noble causes.

Serra's Boon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2 as long as it's white. Otherwise, it gets -2/-1.

"The light of an angel's glance is warm, but her fixed stare blinds and burns."
-Calexis, deacon of the New Order of Serra

Serra's Blessing

Enchantment

Creatures you control have vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause them to tap.)

"Rise, and I will show you how to run without flagging, fight without raging, and fly without wings."

Serra Bestiary

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Serra Bestiary unless you pay .

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities with in their costs can't be activated.

Serra Aviary

World Enchantment

Creatures with flying get +1/+1.

"Serra, like Feroz, is long since dead. But remember, Daria: her spirit shall survive so long as the Homelands do."
-Taysir

Serpent Skin

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Serenity

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. They can't be regenerated.

"Just think of me as the storm before the calm."
-Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Sensory Deprivation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -3/-0.

They call it "stitcher's anesthesia," a spell to deaden the senses while the mad doctors begin their grisly work.

Seizures

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, Seizures deals 3 damage to that creature's controller unless that player pays .

"Sheathe your sword, warrior, lest ye fall on it when stricken."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Seismic Assault

Enchantment

Discard a land card: Seismic Assault deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Earth arms itself with fire.

Seer's Vision

Enchantment

Your opponents play with their hands revealed.

Sacrifice Seer's Vision: Look at target player's hand and choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Seeker

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or white creatures.

Seed the Land

Enchantment

Whenever a land enters the battlefield, its controller puts a 1/1 green Snake creature token onto the battlefield.

With a sadness and a sense of hope, Senka left the colony of her birth and, with her attendants, set out to serve as broodmistress, founder of a new colony.

Security Detail

Enchantment

: Put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only if you control no creatures and only once each turn.

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."

Secrets of the Dead

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.

"The veil between the living and the dead is so very thin that the whispers of the ancients can finally be heard."
-Amalric of Midvast Hall

Secret Plans

Enchantment

Face-down creatures you control get +0/+1.

Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, draw a card.

Rakshasa trade in secrets, amassing wealth from their careful revelation.

Second Wind

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Tap enchanted creature.

: Untap enchanted creature.

Vindr stormchasers believe that the same ancient forces that move the winds can also move mortal minds and hearts.

Second Chance

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, sacrifice Second Chance and take an extra turn after this one.

The greatest gift is the opportunity to right one's wrongs.

Season of the Witch

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Season of the Witch unless you pay 2 life.

At the beginning of the end step, destroy all untapped creatures that didn't attack this turn, except for creatures that couldn't attack.

Searing Meditation

Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, Searing Meditation deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"When I meditate I see the world as it should be. All that does not fit, I remove."
-Alovnek, Boros guildmage

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.

Seal of Strength

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Strength: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"I am the feeder, the morsel that revives the starving."
-Seal inscription

Seal of Removal

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Removal: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"I am the unraveler, the loosened thread that will not hold."
-Seal inscription

Seal of Primordium

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Primordium: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I am the simplifier, the root that drags all artifice to earth."
-Seal inscription

Seal of Fire

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Fire: Seal of Fire deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"I am the romancer, the passion that consumes the flesh."
-Seal inscription

Seal of Doom

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Doom: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

"I am the banisher, the ill will that snuffs the final candle."
-Seal inscription

Seal of Cleansing

Enchantment

Sacrifice Seal of Cleansing: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I am the purifier, the light that clears all shadows."
-Seal inscription

Sea's Claim

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchanted land is an Island.

"Who's the crazy one now!?"
-Torgle, mountaintop boatmaker

Screams of the Damned

Enchantment

, Exile a card from your graveyard: Screams of the Damned deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

It's important to face your inner demons . . . unless they're the kind of demons that can kill you.

Screams from Within

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1.

When enchanted creature dies, return Screams from Within from your graveyard to the battlefield.

There's no escaping an enemy that lives inside your head.

Scourgemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Scourgemark enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+0.

To members of the cult of Erebos, gold-infused tattoos symbolize the inevitable grasp of the god of death.

Scourge of the Nobilis

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As long as enchanted creature is red, it gets +1/+1 and has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

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.)

Scavenged Weaponry

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Scavenged Weaponry enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

"The Phyrexians have progressed," admired Urza. "Their parts are interchangeable."

Scald

Enchantment

Whenever a player taps an Island for mana, Scald deals 1 damage to that player.

