Zombify

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The first birth celebrates life. The second birth mocks it."
-Mystic elder

Zombie Apocalypse

Sorcery

Return all Zombie creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, then destroy all Humans.

"There will come a day so dark you will pray for death. On that day your prayers will be answered."
-Minaldra, the Vizag Atum

Yawning Fissure

Sorcery

Each opponent sacrifices a land.

The mapmaker scowled. He sighed, unrolled his parchment, and painted a large black blob where the Eternal Meadow was once marked.

Yawgmoth's Will

Sorcery

Until end of turn, you may play cards from your graveyard.

If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Yamabushi's Storm

Sorcery

Yamabushi's Storm deals 1 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Wurmcalling

Sorcery

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

Put an X/X green Wurm creature token onto the battlefield.

Write into Being

Sorcery

Look at the top two cards of your library. Manifest one of those cards, then put the other on the top or bottom of your library. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Wretched Banquet

Sorcery

Destroy target creature if it has the least power or is tied for least power among creatures on the battlefield.

"The meek inherit nothing."
-Sedris, the Traitor King

Wrench Mind

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards unless he or she discards an artifact card.

What is the sound of one head snapping?

Wreak Havoc

Sorcery

Wreak Havoc can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Destroy target artifact or land.

Wrath of God

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Wrap in Flames

Sorcery

Wrap in Flames deals 1 damage to each of up to three target creatures. Those creatures can't block this turn.

"Our pyromancer's flames may not have killed them, but they bought us the time we needed."
-The War Diaries

Wrack with Madness

Sorcery

Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

The skathul, spirits consumed by revenge, fester and seethe while looking for weak minds to assault.

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.

Worm Harvest

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token onto the battlefield for each land card in your graveyard.

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

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.

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.

World at War

Sorcery

After the first postcombat main phase this turn, there's an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures that attacked 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.)

Word of Binding

Sorcery

Tap X target creatures.

"That was the worst experience of my days: standing there helpless as they killed my whole troop."
-Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier

Woodland Guidance

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Clash with an opponent. If you win, untap all Forests you control. (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.)

Exile Woodland Guidance.

Witness the End

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target opponent exiles two cards from his or her hand and loses 2 life.

"Ulamog stood before us at Sea Gate, ready to succumb . . . and then Kozilek arose. Whatever hope I had for our world died."
-Vandri, Kalastria emissary

Withering Gaze

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You draw a card for each Forest and green card in it.

"Nature cares not for the knowledge to be gained from its study. Better to bleed it dry, lest its potential be wasted on lizards and leaves."

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

Wistful Thinking

Sorcery

Target player draws two cards, then discards four cards.

"To probe the wonders of the multiverse, to gaze upon worlds unspoiled by blade or spell . . . it's enough to make one weep for the possibilities denied."

Winter's Grasp

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Summer is buried there, centuries deep;
A crypt of years where seasons sleep.

Winter Sky

Sorcery

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, Winter Sky deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. If you lose the flip, each player draws a card.

Winter Blast

Sorcery

Tap X target creatures. Winter Blast deals 2 damage to each of those creatures with flying.

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"
-William Shakespeare, King Lear

Wing Storm

Sorcery

Wing Storm deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of creatures with flying that player controls.

A thousand wings beating as one can choke the sky itself.

Wing Snare

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with flying.

The elves long ago mastered the art of hunting with nets. They call it "fishing the sky."

Winds of Rath

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures that aren't enchanted. They can't be regenerated.

"There shall be a vast shout and then a vaster silence."
-Oracle en-Vec

Winds of Change

Sorcery

Each player shuffles the cards from his or her hand into his or her library, then draws that many cards.

"'Tis the set of sails, and not the gales, Which tells us the way to go."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Windfall

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

"To fill your mind with knowledge, we must start by emptying it."
-Barrin, master wizard

Windborne Charge

Sorcery

Two target creatures you control each get +2/+2 and gain flying until end of turn.

The merfolk call the sky goddess Emeria. The kor call her Kamsa. The two races agree on little except that she offers many blessings to the faithful.

Wildfire

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices four lands. Wildfire deals 4 damage to each creature.

