Psychic Miasma

Sorcery

Target player discards a card. If a land card is discarded this way, return Psychic Miasma to its owner's hand.

"A mind may be steeled against madness, but all battlements fall in time."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Arc Trail

Sorcery

Arc Trail deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to another target creature or player.

"Don't try to hit your enemies. Concentrate on the space between them, and fill the air with doom."
-Spear-Tribe teaching

See Beyond

Sorcery

Draw two cards, then shuffle a card from your hand into your library.

Ancient lore locked in a mind driven mad is just as safe as when it was locked deep underground.

Shrivel

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Have you ever killed insects nibbling at your crops? I think that's what the Eldrazi believe they're doing to us."
-Sheyda, Ondu gamekeeper

Brood Birthing

Sorcery

If you control an Eldrazi Spawn, put three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool." Otherwise, put one of those tokens onto the battlefield.

Treasure Hunt

Sorcery

Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card, then put all cards revealed this way into your hand.

"The longer the journey, the more one learns."
-Isanke, Halimar seastalker

Explore

Sorcery

You may play an additional land this turn.

Draw a card.

An explorer's reward is a view of tomorrow's possibilities.

Trapfinder's Trick

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all Trap cards.

"At some point, every trapfinder will lose a hunk of flesh. It's just a question of how much-and whether it'll grow back."
-Arhana, Kazandu trapfinder

Feast of Blood

Sorcery

Cast Feast of Blood only if you control two or more Vampires.

Destroy target creature. You gain 4 life.

"The vampires of this world don't know the pleasures of hunger. They gorge themselves without savoring the kill."
-Sorin Markov

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.

Marsh Casualties

Sorcery

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

Creatures target player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn. If Marsh Casualties was kicked, those creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn instead.

Reborn Hope

Sorcery

Return target multicolored card from your graveyard to your hand.

"In darkness is kindled the fiercest hope."
-Hadran, sunseeder of Naya

Pyroclasm

Sorcery

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

"Who'd want to ignite things one at a time?"
-Chandra Nalaar

Nature's Spiral

Sorcery

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. (A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.)

Snail shell, fern, tornado-the world connects all things in form.

Mind Spring

Sorcery

Draw X cards.

Fragments of thought refract and multiply, surging in a geyser of dizzying insight.

Mind Shatter

Sorcery

Target player discards X cards at random.

Dark thoughts hatch and twist within the mind, straining to take wing.

Martial Coup

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.

Their war forgotten, the nations of Bant stood united in the face of a common threat.

Soul Reap

Sorcery

Destroy target nongreen creature. Its controller loses 3 life if you've cast another black spell this turn.

Their thoughtweft carried Darial's last thoughts back to his doun. They sorely wished it had not.

Talara's Bane

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a green or white creature card from it. You gain life equal that creature card's toughness, then that player discards that card.

"Your thoughts betray you."
-Illulia of Nighthearth

Mine Excavation

Sorcery

Return target artifact or enchantment card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.

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.)

Disturbing Plot

Sorcery

Return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.

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.)

Rite of Consumption

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Rite of Consumption, sacrifice a creature.

Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

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.)

Toil to Renown

Sorcery

You gain 1 life for each tapped artifact, creature, and land you control.

The last survivor of her patrol, the warrior returned expecting disappointment and scorn. Instead she found gratitude. "You are alive. That is reason to celebrate."

Scarscale Ritual

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Scarscale Ritual, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.

Draw two cards.

Some words are too important to trust to something as fragile as memory.

Research the Deep

Sorcery

Draw a card. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Research the Deep 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.)

Pulling Teeth

Sorcery

Clash with an opponent. If you win, target player discards two cards. Otherwise, that player discards a card. (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.)

Revive the Fallen

Sorcery

Return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Revive the Fallen 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.)

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

Titan's Revenge

Sorcery

Titan's Revenge deals X damage to target creature or player. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Titan's Revenge 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.)

Profane Command

Sorcery

Choose two -

• Target player loses X life.

• Return target creature card with converted mana cost X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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

• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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

Cruel Edict

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature.

