Cleanse

Sorcery

Destroy all black creatures.

The clouds broke and the sun's rays burst forth; each foul beast in its turn faltered, and was gone.

Cleansing

Sorcery

For each land, destroy that land unless any player pays 1 life.

Cleansing Meditation

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy all enchantments, then return all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.

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.

Clear the Land

Sorcery

Each player reveals the top five cards of his or her library, puts all land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield tapped, and exiles the rest.

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.)

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

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.)

Coerced Confession

Sorcery

Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. You draw a card for each creature card put into that graveyard this way.

"Ask the right questions in the right way and truth is inevitable."
-Lazav

Coercion

Sorcery

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

"Of all I that I have lost, I miss my mind the most."

Collective Unconscious

Sorcery

Draw a card for each creature you control.

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

Collective Voyage

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player searches his or her library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way, puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles his or her library.

Commune with Nature

Sorcery

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

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.

Compulsive Research

Sorcery

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless he or she discards a land card.

"Four parts molten bronze, yes . . . one part frozen mercury, yes, yes . . . but then what?"

Concentrate

Sorcery

Draw three cards.

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

Concussive Bolt

Sorcery

Concussive Bolt deals 4 damage to target player.

Metalcraft - If you control three or more artifacts, creatures that player controls can't block this turn.

Shock one, awe the rest.

Cone of Flame

Sorcery

Cone of Flame deals 1 damage to target creature or player, 2 damage to another target creature or player, and 3 damage to a third target creature or player.

Conflagrate

Sorcery

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

Flashback-, Discard X cards. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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.

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.

Conqueror's Pledge

Sorcery

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

Put six 1/1 white Kor Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield. If Conqueror's Pledge was kicked, put twelve of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.

Consult the Necrosages

Sorcery

Choose one - Target player draws two cards; or target player discards two cards.

Dimir rank and file never see nor hear their guildmaster. All orders are given through mysterious necrosages who appear from the shadows, tersely toss out a command, and then melt into the darkness.

Consume Spirit

Sorcery

Spend only black mana on X.

Consume Spirit deals X damage to target creature or player and you gain X life.

"You clerics brag about your strength of spirit, yet I take away the tiniest fragment, and you crumple like a rag doll."
-Sorin Markov

Consuming Bonfire

Tribal Sorcery - Elemental

Choose one - Consuming Bonfire deals 4 damage to target non-Elemental creature; or Consuming Bonfire deals 7 damage to target Treefolk creature.

"The elves use treefolk to drive us away. It is time to remove their tools."
-Vessifrus, flamekin demagogue

Consuming Vapors

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Contract from Below

Sorcery

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

Discard your hand, add the top card of your library to the ante, then draw seven cards.

Corpsehatch

Sorcery

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

Corrosive Gale

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Corrosive Gale deals X damage to each creature with flying.

"Wipe Sheoldred's spies from the sky. She'll see the result of our vision soon enough."
-Glissa

Corrupt

Sorcery

Corrupt deals damage equal to the number of Swamps you control to target creature or player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

The power of the fens sleeps lightly, and always awakens hungry.

Council's Judgment

Sorcery

Will of the council - Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

When its power is threatened, the council speaks with a unified voice.

Counsel of the Soratami

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

"Wisdom is not the counting of all the drops in a waterfall. Wisdom is learning why the water seeks the earth."

Coursers' Accord

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Bleak rumors reached Trostani's ears. She decreed that no one should travel alone.

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.

Covenant of Minds

Sorcery

Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent may choose to put those cards into your hand. If he or she doesn't, put those cards into your graveyard and draw five cards.

Before signing anything on Grixis, always read the fine print.

Crack the Earth

Sorcery - Arcane

Each player sacrifices a permanent.

"As the war progressed, the destruction the kami caused became more widespread and less predictable."
-Observations of the Kami War

Cranial Extraction

Sorcery - Arcane

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

Crater's Claws

Sorcery

Crater's Claws deals X damage to target creature or player.

Ferocious - Crater's Claws deals X plus 2 damage to that creature or player instead if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Craterize

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

"‘Utterly' is my favorite way to destroy something."
-Chandra Nalaar

Creeping Corrosion

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts.

"We will reveal the futility of their heresy by showing them how fragile their relics are."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Creeping Mold

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Mold crept over the walls and into every crevice until the gleaming white stone strained and burst.

Creeping Renaissance

Sorcery

Choose a permanent type. Return all cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to your hand.

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

Crime (Crime/Punishment)

Sorcery

Put target creature or enchantment card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Crippling Fatigue

Sorcery

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Flashback-, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Cruel Edict

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature.

"Choose your next words carefully. They will be your last."
-Phage the Untouchable

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.

Crumble to Dust

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

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

Crush of Tentacles

Sorcery

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

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If Crush of Tentacles's surge cost was paid, put an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token onto the battlefield.

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.)

Crux of Fate

Sorcery

Choose one -

• Destroy all Dragon creatures.

• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Ugin's whispered summons led Sarkhan Vol to the moment that would echo down the centuries and seal Tarkir's fate: the primal battle between Ugin and Nicol Bolas.

