Hornet Sting

Instant

Hornet Sting deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

It was only then-to his infinite sorrow-that Gork realized hornets don't make honey.

Harm's Way

Instant

The next 2 damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or permanents you control this turn is dealt to target creature or player instead.

Even when fate is already written, there's always time to change the names.

Righteousness

Instant

Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

Sometimes the greatest strength is the strength of conviction.

Tempest of Light

Instant

Destroy all enchantments.

"Let everything return to its true nature, so that destiny may take its course."

Disorient

Instant

Target creature gets -7/-0 until end of turn.

"If it has a brain, even a primitive one, we can most surely scramble it."
-Garild, merfolk mage

Jump

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Humanity has always envied the power of flight. So we took it."
-Scytha, aeromage

Twincast

Instant

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Imitation is the most dangerous form of flattery.

Tendrils of Corruption

Instant

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Darkness doesn't always send its minions to do its dirty work.

Ignite Disorder

Instant

Ignite Disorder deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target white and/or blue creatures.

The shaman prowled the academy halls, shaking his head at the pomp and babble of the sages inside. He knew just the spell to liven the place up.

Seismic Strike

Instant

Seismic Strike deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control.

"Life up here is simple. Adapt to the ways of the mountains and they will reward you. Fight them and they will end you."
-Kezim, prodigal pyromancer

Might of Oaks

Instant

Target creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

May your weapon be no sword forged. May your armor be no metal wrought.
-Elvish saying

Regenerate

Instant

Regenerate target creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

"This wound shall be like the chills of winter: swiftly forgotten when spring shoots rise."

Windstorm

Instant

Windstorm deals X damage to each creature with flying.

"We don't like interlopers and thieves cluttering our skies."
-Dionus, elvish archdruid

Gleam of Resistance

Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+2 until end of turn. Untap those creatures.

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.)

Lapse of Certainty

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Without a connection of mind and body, magic is just an idea stuck in the head, a word on the tip of a tongue.

Constricting Tendrils

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

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

Priests of Bant protect their temples with traps more elaborate than any mosaic floor.

Traumatic Visions

Instant

Counter target spell.

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.)

View from Above

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. If you control a white permanent, return View from Above to its owner's hand.

"This air feels so heavy and thick. There are no winds to speak of. I fear the knowledge that comes from a place like this."

Worldly Counsel

Instant

Domain - Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Every horizon hides a new possibility.

Drag Down

Instant

Domain - Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

The barbarians of Jund believe the bottomless tar pits extend forever into other, darker worlds.

Dark Temper

Instant

Dark Temper deals 2 damage to target creature. If you control a black permanent, destroy the creature instead.

When you've got the temperament of a dragon, every argument is one you'll win.

Fiery Fall

Instant

Fiery Fall deals 5 damage to target creature.

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.)

Jund feasts on the unprepared.

Molten Frame

Instant

Destroy target artifact creature.

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

The metal filigree in his body glowed red-hot, and his flesh soon followed.

Volcanic Fallout

Instant

Volcanic Fallout can't be countered.

Volcanic Fallout deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

"How can we outrun the sky?"
-Hadran, sunseeder of Naya

Filigree Fracture

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If that permanent was blue or black, draw a card.

The sphinx tyrannized Bant until a rhox mage tested the hardiness of her shiny parts.

Might of Alara

Instant

Domain - Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

The combined strength of all five planes spawned creations none had seen before.

Sylvan Bounty

Instant

Target player gains 8 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.)

Some who scouted new lands chose to stay.

Countersquall

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Each of the twenty-three winds of Esper is named and chronicled, and every possible interaction with the flow of magic is exhaustively detailed.

Endure

Instant

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

The Aurora had lessened the kithkins' kindness, deepened their paranoia, and dulled their sense of pain.

Banishing Knack

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains ": Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Suddenly he realized that everything was connected by invisible strings, strings that could be pulled-or cut.

Dream Fracture

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card.

Draw a card.

"Creation is a paradox. It hatches from its opposite."
-Olka, Mistmeadow witch

Glamerdye

Instant

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another.

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

Oona's Grace

Instant

Target player draws a card.

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

Oona grants her favored subjects a dream from her own guarded heart.

Chaotic Backlash

Instant

Chaotic Backlash deals damage to target player equal to twice the number of white and/or blue permanents he or she controls.

The concept of thoughtweft fascinates the Nighthearth cult. Imagine, bringing agony to an entire people by torturing just one.

Puncture Blast

Instant

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Puncture Blast deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Gnarltrunk didn't remember having quite that many knotholes.

Batwing Brume

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if was spent to cast Batwing Brume. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature he or she controls if was spent to cast Batwing Brume. (Do both if was spent.)

Beckon Apparition

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard. Put a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When a graveyard is full, the gwyllions rattle the tombs and unleash the spirits into the sky.

Cauldron Haze

Instant

Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Unmake

Instant

Exile target creature.

A gwyllion's favorite trap is the vanity mirror. A bewitched piece of glass traps the looker's soul and does away with the body.