"Shiv may be surrounded by water, but the mountains go far deeper."
-Fire Eye, viashino bey

Séance

Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, you may exile target creature card from your graveyard. If you do, put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that card except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Savage Silhouette

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has ": Regenerate this creature."

Some elves believe that their survival instincts are born of many cycles of reincarnation.

Savage Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

Satyr Firedancer

Enchantment Creature - Satyr

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control deals damage to an opponent, Satyr Firedancer deals that much damage to target creature that player controls.

His heart, the coal; his eye, the spark; his hand, the whirling flame.

Sarcomancy

Enchantment

When Sarcomancy enters the battlefield, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no Zombies on the battlefield, Sarcomancy deals 1 damage to you.

Saproling Infestation

Enchantment

Whenever a player kicks a spell, you put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

"My army took centuries to gather," remarked Urza. "Yavimaya seems to conjure hers out of thin air."

Saproling Cluster

Enchantment

, Discard a card: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield. Any player may activate this ability.

Saproling Burst

Enchantment

Fading 7 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with seven fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Remove a fade counter from Saproling Burst: Put a green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on Saproling Burst."

When Saproling Burst leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens put onto the battlefield with Saproling Burst. They can't be regenerated.

Sanguine Bond

Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
-Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Sangrite Backlash

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/-3.

"Sangrite is the dragon's beating heart. Little wonder, then, that so many fools' chests burst trying to contain it."
-Sarkhan Vol

Sandskin

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

"Those who live by the sword will die by the sword. I choose to do neither."

Sanctimony

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent taps a Mountain for mana, you may gain 1 life.

"The peasants labor for my profit. I approve."

Samite Sanctuary

Enchantment

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. Any player may activate this ability.

Our war is against suffering, not against those who cause it.
-Samite creed

Samite Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, prevent that damage."

Knit bone, darn flesh,
Stitch skin, weave breath.
-Samite healing ritual

Sage's Reverie

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Sage's Reverie enters the battlefield, draw a card for each Aura you control that's attached to a creature.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura you control that's attached to a creature.

Safeguard

Enchantment

: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn.

"I'm amused by wasted effort when it's not my own."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Sadistic Glee

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.

"First blood isn't as important as last blood."
-Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Sacred Mesa

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Sacred Mesa unless you sacrifice a Pegasus.

: Put a 1/1 white Pegasus creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"Do not go there, do not go / unless you rise on wings, unless you walk on hooves."
-"Song to the Sun," Femeref song

Sacred Ground

Enchantment

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes a land to be put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield.

The knight knelt and prayed, first for the sanctity of his land and second for the strength to repel its invaders.

Runner's Bane

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature with power 3 or less

When Runner's Bane enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

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

Runes of the Deus

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As long as enchanted creature is red, it gets +1/+1 and has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

As long as enchanted creature is green, it gets +1/+1 and has trample.

Runed Halo

Enchantment

As Runed Halo enters the battlefield, name a card.

You have protection from the chosen name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Rune of Protection: White

Enchantment

: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Rune of Protection: Red

Enchantment

: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Rune of Protection: Lands

Enchantment

: The next time a land source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Rune of Protection: Green

Enchantment

: The next time a green source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Rune of Protection: Blue

Enchantment

: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Rune of Protection: Black

Enchantment

: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Rune of Protection: Artifacts

Enchantment

: The next time an artifact source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Rumbling Crescendo

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Rumbling Crescendo.

, Sacrifice Rumbling Crescendo: Destroy up to X target lands, where X is the number of verse counters on Rumbling Crescendo.

Rumbling Aftershocks

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a kicked spell, you may have Rumbling Aftershocks deal damage to target creature or player equal to the number of times that spell was kicked.

"I like it here. You always get a little more for your mana."
-Chandra Nalaar

Rule of Law

Enchantment

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Appointed by the kha himself, members of the tribunal ensure all disputes are settled with the utmost fairness.

Royal Decree

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Whenever a Swamp, Mountain, black permanent, or red permanent becomes tapped, Royal Decree deals 1 damage to that permanent's controller.

Rowen

Enchantment

Reveal the first card you draw each turn. Whenever you reveal a basic land card this way, draw a card.