Cry of Contrition

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.)

When the creature Cry of Contrition haunts dies, target player discards a card.

Cryoclasm

Sorcery

Destroy target Plains or Island. Cryoclasm deals 3 damage to that land's controller.

The people of Terisiare had come to live on frozen fields as though on solid ground. Nothing reminded them of the difference more clearly than the rifts brought on by the Thaw.

Culling Mark

Sorcery

Target creature blocks this turn if able.

Hunt without Nylea's leave and you may find yourself the next quarry.

Culling Sun

Sorcery

Destroy each creature with converted mana cost 3 or less.

"Who truly runs this city? Look to the sky on hallowed days, and see whose sigil is stamped clearly onto the heavens."
-Vuliev of the Ghost Council

Cultivate

Sorcery

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

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultural Exchange

Sorcery

Choose any number of creatures target player controls. Choose the same number of creatures another target player controls. Those players exchange control of those creatures. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

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.

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.

Cut the Tethers

Sorcery

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

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

Cyclical Evolution

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Exile Cyclical Evolution with three time counters on it.

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.)

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

Damnation

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Dance of Shadows

Sorcery - Arcane

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

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

Dangerous (Armed/Dangerous)

Sorcery

All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.

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

Dark Deal

Sorcery

Each player discards all the cards in his or her hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

The first khans of the Sultai relied on the magic of the rakshasa to ensure the survival of the clan.

Darkpact

Sorcery

Remove Darkpact from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

You own target card in the ante. Exchange that card with the top card of your library.

Dawn to Dusk

Sorcery

Choose one or both - Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand; and/or destroy target enchantment.

"The numbers of Nyxborn among us have swelled. Is this a sign of the gods' favor, or does it portend something else?"

Dawnglow Infusion

Sorcery

You gain X life if was spent to cast Dawnglow Infusion and X life if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

Dawnglove bloom is a potent nostrum, but the dawnglow brewed from its sap is nothing less than life itself.

Day of Judgment

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures.

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"

Dead Reckoning

Sorcery

You may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. If you do, Dead Reckoning deals damage equal to that card's power to target creature.

Many venture out to hunt for treasures. Others lie in wait to hunt the hunters.

Dead Ringers

Sorcery

Destroy two target nonblack creatures unless either one is a color the other isn't. They can't be regenerated.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" crowed Crovax. "They fought together. Now they will die together."

Deadly Allure

Sorcery

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn and must be blocked this turn if able.

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

What could be more irresistible than death?

Deadshot

Sorcery

Tap target creature. It deals damage equal to its power to another target creature.

"Carrion! Keep your distance. My blade will come to you!"
-Crovax

Death by Dragons

Sorcery

Each player other than target player puts a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Suddenly, Eldo felt very alone.

Death Cloud

Sorcery

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

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

Death Frenzy

Sorcery

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, you gain 1 life.

The crocodiles' putrid jaws swallow everything but the screams.

Death Grasp

Sorcery

Death Grasp deals X damage to target creature or player. You gain X life.

Yawgmoth's greatest joy came from watching one hero defeat another.

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.

Death or Glory

Sorcery

Separate all creature cards in your graveyard into two piles. Exile the pile of an opponent's choice and return the other to the battlefield.

Death Stroke

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

For a sharp second, Selenia froze, and Crovax's blade found home. As the angel shattered like glass, Crovax felt his mind collapse-the curse had been fulfilled.

Death Wish

Sorcery

You may choose a card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand. You lose half your life, rounded up. Exile Death Wish.

He wished for power, but not for the longevity to abuse it.

Death's Caress

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. If that creature was a Human, you gain life equal to its toughness.

The faint smell of cloves, the rustling of the wind, and a paralyzing descent into an airless, fathomless tomb.

Death's Duet

Sorcery

Return two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Life has always been a dance. It is only fitting that death sing the tune.

Deathmark

Sorcery

Destroy target green or white creature.

"Let the final vision of doom be etched upon their unblinking eyes."
-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Debt to the Deathless

Sorcery

Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Some of Orzhov's cruelest collectors remember their debtors by taste alone.

Decimate

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land.

"Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition."
-Kamahl, pit fighter

Decompose

Sorcery

Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

"Sheesh How am I supposed to make a decent living around here?"
-Cabal grave robber

Deconstruct

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact. Add to your mana pool.

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.

Decree of Justice

Sorcery

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

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

When you cycle Decree of Justice, you may pay . If you do, put X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

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.

Deep Analysis

Sorcery

Target player draws two cards.

Flashback-, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"The specimen seems to be broken."

Deep Reconnaissance

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

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

Defeat

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.

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

Defy Death

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If it's an Angel, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Gisela cornered the murderous demon among the graves of the dead villagers. "A fitting end," she murmured as she raised her sword.

Delirium Skeins

Sorcery

Each player discards three cards.

There came a rush, a sudden fire in the mind. Then the two saw only the sooty fog of madness, heard only the crackling of their last thoughts burning away.

Dematerialize

Sorcery

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

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