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.

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

Ideas Unbound

Sorcery - Arcane

Draw three cards. Discard three cards at the beginning of the next end step.

The apprentice stared in puzzlement. "But Master, you finished writing those spells just yesterday. Don't you remember?" The jushi's heart froze.

Kiku's Shadow

Sorcery

Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

"Me? No, I'm not going to kill you. I won't even lay a finger on you. I promise."
-Kiku, Night's Flower

Rain of Embers

Sorcery

Rain of Embers deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

There's plenty to talk about in the marketplaces of Ravnica, be it the latest feud between guilds or the terrible weather.

Life from the Loam

Sorcery

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Glimpse the Unthinkable

Sorcery

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

"I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir."
-Szadek

Psychic Drain

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard and you gain X life.

"Gold can be reearned, goods restored. The moroii steal youth, more precious than either, and once gone, it's gone forever."
-Berta Suszat, civic healer

Train of Thought

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)

Draw a card.

"But then . . . oh, but . . . which means . . . which would lead to . . . exactly!"

Siege of Towers

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Target Mountain becomes a 3/1 creature. It's still a land.

Castigate

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.

"We have no need for military might. We wield two of the sharpest swords ever forged: Faith in our left hand, Wealth in our right."
-Vuliev of the Ghost Council

Conjurer's Ban

Sorcery

Name a card. Until your next turn, the named card can't be played.

Draw a card.

Orzhov faithful file past to have their minds purged of "impure" desires. There, the guiltwardens eliminate any thoughts of hope or self-sufficiency.

Skyscribing

Sorcery

Each player draws X cards.

Forecast - , Reveal Skyscribing from your hand: Each player draws a card. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Brain Pry

Sorcery

Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand. That player discards a card with that name. If he or she can't, you draw a card.

To the Rakdos, the fun is in the shakedown. The loot is usually discarded.

Infernal Tutor

Sorcery

Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Hellbent - If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Macabre Waltz

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

"All dead move to the hollow rhythm of necromancy."
-Savra

Rise (Rise/Fall)

Sorcery

Return target creature card from a graveyard and target creature on the battlefield to their owners' hands.

Supply (Supply/Demand)

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Premature Burial

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature that entered the battlefield since your last turn ended.

"This soil knows well the taste of the dead. Give it the hunger for a living meal, and it can become a deadly ally."
-Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Grapeshot

Sorcery

Grapeshot deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Mages often seek to emulate the powerful relics lost to time and apocalypse.

Boom (Boom/Bust)

Sorcery

Destroy target land you control and target land you don't control.

Rough (Rough/Tumble)

Sorcery

Rough deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.

Lost Hours

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player puts that card into his or her library third from the top.

"Your thoughts do not interest me nearly as much as the absence thereof."
-Gorghul, augur of skulls

Haze of Rage

Sorcery

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

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

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Molten Disaster

Sorcery

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

If Molten Disaster was kicked, it has split second. (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Molten Disaster deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Edge of Autumn

Sorcery

If you control four or fewer lands, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Cycling-Sacrifice a land. (Sacrifice a land, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"At harvest are seeds of next year sown."

Glittering Wish

Sorcery

You may choose a multicolored card you own from outside the game, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Exile Glittering Wish.

She wished for gold, but not for the strength to carry it.

Enter the Dungeon

Sorcery

Players play a Magic subgame under the table starting at 5 life, using their libraries as their decks. After the subgame ends, the winner searches his or her library for two cards, puts those cards into his or her hand, then shuffles his or her library.

Face to Face

Sorcery

You and target opponent play a best two-out-of-three Rock, Paper, Scissors match. If you win, Face to Face deals 5 damage to that opponent.

Befuddled by this new game, Argg longed for the days of Rock, Rock, Rock.

Land Aid '04

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card into play tapped, then shuffle your library. If you sang a song the whole time you were searching and shuffling, you may untap that land.

Strategy, Schmategy

Sorcery

Roll a six-sided die for Strategy, Schmategy. On a 1, Strategy, Schmategy has no effect. Otherwise, it has one of the following effects.

