The Abyss

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, destroy target nonartifact creature that player controls of his or her choice. It can't be regenerated.

"An immense river of oblivion is sweeping us away into a nameless abyss." -Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse

Invoke Prejudice

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell that doesn't share a color with a creature you control, counter that spell unless that player pays , where X is its converted mana cost.

Land Equilibrium

Enchantment

If an opponent who controls at least as many lands as you do would put a land onto the battlefield, that player instead puts that land onto the battlefield then sacrifices a land.

Arboria

World Enchantment

Creatures can't attack a player unless that player cast a spell or put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield during his or her last turn.

Living Plane

World Enchantment

All lands are 1/1 creatures that are still lands.

Caverns of Despair

World Enchantment

No more than two creatures can attack each combat.

No more than two creatures can block each combat.

Angelic Voices

Enchantment

Creatures you control get +1/+1 as long as you control no nonartifact, nonwhite creatures.

Lifeblood

Enchantment

Whenever a Mountain an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

"Foolish wizard! As you tap the power of your lofty keep, so grows my strength." -Malvern Xelionos, Letters

Moat

Enchantment

Creatures without flying can't attack.

The purpose of any moat is to impede attack. Some are filled with water, some with thistles. Some are filled with things best left unseen.

Presence of the Master

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts an enchantment spell, counter it.

Spiritual Sanctuary

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls a Plains, he or she gains 1 life.

Curse Artifact

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted artifact's controller, Curse Artifact deals 2 damage to that player unless he or she sacrifices that artifact.

Voska feared the artifact had come too easily.

Merseine

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Merseine enters the battlefield with three net counters on it.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if Merseine has a net counter on it.

Pay enchanted creature's mana cost: Remove a net counter from Merseine. Any player may activate this ability, but only if he or she controls the enchanted creature.

Infernal Darkness

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep-Pay and 1 life. (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 instead of any other type.

"I thought the day had brought enough horrors for our ragged band, but the night was far worse."
-Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Mind Whip

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay . If he or she doesn't, Mind Whip deals 2 damage to that player and you tap that creature.

"A mind in agony is a sparrow without wings." -Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Oath of Lim-Dûl

Enchantment

Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, sacrifice a permanent other than Oath of Lim-Dûl unless you discard a card. (Damage dealt to you causes you to lose life.)

: Draw a card.

Breath of Dreams

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.)

Green creatures have "Cumulative upkeep ."

"Get up, blast you! They're attacking! Why are you all so slow?"
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Dreams of the Dead

Enchantment

: Return target white or black creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains "Cumulative upkeep ." If the creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. (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.)

Illusions of Grandeur

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.)

When Illusions of Grandeur enters the battlefield, you gain 20 life.

When Illusions of Grandeur leaves the battlefield, you lose 20 life.

Freyalise's Winds

Enchantment

Whenever a permanent becomes tapped, put a wind counter on it.

If a permanent with a wind counter on it would untap during its controller's untap step, remove all wind counters from it instead.

Snowblind

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -X/-Y. If that creature is attacking, X is the number of snow lands defending player controls. Otherwise, X is the number of snow lands its controller controls. Y is equal to X or to enchanted creature's toughness minus 1, whichever is smaller.

Brand of Ill Omen

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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.)

Enchanted creature's controller can't cast creature spells.

"Let those who bear the brand receive no shelter, no kindness, and no comfort from our people."
-Lovisa Coldeyes,
Balduvian Chieftain

Chaos Moon

Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, count the number of permanents. If the number is odd, until end of turn, red creatures get +1/+1 and whenever a player taps a Mountain for mana, that player adds to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces). If the number is even, until end of turn, red creatures get -1/-1 and if a player taps a Mountain for mana, that Mountain produces colorless mana instead of any other type.

Dwarven Armory

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a land: Put a +2/+2 counter on target creature. Activate this ability only during any upkeep step.

"Few of us left, now. Confounded Yeti have opened all the vents. We'd best hide here with the weapons."
-Perena Deepcutter,
Dwarven Armorer

Melting

Enchantment

All lands are no longer snow.

"Who needs the sun when you've got me around?"
-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Total War

Enchantment

Whenever a player attacks with one or more creatures, destroy all untapped non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack, except for creatures the player hasn't controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Drought

Enchantment

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

Spells cost an additional "Sacrifice a Swamp" to cast for each black mana symbol in their mana costs.

Activated abilities cost an additional "Sacrifice a Swamp" to activate for each black mana symbol in their activation costs.

Enduring Renewal

Enchantment

Play with your hand revealed.

If you would draw a card, reveal the top card of your library instead. If it's a creature card, put it into your graveyard. Otherwise, draw a card.

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return it to your hand.

That which lasts longest serves best.

Flooded Woodlands

Enchantment

Green creatures can't attack unless their controller sacrifices a land for each green creature he or she controls that's attacking.

Freyalise's tears bring life and renewal, though they also bring trouble.

Glaciers

Enchantment

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

All Mountains are Plains.

