Rewind

Instant

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

"The best denials are simply that: a beginning and end unchanged, a dream with no memory."

Ricochet Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent cast a blue spell this turn, you may pay rather than pay Ricochet Trap's mana cost.

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

In his last seconds, Remhas regretted using his most powerful spell.

Riddle of Lightning

Instant

Choose target creature or player. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Riddle of Lightning deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to that creature or player. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Ride Down

Instant

Destroy target blocking creature. Creatures that were blocked by that creature this combat gain trample until end of turn.

"I will wash you from my hooves!"
-Mardu taunt

Righteous Blow

Instant

Righteous Blow deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"Monsters will no longer find safety under the mists of Morkrut!"
-Bruna, Light of Alabaster

Righteousness

Instant

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

Sometimes the greatest strength is the strength of conviction.

Riot Control

Instant

You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

"Ravnicans need order. If they don't have it, we shall bring it to them."
-Isperia

Rise to the Challenge

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Plidius wagered that Arissa couldn't kill a chimera with her javelins alone. She proved him wrong in a way everyone could see for days to come.

Rite of Undoing

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Return target nonland permanent you control and target nonland permanent you don't control to their owners' hands.

Ritual of the Returned

Instant

Exile target creature card from your graveyard. Put a black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield. Its power is equal to that card's power and its toughness is equal to that card's toughness.

A mask forged to avenge a death forgotten.

Roar of Jukai

Instant - Arcane

If you control a Forest, each blocked creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Splice onto Arcane-An opponent gains 5 life. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Roar of the Kha

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn; or untap all creatures you control.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Roil's Retribution

Instant

Roil's Retribution deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking or blocking creatures.

"We can use their hunger to lead them into danger. If we're already prey, we may as well be bait!"-Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Roilmage's Trick

Instant

Converge - Creatures your opponents control get -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Roilmage's Trick.

Draw a card.

Weather on Zendikar is unpredictable-unless you're the one telling it what to do.

Rootborn Defenses

Instant

Populate. Creatures you control are indestructible this turn. (To populate, put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy indestructible creatures.)

Rouse the Mob

Instant

Strive - Rouse the Mob costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

Rune Snag

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays plus an additional for each card named Rune Snag in each graveyard.

"Concentration is key. Without it, a mage conjures nothing but a splitting headache."
-Zur the Enchanter

Runeboggle

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Draw a card.

"Ever try to count hyperactive schoolchildren while someone shouts random numbers in your ear? It's like that."
-Geetra, frustrated mage

Runeflare Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent drew three or more cards this turn, you may pay rather than pay Runeflare Trap's mana cost.

Runeflare Trap deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Rush of Blood

Instant

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power.

Sometimes it's not for sustenance or to feed the dependence. Sometimes it's just to feel again.

Ruthless Instincts

Instant

Choose one -

• Target nonattacking creature gains reach and deathtouch until end of turn. Untap it.

• Target attacking creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

A single battle affects countless others.

Safe Passage

Instant

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

As she shepherds the faithful, the angel's radiance is a shield of salvation.

Sanctified Charge

Instant

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. White creatures you control also gain first strike until end of turn. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

You need only raise your spear to receive this blessing.

Sandblast

Instant

Sandblast deals 5 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

In the Shifting Wastes, more are killed by sand than by steel.

Sarkhan's Rage

Instant

Sarkhan's Rage deals 5 damage to target creature or player. If you control no Dragons, Sarkhan's Rage deals 2 damage to you.

The people of Tarkir speak of an ancient legend, of the dragon-man called Sarkhan who was greatest of all khans.

Sarkhan's Triumph

Instant

Search your library for a Dragon creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Sarkhan gazed on the world around him, the dragons sweeping through its skies, and joy kindled like a fire in his soul.

Savage Beating

Instant

Cast Savage Beating only during your turn and only during combat.

Choose one - Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn; or untap all creatures you control and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Savage Summoning

Instant

Savage Summoning can't be countered.

The next creature card you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. That spell can't be countered. That creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Savage Surge

Instant

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

Gruul warriors never need to be stirred to battle. They need only to be shown where the battle is.

Saving Grasp

Instant

Return target creature you own to your hand.

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

Nothing's more valuable than perfect timing.

Scale Blessing

Instant

Bolster 1, then put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. (To bolster 1, choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"Your bravery honors us all."
-Dromoka, translated from Draconic

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

Scatter Arc

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

Draw a card.

"Should your chosen emissary be able to fluctuate triharmonic pentodes, however unlikely, I shall shunt excess negavolt radicals."

