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

Sun Clasp

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

: Return enchanted creature to its owner's hand.

"And darkness shall be cast from me
For my soul resides in the Sun."
-Femeref dirge

Squandered Resources

Enchantment

Sacrifice a land: Add to your mana pool one mana of any type the sacrificed land could produce.

"He traded sand for skins, skins for gold, gold for life. In the end, he traded life for sand."
-Afari, Tales

Suleiman's Legacy

Enchantment

When Suleiman's Legacy enters the battlefield, destroy all Djinns and Efreets. They can't be regenerated.

Whenever a Djinn or Efreet enters the battlefield, destroy it. It can't be regenerated.

With Suleiman's ascension to power, the djinn and efreets of ancient Rabiah learned humility.

Coils of the Medusa

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/-1.

Sacrifice Coils of the Medusa: Destroy all non-Wall creatures blocking enchanted creature.

Serpentine locks shape ornate rocks.

Ancestral Knowledge

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 Ancestral Knowledge enters the battlefield, look at the top ten cards of your library, then exile any number of them and put the rest back on top of your library in any order.

When Ancestral Knowledge leaves the battlefield, shuffle your library.

Phantom Wings

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

Sacrifice Phantom Wings: Return enchanted creature to its owner's hand.

"But you said 'when goats fly!'" Squee whined.

Teferi's Veil

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it phases out at end of combat. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

"I don't like to speak ill of 'walkers . . . but just what did Teferi think he was doing?"
-Ertai, wizard adept

Nature's Kiss

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

, Exile the top card of your graveyard: Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"I cradle my rage even as the earth cradles my dead kin."
-Mirri of the Weatherlight

Betrothed of Fire

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Sacrifice an untapped creature: Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Sacrifice enchanted creature: Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Fire Whip

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

Sacrifice Fire Whip: Fire Whip deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Goblin Bomb

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may flip a coin. If you win the flip, put a fuse counter on Goblin Bomb. If you lose the flip, remove a fuse counter from Goblin Bomb.

Remove five fuse counters from Goblin Bomb, Sacrifice Goblin Bomb: Goblin Bomb deals 20 damage to target player.

Angelic Renewal

Enchantment

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may sacrifice Angelic Renewal. If you do, return that card to the battlefield.

Fevered Convulsions

Enchantment

: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Tell me again why you failed to capture Gerrard, you worthless pile of spine."
-Volrath, to Greven

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

Legacy's Allure

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a treasure counter on Legacy's Allure.

Sacrifice Legacy's Allure: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of treasure counters on Legacy's Allure. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Steal Enchantment

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant enchantment

You control enchanted enchantment.

"Why should I flatter another with imitation when I can satisfy myself through possession?"
-Ertai, wizard adept

Volrath's Curse

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. That creature's controller may sacrifice a permanent for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

: Return Volrath's Curse to its owner's hand.

Earthcraft

Enchantment

Tap an untapped creature you control: Untap target basic land.

"The land gives up little, but we are masters of persuasion."
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Goblin Bombardment

Enchantment

Sacrifice a creature: Goblin Bombardment deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

One mogg to aim the catapult, one mogg to steer the rock.

Havoc

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a white spell, he or she loses 2 life.

As Orim put the lightning rod into place on the bow, she cast a spell of protection to shield herself from the heat. That's when the Furnace got personal.

Circle of Protection: Shadow

Enchantment

: The next time a creature of your choice with shadow would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Torment

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -3/-0.

"Volrath has killed me. All that remains of me is the scar!"
-Tahngarth

Contempt

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, return it and Contempt to their owners' hands at end of combat.

"Predictable little man. In all these years you taught me so much yet learned so little."
-Volrath, to Starke

Hesitation

Enchantment

When a player casts a spell, sacrifice Hesitation and counter that spell.

Gerrard hesitated, looking up at the enemy ship. The future hesitated with him, changed forever by the pause.

Volrath's Gardens

Enchantment

, Tap an untapped creature you control: You gain 2 life. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"Watch yourself," warned Starke. "These plants aren't nice when they're hungry."