Fire is always at the top of the food chain, and it has a big appetite.

Wildcall

Sorcery

Manifest the top card of your library, then put X +1/+1 counters on it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

A howl on the wind hides many dangers.

Wild Swing

Sorcery

Choose three target nonenchantment permanents. Destroy one of them at random.

Though the shaman rarely got what she wanted, she was never disappointed in the result.

Wild Guess

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Wild Guess, discard a card.

Draw two cards.

No guts, no glory.

Whispering Madness

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

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.)

Whirlwind

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures with flying.

Urza tried to rule the air, but Gaea taught him that she controlled all the elements.

Whipflare

Sorcery

Whipflare deals 2 damage to each nonartifact creature.

The slag-workers wasted no time in creating their own flare pulses to cleanse the area of the incompleat.

Whims of the Fates

Sorcery

Starting with you, each player separates all permanents he or she controls into three piles. Then each player chooses one of his or her piles at random and sacrifices those permanents. (Piles can be empty.)

Whelming Wave

Sorcery

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

"I can see why this appeals to Thassa."
-Kiora

Wheel of Fortune

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

Wheel of Fate

Sorcery

Illus. Kev Walker

Wet Willie of the Damned

Sorcery

Wet Willie of the Damned deals 2½ damage to target creature or player and you gain 2½ life.

Ever the warrior, Glissa responded with a "wedgie from beyond Uranus."

Well (Alive/Well)

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

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

Weird Harvest

Sorcery

Each player may search his or her library for up to X creature cards, reveal those cards, and put them into his or her hand. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Krosa's distorted groves bear strange fruit.

Weed Strangle

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Clash with an opponent. If you win, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. (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.)

Waves of Aggression

Sorcery

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

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

Wave of Reckoning

Sorcery

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Inner conflict can defeat a soldier more quickly than any army.

Wave of Indifference

Sorcery

X target creatures can't block this turn.

"Darius?"
"Yeah?"
"There's a goblin sneaking up on you."
"So?"
"Just sayin'."

Wash Out

Sorcery

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

"Rest now. You've neither won nor lost, but this battle is over for you just the same."
-Teferi

Warren Weirding

Tribal Sorcery - Goblin

Target player sacrifices a creature. If a Goblin is sacrificed this way, that player puts two 1/1 black Goblin Rogue creature tokens onto the battlefield, and those tokens gain haste until end of turn.

"And that's when it was discovered that boggarts have just half a brain."
-The Book of Other Folk

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.

Wargate

Sorcery

Search your library for a permanent card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Bant mages still call to the heavens for aid, but angels are not the only ones who answer.

Wandering Stream

Sorcery

Domain - You gain 2 life for each basic land type among lands you control.

"Dominaria touches us all."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Wallop

Sorcery

Destroy target blue or black creature with flying.

In Yavimaya, flying low to join a battle can be a costly mistake.

Walk the Aeons

Sorcery

Buyback-Sacrifice three Islands. (You may sacrifice three Islands in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Waking Nightmare

Sorcery - Arcane

Target player discards two cards.

"Once each year, the oni and other evil spirits paraded through villages to disturb mortals' sleep. During the war, this parade became a nightly event."
-Observations of the Kami War

Wake the Reflections

Sorcery

Populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"You see a bird, an oak, a packbeast. I see the potential for an army."
-Lalia, Selesnya dryad

Wake of Destruction

Sorcery

Destroy target land and all other lands with the same name as that land.

Land charred black, rivers boiled,
Crops and wells alike despoiled,
Mountains leveled, forests felled-
Footprints of the beasts of Keld.

Waiting in the Weeds

Sorcery

Each player puts a 1/1 green Cat creature token onto the battlefield for each untapped Forest he or she controls.

The trees have ears, eyes, and teeth.

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.)

Volcanic Wind

Sorcery

Volcanic Wind deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield as you cast Volcanic Wind.

The Cho-Arrim call it "the fury of Ramos."

Volcanic Vision

Sorcery

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Volcanic Vision deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to each creature your opponents control. Exile Volcanic Vision.

