Psychic Spear

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a Spirit or Arcane card from it. That player discards that card.

"The wizards of Takenuma Swamp faced the horrors of humanity every day. It's no wonder they fared so well against the kami."
-Observations of the Kami War

Reduce to Dreams

Sorcery

Return all artifacts and enchantments to their owners' hands.

"This world is a dream. We cling to our toys like children, but sooner or later we must learn to live without them."
-Sensei Hisoka

Ribbons of the Reikai

Sorcery - Arcane

Draw a card for each Spirit you control.

"If wisdom is a river, then we cup our hands, reach in, and drink from it in sips. The kami, however, are like fish, swimming, breathing, surrounded in its presence."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Sosuke's Summons

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Whenever a nontoken Snake enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Sosuke's Summons from your graveyard to your hand.

Sowing Salt

Sorcery

Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Splinter

Sorcery

Exile target artifact. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that artifact and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Stir the Grave

Sorcery

Return target creature card with converted mana cost X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Your lungs may not draw breath, but while your hands can grip a sword, you will be useful to me."
-Nighteyes, nezumi necromancer

Sway of the Stars

Sorcery

Each player shuffles his or her hand, graveyard, and permanents he or she owns into his or her library, then draws seven cards. Each player's life total becomes 7.

Terashi's Grasp

Sorcery - Arcane

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain life equal to its converted mana cost.

"The jeweler, the potter, the smith . . . They all imbue a bit of their souls into their creations. The kami destroy that crafted mortal shell and absorb the soul within."
-Noboru, master kitemaker

Three Tragedies

Sorcery - Arcane

Target player discards three cards.

"As the kami passed over the village of Mita, the inhabitants relived their three most grievous tragedies. Some cried. Some raged. Some were driven to madness. But the next morning, none possessed the will to fight."
-Observations of the Kami War

Twist Allegiance

Sorcery

You and target opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Uproot

Sorcery - Arcane

Put target land on top of its owner's library.

"We arrived at the battlefield too late. Again. Another error on your part, and you will have to answer to me personally."
-General Takeno, letter to the imperial mapmaker

Befoul

Sorcery

Destroy target land or nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

The bog's touch means death to all but the darkest of hearts.

Cleanfall

Sorcery - Arcane

Destroy all enchantments.

During the war, the rites of purification were still effective, but the kami, not the kitsune, chose what to cleanse.

Cranial Extraction

Sorcery - Arcane

Name a nonland card. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Cut the Tethers

Sorcery

For each Spirit, return it to its owner's hand unless that player pays .

"You cannot bar the path of gods. You can only divert their journey for a while."
-Sensei Hisoka

Dance of Shadows

Sorcery - Arcane

Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"Only one man survived, barely sane. He got out two words before collapsing: shadows' shadows."

Devouring Greed

Sorcery - Arcane

As an additional cost to cast Devouring Greed, you may sacrifice any number of Spirits.

Target player loses 2 life plus 2 life for each Spirit sacrificed this way. You gain that much life.

Eerie Procession

Sorcery - Arcane

Search your library for an Arcane card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"Though in years past speculation was not encouraged about the strange ways of kami, now we must understand their motivations, if such is even possible to the mortal mind."
-Lady Azami

Eye of Nowhere

Sorcery - Arcane

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"Once we prayed to the kaijin for safe voyage. Now we only pray that we can escape their gaze."
-Hayato, master sailor

Feast of Worms

Sorcery - Arcane

Destroy target land. If that land was legendary, its controller sacrifices another land.

"The dust beneath our feet was once part of a mighty civilization. Shall we too provide the path for a future generation?"
-Sensei Golden-Tail

Gale Force

Sorcery

Gale Force deals 5 damage to each creature with flying.

Everything the kami had done, they did with more force. Gentle breezes became typhoons, rolling rivers turned to crushing rapids, and gentle growth became overnight masses of thorns and vines.

Glimpse of Nature

Sorcery

Whenever you cast a creature spell this turn, draw a card.

Dosan sat in repose for many hours. He made no motion, no sound at all. And as he sat, nature revealed itself to him.

Joyous Respite

Sorcery - Arcane

You gain 1 life for each land you control.

"I have been gifted by the kami with long life. So far, they have not seen fit to withdraw their gift. There may yet be a way to stop the killing without more blood, human or kami, being spilled."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach

Sorcery - Arcane

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Lava Spike

Sorcery - Arcane

Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player.

Some kami attacks during the war were rife with trickery, subterfuge, and subtlety, draining hope and pride from the mortal world. Other attacks were a lot more straightforward.

Mana Seism

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of lands. Add to your mana pool for each land sacrificed this way.

"It is the nature of humanity not to worry about tomorrow, especially when there's a good chance they won't live to see the end of today."
-Kiku, Night's Flower

Mindblaze

Sorcery

Name a nonland card and choose a number greater than 0. Target player reveals his or her library. If that library contains exactly the chosen number of the named card, Mindblaze deals 8 damage to that player. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Petals of Insight

Sorcery - Arcane

Look at the top three cards of your library. You may put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order. If you do, return Petals of Insight to its owner's hand. Otherwise, draw three cards.

