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This is simply better than the old school card used in Parfait / Enchantress. I have 3 in the main deck, and up it to 4 when someone plays heavy Artifact or Enchantment, because casting a Black Lotus for 8 Mana isn't as nice :)

And then sac this to crap on their super breaking stuff is nice too.

This thing's main advantage is raising the cost of artifacts, since things like Sensei's Divining Top and Umezawa's Jitte get thrown into just about any deck. The second ability's nice too.

@ Jokergius Sorry but it does not increase the casting cost of not artifacts or enchantments. Enchanted Evening only effects permanents and a creature that's being cast is a creature spell not a permanent when it enters play it becomes an enchantment and is now susceptible to mass enchantment destruction, like Tempest of Light.

This card is very good even if used only for the last ability it's still only on mana more then Disenchant and it can be 'pre-paid' very good.

I run this instead of disenchants in my B/W Enchantment deck. Slows my opponent, uncounterable free disenchant if they decide to drop a Jitte, and pumps out Sigil of the Empty Throne tokens.

Beautiful, beautiful artifact/enchantment hate. So fresh, too.

I run a copy of this in the sideboard of my enchantress deck, great in the mirror match.

I like this a lot, mostly because it actually does something besides sitting around looking stupid waiting for an artifact/enchantment to smash.

Solid in EDH, where artifacts and enchantments often replace sorceries and instants.

This card is really great. Forces your opponent to pay more and you can sack it to get rid of an enchantment or artifact. Mostly I would use it for forcing opponents to pay more.

So Mycosynth Lattice and Enchanted Evening WOULDN'T cause Devastating Summons costs to your opponents while this is in play?

With Hanna, Ship's Navigator, you effectively have a prepaid, reusable Disenchant. Yeah, it costs 6 cmc to do that (which could potentially be spread out over two turns), but with the added effect of raising the cmc of opponent's Artifacts and Enchantments, it's well worth it.

Alternatively, for 1 cmc less you could use Seal of Cleansing, but it doesn't have the first ability.

Andrew's Occasional Random Card of the Day #22 - 7/19/2011 - Aura of Silence

This reprint caught me off guard when Tenth Edition came out. Still with the old strange Weatherlight art, and somewhat awkward ability set by modern standards. Also, it's called an Aura of Silence, but it's not an Aura. All-around surprising reprint.

But Tenth Edition brought some very neat reprints, and had the fancy return of Roman Numeral expansion symbols with its high-impact 'X'. At the time, the set felt awesome and new, like a new generation of core sets. But it was succeeded by Magic 2010, an entirely new revolution of new breed of core sets, and by these standards Tenth Edition seems very deprecated.

I thought the future would hold the old standard of boring reprints, but also new and strange and exciting reprints like this one, but instead we got brand new awesome cards like Skinshifter alongside exciting reprints, like Grim Lavamancer.

Anyway, Aura of Silence seems like it would have been included as a silver bullet sideboard card that Development likes to include in case strategies they weave into the standard format become too powerful. Thus, the existence of this card in Tenth makes me think they thought there was going to be a powerful enchantment deck, or at least there was some risk of there being one. But I don't remember such a deck, nor do I remember any number of cards that would have supported such a deck, and so Aura of Silence . . . just stayed quiet.

Pre-pay your enchantment/artifact removal AND increase the cost for your opponent to cast them while you're waiting for something worthy of getting rid of. Powerful card.

This card should've had a reprint in any of the last three core sets. Such a powerful card, and it would've wreaked havoc on artifact mix decks considering the Scars of Mirrordin block was so artifact heavy.

I still run this in my standard lockdown decks. Such a good card...

One of the best disenchants in the game. Better than seal of cleansing

In fact, this guy has a big afro.

Because Bestow costs weren't high enough.

Mycosynth Lattice. You're welcome.