"Even the highest mountain can be ground to dust."
-Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Monsoon

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's end step, tap all untapped Islands that player controls and Monsoon deals X damage to the player, where X is the number of Islands tapped this way.

"No one in her right mind would venture off the coast of Kjeldor during this season."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Reclamation

Enchantment

Black creatures can't attack unless their controller sacrifices a land for each black creature he or she controls that's attacking.

"We shall oppose Lim-Dûl and his forces by any means necessary, even if the very earth be torn asunder."
-Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Koskun Falls

World Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Koskun Falls unless you tap an untapped creature you control.

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

Mystic Decree

World Enchantment

All creatures lose flying and islandwalk.

"Curse Reveka, and curse her coddled conjurers. Their sorcerers' school shall yet be ours."
-Irini Sengir

Mammoth Harness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature loses flying.

Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, the other creature gains first strike until end of turn.

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

An-Zerrin Ruins

Enchantment

As An-Zerrin Ruins enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Creatures of the chosen type don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"The An-Zerrins have served me well, ever since I first killed them."
-Baron Sengir

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

Thought Lash

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep-Exile the top card of your library. (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.)

When a player doesn't pay Thought Lash's cumulative upkeep, that player exiles all cards from his or her library.

Exile the top card of your library: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Splintering Wind

Enchantment

: Splintering Wind deals 1 damage to target creature. Put a 1/1 green Splinter creature token onto the battlefield. It has flying and "Cumulative upkeep ." When it leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to you and each creature you control. (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.)

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.

Krovikan Whispers

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Cumulative upkeep or (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.)

You control enchanted creature.

When Krovikan Whispers is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose 2 life for each age counter on it.

Magmatic Core

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.)

At the beginning of your end step, Magmatic Core deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures, where X is the number of age counters on it.

Tombstone Stairwell

World 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.)

At the beginning of each upkeep, if Tombstone Stairwell is on the battlefield, each player puts a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with haste named Tombspawn onto the battlefield for each creature card in his or her graveyard.

At the beginning of each end step or when Tombstone Stairwell leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens put onto the battlefield with Tombstone Stairwell. They can't be regenerated.

Shimmer

Enchantment

As Shimmer enters the battlefield, choose a land type.

Each land of the chosen type has phasing. (It phases in or out before its controller untaps during each of his or her untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)

To buy unseen land, pay in unseen coin.
-Suq'Ata maxim

Barbed Foliage

Enchantment

Whenever a creature attacks you, it loses flanking until end of turn.

Whenever a creature without flying attacks you, Barbed Foliage deals 1 damage to it.

Preferred Selection

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top two cards of your library. You may sacrifice Preferred Selection and pay . If you do, put one of those cards into your hand. If you don't, put one of those cards on the bottom of your library.

Null Chamber

World Enchantment

As Null Chamber enters the battlefield, you and an opponent each name a card other than a basic land card.

The named cards can't be played.

Discovered by Femeref mages, the Null Chamber is the ultimate testing ground for the uncreative.

Purgatory

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, exile that card.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay and 2 life. If you do, return a card exiled with Purgatory to the battlefield.

Pillar Tombs of Aku

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may sacrifice a creature. If that player doesn't, he or she loses 5 life and you sacrifice Pillar Tombs of Aku.

"Aku, City of Hidden Graves / Aku, City of Lost Kings / Aku, welcome me."
-Pillar tomb inscription

Dream Tides

Enchantment

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

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may choose any number of tapped nongreen creatures he or she controls and pay for each creature chosen this way. If the player does, untap those creatures.

Elkin Lair

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player exiles a card at random from his or her hand. The player may play that card this turn. At the beginning of the next end step, if the player hasn't played the card, he or she puts it into his or her graveyard.

Lightning Cloud

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay . If you do, Lightning Cloud deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

The mightiest clouds sit upon spires of fire.
-Femeref adage

Eye of Singularity

World Enchantment

When Eye of Singularity enters the battlefield, destroy each permanent with the same name as another permanent, except for basic lands. They can't be regenerated.

Whenever a permanent other than a basic land enters the battlefield, destroy all other permanents with that name. They can't be regenerated.

Breathstealer's Crypt

Enchantment

If a player would draw a card, instead he or she draws a card and reveals it. If it's a creature card, that player discards it unless he or she pays 3 life.

"Far too many soldiers have died in their beds."
-Telim'Tor

Pendrell Mists

Enchantment

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay ."

As insubstantial-and as insistent-as appetite.

Psychic Vortex

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep-Draw a card. (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.)

At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice a land and discard your hand.

"Tolaria floats upon a wheel of fortune."
-Ertai, wizard adept

Heart of Bogardan

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.)

When a player doesn't pay Heart of Bogardan's cumulative upkeep, Heart of Bogardan deals X damage to target player and each creature he or she controls, where X is twice the number of age counters on Heart of Bogardan minus 2.

Aluren

Enchantment

Any player may play creature cards with converted mana cost 3 or less without paying their mana cost and as though they had flash.

Squee bounced up and down. "I sees a horsey, an' a piggy, an' a-"
"If you don't shut up," hissed Mirri, "you'll see a kidney and a spleeny."