Reverse the Sands

Sorcery

Redistribute any number of players' life totals. (Each of those players gets one life total back.)

Worse than the years of aging was the burden of memory. The young monk lost his youth and gained a vicarious lifetime of hardship and woe.

Struggle for Sanity

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. That player exiles a card from it, then you exile a card from it. Repeat this process until all cards in that hand have been exiled. That player returns the cards he or she exiled this way to his or her hand and puts the rest into his or her graveyard.

Swallowing Plague

Sorcery - Arcane

Swallowing Plague deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life.

"We are recalling all forces from the Takenuma Swamp. We lose men daily to kami attacks, and it seems our defeats only encourage them further."
-General Takeno, letter to Lord Konda

Terashi's Cry

Sorcery - Arcane

Tap up to three target creatures.

"The sun kami is terrible to behold. When its temper flares, best seek shade and pray for forgiveness."
-Sensei Golden-Tail

Time of Need

Sorcery

Search your library for a legendary creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"When the kumo attacked the monks' sacred shrine, a mournful toll for help echoed through the forest. Thus began the Battle of Silk, which would last six years."
-Great Battles of Kamigawa

Unearthly Blizzard

Sorcery - Arcane

Up to three target creatures can't block this turn.

"We are trapped. The mountains and blinding kami storms have made us hopelessly lost. We are starving. In the name of all things sacred, please, send help . . . ."
-Lost Battalion, final message to General Takeno

Waking Nightmare

Sorcery - Arcane

Target player discards two cards.

"Once each year, the oni and other evil spirits paraded through villages to disturb mortals' sleep. During the war, this parade became a nightly event."
-Observations of the Kami War

Yamabushi's Storm

Sorcery

Yamabushi's Storm deals 1 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Acquire

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for an artifact card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Sometimes "innovation" means "stealing another's secret before anyone else can."

All Suns' Dawn

Sorcery

For each color, return up to one target card of that color from your graveyard to your hand. Exile All Suns' Dawn.

Beacon of Creation

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token onto the battlefield for each Forest you control. Shuffle Beacon of Creation into its owner's library.

A chorus of life heralds the arrival of Mirrodin's final sun.

Beacon of Tomorrows

Sorcery

Target player takes an extra turn after this one. Shuffle Beacon of Tomorrows into its owner's library.

To look into its light is to meet the gaze of history.

Channel the Suns

Sorcery

Add to your mana pool.

To some the birth of the fifth sun was a sign of doom. To others it was a sign of salvation. But to all it was a sign.

Fill with Fright

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Granulate

Sorcery

Destroy each nonland artifact with converted mana cost 4 or less.

There aren't that many ways to destroy a solid steel weapon, but somehow the goblins keep finding new ones.

Mana Geyser

Sorcery

Add to your mana pool for each tapped land your opponents control.

The Quicksilver Sea hissed and bubbled at the indignity. The Vulshok shaman just smiled.

Night's Whisper

Sorcery

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

The Moriok call the black moon the Whisperer. At her apex, she whispers of power.

Reversal of Fortune

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You may copy an instant or sorcery card in it. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

"Why learn hundreds of spells when you can learn only one and use it to steal hundreds?"

Roar of Reclamation

Sorcery

Each player returns all artifact cards from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

"Yesterday's relics will determine the outcome of tomorrow's war."
-Ushanti, leonin seer

Rude Awakening

Sorcery

Choose one - Untap all lands you control; or until end of turn, lands you control become 2/2 creatures that are still lands.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Screaming Fury

Sorcery

Target creature gets +5/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

He's got an axe to grind.

Serum Visions

Sorcery

Draw a card.

Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Shattered Dreams

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose an artifact card from it. That player discards that card.

Victims are lucky if they remember ever having had what was lost.

Steelshaper's Gift

Sorcery

Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Some blades seek their own wielders.

Vicious Betrayal

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Vicious Betrayal, sacrifice any number of creatures.

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature sacrificed this way.

Æther Snap

Sorcery

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

"May you wake to find you were only ever a dream."
-Mephidross curse

Death Cloud

Sorcery

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures, then sacrifices X lands.

The swarm's million wings stir the foulest of breezes.

Dismantle

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact. If that artifact had counters on it, put that many +1/+1 counters or charge counters on an artifact you control.

"If only the living were so easily salvaged."
-Memnarch

Echoing Ruin

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact and all other artifacts with the same name as that artifact.

A single misstep unleashes an avalanche of ruin.

Flamebreak

Sorcery

Flamebreak deals 3 damage to each creature without flying and each player. Creatures dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn.

"Now I'm thirsty."
-Korva, Vulshok battlemaster

Hunger of the Nim

Sorcery

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each artifact you control.

Their pain is so great, they can't help but share it with others.

Pulse of the Dross

Sorcery

Target player reveals three cards from his or her hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card. Then if that player has more cards in hand than you, return Pulse of the Dross to its owner's hand.

Before tyrants or torturers, there was evil.