Scatter the Seeds

Instant

Convoke (Each creature you tap while casting this spell reduces its cost by or by one mana of that creature's color.)

Put three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

From the seeds of faith, great forests grow.

Scatter to the Winds

Instant

Counter target spell.

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.)

Scattering Stroke

Instant

Counter target spell. Clash with an opponent. If you win, at the beginning of your next main phase, you may add to your mana pool, where X is that spell's converted mana cost. (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.)

Schismotivate

Instant

Target creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.

Scour

Instant

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

Scour from Existence

Instant

Exile target permanent.

"Our people and our very lands disappear as if they never were. We no longer fight for glory, or honor. We battle now for the right to exist."-General Tazri, allied commander

Scout's Warning

Instant

The next creature card you play this turn can be played as though it had flash.

Draw a card.

"There is no tactic I enjoy more than ambushing the ambushers."

Searing Blaze

Instant

Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player and 1 damage to target creature that player controls.

Landfall - If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player and 3 damage to that creature instead.

Searing Blood

Instant

Searing Blood deals 2 damage to target creature. When that creature dies this turn, Searing Blood deals 3 damage to the creature's controller.

Purphoros's blessing: sometimes a boon, sometimes a bane. Always ablaze.

Searing Light

Instant

Destroy target attacking or blocking creature with power 2 or less.

"Light can lay bare our fears. It can also make them go away."
-Nazra of the Stone Havens

Searing Spear

Instant

Searing Spear deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Sometimes you die a glorious death with your sword held high. Sometimes you're just target practice.

Searing Wind

Instant

Searing Wind deals 10 damage to target creature or player.

"The first wind of ascension is Forger, burning away impurity."
-Keld Triumphant

Second Guess

Instant

Counter target spell that's the second spell cast this turn.

"I see where you're going with that. I don't like it."
-Dierk, geistmage

Second Sight

Instant

Choose one - Look at the top five cards of target opponent's library, then put them back in any order; or look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Second Sunrise

Instant

Each player returns to the battlefield all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in his or her graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

The bright tunnel sometimes leads back to life.

Secure the Wastes

Instant

Put X 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"The Shifting Wastes provide our clan eternal protection. It is our duty to return the favor."
-Kadri, Dromoka warrior

Seed Spark

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If was spent to cast Seed Spark, put two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"If you ask me, those root-lovers value mindless dogma over progress."
-Trivaz, Izzet mage

Seeds of Strength

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Beneath the beauty of light and seed is the might of Vitu-Ghazi.

Seething Song

Instant

Add to your mana pool.

"The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
-Charles Colton

Seismic Shudder

Instant

Seismic Shudder deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

"The land here seems go out of its way to kill you."
-Chandra Nalaar

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

Seize the Initiative

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains first strike until end of turn.

The time between spotting a leonin shikari and feeling its claws is just time enough to draw your last breath.

Seize the Soul

Instant

Destroy target nonwhite, nonblack creature. Put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

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

When the creature Seize the Soul haunts dies, destroy target nonwhite, nonblack creature. Put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Selesnya Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn; or exile target creature with power 5 or greater; or put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

Serpent's Gift

Instant

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Venom is nature's way of redressing the imbalance between weak and mighty.

Serve (Protect/Serve)

Instant

Target creature gets -6/-0 until end of turn.

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

Setessan Tactics

Instant

Strive - Setessan Tactics costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Until end of turn, any number of target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain ": This creature fights another target creature."

Shadow of Doubt

Instant

( can be paid with either or .)

Players can't search libraries this turn.

Draw a card.

"Your ignorance is my bliss."
-Szadek

Shadowfeed

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard. You gain 3 life.

"The future is a snake, devouring your life backwards through time. And when you die, believe me, it doesn't stop feeding."
-Sedris, the Traitor King

Shape the Sands

Instant

Target creature gets +0/+5 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

"Dragons in flight seldom expect company."
-Kadri, Dromoka warrior

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."

Shatter

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

"I am an artist, a builder, a creator . . . I create the biggest explosions around."
-Krol, goblin furnace-priest

Shattering Blow

Instant

Exile target artifact.

"Aurelia seems too eager to solve her problems by delivering them to oblivion."
-Prime Speaker Zegana

Sheltering Word

Instant

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities opponents control.)

Shielded Passage

Instant

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Izzet delved into the depths of Ravnica's past, and Selesnya followed without fear.

