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.)

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

Act on Impulse

Sorcery

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled this way. (If you cast a spell this way, you still pay its costs. You can play a land this way only if you have an available land play remaining.)

"You don't want to know what happens after I put on the goggles."

Akroma's Vengeance

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

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

Ixidor had only to imagine their ruin and Akroma made it so.

Alive (Alive/Well)

Sorcery

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

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

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

Alliance of Arms

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Allied Reinforcements

Sorcery

Put two 2/2 white Knight Ally creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"Our formation was scattered after Sea Gate fell. If you're fighting the Eldrazi, consider us your newest recruits."

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.

Amass the Components

Sorcery

Draw three cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.

"I knew I'd find a use for all that newt spittle!"

Ancient Craving

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Knowledge demands sacrifice.

Ancient Stirrings

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a colorless card from among them and put it into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (Cards with no colored mana in their mana costs are colorless. Lands are also colorless.)

Angelic Edict

Sorcery

Exile target creature or enchantment.

The Boros built a prison in the sky where Azorius statutes couldn't restrict their sense of justice.

Anger of the Gods

Sorcery

Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

There was no reason to pray. This was already an act of the gods.

Appetite for Brains

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.

Just as with a peach, the first bite is always the juiciest.

Arc Lightning

Sorcery

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

Rainclouds don't last long in Shiv, but that doesn't stop the lightning.

Arc Trail

Sorcery

Arc Trail deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to another target creature or player.

"Don't try to hit your enemies. Concentrate on the space between them, and fill the air with doom."
-Spear-Tribe teaching

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

Arm with Æther

Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand."

"Anything we can do to hurt the Phyrexian invaders is worth dying for."

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.)

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.

Arrow Storm

Sorcery

Arrow Storm deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Raid - If you attacked with a creature this turn, instead Arrow Storm deals 5 damage to that creature or player and the damage can't be prevented.

First the thunder, then the rain.

Artful Dodge

Sorcery

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

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

Those who know the alleys and sewers of the Erdwal can disappear like smoke.

Asphyxiate

Sorcery

Destroy target untapped creature.

"Some poisons enter through the blood. Some are ingested. Some are inhaled. All ways through which mortals draw strength are paths for poison."
-Agathe, priest of Pharika

Assassin's Strike

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller discards a card.

When Selesnya missionaries moved into the Shanav Quarter, they faced scorn, ridicule, and ultimately martyrdom.

Assassinate

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

"This is how wars are won-not with armies of soldiers but with a single knife blade, artfully placed."
-Yurin, royal assassin

Assault Strobe

Sorcery

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

When breaking someone's face once just isn't enough.

Austere Command

Sorcery

Choose two - Destroy all artifacts; or destroy all enchantments; or destroy all creatures with converted mana cost 3 or less; or destroy all creatures with converted mana cost 4 or greater.

Awe for the Guilds

Sorcery

Monocolored creatures can't block this turn.

When the guilds cooperate, the guildless celebrate their peaceful society. When the guilds clash, the guildless just try to keep out of the way.

Æther Gale

Sorcery

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

The militia formed up in the central plaza awaiting the onslaught, but the giants never quite made it.

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

Banefire

Sorcery

Banefire deals X damage to target creature or player.

If X is 5 or more, Banefire can't be countered by spells or abilities and the damage can't be prevented.

For Sarkhan Vol, the dragon is the purest expression of life's savage splendor.

Barrage of Boulders

Sorcery

Barrage of Boulders deals 1 damage to each creature you don't control.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, creatures can't block this turn.

Crude tactics can be effective nonetheless.

Barter in Blood

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices two creatures.

"We must all make sacrifices for the good of Innistrad."
-Sorin Markov

Bathe in Dragonfire

Sorcery

Bathe in Dragonfire deals 4 damage to target creature.

The scent of cooked flesh lingers in the charred landscape of Tarkir.

Beast Hunt

Sorcery

Reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"Surely we could tame something besides hurdas and pillarfield oxen!"
-Sheyda, Ondu gamekeeper

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.)

Bestial Menace

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 green Snake creature token, a 2/2 green Wolf creature token, and a 3/3 green Elephant creature token onto the battlefield.

"My battle cry reaches ears far keener than yours."
-Saidah, Joraga hunter

Bite of the Black Rose

Sorcery

Will of the council - Starting with you, each player votes for sickness or psychosis. If sickness gets more votes, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. If psychosis gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent discards two cards.

Bitter Revelation

Sorcery

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.

"Here you lie then, Ugin. The corpses of worlds will join you in the tomb."
-Sorin Markov

Black Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

"Under the suns, Mirrodin kneels and begs us for perfection."
-Geth, Lord of the Vault

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

Blast of Genius

Sorcery

Choose target creature or player. Draw three cards, then discard a card. Blast of Genius deals damage equal to the discarded card's converted mana cost to that creature or player.

Ral Zarek's brainstorms bring actual thunder and lightning.

Blessings of Nature

Sorcery

Distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures.

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

Blightning

Sorcery

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player. That player discards two cards.

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

Blinding Flare

Sorcery

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

Any number of target creatures can't block this turn.

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.)

Blood Feud

Sorcery

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

Succession is a matter of blood, and by blood it is often decided.

Blood Tithe

Sorcery

Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

The Crimson Throne may be empty, but its coffers are full.