"Choose your next words carefully. They will be your last."
-Phage the Untouchable

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."

Spitting Earth

Sorcery

Spitting Earth deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control.

"Within each of you is the strength of a landslide."
-Kumano, to his pupils

Sylvan Scrying

Sorcery

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

One glimpse of an elf's home lasts her weeks away in the wild.

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.

Sacred Nectar

Sorcery

You gain 4 life.

"Over the silver mountains,
Where spring the nectar fountains,
There will I kiss
The bowl of bliss;
And drink my everlasting fill. . . ."
-Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Pilgrimage"

Volcanic Hammer

Sorcery

Volcanic Hammer deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Fire finds its form in the heat of the forge.

Summer Bloom

Sorcery

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

Summer sends its kiss with warmth and blooming life.

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.

Demonic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Drain Life

Sorcery

Spend only black mana on X.

Drain Life deals X damage to target creature or player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before Drain Life dealt damage or the creature's toughness.

Sinkhole

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Braingeyser

Sorcery

Target player draws X cards.

Drain Power

Sorcery

Target player activates a mana ability of each land he or she controls. Then put all mana from that player's mana pool into yours.

Time Walk

Sorcery

Take an extra turn after this one.

Channel

Sorcery

Until end of turn, any time you could activate a mana ability, you may pay 1 life. If you do, add to your mana pool.

Regrowth

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Balance

Sorcery

Each player chooses a number of lands he or she controls equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.

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

Forget

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards, then draws as many cards as he or she discarded this way.

Nature's Lore

Sorcery

Search your library for a Forest card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

"It is in our nature to recognize beauty, but to repeat it-ah, that is another feat altogether."
-Hannah of Verdura

Tariff

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices the creature he or she controls with the highest converted mana cost unless he or she pays that creature's mana cost. If two or more creatures a player controls are tied for highest cost, that player chooses one.

Tidal Surge

Sorcery

Tap up to three target creatures without flying.

"It is nature that gives us our boundaries and nature that enforces them."
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Dry Spell

Sorcery

Dry Spell deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

"Wherever water is lacking, all things suffer."
-Autumn Willow

Painful Memories

Sorcery

Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. Put that card on top of that player's library.

"It is terrible how one brief action can live forever in memory."
-Jolrael

Fit of Rage

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"Anger is fleeting; remorse is eternal."
-Karn, silver golem

Starlight

Sorcery

You gain 3 life for each black creature target opponent controls.

"Even in the darkest night
Stars and angels still shine bright."
-Onean children's rhyme

Nausea

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

No fear. No sense. And soon, no lunch.

Disorder

Sorcery

Disorder deals 2 damage to each white creature and each player who controls a white creature.

"Fire hurts them almost as much as the chaos that follows. Almost."
-The Western Paladin

Monstrous Growth

Sorcery

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

Get in touch with your inner monster.

Merchant Scroll

Sorcery

Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Lat-Nam wizards trade knowledge on scrolls made of magic so they can better guard against thieves and spies.

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.

Shahrazad

Sorcery

Players play a MAGIC subgame, using their libraries as their decks. Each player who doesn't win the subgame loses half his or her life, rounded up.

Transmute Artifact

Sorcery

Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card's converted mana cost is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost, put it onto the battlefield. If it's greater, you may pay , where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

Martyr's Cry

Sorcery

Exile all white creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller draws a card.

"It is only fitting that one such as I should die in pursuit of knowledge." -Vervamon the Elder

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

Soul Exchange

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Soul Exchange, exile a creature you control.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +2/+2 counter on that creature if the exiled creature was a Thrull.

Gaze of Pain

Sorcery

Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may choose to have it deal damage equal to its power to a target creature. If you do, it assigns no combat damage this turn.

Remove the guardians to ensure your victory.

Altar of Bone

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Altar of Bone, sacrifice a creature.

Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Diabolic Vision

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on top of your library in any order.

"I have seen the true path. I will not warm myself by the fire-I will become the flame."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Foresight

Sorcery

Search your library for three cards, exile them, then shuffle your library.

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

Primitive Justice

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Primitive Justice, you may pay and/or any number of times.

