Rite of Undoing

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Return target nonland permanent you control and target nonland permanent you don't control to their owners' hands.

Ruthless Instincts

Instant

Choose one -

• Target nonattacking creature gains reach and deathtouch until end of turn. Untap it.

• Target attacking creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

A single battle affects countless others.

Sandblast

Instant

Sandblast deals 5 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

In the Shifting Wastes, more are killed by sand than by steel.

Sudden Reclamation

Instant

Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then return a creature card and a land card from your graveyard to your hand.

"There is no secret buried so deep that we will never find it."
-Kurtar, Sultai necromancer

Supplant Form

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. You put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that creature.

"Ice can be shaped to any form, even the whisper of a memory."
-Mytha, Temur shaman

Temur Battle Rage

Instant

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Ferocious - That creature also gains trample until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Valorous Stance

Instant

Choose one -

• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

• Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

"Every choice alters the path of fate."
-Sarkhan Vol

War Flare

Instant

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Untap those creatures.

"No sun or fire can warm my blood quite like a war flare."
-Urut Barzeel, Mardu hordechief

Whisk Away

Instant

Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

The maneuvers of the Abzan formation intrigued Ojutai in both their complexity and their futility.

Wild Slash

Instant

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, damage can't be prevented this turn.

Wild Slash deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Never mistake deception for cleverness.

Will of the Naga

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.

The charm of a naga is undeniable.

Winds of Qal Sisma

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures your opponents control.

Abzan Charm

Instant

Choose one -

• Exile target creature with power 3 or greater.

• You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

• Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Awaken the Bear

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.

When Temur warriors enter the battle trance known as "awakening the bear," they lose all sense of enemy or friend, seeing only threats to the wilderness.

Become Immense

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Target creature gets +6/+6 until end of turn.

Blinding Spray

Instant

Creatures your opponents control get -4/-0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"The stronger our enemies seem, the more vulnerable they are."
-Sultai secret

Bring Low

Instant

Bring Low deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, Bring Low deals 5 damage to it instead.

"People are often humbled by the elements. But the elements, too, can be humbled."
-Surrak, khan of the Temur

Burn Away

Instant

Burn Away deals 6 damage to target creature. When that creature dies this turn, exile all cards from its controller's graveyard.

"Your corruption will burn, serpent, until there is nothing left to defile."
-Asmala, bloodfire mystic

Crackling Doom

Instant

Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures he or she controls.

Do not fear the lightning. Fear the one it obeys.

Defiant Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"Stand where the whole battle can see you. Strike so they'll never forget."
-Anafenza, khan of the Abzan

Deflecting Palm

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. If damage is prevented this way, Deflecting Palm deals that much damage to that source's controller.

Dig Through Time

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Disdainful Stroke

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.

"You are beneath contempt. Your lineage will be forgotten."

Dragonscale Boon

Instant

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature and untap it.

"When we were lost and weary, the ainok showed us how to survive. They have earned the right to call themselves Abzan, and to wear the Scale."
-Anafenza, khan of the Abzan

Empty the Pits

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Put X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped.

The Sultai would rebuild the empire on the backs of the dead.

Feat of Resistance

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Dragons are extinct on Tarkir, but Abzan magic still emulates their endurance.

Feed the Clan

Instant

You gain 5 life.

Ferocious - You gain 10 life instead if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

The Temur believe three things only are needed in life: a hot fire, a full belly, and a strong companion.

Flying Crane Technique

Instant

Untap all creatures you control. They gain flying and double strike until end of turn.

There are many Jeskai styles: Riverwalk imitates flowing water, Dragonfist the ancient hellkites, and Flying Crane the wild aven of the high peaks.

Force Away

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Where an enemy once rode, not even a whisper remains.

Icy Blast

Instant

Tap X target creatures.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

"Do not think the sand or the sun will hold back the breath of winter."

Jeskai Charm

Instant

Choose one -

• Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

• Jeskai Charm deals 4 damage to target opponent.

• Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain lifelink until end of turn.

Kill Shot

Instant

Destroy target attacking creature.

Mardu archers are trained in Dakla, the way of the bow. They never miss their target, no matter how small, how fast, or how far away.

Mardu Charm

Instant

Choose one -

• Mardu Charm deals 4 damage to target creature.

• Put two 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield. They gain first strike until end of turn.

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

Mindswipe

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Mindswipe deals X damage to that spell's controller.

"The past and the unwritten are frozen. To understand their meaning requires heat."
-Arel the Whisperer

Murderous Cut

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Destroy target creature.

The blades of a Sultai assassin stab like the fangs of a dragon.

Ride Down

Instant

Destroy target blocking creature. Creatures that were blocked by that creature this combat gain trample until end of turn.

"I will wash you from my hooves!"
-Mardu taunt

Stubborn Denial

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

The Temur have no patience for subtlety.

Sultai Charm

Instant

Choose one -

• Destroy target monocolored creature.

• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

• Draw two cards, then discard a card.

"Strike," the fumes hiss. "Raise an empire with your ambition."

Swift Kick

Instant

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control.

Shintan sensed the malice in his opponent, but he did not strike until the orc's muscles tensed in preparation to throw the first punch.

Take Up Arms

Instant

Put three 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"Many scales make the skin of a dragon."
-Abzan wisdom