Griffin Guide

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

When enchanted creature dies, put a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Opal Guardian

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if Opal Guardian is an enchantment, Opal Guardian becomes a 3/4 Gargoyle creature with flying and protection from red.

It was a moment in time, cast in stone-a moment whose time had come again.

Ophidian Eye

Enchantment - Aura

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Paradox Haze

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant player

At the beginning of enchanted player's first upkeep each turn, that player gets an additional upkeep step after this step.

"Keep your pace steady through the haze, lest you step on the heels of your future self or trip the self a moment behind you."
-Teferi

Pentarch Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As Pentarch Ward enters the battlefield, choose a color.

When Pentarch Ward enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Pentarch Ward.

Spirit Loop

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

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

Temporal Isolation

Enchantment - Aura

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has shadow. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Undying Rage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and can't block.

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

Radha was born in Skyshroud, but her temper is undeniably Keldon.

Verdant Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has "At the beginning of each upkeep, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield."

Braid of Fire

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep-Add to your mana pool. (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.)

"To a trained mind, the cold is but a momentary distraction."

Counterbalance

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same converted mana cost as the revealed card.

Freyalise's Radiance

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.)

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

Frozen Solid

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

"Guard, fetch me a mallet."
-Heidar, Rimewind master

Hibernation's End

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 you pay Hibernation's End's cumulative upkeep, you may search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of age counters on Hibernation's End and put it onto the battlefield. If you do, shuffle your library.

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.

Phyrexian Etchings

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, draw a card for each age counter on Phyrexian Etchings.

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

Shape of the Wiitigo

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Shape of the Wiitigo enters the battlefield, put six +1/+1 counters on enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature if it attacked or blocked since your last upkeep. Otherwise, remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Surging Might

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Anthem of Rakdos

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn and Anthem of Rakdos deals 1 damage to you.

Hellbent - As long as you have no cards in hand, if a source you control would deal damage to a creature or player, it deals double that damage to that creature or player instead.

Blessing of the Nephilim

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each of its colors.

"Before the first stone was laid or the first elf-child born, the power of the nephilim was gathering. Let that power be spread by my hands."

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.

Elemental Resonance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant permanent

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add mana equal to enchanted permanent's mana cost to your mana pool. (Mana cost includes color. If a mana symbol has multiple colors, choose one.)

Leafdrake Roost

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ", : Put a 2/2 green and blue Drake creature token with flying onto the battlefield."

"The best experiments are those whose successes replicate themselves."
-Yolov, Simic bioengineer

Nettling Curse

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

: Enchanted creature attacks this turn if able.

"I call them ‘Poke' and ‘Prod.'"
-Chagrach, Rakdos cursemage

Nihilistic Glee

Enchantment

, Discard a card: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Hellbent - , Pay 2 life: Draw a card. Activate this ability only if you have no cards in hand.

"All ends in obliteration-love in hatred, life in death, and light in empty darkness."

Ocular Halo

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": Draw a card."

: Enchanted creature gains vigilance until end of turn.

While the soldier dreams, the eyes stand watch.

Pain Magnification

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent is dealt 3 or more damage by a single source, that player discards a card.

The Rakdos make sure their victims remember their pain-or at least give up a little bit of their sanity in order to forget.

Palliation Accord

Enchantment

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, put a shield counter on Palliation Accord.

Remove a shield counter from Palliation Accord: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Plumes of Peace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Forecast - , Reveal Plumes of Peace from your hand: Tap target creature. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Proper Burial

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Properly honored dead gain the peace of the grave and freedom from the call of the Ghost Quarter.

Psychic Possession

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant opponent

Skip your draw step.

Whenever enchanted opponent draws a card, you may draw a card.

"You will do the thinking for the both of us!"

Rain of Gore

Enchantment

If a spell or ability would cause its controller to gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

"Stay indoors, away from what seeps over the thresholds. This is the Demon's work, and only ill can come of it."
-Belko, owner of Titan's Keg tavern

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.

Shielding Plax

Enchantment - Aura

( can be paid with either or .)

Enchant creature

When Shielding Plax enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.