Destroy target artifact. For each additional you paid, destroy another target artifact. For each additional you paid, destroy another target artifact, and you gain 1 life.

Surging Dementia

Sorcery

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Target player discards a card.

Into the North

Sorcery

Search your library for a snow land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"Our border lands fall under the grip of Heidar's second winter. Go forth and reclaim them for Yavimaya."
-Kaysa, elder druid of the Juniper Order

Superior Numbers

Sorcery

Superior Numbers deals damage to target creature equal to the number of creatures you control in excess of the number of creatures target opponent controls.

Torrent of Lava

Sorcery

Torrent of Lava deals X damage to each creature without flying.

As long as Torrent of Lava is on the stack, each creature has ": Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature by Torrent of Lava this turn."

The mountain's voice shouts us all down.

Energy Bolt

Sorcery

Choose one - Energy Bolt deals X damage to target player; or target player gains X life.

Life and death are two faces of the same coin.

Kaervek's Purge

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with converted mana cost X. If that creature dies this way, Kaervek's Purge deals damage equal to the creature's power to the creature's controller.

Savage Twister

Sorcery

Savage Twister deals X damage to each creature.

"Frozen, we watched the funnel pluck up three of the goats-pook! pook! pook!-before we ran for the wadi."
-Travelogue of Najat

Sealed Fate

Sorcery

Look at the top X cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of those cards and put the rest back on top of that player's library in any order.

It's good to know more about your enemy's fate than your enemy does.

Infernal Harvest

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Infernal Harvest, return X Swamps you control to their owner's hand.

Infernal Harvest deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

"I offered you eternal life; I just didn't say where."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Song of Blood

Sorcery

Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.

Whenever a creature attacks this turn, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each creature card put into your graveyard this way.

Purraj sang slaughter and danced death.

Peace Talks

Sorcery

This turn and next turn, creatures can't attack, and players and permanents can't be the targets of spells or activated abilities.

"By the tongues of a thousand serpents, this time I do not lie."
-Ahmahz il Kin, Suq'Ata diplomat

Shattered Crypt

Sorcery

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. You lose X life.

"You must be mad to want one such as I aboard the Weatherlight. But I would be mad to remain here with my rotting family. I accept."
-Crovax

Paradigm Shift

Sorcery

Exile all cards from your library. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

"Barrin always said that reality is relative. ‘The world,' he cautioned, ‘is but pieces of one's perception.'"
-Ertai, wizard adept

Gaea's Blessing

Sorcery

Target player shuffles up to three target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.

Draw a card.

When Gaea's Blessing is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Abandon Hope

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Abandon Hope, discard X cards.

Look at target opponent's hand and choose X cards from it. That player discards those cards.

As Gerrard's form vanished into the maw of trees, Hanna mouthed a silent plea, mourning a crushed dream.

Disturbed Burial

Sorcery

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

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mana Severance

Sorcery

Search your library for any number of land cards and exile them. Then shuffle your library.

"And when this land is wasted, where will we go?"
-Thalakos lament

Rolling Thunder

Sorcery

Rolling Thunder deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

"Such rage," thought Vhati, gazing up at the thunderhead from the Predator. "It is Greven's mind manifest."

Cannibalize

Sorcery

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Exile one of those creatures and put two +1/+1 counters on the other.

"Mine."

Death Stroke

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

For a sharp second, Selenia froze, and Crovax's blade found home. As the angel shattered like glass, Crovax felt his mind collapse-the curse had been fulfilled.

Elven Rite

Sorcery

Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

As the bough stretches, so shall you grow. As the roots spread, so shall you thrive.

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.)

Fanning the Flames

Sorcery

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

Fanning the Flames deals X damage to target creature or player.

Mob Justice

Sorcery

Mob Justice deals damage to target player equal to the number of creatures you control.

A single stone can start an avalanche.

Pegasus Stampede

Sorcery

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

Put a 1/1 white Pegasus creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Planar Birth

Sorcery

Return all basic land cards from all graveyards to the battlefield tapped under their owners' control.

"From womb of nothingness sprang this place of beauty, purity, and hope realized."
-Song of All, canto 3