Grip of Chaos

Enchantment

Whenever a spell or ability is put onto the stack, if it has a single target, reselect its target at random. (Select from among all legal targets.)

When the world is consumed by chaos, the skilled and the foolish are on equal footing.

Grisly Transformation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Grisly Transformation enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has intimidate. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Ground Seal

Enchantment

When Ground Seal enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.

"Let all we have buried be buried forever."
-Seton, centaur druid

Grounded

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature loses flying.

"We've tracked Ludevic's monster across four provinces. When it lands, make sure it stays put."
-Alena, trapper of Kessig,
to Halana of Ulvenwald

Growing Ranks

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"We will grow an army large enough to withstand the Izzet's madness."
-Trostani

Gruesome Deformity

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has intimidate. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

She wanted to inspire terror wherever she went. The demons happily granted her wish.

Gruul War Chant

Enchantment

Each attacking creature you control gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

"We are the heart of the wild, the fire in its eyes, and the howl in its throat. Come, join the battle to which you were born."
-Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Guard Duty

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has defender.

"I was told these were standard issue. Do I look standard to you?"

Guardian Zendikon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a 2/6 white Wall creature with defender. It's still a land.

When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

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.

Guild Feud

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent reveals the top three cards of his or her library, may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield, then puts the rest into his or her graveyard. You do the same with the top three cards of your library. If two creatures are put onto the battlefield this way, those creatures fight each other.

Guildscorn Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has protection from multicolored.

"The Gateless have risen. The Ten shall fall."
-Ninth District graffiti

Guilty Conscience

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, Guilty Conscience deals that much damage to that creature.

Those who most feel guilt don't need to, while those who most need to feel guilt never do.
-Order proverb

Guise of Fire

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 and attacks each turn if able.

"Fire will eventually destroy a zombie, but a fiery zombie destroys a lot of other things first."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Gutter Grime

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a slime counter on Gutter Grime, then put a green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of slime counters on Gutter Grime."

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

Hall of Gemstone

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses a color. Until end of turn, lands tapped for mana produce mana of the chosen color instead of any other color.

Hallowed Ground

Enchantment

: Return target nonsnow land you control to its owner's hand.

"On this site where Kjeld's blood was spilled, let none raise a fist or deny a beggar."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Hammer of Purphoros

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Creatures you control have haste.

, , Sacrifice a land: Put a 3/3 colorless Golem enchantment artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

All the world is Purphoros's anvil.

Hammerhand

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Hammerhand enters the battlefield, target creature can't block this turn.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has haste. (It can attack and no matter when it came under your control.)

Hand to Hand

Enchantment

During combat, players can't cast instant spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.

The match between Tahngarth and Greven was close only in the mind of the minotaur.

Hanna's Custody

Enchantment

All artifacts have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

"I protect the Legacy with my life if necessary, for its purpose is far more important than my own."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Hardened Scales

Enchantment

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be placed on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are placed on it instead.

"Naga shed their scales. We wear ours with pride."
-Golran, dragonscale captain

Harsh Judgment

Enchantment

As Harsh Judgment enters the battlefield, choose a color.

If an instant or sorcery spell of the chosen color would deal damage to you, it deals that damage to its controller instead.

"At least they remember me."
-Gerrard

Harvestguard Alseids

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

Constellation - Whenever Harvestguard Alseids or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Not all shields are forged of iron or bronze.

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.

Haunted Crossroads

Enchantment

: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

It seemed as if no one wanted them to reach the Henge of Ramos-not even the dead.

Haunting Wind

Enchantment

Whenever an artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an artifact's ability without in its activation cost, Haunting Wind deals 1 damage to that artifact's controller.

These devices lured so many spirits that sometimes entire battlefields would become haunted at once.

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.

Havoc Festival

Enchantment

Players can't gain life.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses half his or her life, rounded up.

"We can't control enemies who have no regard for their own survival."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

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.

Heart of Light

Enchantment - Aura

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

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

For those who reach enlightenment, violence is an unnecessary distraction.

Heartbeat of Spring

Enchantment

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

"It is true that we monks hold the key to paradise, but most don't understand that the paradise we guard is the one within."
-Diary of Azusa

Heartless Summoning

Enchantment

Creature spells you cast cost less to cast.

Creatures you control get -1/-1.

"They won't be winning any beauty pageants, but they'll do the trick."
-Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

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.

