Restore Balance

Sorcery

Illus. Mark Poole

Ancestral Vision

Sorcery

Illus. Mark Poole

Living End

Sorcery

Illus. Greg Staples

Wheel of Fate

Sorcery

Illus. Kev Walker

Hypergenesis

Sorcery

Illus. Ron Spears

Appetite for Brains

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.

Just as with a peach, the first bite is always the juiciest.

Bone Splinters

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Bone Splinters, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy target creature.

"Which do you deserve, the heft of a femur or the graceful sharpness of a forearm? Decisions, decisions . . ."
-Gisa the Mad

Killing Wave

Sorcery

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless he or she pays X life.

"I come looking for demons and I find a plane full of angels. I hate angels."
-Liliana Vess

Bonfire of the Damned

Sorcery

Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

Miracle (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Pillar of Flame

Sorcery

Pillar of Flame deals 2 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

"May the worthy spend an eternity in Blessed Sleep. May the wicked find the peace of oblivion."

Index

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"What good is having all the right answers if you have them at all the wrong times?"

Disentomb

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I deal so often in rotting corpses that when I come across the freshly dead . . . why, it's like my birthday come early."
-Nevinyrral, necromancer

Duress

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
-Liliana Vess

Prey Upon

Sorcery

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters."
-Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Ponder

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle your library.

Draw a card.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Deathmark

Sorcery

Destroy target green or white creature.

"Let the final vision of doom be etched upon their unblinking eyes."
-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Taste of Blood

Sorcery

Taste of Blood deals 1 damage to target player and you gain 1 life.

"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."
-Bram Stoker, Dracula

Fireball

Sorcery

Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of target creatures and/or players.

Fireball costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Goblin Grenade

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Goblin Grenade, sacrifice a Goblin.

Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

Don't underestimate the aerodynamic qualities of the common goblin.

Artful Dodge

Sorcery

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Those who know the alleys and sewers of the Erdwal can disappear like smoke.

Increasing Confusion

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If Increasing Confusion was cast from a graveyard, that player puts twice that many cards into his or her graveyard instead.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Deadly Allure

Sorcery

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn and must be blocked this turn if able.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

What could be more irresistible than death?

Faithless Looting

Sorcery

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Avacyn has abandoned us! We have nothing left except what we can take!"

Silent Departure

Sorcery

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The same magic that lets geists pass through our realm can force them out of it.

Bump in the Night

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 3 life.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

It's not just the wind. It's not all in your head. And it's definitely something to worry about.

Ghoulcaller's Chant

Sorcery

Choose one - Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand; or return two target Zombie cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"The living are born small and weak. The dead rise ready to serve. The choice is obvious."
-Gisa, ghoulcaller of Gavony

Devil's Play

Sorcery

Devil's Play deals X damage to target creature or player.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

A devil's hands are never idle.

Infernal Plunge

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Infernal Plunge, sacrifice a creature.

Add to your mana pool.

"Oh mighty Griselbrand, Scourge of the Heedless World, gladly I consume myself for thee!"

Caravan Vigil

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Morbid - You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.

Vandalblast

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Beauty is in the eye of the exploder.

Slime Molding

Sorcery

Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield.

"Give me enough refuse and mana and I will summon an ooze that can engulf all of Ravnica."
-Cevraya, Golgari shaman

Alliance of Arms

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Minds Aglow

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player draws X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Gitaxian Probe

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Look at target player's hand.

Draw a card.

"My flesh holds no secrets, monster. The spirit of Mirrodin will fight on."
-Vy Covalt, Mirran resistance

Despise

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

"Truth is always a weapon in your enemies' hands."
-Geth, Lord of the Vault

Postmortem Lunge

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Return target creature card with converted mana cost X from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Corrosive Gale

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Corrosive Gale deals X damage to each creature with flying.

"Wipe Sheoldred's spies from the sky. She'll see the result of our vision soon enough."
-Glissa

Horrifying Revelation

Sorcery

Target player discards a card, then puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Ours is a glorious transmission! Behold a future where all bow to the Father of Machines."
-Isila, Priest of Sheoldred

Red Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

Red Sun's Zenith deals X damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead. Shuffle Red Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Green Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

Search your library for a green creature card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

As the green sun crowned, Phyrexian prophecies glowed on the Tree of Tales.