Pulse of the Tangle

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield. Then if an opponent controls more creatures than you, return Pulse of the Tangle to its owner's hand.

Before predators or prey, there was life.

Reap and Sow

Sorcery

Choose one - Destroy target land; or search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Rebuking Ceremony

Sorcery

Put two target artifacts on top of their owners' libraries.

From the Radix at the hub of the Tangle all the way out to the Edges of Forgetting, a Viridian elf's life is built around the temporary.

Reshape

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Reshape, sacrifice an artifact.

Search your library for an artifact card with converted mana cost X or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

"Today's paperweight, tomorrow's leveler."
-Bruenna, Neurok leader

Ritual of Restoration

Sorcery

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Leonin raising ceremonies take place at the white sun's dawn, the rebirth of artifacts mirroring the birth of a new day.

Scrounge

Sorcery

Target opponent chooses an artifact card in his or her graveyard. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

When leonin settlers abandon their homes to the nim, items of value are often left behind.

Soulscour

Sorcery

Destroy all nonartifact permanents.

"I have seen the end of times, a future in which all our kind are torn from this world."
-Ushanti, leonin shaman

Deconstruct

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact. Add to your mana pool.

Detonate

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact with converted mana cost X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.

Fiery Gambit

Sorcery

Flip a coin until you lose a flip or choose to stop flipping. If you lose a flip, Fiery Gambit has no effect. If you win one or more flips, Fiery Gambit deals 3 damage to target creature. If you win two or more flips, Fiery Gambit deals 6 damage to each opponent. If you win three or more flips, draw nine cards and untap all lands you control.

Journey of Discovery

Sorcery

Choose one - Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library; or you may play up to two additional lands this turn.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Molten Rain

Sorcery

Destroy target land. If that land was nonbasic, Molten Rain deals 2 damage to the land's controller.

One Dozen Eyes

Sorcery

Choose one - Put a 5/5 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield; or put five 1/1 green Insect creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Promise of Power

Sorcery

Choose one -

• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.

• Put an X/X black Demon creature token with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the number of cards in your hand as the token enters the battlefield.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Solar Tide

Sorcery

Choose one - Destroy all creatures with power 2 or less; or destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Entwine-Sacrifice two lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Temporal Cascade

Sorcery

Choose one - Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library; or each player draws seven cards.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Thoughtcast

Sorcery

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Draw two cards.

Vedalken eyes don't see the beauty in things. They see only what those things can teach.

Tooth and Nail

Sorcery

Choose one - Search your library for up to two creature cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library; or put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Trash for Treasure

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Trash for Treasure, sacrifice an artifact.

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Wrench Mind

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards unless he or she discards an artifact card.

What is the sound of one head snapping?

Ambition's Cost

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

"Knowledge demands sacrifice."

Balance of Power

Sorcery

If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

"To empty your mind is to fill your grave."
-Lat-Nam teaching

Bribery

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

In Mercadia City, loyalties extend only as far as your purse can stretch.

Collective Unconscious

Sorcery

Draw a card for each creature you control.

"The beasts of the wild are my senses. It is through their eyes that all knowledge shall come to me."

Concentrate

Sorcery

Draw three cards.

"The treasure in my mind is greater than any worldly glory."

Hammer of Bogardan

Sorcery

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

: Return Hammer of Bogardan from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Merchant Scroll

Sorcery

Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Lat-Nam wizards trade knowledge on scrolls made of magic so they can better guard against thieves and spies.

Monstrous Growth

Sorcery

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Get in touch with your inner monster.

Nausea

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

No fear. No sense. And soon, no lunch.

Obliterate

Sorcery

Obliterate can't be countered.

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated.

"The enemy has been destroyed, sir. So have the forest, the city, your palace, your dog . . ."
-Keldon soldier

Peach Garden Oath

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

"We three, though of separate ancestry, join in brotherhood. . . . We dare not hope to be together always but hereby vow to die the selfsame day."
-Peach Garden Oath

Plow Under

Sorcery

Put two target lands on top of their owners' libraries.

To renew the land, plow the land.
To destroy the land, do nothing.
-Druids' saying

Pyrotechnics

Sorcery

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me!
Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return."
-Navajo war chant

Sever Soul

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You gain life equal to its toughness.

"The mortal world is a grove of sweet fruit, and I am ready to harvest it."
-Fallen angel

Sizzle

Sorcery

Sizzle deals 3 damage to each opponent.

"Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire."
-Jaya Ballard, task mage

Thieves' Auction

Sorcery

Exile all nontoken permanents. Starting with you, each player chooses one of the exiled cards and puts it onto the battlefield tapped under his or her control. Repeat this process until all cards exiled this way have been chosen.

Tremor

Sorcery

Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

"Where do you run when the earth becomes your enemy?"
-Naimag, Femeref philosopher

Vicious Hunger

Sorcery

Vicious Hunger deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Only the most ravenous soul feeds on the health of the weak.

Wing Snare

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with flying.

The elves long ago mastered the art of hunting with nets. They call it "fishing the sky."