Savage Surge

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap that creature.

Gruul warriors never need to be stirred to battle. They need only to be shown where the battle is.

Abrupt Decay

Instant

Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.

The Izzet quickly suspended their policy of lifetime guarantees.

Azorius Charm

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn; or draw a card; or put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

"The rules of logic and order have already made the choice for you."
-Isperia

Call of the Conclave

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

Centaurs are sent to evangelize in Gruul territories where words of war speak louder than prayers of peace.

Chemister's Trick

Instant

Target creature you don't control gets -2/-0 until end of turn and attacks this turn if able.

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

Dramatic Rescue

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. You gain 2 life.

"I never thought I'd be so glad to see two tons of beak and claws bearing down on me at the speed of an arrow."
-Mirela, Azorius hussar

Dreadbore

Sorcery

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

In Rakdos-controlled neighborhoods, everyone is part of the show.

Epic Experiment

Sorcery

Exile the top X cards of your library. For each instant and sorcery card with converted mana cost X or less among them, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren't cast into your graveyard.

Goblin Electromancer

Creature - Goblin Wizard

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast.

When asked how much power is required, Izzet mages always answer "more."

Golgari Charm

Instant

Choose one - All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn; or destroy target enchantment; or regenerate each creature you control.

"Let the rest of Ravnica sneer. One way or another, they all end up in the undercity."
-Jarad

Grisly Salvage

Instant

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Heroes' Reunion

Instant

Target player gains 7 life.

They share no bloodline, but a bond greater than family unites them. Such are the gifts of the Worldsoul.

Izzet Charm

Instant

Choose one - Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays ; or Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature; or draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Korozda Guildmage

Creature - Elf Shaman

: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains intimidate until end of turn.

, Sacrifice a nontoken creature: Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Lotleth Troll

Creature - Zombie Troll

Trample

Discard a creature card: Put a +1/+1 counter on Lotleth Troll.

: Regenerate Lotleth Troll.

He lurks in the undercity, eager for the corpse haulers to unload their rotting cargo.

New Prahv Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

: Detain target nonland permanent an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that permanent can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Nivix Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"The only action worth taking is one with an unknown outcome."

Rakdos Charm

Instant

Choose one - Exile all cards from target player's graveyard; or destroy target artifact; or each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

"Let all feel joy in pain."
-Rakdos

Rakdos's Return

Sorcery

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent. That player discards X cards.

When Lord Rakdos stirred from his slumber, everyone else's nightmare began.

Rix Maadi Guildmage

Creature - Human Shaman

: Target blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

: Target player who lost life this turn loses 1 life.

Insatiable, irresistible, and insane.

Search Warrant

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You gain life equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"And would you care to explain why your satchel is radiating an aura of unstable energy?"

Selesnya Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn; or exile target creature with power 5 or greater; or put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

Teleportal

Sorcery

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

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

Treasured Find

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Treasured Find.

Gorgons crave beautiful things: gems, exquisite amulets, the alabaster corpses of the petrified dead . . .

Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage

Creature - Dryad Shaman

: Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

: Populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"Preachers of freedom forget that conformity can be beautiful."

Frostburn Weird

Creature - Weird

: Frostburn Weird gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Many chemisters are oblivious to the innumerable machinations of their guild, instead focusing obsessively on creating the perfect weird.

Rakdos Shred-Freak

Creature - Human Berserker

Haste

"If there were such a thing as a soul, I think it would be behind the gallbladder but above the kidneys."

Sundering Growth

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"One day every pillar will be a tree and every hall a glade."
-Trostani

Tablet of the Guilds

Artifact

As Tablet of the Guilds enters the battlefield, choose two colors.

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.

It is rumored the Azorius paid an exorbitant sum to ensure its symbol would appear at the top.

Contaminated Ground

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a Swamp.

Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.

"The Na Plateau is lost. Do not ask what happened, and never return there."
-Nirthu, lone missionary

Disciple of the Old Ways

Creature - Human Warrior

: Disciple of the Old Ways gains first strike until end of turn.

"Selesnya thinks nature is a pretty plaything. True nature would rip their faces off and wear their skins as trophies."

Murder Investigation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

When enchanted creature dies, put X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is its power.

"Every death has a web of consequences. Our job is to find the spider."

Clan Defiance

Sorcery

Choose one or more - Clan Defiance deals X damage to target creature with flying; Clan Defiance deals X damage to target creature without flying; and/or Clan Defiance deals X damage to target player.

Hands of Binding

Sorcery

Tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Pit Fight

Instant

Target creature you control fights another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"All the coins in Ravnica can't save his soul now."
-Narbulg Nine Fingers

Prophetic Prism

Artifact

When Prophetic Prism enters the battlefield, draw a card.

, : Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"The explorer who found it got a bad deal when he sold it. He merely got rich."

Wight of Precinct Six

Creature - Zombie

Wight of Precinct Six gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Even the lost and undead need a protector.

Bomber Corps

Creature - Human Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Bomber Corps and at least two other creatures attack, Bomber Corps deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"Subtlety is for lawmages and spies."

Dying Wish

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

When enchanted creature dies, target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is its power.

"I wish I could rewrite my every deed and kill you with my first breath instead of my last."

Gruul Charm

Instant

Choose one - Creatures without flying can't block this turn; or gain control of all permanents you own; or Gruul Charm deals 3 damage to each creature with flying.

"Not Gruul? Then die!"
-Borborygmos

Greenside Watcher

Creature - Elf Druid

: Untap target Gate.

"The Izzet may incite war, but my duty is here. I will not abandon the wild."

Executioner's Swing

Instant

Target creature that dealt damage this turn gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

"The contract specified an appendage for a missed payment. Read the fine print: the head is an appendage."

Frilled Oculus

Creature - Homunculus

: Frilled Oculus gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"Understand the Simic? That's about as easy as winning a staring contest with a homunculus."
-Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Burning-Tree Emissary

Creature - Human Shaman

When Burning-Tree Emissary enters the battlefield, add to your mana pool.

Those who regard the Gruul as savage simpletons underestimate the subtle power of their shamans.

Madcap Skills

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

The larger the crowd, the harder it is for them to run away.

Dimir Charm

Instant

Choose one - Counter target sorcery spell; or destroy target creature with power 2 or less; or look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put one back and the rest into that player's graveyard.

"Dangerous to recognize. Deadly not to."
-Lazav

Aerial Maneuver

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying and first strike until end of turn.

"When you put all of yourself into an attack, without fear or hesitation, in that instant you may attain greatness."
-Predak, Gateless freemage

Skullcrack

Instant

Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player.

The lawmage's argument was clever and well reasoned, but Blunk's response proved irrefutable.

Spell Rupture

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays , where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"Like water, mana will drain from an inferior vessel."
-Jalan Tosk, Simic forcemage

Hydroform

Instant

Target land becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

"While the sea may be our home, the sky is our destiny."
-Prime Speaker Zegana

Blind Obedience

Enchantment

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

"By the time your knees have worn through your robe, you may have begun to learn your place."

Wildwood Rebirth

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

In Ravnica, there are maladies far more difficult to treat than death.

Firefist Striker

Creature - Human Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Firefist Striker and at least two other creatures attack, target creature can't block this turn.

The flaming fist of Boros holds the promise of both protection and destruction in its grasp.

Nimbus Swimmer

Creature - Leviathan

Flying

Nimbus Swimmer enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

The Simic soon discovered that the sky offered as few constraints on size as the sea.

Illusionist's Bracers

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Equip

It's easy to believe you're a god when you're twice as powerful as everyone else.

Aurelia's Fury

Instant

Aurelia's Fury deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Tap each creature dealt damage this way. Players dealt damage this way can't cast noncreature spells this turn.

Truefire Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

Vigilance

: Truefire Paladin gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

: Truefire Paladin gains first strike until end of turn.

Orzhov Charm

Instant

Choose one - Return target creature you control and all Auras you control attached to it to their owner's hand; or destroy target creature and you lose life equal to its toughness; or return target creature card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Cartel Aristocrat

Creature - Human Advisor

Sacrifice another creature: Cartel Aristocrat gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

"Your life serves a higher purpose now: ensuring the continuation of my own."

Skygames

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery."

Both Boros and Azorius scout the games in hopes of recruiting the finest athletes.

Tower Defense

Instant

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.

"The drakes are practice. We may one day need to bring down a sky swallower, or maybe even Rakdos himself."
-Korun Nar, Rubblebelt hunter

Daring Skyjek

Creature - Human Knight

Battalion - Whenever Daring Skyjek and at least two other creatures attack, Daring Skyjek gains flying until end of turn.

"The hard part isn't landing in the saddle. The hard part is leaping before you see it."

Signal the Clans

Instant

Search your library for three creature cards and reveal them. If you reveal three cards with different names, choose one of them at random and put that card into your hand. Shuffle the rest into your library.

Gruul clanfolk obey few rules, but all feel bound to answer the call of the horn.

Syndic of Tithes

Creature - Human Cleric

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

"Entrance is free. Donations are required."
-Notice outside Vizkopa Bank

Duskmantle Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere this turn, that player loses 1 life.

: Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Devour Flesh

Instant

Target player sacrifices a creature, then gains life equal to that creature's toughness.