Street Savvy

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and can block creatures with landwalk abilities as though they didn't have those abilities.

"It takes more than swift feet and dark shadows to slip by me unnoticed."

Taste for Mayhem

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.

Hellbent - Enchanted creature gets an additional +2/+0 as long as you have no cards in hand.

The taste of blood breaks down what little self-control the Rakdos possess.

Utopia Sprawl

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Forest

As Utopia Sprawl enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of the chosen color to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

War's Toll

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, tap all lands that player controls.

If a creature an opponent controls attacks, all creatures that opponent controls attack if able.

Razia, archangel of war, demands total commitment.

Writ of Passage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, if its power is 2 or less, it's unblockable this turn.

Forecast - , Reveal Writ of Passage from your hand: Target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Beastmaster's Magemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1.

Whenever a creature you control that's enchanted becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

Cryptwailing

Enchantment

, Exile two creature cards from your graveyard: Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"Piece the tragic notes together and is it not a melody?"
-Teysa

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.

Earth Surge

Enchantment

Each land gets +2/+2 as long as it's a creature.

"Some gardeners sing to plants. I tell them stories-stories of how they once ruled the world, of the mortals who destroyed their kind, and of revenge."
-Bougrat, druid of the Cult of Yore

Fencer's Magemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1 and have first strike.

"The first blow is the most important. It often negates the need for a second."
-Agrus Kos

Guardian's Magemark

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1.

The soldier moved with fluid poise, his awareness extending far beyond five senses.

Hatching Plans

Enchantment

When Hatching Plans is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw three cards.

So wondrous to behold, so delicate and finely crafted-and yet, such a pleasure to smash.

Hissing Miasma

Enchantment

Whenever a creature attacks you, its controller loses 1 life.

All that remains when the fog finishes are neat piles of polished bones, like acid-etched glass. Orzhov servants collect them to make altar chimes.

Hypervolt Grasp

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

: Return Hypervolt Grasp to its owner's hand.

Zap on. Zap off.

Infiltrator's Magemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1 and can't be blocked except by creatures with defender.

"In secrecy is strength. None can oppose one who cannot be found."
-Szadek

Killer Instinct

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

"Take the bridge, men! Victory! Victory! is ou- Retreat! RETREAT"

Leyline of Lifeforce

Enchantment

If Leyline of Lifeforce is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.

Creature spells can't be countered.

Where sovereignty and flesh converge.

Leyline of Lightning

Enchantment

If Leyline of Lightning is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.

Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, Leyline of Lightning deals 1 damage to target player.

Where storm and spellcraft converge.

Leyline of Singularity

Enchantment

If Leyline of Singularity is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.

All nonland permanents are legendary.

Where renown and solitude converge.

Leyline of the Meek

Enchantment

If Leyline of the Meek is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.

Creature tokens get +1/+1.

Where strength and humility converge.

Necromancer's Magemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1.

If a creature you control that's enchanted would die, return it to its owner's hand instead.

Pillory of the Sleepless

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life."

Shadow Lance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has first strike.

: Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Shadow lances are crafted from harvested souls. The more wicked the sinner, the keener the blade.

Sinstriker's Will

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals damage equal to its power to target attacking or blocking creature."

"Steel rusts. Arrows break. But righteousness is always strong, always sharp."

Wurmweaver Coil

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant green creature

Enchanted creature gets +6/+6.

, Sacrifice Wurmweaver Coil: Put a 6/6 green Wurm creature token onto the battlefield.

Some use magic to spy through walls. Others use it to crush them.

Blockbuster

Enchantment

, Sacrifice Blockbuster: Blockbuster deals 3 damage to each tapped creature and each player.

Vendors hung cords heavy with roots and laid out boxes of salted meat, unaware of the fiery disaster swiftly approaching.

Blood Funnel

Enchantment

Noncreature spells you cast cost less to cast.

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, counter that spell unless you sacrifice a creature.

Bloodbond March

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a creature spell, each player returns all cards with the same name as that spell from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

The Golgari support a vast army because death never ends its soldiers' service.

Breath of Fury

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

When enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it and attach Breath of Fury to a creature you control. If you do, untap all creatures you control and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Clinging Darkness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -4/-1.