2 Destroy all artifacts.

3 Destroy all lands.

4 Strategy, Schmategy deals 3 damage to each creature and player.

5 Each player discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

6 Roll the die two more times.

The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service

Sorcery

The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service deals X damage to each of Y target creatures and Z target players.

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Flock of Rabid Sheep

Sorcery

Flip X coins; an opponent calls heads or tails. For each flip you win, put a Rabid Sheep token into play. Treat these tokens as 2/2 green creatures that count as Sheep.

And their bleating was like a wet salmon slapped upon the land-slap! slap! slap!

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.)

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.

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

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.)

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.

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.)

Phytoburst

Sorcery

Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

Phytohydras are banned as houseplants in many residential spires. If left unfed, they find their own exit-usually at the cost of extensive property damage.

Drown in Filth

Sorcery

Choose target creature. Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then that creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each land card in your graveyard.

The rot farmer's first rite of passage is to craft a pair of work stilts.

Armed (Armed/Dangerous)

Sorcery

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

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Beck (Beck/Call)

Sorcery

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield this turn, you may draw a card.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Breaking (Breaking/Entering)

Sorcery

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

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Seismic Stomp

Sorcery

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

"It is not in me to tread lightly."-Ryda, geomancer

Glare of Heresy

Sorcery

Exile target white permanent.

No foe is more hated than the former friend.

Curse of the Swine

Sorcery

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller puts a 2/2 green Boar creature token onto the battlefield.

Another imminent battle subsided in busy snuffling and carefree rooting.

Commune with the Gods

Sorcery

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

For the first time in many years, Elspeth asked for help.

Strategic Planning

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"Plans evolved within the tent decide a victory 1,000 li away."

Restore

Sorcery

Put target land card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"See, the land itself raises an altar to the ascendancy of nature."-Mayael the Anima

Rough / Tumble

Sorcery

Rough Deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.

Scouring Sands

Sorcery

Scouring Sands deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

When Purphoros cleans the ashes from his forge, entire cities vanish.

Skyreaping

Sorcery

Skyreaping deals damage to each creature with flying equal to your devotion to green. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

Twinflame

Sorcery

Strive - Twinflame costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Choose any number of target creatures you control. For each of them, put a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. Those tokens have haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

Desperate Stand

Sorcery

Strive - Desperate Stand costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain first strike and vigilance until end of turn.

At the Akroan gates, hoplites revived the tactics of Kytheon Iora's infamous irregulars.

Tyrant's Choice

Sorcery

Will of the council - Starting with you, each player votes for death or torture. If death gets more votes, each opponent sacrifices a creature. If torture gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent loses 4 life.

Blood (Flesh/Blood)

Sorcery

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Return to the Ranks

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Return X target creature cards with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Life's Legacy

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Life's Legacy, sacrifice a creature.

Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

At the instant of death, the mystery of life.

Taigam's Scheming

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest back on top of your library in any order.

"The Jeskai would have me bow in restraint. So I have found a people unafraid of true power."

Tormenting Voice

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Tormenting Voice, discard a card.

Draw two cards.

"Unwelcome thoughts crowd my mind. Are they my own madness, or the whispers of another?"
-Sarkhan Vol

Savage Punch

Sorcery

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

Ferocious - The creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn before it fights if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Kin-Tree Invocation

Sorcery

Put an X/X black and green Spirit Warrior creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

The passing years add new rings to the tree's trunk, bolstering the spirits that dwell within.

Soul Summons

Sorcery

Manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Ugin's magic reaches beyond the dragons. The clans have adapted it for war.

Fascination

Sorcery

Choose one -

• Each player draws X cards.

• Each player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Grave Strength

Sorcery

Choose target creature. Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard, then put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each creature card in your graveyard.

So long as death follows life, the supply lines of the Sultai will never be cut.

Wildcall

Sorcery

Manifest the top card of your library, then put X +1/+1 counters on it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

A howl on the wind hides many dangers.

Damnable Pact

Sorcery

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

"Silumgar's mind is a dark labyrinth, full of grim secrets and subtle traps."
-Siara, the Dragon's Mouth

Defeat

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.