Heat Stroke

Enchantment

At end of combat, destroy each creature that blocked or was blocked this turn.

"Stroke of heat or stroke of blade. Choose your fate, traitor."
-Maraxus of Keld, to Starke

Heat Wave

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.)

Blue creatures can't block creatures you control.

Nonblue creatures can't block creatures you control unless their controller pays 1 life for each blocking creature he or she controls.

Hecatomb

Enchantment

When Hecatomb enters the battlefield, sacrifice Hecatomb unless you sacrifice four creatures.

Tap an untapped Swamp you control: Hecatomb deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Hedonist's Trove

Enchantment

When Hedonist's Trove enters the battlefield, exile all cards from target opponent's graveyard.

You may play land cards exiled with Hedonist's Trove.

You may cast nonland cards exiled with Hedonist's Trove. You can't cast more than one spell this way each turn.

Hedron Alignment

Enchantment

Hexproof

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may reveal your hand. If you do, you win the game if you own a card named Hedron Alignment in exile, in your hand, in your graveyard, and on the battlefield.

: Scry 1.

Heightened Awareness

Enchantment

As Heightened Awareness enters the battlefield, discard your hand.

At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card.

"It startles me how alive one feels on the edge of death."
-Barrin, master wizard

Heliod's Emissary

Enchantment Creature - Elk

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Whenever Heliod's Emissary or enchanted creature attacks, tap target creature an opponent controls.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

Heliod, God of the Sun

Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)

Other creatures you control have vigilance.

: Put a 2/1 white Cleric enchantment creature token onto the battlefield.

Helix Pinnacle

Enchantment

Shroud

: Put X tower counters on Helix Pinnacle.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are 100 or more tower counters on Helix Pinnacle, you win the game.

Helm of the Ghastlord

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."

As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card."

Herald of Torment

Enchantment Creature - Demon

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Flying

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

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

Heretic's Punishment

Enchantment

: Choose target creature or player, then put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. Heretic's Punishment deals damage to that creature or player equal to the highest converted mana cost among those cards.

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

Hero's Resolve

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+5.

"Destiny, chance, fate, fortune-they're all just ways of claiming your successes without claiming your failures."
-Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Heroic Defiance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 unless it shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or a color tied for most common.

"Wear courage as your armor. Wield honor as your blade."
-Gerrard

Heroism

Enchantment

Sacrifice a white creature: For each attacking red creature, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by that creature this turn unless its controller pays .

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.

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.

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 Gibbons

Enchantment

When an opponent casts an instant spell, if Hidden Gibbons is an enchantment, Hidden Gibbons becomes a 4/4 Ape creature.

When these apes want something, it's a matter of gibbon take.

Hidden Guerrillas

Enchantment

When an opponent casts an artifact spell, if Hidden Guerrillas is an enchantment, Hidden Guerrillas becomes a 5/3 Soldier creature with trample.

Hidden Herd

Enchantment

When an opponent plays a nonbasic land, if Hidden Herd is an enchantment, Hidden Herd becomes a 3/3 Beast creature.

Hidden Path

Enchantment

Green creatures have forestwalk.

"Where moments before we were lost beyond hope, the strange, floating lights showed us the way and restored our morale." -Vervamon the Elder

Hidden Predators

Enchantment

When an opponent controls a creature with power 4 or greater, if Hidden Predators is an enchantment, Hidden Predators becomes a 4/4 Beast creature.

Hidden Retreat

Enchantment

Put a card from your hand on top of your library: Prevent all damage that would be dealt by target instant or sorcery spell this turn.

After an hour in the hidey-hole, Squee seriously pondered the advantages of danger over boredom.

Hidden Spider

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a creature spell with flying, if Hidden Spider is an enchantment, Hidden Spider becomes a 3/5 Spider creature with reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

It wants only to dress you in silk.

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.

High Ground

Enchantment

Each creature you control can block an additional creature.

In war, as in society, position is everything.

High Seas

Enchantment

Red creature spells and green creature spells cost more to cast.

Bend as the wave breaks or it will break you as well.
-Saprazzan saying

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.

Hive Mind

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, each other player copies that spell. Each of those players may choose new targets for his or her copy.

"All consciousness is one, separated only by a thin veil of the physical."
-Jace Beleren

Hobble

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Hobble enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature can't attack.

Enchanted creature can't block if it's black.