No Quarter

Enchantment

Whenever a creature becomes blocked by a creature with lesser power, destroy the blocking creature.

Whenever a creature blocks a creature with lesser power, destroy the attacking creature.

As Gerrard and Greven neared each other, the moggs caught between them realized they should flee.

Tooth and Claw

Enchantment

Sacrifice two creatures: Put a 3/1 red Beast creature token named Carnivore onto the battlefield.

"You deify nature as female-kind and gentle-yet you cringe at what is natural."
-Mirri of the Weatherlight

Field of Souls

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Humility

Enchantment

All creatures lose all abilities and are 1/1.

"One cannot cleanse the wounds of failure."
-Karn, silver golem

Pegasus Refuge

Enchantment

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

The first Rath-born pegasus was so offended by the sky that it hid its eyes in the earth.
-Vec lore

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.

Mortuary

Enchantment

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put that card on top of your library.

"Think of them not as failures but as works in progress."
-Volrath

Awakening

Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, untap all creatures and lands.

"There are times when destiny calls forth a people and demands an action. Now is the time. We are the people. This is our action. Charge!"
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Pursuit of Knowledge

Enchantment

If you would draw a card, you may put a study counter on Pursuit of Knowledge instead.

Remove three study counters from Pursuit of Knowledge, Sacrifice Pursuit of Knowledge: Draw seven cards.

Oath of Scholars

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player who has more cards in hand than he or she does and is his or her opponent. The first player may discard his or her hand and draw three cards.

Volrath's Dungeon

Enchantment

Pay 5 life: Destroy Volrath's Dungeon. Any player may activate this ability but only during his or her turn.

Discard a card: Target player puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Pandemonium

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, that creature's controller may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature or player of his or her choice.

"If we cannot live proudly, we die so!"
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Opal Titan

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Titan is an enchantment, Opal Titan becomes a 4/4 Giant creature with protection from each of that spell's colors.

Remembrance

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that creature, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Serra's Liturgy

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Serra's Liturgy.

, Sacrifice Serra's Liturgy: Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments, where X is the number of verse counters on Serra's Liturgy.

Zephid's Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Spells will shun you, as will everyone else.

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.

Parasitic Bond

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Parasitic Bond deals 2 damage to that player.

"All bonds are parasitic. Only rulership is pure."
-Gix, Yawgmoth praetor

Vampiric Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Whenever a creature dealt damage by enchanted creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Vile Requiem

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Vile Requiem.

, Sacrifice Vile Requiem: Destroy up to X target nonblack creatures, where X is the number of verse counters on Vile Requiem. They can't be regenerated.

Antagonism

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's end step, Antagonism deals 2 damage to that player unless one of his or her opponents was dealt damage this turn.

Sneak Attack

Enchantment

: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice the creature at the beginning of the next end step.

"Nothin' beat surprise-'cept rock."

Sulfuric Vapors

Enchantment

If a red spell would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 1 to that permanent or player instead.

It was the dragons who first learned to chase their prey into the vapors before igniting them.

Gaea's Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

: Regenerate enchanted creature.

The forest rose to the battle, not to save the people but to save itself.

Sporogenesis

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fungus counter on target nontoken creature.

Whenever a creature with a fungus counter on it dies, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each fungus counter on that creature.

When Sporogenesis leaves the battlefield, remove all fungus counters from all creatures.

Brink of Madness

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have no cards in hand, sacrifice Brink of Madness and target opponent discards his or her hand.

"The fools thought me dead. But I built an empire inside my tomb."
-Kerrick, sleeper agent

No Mercy

Enchantment

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

"We had years to prepare, while they had mere minutes."
-Kerrick, sleeper agent

Pyromancy

Enchantment

, Discard a card at random: Pyromancy deals damage to target creature or player equal to the converted mana cost of the discarded card.

Who harnesses fire controls the world.
-Ghitu proverb

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.

Opalescence

Enchantment

Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost. It's still an enchantment.

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.

Æther Sting

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, Æther Sting deals 1 damage to that player.

When Gatha fell, he was called to account for each abomination he created.

Pattern of Rebirth

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller may search his or her library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield. If that player does, he or she shuffles his or her library.

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.

Embargo

Enchantment

Nonland permanents don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

Squeeze

Enchantment

Sorcery spells cost more to cast.

Any pirate would prefer Rishada's swift and cruel justice to Saprazzo's patient punishments.

Statecraft

Enchantment

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by creatures you control.

"Inside these walls, peace; outside, sharks. You choose."
-Saprazzan vizier

Close Quarters

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, Close Quarters deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

The Mercadians' ineptitude in close combat sometimes accidentally pays off.

Kyren Negotiations

Enchantment

Tap an untapped creature you control: Kyren Negotiations deals 1 damage to target player.

Kyren goblins always speak in questions and never allow wrong answers.

Foster

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay . If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Ley Line

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put a +1/+1 counter on target creature of his or her choice.

"I can feel the strength of the entire forest."
-Gerrard