"I've dreamt of a second harvest but fear I will not see it."
-Asmira, holy avenger

Roots of Life

Enchantment

As Roots of Life enters the battlefield, choose Island or Swamp.

Whenever a land of the chosen type an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Roots

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature without flying

When Roots enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

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

"That which nourishes can also bind."
-Gemma, Willow Priestess

Root Maze

Enchantment

Artifacts and lands enter the battlefield tapped.

Pause for the briefest of moments to consider the whorl of brambles, the tangled twist of bark, and the maze has already won.

Root Cage

Enchantment

Mercenaries don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

The Vintara Forest welcomes its enemies with a crushing embrace.

Rooftop Storm

Enchantment

You may pay rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

"Let those idiot priests tremble! A new era in unlife begins here and now. Oglor, raise the lightning vane!"
-Stitcher Geralf

Rolling Stones

Enchantment

Wall creatures can attack as though they didn't have defender.

"We spent three weeks trying to knock that wall down. Now it's knocking us down."
-Onean sergeant

Robe of Mirrors

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchanted creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"Some say you cannot hit what you cannot see. I prefer that you hit what I want you to see."
-Arcanis the Omnipotent

Rivalry

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls more lands than each other player, Rivalry deals 2 damage to him or her.

The goblins revered it; the viashino defended it. Only Urza understood it.

Ritual of Subdual

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

If a land is tapped for mana, it produces colorless mana instead of any other type.

"That which does not bend to the will of Freyalise shall surely break."
-Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Ritual of Steel

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Ritual of Steel enters the battlefield, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.

"Our soldiers are blessed with lizard scales as hard and cold as steel."
-Sidar Jabari

Rites of Flourishing

Enchantment

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

Each player may play an additional land on each of his or her turns.

"Dance, and bring forth the coil! It is an umbilical to Gaea herself, fattening us with the earth's rich bounty."

Rite of Passage

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it. (The damage is dealt before the counter is put on.)

Every scar is a lesson, every battle a test of what you have learned.

Risky Move

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains control of Risky Move.

When you gain control of Risky Move from another player, choose a creature you control and an opponent. Flip a coin. If you lose the flip, that opponent gains control of that creature.

Rising Waters

Enchantment

Lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player untaps a land he or she controls.

Rising waters, sinking hope.

Rise of the Hobgoblins

Enchantment

When Rise of the Hobgoblins enters the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, put X 1/1 red and white Goblin Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

: Red creatures and white creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn.

A river even the merrow dare not cross.

Riptide Chimera

Enchantment Creature - Chimera

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, return an enchantment you control to its owner's hand.

"I want one."
-Kiora

Riot Spikes

Enchantment - Aura

( can be paid with either or .)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/-1.

Most auramancers would have let the spikes hover just above the skin. Having the spikes rip through the skin from beneath was a touch added by Rakdos himself.

Righteous War

Enchantment

White creatures you control have protection from black.

Black creatures you control have protection from white.

"This is a war without neutrality."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Righteous Indignation

Enchantment

Whenever a creature blocks a black or red creature, the blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"You are the disease that plagues Mercadia. I am the healer's knife that will cut you out."

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

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.

Righteous Aura

Enchantment

, Pay 2 life: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

"Good is not a ‘thing.' You can neither touch nor own it. No, Good is a vision we all share and strive to make real."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Rhystic Study

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays .

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you need to know.

Rhystic Deluge

Enchantment

: Tap target creature unless its controller pays .

"I'll rain down on you with the power of magic itself. Then we'll see who prevails."
-Alexi, zephyr mage

Rhystic Circle

Enchantment

: Any player may pay . If no one does, the next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

The circle buys time-an important commodity in battle.

Rewards of Diversity

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a multicolored spell, you gain 4 life.

"Everything is in place. Nothing can happen that isn't part of my plan."
-Urza

Reverence

Enchantment

Creatures with power 2 or less can't attack you.

"Despite the massive forces that allied against him, Konda never once believed he would lose the Kami War."
-Masako the Humorless

Revelation

World Enchantment

Players play with their hands revealed.

"Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek." -Ecclesiastes 3:19

Retribution of the Ancients

Enchantment

, Remove X +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Abzan ancestors died to protect their Houses, and they protect them still.

Retreat to Valakut

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, choose one -

• Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

• Target creature can't block this turn.

Retreat to Kazandu

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, choose one -

• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

• You gain 2 life.