Inside Out

Instant

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Draw a card.

Seyden's temperament didn't take well to the puca's magic. Nor did his face.

Unnerving Assault

Instant

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0 until end of turn if was spent to cast Unnerving Assault, and creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

The scales of battle rarely balance.

Cankerous Thirst

Instant

If was spent to cast Cankerous Thirst, you may have target creature get -3/-3 until end of turn. If was spent to cast Cankerous Thirst, you may have target creature get +3/+3 until end of turn. (Do both if was spent.)

Nothing warms the bark on a chilly day like a draught of elf.

Double Cleave

Instant

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

"When in doubt, kill 'em twice."

Fire at Will

Instant

Fire at Will deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target attacking or blocking creatures.

"Make these shots count. The more foes we drop now, the fewer we'll have trying to kill us later."

Moonhold

Instant

Target player can't play land cards this turn if was spent to cast Moonhold and can't play creature cards this turn if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

Invert the Skies

Instant

Creatures your opponents control lose flying until end of turn if was spent to cast Invert the Skies, and creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

Snakeform

Instant

Target creature loses all abilities and becomes a 1/1 green Snake until end of turn.

Draw a card.

Losing his possessions distressed him, but the lack of limbs was strangely liberating.

Inquisitor's Snare

Instant

Prevent all damage target attacking or blocking creature would deal this turn. If that creature is black or red, destroy it.

Driven by their paranoia, kithkin inflict on their foes all the agonies they believe would have been inflicted on them.

Last Breath

Instant

Exile target creature with power 2 or less. Its controller gains 4 life.

"Tsk. You'd think those nasty merrows would know how to hold their breath."
-Olka, mistmeadow witch

Niveous Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes white until end of turn. Tap that creature.

Draw a card.

In a world devoid of sun, illumination comes from cheerless fires or the wandering spirits of the dead.

Strip Bare

Instant

Destroy all Auras and Equipment attached to target creature.

"All glamers lifted, all lies revealed, all flesh exposed."
-Awylla, elvish safewright

Cerulean Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes blue until end of turn. Untap that creature.

Draw a card.

"If you see ghostly lights by the river, eat three twigs of marshroot to ward off kelpies."
-Kithkin superstition

Consign to Dream

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. If that permanent is red or green, put it on top of its owner's library instead.

"Dreams are fleeting. Reality even more so."
-Oona, queen of the fae

Counterbore

Instant

Counter target spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Put Away

Instant

Counter target spell. You may shuffle up to one target card from your graveyard into your library.

Kithkin spellbottlers spend half their time preserving old memories and the other half punishing the new.

Spell Syphon

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each blue permanent you control.

Warrik Brutehexer felt betrayed that his aura favored the depths of the Wanderbrine River over its rightful place, hovering around him.

Aphotic Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Draw a card.

Merrows skulk the silty bogs around the Wanderbrine, their very thoughts stained with evil.

Crimson Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes red and gains haste until end of turn.

Draw a card.

The whispers are incomprehensible, yet cinders always hear a message of urgency.

Flame Javelin

Instant

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Flame Javelin deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Gyara Spearhurler would have been renowned for her deadly accuracy, if it weren't for her deadly accuracy.

Puncture Bolt

Instant

Puncture Bolt deals 1 damage to target creature. Put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Cinder pyromancers measure their success by counting their enemies' smoking holes.

Smash to Smithereens

Instant

Destroy target artifact. Smash to Smithereens deals 3 damage to that artifact's controller.

The giant Tarvik dreamed that trinkets and machines caused all the world's woe. When he awoke from his troubled sleep, he took the name Tarvik Relicsmasher.

Dramatic Entrance

Instant

You may put a green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Some things aren't worth waiting for.

Gloomwidow's Feast

Instant

Destroy target creature with flying. If that creature was blue or black, put a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach onto the battlefield. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Each night, gloomwidows cull fresh prey for their ravenous hatchlings.

Viridescent Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes green and gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

In the wisps that night, the once timid boggart saw all the terrible, bloody things he was capable of. And it was glorious.

Æthertow

Instant

Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

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.)

Mirrorweave

Instant

Each other creature becomes a copy of target nonlegendary creature until end of turn.

"Those who are different are untrustworthy, unpredictable. Put your safety in the hands of your own kind."
-Bowen, Barrenton guardcaptain

Repel Intruders

Instant

Put two 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield if was spent to cast Repel Intruders. Counter up to one target creature spell if was spent to cast Repel Intruders. (Do both if was spent.)

Thoughtweft Gambit

Instant

Tap all creatures your opponents control and untap all creatures you control.

The kithkin mind-bond is even tighter in Shadowmoor, reinforcing the unity of their community to the point of xenophobia.

Turn to Mist

Instant

Exile target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Did you expect me to dodge? How quaint."
-Olka, mistmeadow witch

Dream Salvage

Instant

Draw cards equal to the number of cards target opponent discarded this turn.