"Wars are decided one life at a time."
-Gvar Barzeel, Kolaghan warrior

Self-Inflicted Wound

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a green or white creature. If that player does, he or she loses 2 life.

"Worse than watching the cruelest deed is watching it done by your own hand."
-Baihir, Dromoka mage

Magmatic Chasm

Sorcery

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

"Our shamans assert their mastery over the land, thwarting the lesser clans' attempts to stand in the way of our dragonlord."
-Allek, Atarka hunter

Roast

Sorcery

Roast deals 5 damage to target creature without flying.

"Intruders in the lands of Atarka have but two choices: be consumed by fire, or be consumed by maw."
-Ulnok, Atarka shaman

Epic Confrontation

Sorcery

Target creature you control gets +1/+2 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

No matter the timeline, some legends will endure.

Ondu Rising

Sorcery

Whenever a creature attacks this turn, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Transgress the Mind

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 3 or greater and exile that card.

"Fear of the unknown can be a wonderfully innocent thing, relatively speaking."-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Processor Assault

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

As an additional cost to cast Processor Assault, put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard.

Processor Assault deals 5 damage to target creature.

Ulamog's processors trail behind him, converting ruined matter into furious energy.

Boiling Earth

Sorcery

Boiling Earth deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Earthen Arms

Sorcery

Put two +1/+1 counters on target permanent.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Seek the Wilds

Sorcery

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"In my downtime I used to paint the vistas. Now the vistas disappear faster than my downtime."

Sparkmage's Gambit

Sorcery

Sparkmage's Gambit deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. Those creatures can't block this turn.

"A touch of lightning, and anyone can be taught to dance."
-Tobin, sparkmage

Ruin in Their Wake

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Search your library for a basic land card and reveal it. You may put that card onto the battlefield tapped if you control a land named Wastes. Otherwise, put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Entreat the Angels

Sorcery

Put X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

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

Mass Appeal

Sorcery

Draw a card for each Human you control.

"We have emerged triumphant from the darkness. Let our hard-won wisdom guide us to prosperity."

Essence Harvest

Sorcery

Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Captain Lewenheart uncovered evidence of a demon cult among the clergy. The Skirsdag never gave him a chance to prove his case.

Thatcher Revolt

Sorcery

Put three 1/1 red Human creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield. Sacrifice those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.

The dark times left the peasantry ready to fight with whatever weapons were at hand.

Lair Delve

Sorcery

Reveal the top two cards of your library. Put all creature and land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The fiends have fled. Well, good riddance. Nothing I like more than an empty lair."

Divination

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

"The key to unlocking this puzzle is within you."
-Doriel, mentor of Mistral Isle

Mind Rot

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

"What a pity. You should have written it down."
-Liliana Vess

Flames of the Firebrand

Sorcery

Flames of the Firebrand deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

"You're in luck. I brought enough to share."
-Chandra Nalaar

Mark of Mutiny

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it and untap it. That creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

The flame of anger is hard to douse once lit.

Timely Reinforcements

Sorcery

If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

The gods are not always kind, but they do have a soft spot for plucky underdogs.

Hideous Visage

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain intimidate until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

"Seeing you cower before me is its own reward."

Act of Treason

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

"Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison."
-Sarkhan Vol

Lingering Souls

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

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

The murdered inhabitants of Hollowhenge impart to the living the terror they felt in death.

Chill of Foreboding

Sorcery

Each player puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

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

"Wait . . . did you fellows hear something?"

Reap the Seagraf

Sorcery

Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

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

The wreck hung on the jagged reef, each night disgorging more of its gruesome cargo.

Shattered Perception

Sorcery

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

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

"You must shatter the fetters of the past. Only then can you truly act."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Paraselene

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments. You gain 1 life for each enchantment destroyed this way.

"Moonlight has a way of showing all things as they truly are-for better or for worse."
-Zilla of Lambholt

Runic Repetition

Sorcery

Return target exiled card with flashback you own to your hand.

"What some call obsession, I call the quest for perfection."