Immortal Servitude

Sorcery

Return each creature card with converted mana cost X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The fine print of countless contracts has ensured we are never defenseless."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Illuminate

Sorcery

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

Illuminate deals X damage to target creature. If Illuminate was kicked with its kicker, it deals X damage to that creature's controller. If Illuminate was kicked with its kicker, you draw X cards.

Illicit Auction

Sorcery

Each player may bid life for control of target creature. You start the bidding with a bid of 0. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and gains control of the creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Ill-Gotten Gains

Sorcery

Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards his or her hand, then returns up to three cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

Urza thought it a crusade. Xantcha knew it was a robbery.

Ignite Memories

Sorcery

Target player reveals a card at random from his or her hand. Ignite Memories deals damage to that player equal to that card's converted mana cost.

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

Idyllic Tutor

Sorcery

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

"If one's life is blessed, solutions to all life's problems will appear at the right moment."
-The Book of Kith and Kin

Identity Crisis

Sorcery

Exile all cards from target player's hand and graveyard.

"To join our ranks, one must be pure. To be pure, one must be blessed by etherium. To be blessed, one must forget oneself."
-Ethersworn prayer

Ideas Unbound

Sorcery - Arcane

Draw three cards. Discard three cards at the beginning of the next end step.

The apprentice stared in puzzlement. "But Master, you finished writing those spells just yesterday. Don't you remember?" The jushi's heart froze.

Ichor Slick

Sorcery

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

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

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Ichor Explosion

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Ichor Explosion, sacrifice a creature.

All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

The first explosion that didn't excite goblins.

Icequake

Sorcery

Destroy target land. If that land was a snow land, Icequake deals 1 damage to that land's controller.

"When the earth shakes, and their animals are swallowed up by the ground, perhaps they will think twice before attacking again."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Icefall

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

Recover (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

As the Thaw met Terisiare, mountains shed their icy skins, crushing homes and hopes alike.

Ice Storm

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Icatian Town

Sorcery

Put four 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Icatia's once-peaceful towns faced increasing attacks from orcs and goblins as the climate cooled. By the time the empire fell, they were little more than armed camps.

Hypnotic Cloud

Sorcery

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

Target player discards a card. If Hypnotic Cloud was kicked, that player discards three cards instead.

Hypergenesis

Sorcery

Illus. Ron Spears

Hymn to Tourach

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards at random.

"The eerie, wailing Hymn caused insanity even in hardened warriors."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. II

Hymn of Rebirth

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"There will come soft rains, and spring shall be amongst us, a welcome friend."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Hush

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments.

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

Hurricane

Sorcery

Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"Don't envy the grandeur of drakes. Their impression of grace fades when the first gust sends them crashing into one another."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Hurly-Burly

Sorcery

Choose one - Hurly-Burly deals 1 damage to each creature without flying; or Hurly-Burly deals 1 damage to each creature with flying.

"Things were popping like corn in a skillet. Olly landed in the pig pen with his prize sow on top of him, both squealin' like boggarts."
-Deagan, cenn of Burrenton

Hunting Wilds

Sorcery

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

Search your library for up to two Forest cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

If Hunting Wilds was kicked, untap all Forests put onto the battlefield this way. They become 3/3 green creatures with haste that are still lands.

Hunting Triad

Tribal Sorcery - Elf

Put three 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Reinforce 3- (, Discard this card: Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature.)

"Eyeblights are easy to track. Just follow the imperfections."

Hunters' Feast

Sorcery

Any number of target players each gain 6 life.

Those who kill a jawspur rhino must prepare spells to lift the carcass-even a dozen hunters can't lift its bulk.

Hunter's Prowess

Sorcery

Until end of turn, target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards."

To be counted among the warriors of Setessa's Leina Tower, you must not fear death, only failure.

Hunt the Weak

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

He who hesitates is lunch.

Hunt the Hunter

Sorcery

Target green creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn. It fights target green creature an opponent controls.

"A grudge is a tattoo worn on the inside."
-Setessan warrior saying

Hunt Down

Sorcery

Target creature blocks target creature this turn if able.

"Springjacks and faeries can be difficult to hunt, but my favorite prey are the flamekin. They never fail to put up a worthy fight when cornered."

Hunger of the Nim

Sorcery

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each artifact you control.

Their pain is so great, they can't help but share it with others.

Hull Breach

Sorcery

Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or destroy target enchantment; or destroy target artifact and target enchantment.

"Crovax knows we're coming now," said a grinning Sisay. "I just sent the Predator crashing into his stronghold."

Howl of the Night Pack

Sorcery

Put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield for each Forest you control.

The murderous horrors of Raven's Run are legendary, but even that haunted place goes quiet when the night wolves howl.