His twisted mind concluded that if he was what he ate, and he wanted to stay human, . . .

Incursion Specialist

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, Incursion Specialist gets +2/+0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

"Work for the Dimir again? That depends. Tell me more about this maze."

Biomass Mutation

Instant

Creatures you control become X/X until end of turn.

"A regression to ancient forms? A glimpse of future evolutions? Or a fleeting alteration of the present?"
-Vorel of the Hull Clade

Shambleshark

Creature - Fish Crab

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Riot Gear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Any meeting between guilds requires proper equipment.

Zameck Guildmage

Creature - Elf Wizard

: This turn, each creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

Gutter Skulk

Creature - Zombie Rat

Upon finding his warehouse infested, Gaven didn't know whether to get an exterminator or an exorcist.

Naturalize

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"When your cities and trinkets crumble, only nature will remain."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Gyre Sage

Creature - Elf Druid

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

: Add to your mana pool for each +1/+1 counter on Gyre Sage.

Wojek Halberdiers

Creature - Human Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Wojek Halberdiers and at least two other creatures attack, Wojek Halberdiers gains first strike until end of turn.

Tired of Boros interference, the Rakdos unleashed hellraiser goblins, hoping their corpses would weigh down the halberds.

Mind Grind

Sorcery

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard. X can't be 0.

Skarrg Guildmage

Creature - Human Shaman

: Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn.

: Target land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Shattering Blow

Instant

Exile target artifact.

"Aurelia seems too eager to solve her problems by delivering them to oblivion."
-Prime Speaker Zegana

Sunhome Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Put a 1/1 red and white Soldier creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

Alpha Authority

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has hexproof and can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Even the bitterest enemies of the Burning-Tree Clan respect the strength of Borborygmos's rule.

Agoraphobia

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -5/-0.

: Return Agoraphobia to its owner's hand.

"Everyone in this city is choosing sides. I choose inside."

Ground Assault

Sorcery

Ground Assault deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.

"Taking down a dragon is easy. All you need is enough space to get in a good swing."
-Narbulg Nine Fingers

Metropolis Sprite

Creature - Faerie Rogue

Flying

: Metropolis Sprite gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

"Well, if that goblin didn't want his tongue pierced, he shouldn't have stuck it out at me."

Martial Glory

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Target creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

"Yes, Boros tactics are unparalleled. But when your comrades are dying around you, inner strength must carry the day."
-Gideon Jura, to Aurelia

Razortip Whip

Artifact

, : Razortip Whip deals 1 damage to target opponent.

"It no longer surprises me what shows up in our raid of a Rakdos revue."
-Janik Bara, Wojek captain

Paranoid Delusions

Sorcery

Target player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Skinbrand Goblin

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Bloodrush - , Discard Skinbrand Goblin: Target attacking creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

"These Gruul skin-runes-discern whether their patterns evoke streets, leylines, or both. You have four days."
-Niv-Mizzet, to his assistant

Vizkopa Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Boros Charm

Instant

Choose one - Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player; or permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn; or target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

"Practice compassion and mercy. But know when they must end."
-Aurelia

High Priest of Penance

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever High Priest of Penance is dealt damage, you may destroy target nonland permanent.

"All I require is faith, loyalty, obedience, trust, and complete and utter devotion."

Basilica Screecher

Creature - Bat

Flying

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

A screech in the night is all it takes for Orzhov debtors to clutch at their coin purses.

Crackling Perimeter

Enchantment

Tap an untapped Gate you control: Crackling Perimeter deals 1 damage to each opponent.

As the path he sought came into focus, Niv-Mizzet took steps to prevent others from approaching it.

Simic Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn; or permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn; or return target creature to its owner's hand.

"We measure our progress in heartbeats."
-Prime Speaker Zegana

Boros Mastiff

Creature - Hound

Battalion - Whenever Boros Mastiff and at least two other creatures attack, Boros Mastiff gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Lyev Decree

Sorcery

Detain up to two target creatures your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those creatures can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

The Azorius have so many codes and statutes that you're always in violation of one of them.

Renounce the Guilds

Instant

Each player sacrifices a multicolored permanent.

"Scores will die in the name of peace. That is what you call compromise?"
-Gideon Jura, to Aurelia

Hidden Strings

Sorcery

You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Murmuring Phantasm

Creature - Spirit

Defender

"The most insidious thing in the world is nonsense that sounds just plausible enough to listen to."
-Lazav

Runner's Bane

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature with power 3 or less

When Runner's Bane enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Bane Alley Blackguard

Creature - Human Rogue

"I'm in the field of procurement, and business is good. The guilds want all kinds of maps and relics these days, though what they want them for I'm not quite sure."