Shieldmate's Blessing

Instant

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"Even land dwellers may call for Emeria's grace in times of need."
-Emeria's Creed

Shifting Borders

Instant - Arcane

Exchange control of two target lands.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Shining Shoal

Instant - Arcane

You may exile a white card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay Shining Shoal's mana cost.

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

Shock

Instant

Shock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"The beauty of it is they never see it coming. Ever."
-Razzix, sparkmage

Show of Valor

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+4 until end of turn.

"Duty, honor, and valor are either in your heart or they are not. You will never know for certain until you are tested."
-Ajani Goldmane

Showstopper

Instant

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature an opponent controls."

The audience quickly realized a few things: it wasn't a magic trick, there wasn't candy in there, and they'd need new clothes.

Shrapnel Blast

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Shrapnel Blast, sacrifice an artifact.

Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

Shred Memory

Instant

Exile up to four target cards from a single graveyard.

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.)

Shredding Winds

Instant

Shredding Winds deals 7 damage to target creature with flying.

"Enemies of the wood! Your presence here is a slap in Nylea's face. Do not be surprised if she slaps back."
-Telphe, druid of Nylea

Shriveling Rot

Instant

Choose one - Until end of turn, whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it; or until end of turn, whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Shunt

Instant

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Aranghil held her fury in her heart, hard and bright as a ruby. With its razor edge, she rewrote the laws of battle.

Sickening Shoal

Instant - Arcane

You may exile a black card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay Sickening Shoal's mana cost.

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

Sideswipe

Instant

You may change any targets of target Arcane spell.

Hisoka's wizards struggled for years to master the art of redirection that came so naturally to the shamans of Ganzan Pass.

Sift Through Sands

Instant - Arcane

Draw two cards, then discard a card.

If you've cast a spell named Peer Through Depths and a spell named Reach Through Mists this turn, you may search your library for a card named The Unspeakable, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Sigil Blessing

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +3/+3 and other creatures you control get +1/+1.

"For unwavering commitment and unflinching strength, the Order of the White Orchid confers its sigil. Rise, knight-captain, and do your duty."

Signal the Clans

Instant

Search your library for three creature cards and reveal them. If you reveal three cards with different names, choose one of them at random and put that card into your hand. Shuffle the rest into your library.

Gruul clanfolk obey few rules, but all feel bound to answer the call of the horn.

Silence

Instant

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn. (Spells cast before this resolves are unaffected.)

"Take a quiet moment to reflect on your sins."
-Cleph, Order of Redeemed Souls

Silence the Believers

Instant

Strive - Silence the Believers costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Exile any number of target creatures and all Auras attached to them.

Silumgar's Command

Instant

Choose two -

• Counter target noncreature spell.

• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

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

• Destroy target planeswalker.

Silumgar's Scorn

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Silumgar's Scorn, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast Silumgar's Scorn, counter that spell instead.

Simic Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn; or permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn; or return target creature to its owner's hand.

"We measure our progress in heartbeats."
-Prime Speaker Zegana

Skeletal Scrying

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Skeletal Scrying, exile X cards from your graveyard.

You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Skeletonize

Instant

Skeletonize deals 3 damage to target creature. When a creature dealt damage this way dies this turn, put a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token onto the battlefield with ": Regenerate this creature."

Fire burns away both flesh and freedom.

Skillful Lunge

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"Valor is a currency of the living that serves us well."
-Cosper Lowe of the Silbern Guard

Skred

Instant

Skred deals damage to target creature equal to the number of snow permanents you control.

"This close to Rimewind Keep, no avalanche is nature's doing."
-Ukoten, centaur chieftain

Skullcrack

Instant

Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player.

The lawmage's argument was clever and well reasoned, but Blunk's response proved irrefutable.

Slaughter Cry

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

It's rather embarrassing to end up with your head mounted over his hearth.

Slaughter Pact

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature.

At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay . If you don't, you lose the game.

Death is only the beginning of the end.

Slay

Instant

Destroy target green creature. It can't be regenerated.

Draw a card.

The elves had the edge in guile, skill, and valor. But in the end, only sheer numbers mattered.

Slice in Twain

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Draw a card.

"The hypocrisy of these elves is thicker than steel-destroying ‘unnatural metal' with their own enchanted swords."
-Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

Slingbow Trap

Instant - Trap

If a black creature with flying is attacking, you may pay rather than pay Slingbow Trap's mana cost.

Destroy target attacking creature with flying.

The Tajuru elves devised ways to let the forest defend itself.

Smash

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

Draw a card.

Ravnica's laws protect not its citizens but its industry. Aging equipment is destroyed rather than restored, to bring more money into the factories' coffers.