Amok

Enchantment

, Discard a card at random: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Crovax's rage was horrifying. Within moments only blood and shreds of flesh remained of the shapeshifter.

Heat of Battle

Enchantment

Whenever a creature blocks, Heat of Battle deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

"Takara, it's me!" shouted Starke. It was no use-she obeyed Volrath.

Conviction

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

: Return Conviction to its owner's hand.

It was not the minotaur's shoulders but his soul that bore the heaviest weight.

Convalescence

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 10 or less life, you gain 1 life.

Selenia had hurt Mirri terribly, but injuries of the flesh could be treated. The wounds she had torn in Crovax's soul would never close.

Oath of Lieges

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player who controls more lands than he or she does and is his or her opponent. The first player may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle his or her library.

Cunning

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

When enchanted creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice Cunning at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

". . . Dry-walkers die
We feed on sweet flesh . . . ."
-Rootwater Saga

Oath of Ghouls

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player whose graveyard has fewer creature cards in it than his or her graveyard does and is his or her opponent. The first player may return a creature card from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

Oath of Mages

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player who has more life than he or she does and is his or her opponent. The first player may have Oath of Mages deal 1 damage to the second player.

Paroxysm

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player reveals the top card of his or her library. If that card is a land card, destroy that creature. Otherwise, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Oath of Druids

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player who controls more creatures than he or she does and is his or her opponent. The first player may reveal cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a creature card. If he or she does, that player puts that card onto the battlefield and all other cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard.

Song of Serenity

Enchantment

Creatures that are enchanted can't attack or block.

Heartwood brings peace in great symphonies where dryads conduct the trees through every note.

Survival of the Fittest

Enchantment

, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Absolute Grace

Enchantment

All creatures have protection from black.

In pursuit of Urza, the Phyrexians sent countless foul legions into Serra's realm. Though beaten back, they left it tainted with uncleansable evil.

Absolute Law

Enchantment

All creatures have protection from red.

The strength of law is unwavering. It is an iron bar in a world of water.

Brilliant Halo

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

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

Opal Gargoyle

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Gargoyle is an enchantment, Opal Gargoyle becomes a 2/2 Gargoyle creature with flying.

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.)

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.)

Cloak of Mists

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature is unblockable.

"All we could lose, we did. All we could keep, we do. And both are shrouded by mists."
-Barrin, master wizard

Energy Field

Enchantment

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you by sources you don't control.

When a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, sacrifice Energy Field.

Hermetic Study

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

"Books can be replaced; a prize student cannot. Be patient."
-Urza, to Barrin

Launch

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

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

Lilting Refrain

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Lilting Refrain.

Sacrifice Lilting Refrain: Counter target spell unless its controller pays , where X is the number of verse counters on Lilting Refrain.

Lingering Mirage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is an Island.

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

Birds frozen in flight. Sea turned to glass. Tolaria hidden in a mirror.

Pendrell Flux

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Devoured by the mists, Tolaria was stuck in time, trapped between two eternal heartbeats.

Power Taint

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant enchantment

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, that player loses 2 life unless he or she pays .

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

Veiled Apparition

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Apparition is an enchantment, Veiled Apparition becomes a 3/3 Illusion creature with flying and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Veiled Apparition unless you pay ."

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.

Bravado

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control.

"We drive the dragons from our home. Why should we fear you?"
-Fire Eye, viashino bey

Fiery Mantle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

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

Crosswinds

Enchantment

Creatures with flying get -2/-0.

Harbin's ornithopter had been trapped for two days within the currents of the storm. When the skies cleared, all he could see was a horizon of trees.

Fortitude

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate enchanted creature.

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

Hidden Ancients

Enchantment

When an opponent casts an enchantment spell, if Hidden Ancients is an enchantment, Hidden Ancients becomes a 5/5 Treefolk creature.

The only alert the invaders had was the rustling of leaves on a day without wind.

