Demolish

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

"To truly defeat a skaberen, you must destroy not the monster but the lab."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Demon's Grasp

Sorcery

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

"Take what solace you can in the knowledge that you will not be here to witness Zendikar's demise."-Ob Nixilis

Demonfire

Sorcery

Demonfire deals X damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Hellbent - If you have no cards in hand, Demonfire can't be countered by spells or abilities and the damage can't be prevented.

Demonic Attorney

Sorcery

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

Each player antes the top card of his or her library.

Demonic Collusion

Sorcery

Buyback-Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Demonic Dread

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.)

Target creature can't block this turn.

Demonic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Deny Reality

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.)

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

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

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

Descent of the Dragons

Sorcery

Destroy any number of target creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller puts a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Dragons emerge from tempests fully formed and terribly hungry.

Desecrated Earth

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller discards a card.

"The land is swollen with mana, cursed relics, and secrets. If you puncture it, you never know what will burst out."
-Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Desecration Plague

Sorcery

Destroy target enchantment or land.

"The gods think of us as insects. Perhaps there is wisdom in that."
-Perisophia the philosopher

Desert Twister

Sorcery

Destroy target permanent.

Desperate Research

Sorcery

Name a card other than a basic land card. Then reveal the top seven cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Exile the rest.

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.

Despise

Sorcery

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

"Truth is always a weapon in your enemies' hands."
-Geth, Lord of the Vault

Despoil

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller loses 2 life.

Nothing could grow where the vile smoke had been, and no one could breathe it and live.

Destroy the Evidence

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

Everyone knew the Dimir had done the damage. Everyone suspected the Izzet had hired them.

Destructive Force

Sorcery

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

The end of the world rarely comes quietly.

Detonate

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact with converted mana cost X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.

Devastate

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Devastate deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

"You're willing to die for your homeland. I'm willing to kill for it."
-Latulla, Keldon overseer

Devastating Dreams

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Devastating Dreams, discard X cards at random.

Each player sacrifices X lands. Devastating Dreams deals X damage to each creature.

Kamahl dreams of storms of fire.

Devastating Summons

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Devastating Summons, sacrifice X lands.

Put two X/X red Elemental creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Things born in magma are always angry.

Devastation Tide

Sorcery

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

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

It's hard to argue with a force made of divine will.

Devil's Play

Sorcery

Devil's Play deals X damage to target creature or player.

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

A devil's hands are never idle.

Devour in Flames

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Devour in Flames, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Devour in Flames deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Ob Nixilis had prepared for every eventuality-except Chandra Nalaar.

Devouring Greed

Sorcery - Arcane

As an additional cost to cast Devouring Greed, you may sacrifice any number of Spirits.

Target player loses 2 life plus 2 life for each Spirit sacrificed this way. You gain that much life.

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.

Diabolic Intent

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Diabolic Intent, sacrifice a creature.

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Diabolic Revelation

Sorcery

Search your library for up to X cards and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"There are some secrets so dark no human mind should ever contain them. Interested?"
-Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis

Diabolic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Diabolic Vision

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on top of your library in any order.

"I have seen the true path. I will not warm myself by the fire-I will become the flame."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

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.)

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.

Diminishing Returns

Sorcery

Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library. You exile the top ten cards of your library. Then each player draws up to seven cards.

Dimir Machinations

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Exile any number of those cards, then put the rest back in any order.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

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.

Diplomacy of the Wastes

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. If you control a Warrior, that player loses 2 life.

"Our emissaries are gifted negotiators."
-Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Dirge of Dread

Sorcery

All creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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

When you cycle Dirge of Dread, you may have target creature gain fear until end of turn.

Dirty (Down/Dirty)

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

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

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.

Disentomb

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I deal so often in rotting corpses that when I come across the freshly dead . . . why, it's like my birthday come early."
-Nevinyrral, necromancer

Disintegrate

Sorcery

Disintegrate deals X damage to target creature or player. That creature can't be regenerated this turn. If the creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Dismantle

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact. If that artifact had counters on it, put that many +1/+1 counters or charge counters on an artifact you control.

"If only the living were so easily salvaged."
-Memnarch

Disorder

Sorcery

Disorder deals 2 damage to each white creature and each player who controls a white creature.

"Fire hurts them almost as much as the chaos that follows. Almost."
-The Western Paladin

Distant Melody

Sorcery

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Oona's song is like a twisted dinner chime. All the faeries return home, but it is Oona who feasts-on the stolen dreams and rumors they serve her.

Distant Memories

Sorcery

Search your library for a card, exile it, then shuffle your library. Any opponent may have you put that card into your hand. If no player does, you draw three cards.

"The fleeting shadows of his primitive self have all but vanished."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Distorting Wake

Sorcery

Return X target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Gerrard savored a grim smile as the Phyrexian portals disappeared behind the Weatherlight.

Distortion Strike

Sorcery

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

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.)

Distress

Sorcery

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

"Of course I'm sure I've gone mad. The little man who crawled out of my eye was quite clear on this."

Disturbed Burial

Sorcery

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

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Disturbing Plot

Sorcery

Return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Divination

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

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

Divine Congregation

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature target player controls.

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.)

Divine Light

Sorcery

Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to creatures you control.

"Phyrexia is an unforgiving place, and I am an angry lord in an unforgiving mood."
-Lord Windgrace

Divine Reckoning

Sorcery

Each player chooses a creature he or she controls. Destroy the rest.

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

Survival of the purest.

