---
name: "Death Watch"
mana_cost: "{B}"
cmc: 1
type_line: "Enchantment — Aura"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Enchant"]
set: "VIS"
set_name: "Visions"
collector_number: "57"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Brian Horton"
oracle_id: "6f5b6cba-3b57-4e6a-afa7-0cb62e5cc7d4"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/death-watch-vis"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Death Watch
- **Mana Cost:** `{B}` (CMC: 1)
- **Type:** Enchantment — Aura
- **Keywords:** Enchant

## Oracle Text
Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, its controller loses life equal to its power and you gain life equal to its toughness.

> *"Watch death wait / Wait, death, watch / Steal breath swiftly / but steal life slowly."
—Suq'Ata dirge*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Web](/printing/web-3ed.md) — Enchantment — Aura
2. [Unholy Strength](/printing/unholy-strength-7ed.md) — Enchantment — Aura
3. [Wings of Aesthir](/printing/wings-of-aesthir-me2.md) — Enchantment — Aura
4. [Psychic Venom](/printing/psychic-venom-5ed.md) — Enchantment — Aura
5. [Phyresis](/printing/phyresis-mbs.md) — Enchantment — Aura
6. [Blighted Burgeoning](/printing/blighted-burgeoning-mom.md) — Enchantment — Aura

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Visions (VIS) #57
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Brian Horton
- **Total Printings:** 9 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `not_legal`