There's an experience worse than blindness-it's the certainty that your vision is perfect and the horror that there's no world around you to see.

Concerted Effort

Enchantment

At the beginning of each upkeep, all creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if a creature you control has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, landwalk, protection, trample, and vigilance.

Conclave's Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Convoke (Each creature you tap while casting this spell reduces its cost by or by one mana of that creature's color.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 for each other creature you control.

Copy Enchantment

Enchantment

You may have Copy Enchantment enter the battlefield as a copy of any enchantment on the battlefield.

Simic mages create redundant backups of their experiments to reduce the consequences of catastrophe.

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.

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.

Eye of the Storm

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery card, exile it. Then that player copies each instant or sorcery card exiled with Eye of the Storm. For each copy, the player may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Faith's Fetters

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant permanent

When Faith's Fetters enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.

Enchanted permanent's activated abilities can't be activated unless they're mana abilities. If enchanted permanent is a creature, it can't attack or block.

Fists of Ironwood

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Fists of Ironwood enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Enchanted creature has trample.

Saprolings add the three and the four to the "one-two punch."

Flickerform

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Exile enchanted creature and all Auras attached to it. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, return the other cards exiled this way to the battlefield under their owners' control attached to that creature.

Flight of Fancy

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Flight of Fancy enters the battlefield, draw two cards.

Enchanted creature has flying.

The view from above is an inspiration to the newly winged.

Followed Footsteps

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a token that's a copy of enchanted creature onto the battlefield.

Æther can turn a footprint into a blueprint.

Galvanic Arc

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Galvanic Arc enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Enchanted creature has first strike.

Glare of Subdual

Enchantment

Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact or creature.

The righteous light of Selesnya is channeled through the devout, striking out to blind the nonbelievers.

Golgari Germination

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

The Golgari don't bury their dead. They plant them.

Halcyon Glaze

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a creature spell, Halcyon Glaze becomes a 4/4 Illusion creature with flying until end of turn. It's still an enchantment.

"Earth to æther, window to wonder, stillness to the sky."
-Glazing incantation

Instill Furor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this creature unless it attacked this turn."

"The Rakdos know little of technology, but they definitely know how to push buttons."
-Trivaz, Izzet mage

Light of Sanction

Enchantment

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

The Legion looks after its own.

Mark of Eviction

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, return enchanted creature and all Auras attached to that creature to their owners' hands.

Tharashk the Bold suddenly wasn't himself. Or anyone else, for that matter.

Mindmoil

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a spell, put the cards in your hand on the bottom of your library in any order, then draw that many cards.

"My criticism of the Izzet is that their impulse for learning seems too much like impulse and too little like learning."
-Trigori, Azorius senator

Moldervine Cloak

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Necromantic Thirst

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Perilous Forays

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a land card with a basic land type and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"This is the place? This map has got to be wrong . . . ."
-Svania Trul, wayfinder novice, last words

Pollenbright Wings

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Privileged Position

Enchantment

( can be paid with either or .)

Other permanents you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

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

Stasis Cell

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

: Attach Stasis Cell to target creature.

The Simic created the cells to preserve their experiments. The Azorius put the cells to use on the guilty.

Strands of Undeath

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Strands of Undeath enters the battlefield, target player discards two cards.

: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Why limit yourself to mortal law when you can outlive those who enforce it?"
-Czaric, Orzhov prelate

Suppression Field

Enchantment

Activated abilities cost more to activate unless they're mana abilities.

The most feared of Azorius punishments is to be freed-sent back out into the world, stripped of all magical defenses.

Annex

Enchantment - Aura

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

You control enchanted land.

You should see how small the map is.

Blood Moon

Enchantment

Nonbasic lands are Mountains.

Heavy light flooded across the landscape, cloaking everything in deep crimson.

Circle of Protection: Black

Enchantment

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

Circle of Protection: Red

Enchantment

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

Confiscate

Enchantment - Aura

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

You control enchanted permanent.

Cowardice

Enchantment

Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, return that creature to its owner's hand. (It won't be affected by the spell or ability.)

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."
-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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"