Enter the Infinite

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your library, then put a card from your hand on top of your library. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn.

"Don't just have an idea-have all of them."
-Niv-Mizzet

Temporal Trespass

Sorcery

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

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Trespass.

Few truly live in the moment.

Primal Surge

Sorcery

Exile the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you do, repeat this process.

With Avacyn's return, the flow of life became a tidal wave.

Storm Herd

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is your life total.

"When you hear thunder on a cloudless day, take cover and brace for the coming of the storm herd."
-Skotov, Tin Street basket vendor

Time Stretch

Sorcery

Target player takes two extra turns after this one.

There's lots of time like the present.

Decree of Annihilation

Sorcery

Exile all artifacts, creatures, and lands from the battlefield, all cards from all graveyards, and all cards from all hands.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle Decree of Annihilation, destroy all lands.

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

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.

Eternal Dominion

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

Curse of the Cabal

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices half the permanents he or she controls, rounded down.

Suspend 2- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if Curse of the Cabal is suspended, that player may sacrifice a permanent. If he or she does, put two time counters on Curse of the Cabal.

Dead Drop

Sorcery

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

Target player sacrifices two creatures.

Got a diving lesson
-Sultai expression meaning
"was fed to the crocodiles"

Worldfire

Sorcery

Exile all permanents. Exile all cards from all hands and graveyards. Each player's life total becomes 1.

Even the smallest spark may set a world ablaze.

Blasphemous Act

Sorcery

Blasphemous Act costs less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.

Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Volley of Boulders

Sorcery

Volley of Boulders deals 6 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

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

Plague Wind

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

Blessed Wind

Sorcery

Target player's life total becomes 20.

"The fourth wind of ascension is Anointer, deifying the worthy."
-Keld Triumphant

Denying Wind

Sorcery

Search target player's library for up to seven cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

"The third wind of ascension is Eliminator, clearing Keld's path to victory."
-Keld Triumphant

Crush of Wurms

Sorcery

Put three 6/6 green Wurm creature tokens onto the battlefield.

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

Dragonstorm

Sorcery

Search your library for a Dragon permanent card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

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

Heroes Remembered

Sorcery

You gain 20 life.

Suspend 10- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with ten time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Dichotomancy

Sorcery

For each tapped nonland permanent target opponent controls, search that player's library for a card with the same name as that permanent and put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Suspend 3- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Rise of the Dark Realms

Sorcery

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

"For every living person there are generations of dead. Which realm would you rather rule?"-Liliana Vess

In Garruk's Wake

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Beyond pain, beyond obsession and wild despair, there lies a place of twisted power only the most tormented souls can reach.

Feral Incarnation

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.)

Put three 3/3 green Beast creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Nature is itself wild-in all its forms.

Clone Legion

Sorcery

For each creature target player controls, put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that creature.

Their lust for battle was so great that they didn't care their enemies wore their own faces.

Scrambleverse

Sorcery

For each nonland permanent, choose a player at random. Then each player gains control of each permanent for which he or she was chosen. Untap those permanents.

Sometimes a little chaos is in order.

Archangel's Light

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your graveyard, then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

"This is the light of Avacyn. Even in her absence she offers us hope."
-Radulf, priest of Avacyn

Alpha Brawl

Sorcery

Target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to each other creature that player controls, then each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to that creature.

Being an alpha means proving it every full moon.

Army of the Damned

Sorcery

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

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

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Horncaller's Chant

Sorcery

Put a 4/4 green Rhino creature token with trample onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"The Selesnya are gathering armies. Do you still believe they aren't preparing for war?"
-Teysa, to Isperia

Invincible Hymn

Sorcery

Count the number of cards in your library. Your life total becomes that number.

Bantians believe those who are born into the highest caste and live a life of discipline and virtue can ascend to become angels.

Praetor's Counsel

Sorcery

Return all cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Praetor's Counsel. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

As the Phyrexian contagion corroded Karn's body, the praetors whispered psalms to corrupt his mind.

Warp World

Sorcery

Each player shuffles all permanents he or she owns into his or her library, then reveals that many cards from the top of his or her library. Each player puts all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then does the same for enchantment cards, then puts all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield on the bottom of his or her library.

Conflux

Sorcery

Search your library for a white card, a blue card, a black card, a red card, and a green card. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

After years of world-bending machinations, Bolas's triumph is at hand.