Hidden Stag

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent plays a land, if Hidden Stag is an enchantment, Hidden Stag becomes a 3/2 Elk Beast creature.

Whenever you play a land, if Hidden Stag is a creature, Hidden Stag becomes an enchantment.

Planar Collapse

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Planar Collapse and destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

With heavy heart, Urza doused one world's light to rekindle another's.

Lurking Skirge

Enchantment

When a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, if Lurking Skirge is an enchantment, Lurking Skirge becomes a 3/2 Imp creature with flying.

They never miss a funeral.

Treacherous Link

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

All damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature is dealt to its controller instead.

"You cannot possibly know the toll your alliances will exact from you."
-Barrin, to Urza

Impending Disaster

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are seven or more lands on the battlefield, sacrifice Impending Disaster and destroy all lands.

"The goblins are in charge of maintenance? Why not just set it on fire now and call it a day?"
-Whip Tongue, viashino technician

Sluggishness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't block.

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

Vark decided to lie down and think of a good excuse to quit working.

Illuminated Wings

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

, Sacrifice Illuminated Wings: Draw a card.

For a moment, Urza thought not of war and destruction, but of the freedom of the skies.

Carnival of Souls

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life and add to your mana pool.

"‘Davvol, blast those elves.' ‘Davvol, transport those troops.' No one cares that today is my birthday."

Chime of Night

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Chime of Night is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature.

Many sent to serve Davvol carried such instruments, as if to remind him who their true masters were.

Dying Wail

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, target player discards two cards.

This is a world of spiteful wasps that sting and kill even as they die.

Festering Wound

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an infection counter on Festering Wound.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Festering Wound deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of infection counters on Festering Wound.

Twisted Experiment

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/-1.

Gatha showed remarkable prowess in increasing his subjects' stature. Their lifespans, however, were another matter.

Goblin Festival

Enchantment

: Goblin Festival deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Flip a coin. If you lose the flip, choose one of your opponents. That player gains control of Goblin Festival.

"What are we celebratin' again?"

Cho-Manno's Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

As Cho-Manno's Blessing enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Cho-Manno's Blessing.

Inviolability

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature.

A soldier's faith is magic strong enough to protect against any blade.

Muzzle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Clenched teeth do not bite.
-Cho-Arrim saying

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.

Buoyancy

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

Saprazzan merfolk become legged on land, but some find it quicker to bring the water with them.

Customs Depot

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay . If you do, draw a card, then discard a card.

A bribe is always faster than filling out paperwork.

Diplomatic Immunity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Enchanted creature has shroud.

Insubordination

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the end step of enchanted creature's controller, Insubordination deals 2 damage to that player unless that creature attacked this turn.

Pretender's Claim

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked, tap all lands defending player controls.

The surest way to lose your holdings is to plead for them in Mercadia City's courts.

Cave Sense

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Flaming Sword

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

"It's not Talruum crystal, but I must admit-it gets the job done."
-Tahngarth

Ferocity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked, you may put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"You lot go on ahead. I'll keep killing them until it sticks."
-Tahngarth

Sustenance

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a land: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Like the dryads, the forest itself willingly gives up some of its life for the sake of the future.

Lashknife

Enchantment - Aura

If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay Lashknife's mana cost.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has first strike.

Those it won't scare, it scars.

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

Parallax Dementia

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Fading 1 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with one fade counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Enchanted creature gets +3/+2.

When Parallax Dementia leaves the battlefield, destroy enchanted creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Flowstone Surge

Enchantment

Creatures you control get +1/-1.

The army was never at a loss for weapons; Crovax was their forge.

Saproling Cluster

Enchantment

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

Flowering Field

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn."

Some lands are soothing, and their peace can be felt in the soul.

Mageta's Boon

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

When the Lion roars, his cubs grow stronger.
-Kipamu saying

Alexi's Cloak

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

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

"Doesn't look like much, does it?"
-Alexi, zephyr mage

Excavation

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

"There are secrets out there begging to be rediscovered. We just need to look in the right places."
-Teferi, planeswalker