Blood Tribute

Sorcery

Kicker-Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)

Target opponent loses half his or her life, rounded up. If Blood Tribute was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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.)

Bolt of Keranos

Sorcery

Bolt of Keranos deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

The breakthroughs granted by Keranos, god of epiphany, can be surprisingly literal.

Bone Splinters

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Bone Splinters, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy target creature.

"Which do you deserve, the heft of a femur or the graceful sharpness of a forearm? Decisions, decisions . . ."
-Gisa the Mad

Bonfire of the Damned

Sorcery

Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

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

Borrowing 100,000 Arrows

Sorcery

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

Kongming and Lu Su tricked Wei troops into shooting over 100,000 arrows at them to later use against the Wei at Red Cliffs.

Boulder Salvo

Sorcery

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Boulder Salvo deals 4 damage to target creature.

"If someone claims the sky is falling, I listen."
-Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

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

Bountiful Harvest

Sorcery

You gain 1 life for each land you control.

"When we fail to see the beauty in every tree, we are no better than humans."
-Saelia, elvish scout

Brainbite

Sorcery

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

Draw a card.

An Esper mage will leave a hole in your memory with surgical precision. A Grixis mage sees no reason to be so kind.

Bramblecrush

Sorcery

Destroy target noncreature permanent.

"Civilization is fertilizer."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

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.)

Breaking Point

Sorcery

Any player may have Breaking Point deal 6 damage to him or her. If no one does, destroy all creatures. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

"Enough"

Breakthrough

Sorcery

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

The ideas came flooding in so fast that they couldn't all be contained.

Breath of Darigaaz

Sorcery

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

Breath of Darigaaz deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. If Breath of Darigaaz was kicked, it deals 4 damage to each creature without flying and each player instead.

Brilliant Plan

Sorcery

Draw three cards.

At Red Cliffs, Kongming and Zhou Yu each wrote his plan for defeating Wei on the palm of his hand. They laughed as they both revealed the same word, "Fire."

Brilliant Spectrum

Sorcery

Converge - Draw X cards, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Brilliant Spectrum. Then discard two cards.

There are more sights on Zendikar than the eyes can see.

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.

Bring to Light

Sorcery

Converge - Search your library for a creature, instant, or sorcery card with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast Bring to Light, exile that card, then shuffle your library. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Brood Birthing

Sorcery

If you control an Eldrazi Spawn, put three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool." Otherwise, put one of those tokens onto the battlefield.

Browbeat

Sorcery

Any player may have Browbeat deal 5 damage to him or her. If no one does, target player draws three cards.

"Even the threat of power has power."
-Jeska, warrior adept

Bump in the Night

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 3 life.

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

It's not just the wind. It's not all in your head. And it's definitely something to worry about.

Buried Alive

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three creature cards and put them into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Burn at the Stake

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Burn at the Stake, tap any number of untapped creatures you control.

Burn at the Stake deals damage to target creature or player equal to three times the number of creatures tapped this way.

Burning Inquiry

Sorcery

Each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

Jariad burned the midnight oil, burned through scroll after scroll, and then burned down his laboratory.

Burst of Speed

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn. (They can attack and even if they just came under your control.)

Great generals inspire by example. Goblin chieftains inspire by electrifying the barracks.

Cached Defenses

Sorcery

Bolster 3. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

The glittering scales in the Abzan vaults represent mighty deeds of the past and protection for generations to come.

Call (Beck/Call)

Sorcery

Put four 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

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

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.

Call of the Nightwing

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 blue and black Horror creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

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.)

Call the Gatewatch

Sorcery

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

"I've heard it said that a Planeswalker is someone who can always run from danger. But Gideon's right: we're also the ones who can choose to stay."
-Jace Beleren

Call the Scions

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

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

Ulamog's progeny swarm the land, draining Zendikar's mana to feed the titan's insatiable hunger.

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.

Call to Mind

Sorcery

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"It's hard to say which is more satisfying: the search for that missing piece or fitting that piece into place."
-Evo Ragus

Captain's Call

Sorcery

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

"Who among you has the courage to face certain death? Who will heed my call?"
-Rayel Vanger, Firstblade of Thune

Captured Sunlight

Sorcery

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

You gain 4 life.

Caravan Vigil

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Morbid - You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.

Caress of Phyrexia

Sorcery

Target player draws three cards, loses 3 life, and gets three poison counters.

"I am weak. Make . . . me . . . ideal."

Catch (Catch/Release)

Sorcery

Gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.

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

Cenn's Enlistment

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

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

The more the scarier.

Cerebral Eruption

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals the top card of his or her library. Cerebral Eruption deals damage equal to the revealed card's converted mana cost to that player and each creature he or she controls. If a land card is revealed this way, return Cerebral Eruption to its owner's hand.

Chain Reaction

Sorcery

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

"We train for the improbable, like lightning striking the same place twice, or striking everywhere at once."
-Nundari, Sea Gate militia captain

Chainer's Edict

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature.

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

The pits have their own form of mercy.

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?"

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.

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.

Clear a Path

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with defender.

"Why do guards always look surprised when we bash them?" asked Ruric.
"I think they expect a bribe," said Thar.

Cleaver Riot

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Measure once, cut twice.

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.

Clutch of Currents

Sorcery

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Awaken 3- (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Coastal Discovery

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

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.)