Worldpurge

Sorcery

Return all permanents to their owners' hands. Each player chooses up to seven cards in his or her hand, then shuffles the rest into his or her library. Empty all mana pools.

The Aurora is not the only magic capable of remaking a world.

Din of the Fireherd

Sorcery

Put a 5/5 black and red Elemental creature token onto the battlefield. Target opponent sacrifices a creature for each black creature you control, then sacrifices a land for each red creature you control.

Vengeance in stampede form.

Biorhythm

Sorcery

Each player's life total becomes the number of creatures he or she controls.

"I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own."
-Kamahl, druid acolyte

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

Coalition Victory

Sorcery

You win the game if you control a land of each basic land type and a creature of each color.

"You can build a perfect machine out of imperfect parts."
-Urza

Death Mutation

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Insurrection

Sorcery

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

"Maybe they wanted to be on the winning side for once."
-Matoc, lavamancer

Decree of Pain

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

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.

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.

Endless Swarm

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 green Snake creature token onto the battlefield for each card in your hand.

Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability.)

Granny's Payback

Sorcery

You gain life equal to your age.

R&D Comments
BB 10/10: Why does a life-gaining card show an old lady killing people?
MR (10/10/03): We'll fix it in the flavor text.

Incoming!

Sorcery

Each player searches his or her library for any number of artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and lands and puts those cards into play. Each player shuffles his or her library afterwards.

Worst Fears

Sorcery

You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

Elspeth feared that her trespass into Nyx would not go unanswered.

Treasure Cruise

Sorcery

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

Draw three cards.

Countless delights drift on the surface while dark schemes run below.

Temporal Mastery

Sorcery

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery.

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

Time is a marvelous plaything.

Rite of Ruin

Sorcery

Choose an order for artifacts, creatures, and lands. Each player sacrifices one permanent of the first type, sacrifices two of the second type, then sacrifices three of the third type.

Skirsdag cultists refused to quietly accept Avacyn's ascendancy.

Wit's End

Sorcery

Target player discards his or her hand.

"Your pathetic ideas lie in shambles, Planeswalker. Where is your arrogant pride now?"
-Nicol Bolas

Boundless Realms

Sorcery

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of lands you control, and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"Planeswalking cannot be taught. Either you see the doors or you do not."
-Nissa Revane

Sorin's Vengeance

Sorcery

Sorin's Vengeance deals 10 damage to target player and you gain 10 life.

"Cherish these last moments. Though your miserable life has come to nothing, I have given it a magnificent end."

Hour of Reckoning

Sorcery

Convoke (Each creature you tap while casting this spell reduces its cost by or by one mana of that creature's color.)

Destroy all nontoken creatures.

"Ravnica, like a hedge, must be pruned, leaving only leaves of verdant uniformity."
-Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Brilliant Ultimatum

Sorcery

Exile the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. You may play any number of cards from one of those piles without paying their mana costs.

Revealing the truth only deepened Tezzeret's curiosity for the secrets still buried.

Clarion Ultimatum

Sorcery

Choose five permanents you control. For each of those permanents, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that permanent. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Be worthy of a single blessing, and many more will follow.

Cruel Ultimatum

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

There is always a greater power.

Titanic Ultimatum

Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +5/+5 and gain first strike, lifelink, and trample.

"Retribution is best delivered by claws and rage, with both magnified."
-Ajani

Violent Ultimatum

Sorcery

Destroy three target permanents.

"Words are a waste of time. Destruction is a language everyone understands."
-Sarkhan Vol

Ancestral Tribute

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your graveyard.

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

Roar of the Wurm

Sorcery

Put a 6/6 green Wurm creature token onto the battlefield.

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

Ichor Explosion

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Ichor Explosion, sacrifice a creature.

All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

The first explosion that didn't excite goblins.

All Is Dust

Tribal Sorcery - Eldrazi

Each player sacrifices all colored permanents he or she controls.

"The emergence of the Eldrazi isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as you've already lived a fulfilling and complete life without regrets."
-Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Skittering Invasion

Tribal Sorcery - Eldrazi

Put five 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

"The brood spread far faster than we could kill it. I fear the worst is yet to come."
-The War Diaries

Repay in Kind

Sorcery

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Sorin has gathered grudges for centuries, patiently awaiting the day he can exact the perfect vengeance.

Disaster Radius

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Disaster Radius, reveal a creature card from your hand.