Awylla tried hard to forget the horrors she had seen, but someone else had developed a keen interest in them.

Fate Transfer

Instant

Move all counters from target creature onto another target creature.

"The cinders find strength in suffering, the elves in beauty. But if you make an elf suffer, he gets weaker. I wonder what happens if you make a cinder beautiful?"
-Hrugash, leech bonder

Memory Plunder

Instant

You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

"Vengeance is the echo of the victim's own crime."
-Grensch, merrow cutthroat

Scar

Instant

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"What is a scar? A sign of courage in the face of danger? A mere trick of flesh? Or a constant reminder of agonizing pain, and the follies of war."
-Illulia of Nighthearth

Guttural Response

Instant

Counter target blue instant spell.

Wort had a raiding-bellow that could shatter steel, melt auras, and slice countermagic in half.

Manamorphose

Instant

Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool.

Draw a card.

For a moment, objects of pure mana glimmered in the wonderstruck boggart's hands. In the next moment, they were in his mouth, as he chewed contentedly.

Barkshell Blessing

Instant

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

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.)

Fracturing Gust

Instant

Destroy all artifacts and enchantments. You gain 2 life for each permanent destroyed this way.

Elvish dawnhands test a relic's worthiness before collecting it for the safehold. If it can't stand up to a stiff breeze, it's left behind.

Mercy Killing

Instant

Target creature's controller sacrifices it, then puts X 1/1 green and white Elf Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's power.

"We will give you the peace you seek, though you may not yet know you seek it."

Reknit

Instant

Regenerate target permanent.

"An axe may break upon a ribbon if the ribbon's will is the stronger."
-Awylla, elvish safewright

Coordinated Barrage

Instant

Choose a creature type. Coordinated Barrage deals damage to target attacking or blocking creature equal to the number of permanents you control of the chosen type.

Forfend

Instant

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

"Suddenly there stood a fortress protecting the clachan, its walls hewn of valor and mortared with honor."
-Clachan Tales

Graceful Reprieve

Instant

When target creature dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

"In my moment of death, I had a vision of the world, dark and unwelcoming. I wanted to hide in the deepest meander, but the light pulled me back."

Redeem the Lost

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Redeem the Lost to its owner's hand. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Swell of Courage

Instant

Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Reinforce X- (, Discard this card: Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature.)

"Tideshaping is more than creating a few
new puddles."

Pack's Disdain

Instant

Choose a creature type. Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each permanent of the chosen type you control.

Like the sun to a flower, the adoring gaze of the tribe is sustenance to an elf. To be shunned is to wither.

Release the Ants

Instant

Release the Ants deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Release the Ants to its owner's hand. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Shard Volley

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Shard Volley, sacrifice a land.

Shard Volley deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

"Let the mountain's teeth pierce our oppressors."

Deglamer

Instant

Choose target artifact or enchantment. Its owner shuffles it into his or her library.

The more pleasant an illusion's garb, the more indecent its form laid bare.

Earthbrawn

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Reinforce 1- (, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.)

Gremil finally felt in touch with nature-and felt a need to share the experience with others.

Luminescent Rain

Instant

Choose a creature type. You gain 2 life for each permanent you control of that type.

Storms in Lorwyn don't patter on village rooftops, but rather drench the clachan in rays of amber light.

Neck Snap

Instant

Destroy target attacking or blocking creature.

"We merrows need not be disadvantaged when fighting on land. We lack the vulnerability of those who breathe only through their throats."
-Minnarin, merrow reejerey

Broken Ambitions

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Clash with an opponent. If you win, that spell's controller puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Cryptic Command

Instant

Choose two - Counter target spell; or return target permanent to its owner's hand; or tap all creatures your opponents control; or draw a card.

Familiar's Ruse

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Familiar's Ruse, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Counter target spell.

Because of their capricious nature, faeries can serve as living lenses for disruptive magic.

Whirlpool Whelm

Instant

Clash with an opponent, then return target creature to its owner's hand. If you win, you may put that creature on top of its owner's library instead. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Eyeblight's Ending

Tribal Instant - Elf

Destroy target non-Elf creature.

"Those without beauty are Lorwyn's greatest tumor. The winnowers have an unpleasant duty, but a necessary one."
-Eidren, perfect of Lys Alana

Footbottom Feast

Instant

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.

Draw a card.

The scent of rot and vinegar fills the marsh, inviting boggarts from every warren to reunite and feast.

Makeshift Mannequin

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a mannequin counter on it. For as long as that creature has a mannequin counter on it, it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

"This vulgar mimicry will end now."
-Desmera, perfect of Wren's Run

Lash Out

Instant

Lash Out deals 3 damage to target creature. Clash with an opponent. If you win, Lash Out deals 3 damage to that creature's controller. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Needle Drop

Instant

Needle Drop deals 1 damage to target creature or player that was dealt damage this turn.

Draw a card.

"First it was plovers and mulldrifters. Now it's knitting needles the size of javelins."
-Calydd, kithkin farmer