Volcanic Submersion

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

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

A dragon's death is almost as feared as its life. Old, dying dragons throw themselves into volcanoes, causing massive upheaval and widespread disaster.

Volcanic Spray

Sorcery

Volcanic Spray deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player.

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

Volcanic Hammer

Sorcery

Volcanic Hammer deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Fire finds its form in the heat of the forge.

Volcanic Eruption

Sorcery

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Volcanic Awakening

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

With a great roar, the land opened like a titan's yawn, with teeth of blackened rock and a lolling tongue of magma.

Voidwalk

Sorcery

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

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.)

Void Squall

Sorcery

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

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.)

Void Snare

Sorcery

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

"I've tried so many variations on how to get rid of annoying things that it's hard to decide which one I like best."
-Ashurel, voidmage

Void

Sorcery

Choose a number. Destroy all artifacts and creatures with converted mana cost equal to that number. Then target player reveals his or her hand and discards all nonland cards with converted mana cost equal to the number.

Voices from the Void

Sorcery

Domain - Target player discards a card for each basic land type among lands you control.

As Grixis collided with the rest of Alara, the worlds began to hear the hateful whispers of the forgotten dead.

Vivisection

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Vivisection, sacrifice a creature.

Draw three cards.

Phyrexians research with the grace of surgeons and the finesse of butchers.

Visions

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of target player's library. You may then have that player shuffle that library.

"Visions of glory, spare my aching sight,
Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!"
-Thomas Gray, "The Bard"

Violent Ultimatum

Sorcery

Destroy three target permanents.

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

Vindicate

Sorcery

Destroy target permanent.

"Don't mourn for me. This is my destiny."
-Gerrard

Villainous Wealth

Sorcery

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of his or her library. You may cast any number of nonland cards with converted mana cost X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Gold buys death. Death earns gold.

Vigor Mortis

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If was spent to cast Vigor Mortis, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

After fear and weakness rot away, that which remains is stronger than its living form.

Victorious Destruction

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land. Its controller loses 1 life.

"The refugees look at these structures with hope. We must relieve them of this burden."
-Juex, tormentor exarch

Victimize

Sorcery

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective. We must scrap it."

Vicious Hunger

Sorcery

Vicious Hunger deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Only the most ravenous soul feeds on the health of the weak.

Vicious Betrayal

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Vicious Betrayal, sacrifice any number of creatures.

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature sacrificed this way.

Verdant Touch

Sorcery

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

Target land becomes a 2/2 creature that's still a land. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Venomous Vines

Sorcery

Destroy target enchanted permanent.

"True strength comes from within. The false promise of unnatural power only incurs Krosa's wrath."
-Seton, centaur druid

Vengeful Rebirth

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. If you return a nonland card to your hand this way, Vengeful Rebirth deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

Exile Vengeful Rebirth.

Vengeance

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

"It is the duty of the strong to oppose any who threaten the weak."
-The Southern Paladin

Vanquish the Foul

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Vandalize

Sorcery

Choose one or both -

• Destroy target artifact.

• Destroy target land.

"As we have learned from Kolaghan, to ruin is to rule."
-Shensu, Kolaghan rider

Vandalblast

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Beauty is in the eye of the exploder.

Vacuumelt

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Urza's Guilt

Sorcery

Each player draws two cards, then discards three cards, then loses 4 life.

Deep in Yawgmoth's realm, Urza stopped dead in his tracks and rubbed his soot-filled eyes. "Mishra?"

Urborg Uprising

Sorcery

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

Draw a card.

In Urborg, few things are less permanent than death.

Urban Evolution

Sorcery

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals.

Uproot

Sorcery - Arcane

Put target land on top of its owner's library.

"We arrived at the battlefield too late. Again. Another error on your part, and you will have to answer to me personally."
-General Takeno, letter to the imperial mapmaker

Upheaval

Sorcery

Return all permanents to their owners' hands.

The calm comes after the storm.

Unyaro Bee Sting

Sorcery

Unyaro Bee Sting deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Much can be learned from the bees about dying for a cause."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Unwilling Recruit

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +X/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

Frorn didn't want to be kept, but he didn't want to be thrown back either.