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Nope, you have to target them to enchant them. The only way to do it is with one-way shroud.

So when you say "one way shroud" do u mean spells like Canopy Cover?

troll shroud's another bit of slang for it, means that it says it can't be targeted by spells or abilities your opponents control. I think that includes canopy cover, I don't remember.

Yes, exactly like canopy cover. In fact that and Privileged Position are two of the easily recognized one-way-shroud cards.

it's a pretty important distinction, I've seen people screw themselves with sliver decks for example because once they get shrouded all of a suddeny none of their "target sliver" abilites are worth anything.

You can get an aura on a shrouded creature with Sovereigns of Lost Alara or Zur the Enchanter, though.

Sovereigns absolutely but I think Zur would only let you get static enchantments out rather than creature ones.

Check Zur's Oracle Rulings on Gatherer-- it has one section specifically dealing with auras and targeting.

*facepalm*

I'm too used to magiccards automatically displaying rulings.