Hold the Gates

Enchantment

Creatures you control get +0/+1 for each Gate you control and have vigilance.

"We grew up on these streets. We know them better than any Boros grunt from Zelzo."

Holistic Wisdom

Enchantment

, Exile a card from your hand: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand if it shares a card type with the card exiled this way. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal are card types.)

Holy Armor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.

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

Holy Mantle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from creatures.

"The guilds promise to provide safety. I prefer to make my own."
-Briska, Ninth District freemage

Holy Strength

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

"Born under the sun, the first child will seek the foundation of honor and be fortified by its righteousness."
-Codex of the Constellari

Homarid Spawning Bed

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a blue creature: Put X 1/1 blue Camarid creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost.

Homicidal Seclusion

Enchantment

As long as you control exactly one creature, that creature gets +3/+1 and has lifelink.

"Damned crows and their endless squawking . . . blocks out the voices in my head . . ."
-Hermit of Hanne Hall

Honden of Cleansing Fire

Legendary Enchantment - Shrine

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life for each Shrine you control.

To the sorrow of all, its fire was turned toward those who worshipped it.

Honden of Infinite Rage

Legendary Enchantment - Shrine

At the beginning of your upkeep, Honden of Infinite Rage deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Shrines you control.

To the sorrow of all, its rage became focused on those who once stoked it.

Honden of Life's Web

Legendary Enchantment - Shrine

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield for each Shrine you control.

To the sorrow of all, its web became a net that strangled those who helped weave it.

Honden of Night's Reach

Legendary Enchantment - Shrine

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent discards a card for each Shrine you control.

To the sorrow of all, its dark reach grasped and crushed those who guarded its silent vigil.

Honden of Seeing Winds

Legendary Enchantment - Shrine

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card for each Shrine you control.

To the sorrow of all, its winds found sin in the hearts of those who once learned from its wisdom.

Honor of the Pure

Enchantment

White creatures you control get +1/+1.

Together the soldiers were like a golden blade, cutting down their enemies and scarring the darkness.

Hoofprints of the Stag

Tribal Enchantment - Elemental

Whenever you draw a card, you may put a hoofprint counter on Hoofprints of the Stag.

, Remove four hoofprint counters from Hoofprints of the Stag: Put a 4/4 white Elemental creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only during your turn.

Hopeful Eidolon

Enchantment Creature - Spirit

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

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

Horror of Horrors

Enchantment

Sacrifice a Swamp: Regenerate target black creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

Hostile Realm

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Target creature can't block this turn."

Lorwyn's crust explodes with power when the greater elementals are born. The flamekin use the fallout as cover for forays into enemy territory.

Hot Springs

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land you control

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

Warmth is life; heat is peace.

Hum of the Radix

Enchantment

Each artifact spell costs more to cast for each artifact its controller controls.

Humbler of Mortals

Enchantment Creature - Elemental

Constellation - Whenever Humbler of Mortals or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain trample until end of turn.

The anger of the gods multiplied in Nyx, and the land awoke in dark echoes of their rage.

Humility

Enchantment

All creatures lose all abilities and are 1/1.

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

Hunting Grounds

Enchantment

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Hunting Grounds has "Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield."

In the heavy hush of Krosa, drawing on mana is like ringing a dinner bell.

Hyena Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

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

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.

Hypnotic Siren

Enchantment Creature - Siren

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Flying

You control enchanted creature.

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

Hypochondria

Enchantment

, Discard a card: Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

, Sacrifice Hypochondria: Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Ice Cage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy Ice Cage.

Ice Cave

Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a spell, any other player may pay that spell's mana cost. If a player does, counter the spell. (Mana cost includes color.)

Even the oppresive cold of the cave could not temper Eladamri's ire.

Iceberg

Enchantment

Iceberg enters the battlefield with X ice counters on it.

: Put an ice counter on Iceberg.

Remove an ice counter from Iceberg: Add to your mana pool.

Icy Prison

Enchantment

When Icy Prison enters the battlefield, exile target creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Icy Prison unless any player pays .

When Icy Prison leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Idle Thoughts

Enchantment

: Draw a card if you have no cards in hand.

Inspiration strikes the uncluttered mind.

Illness in the Ranks

Enchantment

Creature tokens get -1/-1.

"Selesnya denied us tribute. Let's show them the error of their ways."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

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.