Do or Die

Sorcery

Separate all creatures target player controls into two piles. Destroy all creatures in the pile of that player's choice. They can't be regenerated.

Donate

Sorcery

Target player gains control of target permanent you control.

Campus pranksters initiate new students with the old "beeble bomb" routine.

Doomsday

Sorcery

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Dosan's Oldest Chant

Sorcery

You gain 6 life.

Draw a card.

As Dosan's chant grew in volume, a second, deeper voice rose up in harmony behind it, strong enough to shake the earth and yet vibrant enough to fill the spirit.

Double Cross

Sorcery

Choose another player. Look at that player's hand and choose one of those cards other than a basic land. He or she discards that card. At the beginning of the next game with the player, look at the player's hand and choose one of those cards other than a basic land. He or she discards that card.

"You're in for a nasty butt-kickin'."

Double Deal

Sorcery

Choose another player. Double Deal deals 3 damage to that player now and deals an additional 3 damage to the player at the beginning of the next game with the player.

"I'm facing defeat, . . ."

Double Play

Sorcery

Choose another player. Search your library for a basic land and put that land into play. At the beginning of the next game with that player, search your library for an additional basic land and put that land into play. In both cases, shuffle your library afterwards.

The wizard exclaimed, "I'm no chicken . . . ."

Doubling Chant

Sorcery

For each creature you control, you may search your library for a creature card with the same name as that creature. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

What's scarier than one of every beast in the forest?

Down (Down/Dirty)

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

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

Drafna's Restoration

Sorcery

Return any number of target artifact cards from target player's graveyard to the top of his or her library in any order.

Drafna, founder of the College of Lat-Nam, could create a working model from even the smallest remnants of a newly unearthed artifact.

Dragon Fodder

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Goblins journey to the sacrificial peaks in pairs so that the rare survivor might be able to relate the details of the other's grisly demise.

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.)

Drain Life

Sorcery

Spend only black mana on X.

Drain Life deals X damage to target creature or player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before Drain Life dealt damage or the creature's toughness.

Drain Power

Sorcery

Target player activates a mana ability of each land he or she controls. Then put all mana from that player's mana pool into yours.

Drain the Well

Sorcery

Destroy target land. You gain 2 life.

Trows have learned that it's not wise to eat cinders without a bucket or two of water nearby.

Drastic Revelation

Sorcery

Discard your hand. Draw seven cards, then discard three cards at random.

Every disaster holds mystery, for lack of a sane witness.

Dread Return

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Dreadbore

Sorcery

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

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

Dreadwaters

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of lands you control.

Stray into the Morkrut and it may rise to claim you.

Dream Cache

Sorcery

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand both on top of your library or both on the bottom of your library.

Dreams' riches are easily spent.
-Suq'Ata adage

Dregs of Sorrow

Sorcery

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

"We live for a thousand years. The death of even one brings untold sorrow."
-Elvish elder

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.

Drown in Sorrow

Sorcery

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

"The sad truth is that the whip of Erebos is long enough to wrap around all our throats."
-Perisophia the philosopher

Dry Spell

Sorcery

Dry Spell deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

"Wherever water is lacking, all things suffer."
-Autumn Willow

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.

Duress

Sorcery

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
-Liliana Vess

Dust to Dust

Sorcery

Exile two target artifacts.

"All this nonsense made by mages
Rusts and crumbles through the ages."
-Aline Corralurn, "Inheritance"

Dutiful Return

Sorcery

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

"We have a word for enemies too mutilated for military service: furniture."
-Taigam, Sidisi's Hand

Dwarven Landslide

Sorcery

Kicker-, Sacrifice a land. (You may pay and sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)

Destroy target land. If Dwarven Landslide was kicked, destroy another target land.

Dwell on the Past

Sorcery

Target player shuffles up to four target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.

None can find what hasn't been lost.
-Nantuko teaching

Earth Rift

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

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

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.)

Earthquake

Sorcery

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

They fell screaming into the depths of the chasm like so many pebbles tossed down a well.

Echoing Ruin

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact and all other artifacts with the same name as that artifact.

A single misstep unleashes an avalanche of ruin.

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."

Eerie Procession

Sorcery - Arcane

Search your library for an Arcane card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"Though in years past speculation was not encouraged about the strange ways of kami, now we must understand their motivations, if such is even possible to the mortal mind."
-Lady Azami

Elemental Appeal

Sorcery

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

Put a 7/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If Elemental Appeal was kicked, that creature gets +7/+0 until end of turn.

Elephant Resurgence

Sorcery

Each player puts a green Elephant creature token onto the battlefield. Those creatures have "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in its controller's graveyard."

Elven Cache

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Elves know where to harvest the best of the forest, for they planted it there themselves.

Elven Rite

Sorcery

Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

As the bough stretches, so shall you grow. As the roots spread, so shall you thrive.

Elvish Promenade

Tribal Sorcery - Elf

Put a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token onto the battlefield for each Elf you control.

The faultless and immaculate castes form the lower tiers of elvish society, with the exquisite caste above them. At the pinnacle is the perfect, a consummate blend of aristocrat and predator.

Ember Gale

Sorcery

Creatures target player controls can't block this turn. Ember Gale deals 1 damage to each white and/or blue creature that player controls.

"Terrible wind. It whipped sparks into our skin, then stoked them even hotter!"
-Bowen, Barrenton guardcaptain

Empty the Catacombs

Sorcery

Each player returns all creature cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

When the dead are laid to rest in Ravnica, it's usually just a nap.