Howl of the Horde

Sorcery

When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Raid - If you attacked with a creature this turn, when you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell an additional time. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Hour of Reckoning

Sorcery

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

Destroy all nontoken creatures.

"Ravnica, like a hedge, must be pruned, leaving only leaves of verdant uniformity."
-Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Horrifying Revelation

Sorcery

Target player discards a card, then puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Ours is a glorious transmission! Behold a future where all bow to the Father of Machines."
-Isila, Priest of Sheoldred

Horncaller's Chant

Sorcery

Put a 4/4 green Rhino creature token with trample onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"The Selesnya are gathering armies. Do you still believe they aren't preparing for war?"
-Teysa, to Isperia

Hordeling Outburst

Sorcery

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

"Leave no scraps, lest you attract pests."
-Mardu threat

Hoarder's Greed

Sorcery

You lose 2 life and draw two cards, then clash with an opponent. If you win, repeat this process. (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.)

Hive Stirrings

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 colorless Sliver creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Sliver young are sorted into clutches according to their potential and their future role. Human scholars can only guess how those are determined.

Hint of Insanity

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. That player discards all nonland cards with the same name as another card in his or her hand.

"Practice makes perfect, but obsession makes better."

Hideous Visage

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain intimidate until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

"Seeing you cower before me is its own reward."

Hidden Strings

Sorcery

You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent.

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.)

Hex

Sorcery

Destroy six target creatures.

When killing five just isn't enough.

Heroes Remembered

Sorcery

You gain 20 life.

Suspend 10- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with ten 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.)

Hellion Eruption

Sorcery

Sacrifice all creatures you control, then put that many 4/4 red Hellion creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Just when you thought you'd be safe, in the middle of an open field with no Eldrazi around for miles.

Hellfire

Sorcery

Destroy all nonblack creatures. Hellfire deals X plus 3 damage to you, where X is the number of creatures that died this way.

"High on a throne of royal state . . . insatiate to pursue vain war with heav'n." -John Milton, Paradise Lost

Heed the Mists

Sorcery - Arcane

Put the top card of your library into your graveyard, then draw cards equal to that card's converted mana cost.

"Once, I looked to the mists for wisdom. Now I wish only for understanding."

Heat Shimmer

Sorcery

Put a token that's a copy of target creature onto the battlefield. That token has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, exile this permanent."

"Better to flare out than to gutter."
-Flamekin expression

Head Games

Sorcery

Target opponent puts the cards from his or her hand on top of his or her library. Search that player's library for that many cards. The player puts those cards into his or her hand, then shuffles his or her library.

Haze of Rage

Sorcery

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

Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Haunting Misery

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Haunting Misery, exile X creature cards from your graveyard.

Haunting Misery deals X damage to target player.

"I am condemned without end."
-Crovax

Haunting Echoes

Sorcery

Exile all cards from target player's graveyard other than basic land cards. For each card exiled this way, search that player's library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Harsh Mercy

Sorcery

Each player chooses a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of a type chosen this way. They can't be regenerated.

"There is no greater burden than choosing who to save."
-Kamahl, druid acolyte

Harrowing Journey

Sorcery

Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

"There are always fools who attempt to traverse Kruin Pass before sundown and every time they wind up in a race for their lives."
-Old Rutstein

Harness by Force

Sorcery

Strive - Harness by Force costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Gain control of any number of target creatures until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

Harmonize

Sorcery

Draw three cards.

"Life's greatest lessons don't come from focus or concentration. They come from breathing and simply noticing."
-Seton, centaur druid

Hands of Binding

Sorcery

Tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap 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.)

Hammer of Bogardan

Sorcery

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

: Return Hammer of Bogardan from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Hallowed Burial

Sorcery

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.

"I'd rather hear the screams of battle than the quiet that follows."
-Talara, elvish safewright

Guided Passage

Sorcery

Reveal the cards in your library. An opponent chooses from among them a creature card, a land card, and a noncreature, nonland card. You put the chosen cards into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Gruesome Slaughter

Sorcery

Until end of turn, colorless creatures you control gain ": This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature."

Though Gideon arrived at Sea Gate too late to prevent the massacre, he still had enough time to lead its survivors to relative safety.

Gruesome Encore

Sorcery

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.

Gruesome Discovery

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

Morbid - If a creature died this turn, instead that player reveals his or her hand, you choose two cards from it, then that player discards those cards.

Growth Spasm

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Put a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Ground Rift

Sorcery

Target creature without flying can't block this turn.

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

Some time rifts didn't take away the people but just the ground they stood on.

Ground Assault

Sorcery

Ground Assault deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.

"Taking down a dragon is easy. All you need is enough space to get in a good swing."
-Narbulg Nine Fingers

Grizzly Fate

Sorcery

Put two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Threshold - Put four 2/2 green Bear creature tokens onto the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

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

Grim Flowering

Sorcery

Draw a card for each creature card in your graveyard.

