Spirit Flare

Instant

Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, it deals damage equal to its power to target attacking or blocking creature an opponent controls.

Flashback-, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Spinning Darkness

Instant

You may exile the top three black cards of your graveyard rather than pay Spinning Darkness's mana cost.

Spinning Darkness deals 3 damage to target nonblack creature. You gain 3 life.

Spinal Embrace

Instant

Cast Spinal Embrace only during combat.

Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Spin into Myth

Instant

Put target creature on top of its owner's library, then fateseal 2. (To fateseal 2, look at the top two cards of an opponent's library, then put any number of them on the bottom of that player's library and the rest on top in any order.)

Spidery Grasp

Instant

Untap target creature. It gets +2/+4 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

"Nobody's seen the Lady of Videns for years. Poor dear, no companions at all in that old castle."
-Yonda of Gavony

Sphinx's Revelation

Instant

You gain X life and draw X cards.

"Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order."

Spellshift

Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals an instant or sorcery card. That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then he or she shuffles his or her library.

Spelljack

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may play it without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)

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.

Spell Snip

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

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

"Magic cast through a hand of flesh is just as weak as the flesh itself."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

Spell Snare

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.

Every culture has its unlucky numbers. In a city where you're either alone, in a crowd, or being stabbed in the back, two is the worst number of all.

Spell Shrivel

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Spell Rupture

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays , where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"Like water, mana will drain from an inferior vessel."
-Jalan Tosk, Simic forcemage

Spell Pierce

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

"There's a hole in your plan."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Spell Crumple

Instant

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

Spell Contortion

Instant

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Draw a card for each time Spell Contortion was kicked.

Spell Burst

Instant

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

Counter target spell with converted mana cost X.

The brutish mage's version of thinking.

Spell Blast

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is , X is 5.)

Spectral Shift

Instant

Choose one - Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one basic land type with another; or change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (These effects last indefinitely.)

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

Spawning Breath

Instant

Spawning Breath deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Put a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Death by death, Kozilek's lineage spread.

Spatial Contortion

Instant

({C} represents colorless mana.)

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

"For those without the Planeswalker spark, the merest touch of the Blind Eternities can kill."
-Ugin

Spark Spray

Instant

Spark Spray deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

It's the only kind of shower goblins will tolerate.

Spark Jolt

Instant

Spark Jolt deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Acolytes of Purphoros hammer the world until they see the sparks of change.

Spare from Evil

Instant

Creatures you control gain protection from non-Human creatures until end of turn.

"As long as we can utter a prayer or lift a weapon, we have the power to fight back."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Soulshriek

Instant

Target creature you control gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

"The flesh is a casket for the soul."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Soulless Revival

Instant - Arcane

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.)

Soulblast

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Soulblast, sacrifice all creatures you control.

Soulblast deals damage to target creature or player equal to the total power of the sacrificed creatures.

Soul's Grace

Instant

You gain life equal to target creature's power.

An avatar he sculpts of fellowship and light.

Soul's Fire

Instant

Target creature you control on the battlefield deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

An avatar he sculpts of anger and flame.

Soul Spike

Instant

You may exile two black cards from your hand rather than pay Soul Spike's mana cost.

Soul Spike deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

Soul Rend

Instant

Destroy target creature if it's white. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Since I cannot stop death, I choose to stop life."
-Kaervek

Soul Parry

Instant

Prevent all damage one or two target creatures would deal this turn.

"I was called to this world of steel, and it will be my steel that answers."
-Elspeth Tirel

Soul Nova

Instant

Exile target attacking creature and all Equipment attached to it.

Within seconds, the nim was consumed in blinding sunfire. Afterwards, only a puddle of molten iron remained.

Soul Manipulation

Instant

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

"Birth and death are both reversible."
-Nicol Bolas

Sorin's Thirst

Instant

Sorin's Thirst deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

"All your steel won't protect you if your will is weak."

Soothing Balm

Instant

Target player gains 5 life.

Orim taught Ta-Karnst and the other Cho-Arrim healers a far less invasive method of healing.

Sonic Seizure

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Sonic Seizure, discard a card at random.

Sonic Seizure deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Sonic Burst

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Sonic Burst, discard a card at random.

Sonic Burst deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Music scythes the savage beast.

Songs of the Damned

Instant

Add to your mana pool for each creature card in your graveyard.

Not wind, but the breath of the dead.

Solidarity of Heroes

Instant

Strive - Solidarity of Heroes costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Choose any number of target creatures. Double the number of +1/+1 counters on each of them.