Disaster Radius deals X damage to each creature your opponents control, where X is the revealed card's converted mana cost.

Soulquake

Sorcery

Return all creatures on the battlefield and all creature cards in graveyards to their owners' hands.

The Maelstrom sent a wave of raw mana through the battlefield, carrying off the fighting and fallen alike.

Destructive Force

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices five lands. Destructive Force deals 5 damage to each creature.

The end of the world rarely comes quietly.

Howl of the Night Pack

Sorcery

Put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield for each Forest you control.

The murderous horrors of Raven's Run are legendary, but even that haunted place goes quiet when the night wolves howl.

Absorb Vis

Sorcery

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Call the Skybreaker

Sorcery

Put a 5/5 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

It hears and answers every orison across Shadowmoor.

Mass Calcify

Sorcery

Destroy all nonwhite creatures.

The dead serve as their own tombstones.

Plague of Vermin

Sorcery

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player puts a 1/1 black Rat creature token onto the battlefield for each 1 life he or she paid this way.

Knowledge Exploitation

Tribal Sorcery - Rogue

Prowl (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)

Search target opponent's library for an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Flame Wave

Sorcery

Flame Wave deals 4 damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

"I hear the roaring of a wave whose waters are red and whose mists are black."
-Oracle en-Vec

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.

Sunscour

Sorcery

You may exile two white cards from your hand rather than pay Sunscour's mana cost.

Destroy all creatures.

Fury of the Horde

Sorcery

You may exile two red cards from your hand rather than pay Fury of the Horde's mana cost.

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Goblin Game

Sorcery

Each player hides at least one item, then all players reveal them simultaneously. Each player loses life equal to the number of items he or she revealed. The player who revealed the fewest items then loses half his or her life, rounded up. If two or more players are tied for fewest, each loses half his or her life, rounded up.

Kamahl's Sledge

Sorcery

Kamahl's Sledge deals 4 damage to target creature.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead Kamahl's Sledge deals 4 damage to that creature and 4 damage to that creature's controller.

Morality Shift

Sorcery

Exchange your graveyard and library. Then shuffle your library.

The mind sings, though at times it sings a dirge.

Blatant Thievery

Sorcery

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"I'll leave subtlety to the rich."

Searing Flesh

Sorcery

Searing Flesh deals 7 damage to target opponent.

Zemoo found out the hard way that "inflammable" and "flammable" mean the same thing.

Dimensional Breach

Sorcery

Exile all permanents. For as long as any of those cards remain exiled, at the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns one of the exiled cards he or she owns to the battlefield.

Cabal Conditioning

Sorcery

Any number of target players each discard a number of cards equal to the highest converted mana cost among permanents you control.

"Hear only the Cabal's voice.
See only the Cabal's way.
Speak only the Cabal's word."
-Cabal mantra

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.)

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.)

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

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.

Enduring Ideal

Sorcery

Search your library for an enchantment card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability.)

Overwhelm

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.)

Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

"Let the song of Selesnya be heard above the rhythm of our thundering hordes!"

Biomantic Mastery

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or .)

Draw a card for each creature target player controls, then draw a card for each creature another target player controls.

"Look beyond, to the vascular awareness that all life is a map to greater knowledge."
-Momir Vig, Biomancy, vol. I

Phthisis

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to its power plus its toughness.

Suspend 5- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Look at Me, I'm the DCI

Sorcery

Ban one card, other than a basic land, for the remainder of the match. (For the remainder of the match, each player removes from the game all copies of that card in play or in any graveyard, hand, library, or sideboard.)

Few understand the DCI's rigorous decision-making process.

Devout Invocation

Sorcery

Tap any number of untapped creatures you control. Put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each creature tapped this way.

A prayer to bring demons to their knees.

Revel of the Fallen God

Sorcery

Put four 2/2 red and green Satyr creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield.

"Xenagos has fallen, and the world grows dark without him. What can ever fill that darkness but our rage?"
-Guruthes, disciple of Xenagos

Covenant of Blood

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.)

Covenant of Blood deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

Duneblast

Sorcery

Choose up to one creature. Destroy the rest.

The Abzan turn to this spell only as a last resort, for its inevitable result is what they most dread: to be alone.

Deploy to the Front

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

"We will descend upon you like a plague of locusts to purge you from our lands!"
-Hirov, commander of the Thousand Swords