"Nothing in nature goes to waste, not even the rotting corpse of a good-for-nothing, blood-sucking vampire."
-Halana of Ulvenwald

Grim Discovery

Sorcery

Choose one or both - Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand; and/or return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.

Few among the living understand just how much of their world is shaped by the ruins of the dead.

Grenzo's Rebuttal

Sorcery

Put a 4/4 red Ogre creature token onto the battlefield. Starting with you, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, and a land from among the permanents controlled by the player to his or her left. Destroy each permanent chosen this way.

Green Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

Search your library for a green creature card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

As the green sun crowned, Phyrexian prophecies glowed on the Tree of Tales.

Great Teacher's Decree

Sorcery

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of 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.)

Grave Strength

Sorcery

Choose target creature. Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard, then put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each creature card in your graveyard.

So long as death follows life, the supply lines of the Sultai will never be cut.

Grave Exchange

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Target player sacrifices a creature.

"It's a cold, dark journey either way."
-Eruth of Lambholt

Grasp of Phantoms

Sorcery

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

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

Grapeshot

Sorcery

Grapeshot deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

Mages often seek to emulate the powerful relics lost to time and apocalypse.

Granulate

Sorcery

Destroy each nonland artifact with converted mana cost 4 or less.

There aren't that many ways to destroy a solid steel weapon, but somehow the goblins keep finding new ones.

Granny's Payback

Sorcery

You gain life equal to your age.

R&D Comments
BB 10/10: Why does a life-gaining card show an old lady killing people?
MR (10/10/03): We'll fix it in the flavor text.

Govern the Guildless

Sorcery

Gain control of target monocolored creature.

Forecast - , Reveal Govern the Guildless from your hand: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Golden Wish

Sorcery

You may choose an artifact or enchantment card you own from outside the game, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Exile Golden Wish.

She wished for nobility, but not for a nation to honor it.

Goblin War Strike

Sorcery

Goblin War Strike deals damage equal to the number of Goblins you control to target player.

"Fire, aim, ready"

Goblin Scouts

Sorcery

Put three 1/1 red Goblin Scout creature tokens with mountainwalk onto the battlefield.

"Pathetic-like I wouldn't know a goblin painted up to look like a dwarf!"
-Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader

Goblin Rally

Sorcery

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

You don't so much hire goblins as put ideas in their heads.

Goblin Offensive

Sorcery

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

They certainly are.

Goblin Lore

Sorcery

Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random.

"Now listen closely, my young gob. There are many ways to eat pimple bugs, but I say the best way is all smashed together between two slug chips."

Goblin Grenade

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Goblin Grenade, sacrifice a Goblin.

Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

Don't underestimate the aerodynamic qualities of the common goblin.

Goblin Game

Sorcery

Each player hides at least one item, then all players reveal them simultaneously. Each player loses life equal to the number of items he or she revealed. The player who revealed the fewest items then loses half his or her life, rounded up. If two or more players are tied for fewest, each loses half his or her life, rounded up.

Gloomlance

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. If that creature was green or white, its controller discards a card.

Death stings the victim only once, but those left behind feel the pain of loss with every passing memory.

Global Ruin

Sorcery

Each player chooses from the lands he or she controls a land of each basic land type, then sacrifices the rest.

"The earth shook, the sky rained fire, and it seemed the world was ending."
-Benalish refugee

Glittering Wish

Sorcery

You may choose a multicolored card you own from outside the game, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Exile Glittering Wish.

She wished for gold, but not for the strength to carry it.

Glimpse the Unthinkable

Sorcery

Target player puts the top ten cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir."
-Szadek

Glimpse the Future

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"No simple coin toss can solve this riddle. You must think and choose wisely."-Shai Fusan, archmage

Glimpse of Nature

Sorcery

Whenever you cast a creature spell this turn, draw a card.

Dosan sat in repose for many hours. He made no motion, no sound at all. And as he sat, nature revealed itself to him.

Gleeful Sabotage

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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.)

Glare of Heresy

Sorcery

Exile target white permanent.

No foe is more hated than the former friend.

Give (Give/Take)

Sorcery

Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature.

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

Gitaxian Probe

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Look at target player's hand.

Draw a card.

"My flesh holds no secrets, monster. The spirit of Mirrodin will fight on."
-Vy Covalt, Mirran resistance

Gild

Sorcery

Exile target creature. Put a colorless artifact token named Gold onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

Merchants of the Underworld trade in coins of clay. Gold serves another purpose.

Gift of the Gargantuan

Sorcery

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

Gift of Estates

Sorcery

If an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Giantbaiting

Sorcery

Put a 4/4 red and green Giant Warrior creature token with haste onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

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.)