Ire of Kaminari

Instant - Arcane

Ire of Kaminari deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Arcane cards in your graveyard.

"Thunder broke the brittle silence over the Araba. A surge of raw energy lifted the soldier's body into the air and briefly, in the heart of the flash, he saw the face of a god."
-Great Battles of Kamigawa

Minamo's Meddling

Instant

Counter target spell. That spell's controller reveals his or her hand, then discards each card with the same name as a card spliced onto that spell.

Like storm water through the segments of bamboo, the spell followed the links of magic. Then it destroyed them.

Nourishing Shoal

Instant - Arcane

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

You gain X life.

Overblaze

Instant - Arcane

Each time target permanent would deal damage to a creature or player this turn, it deals double that damage to that creature or player instead.

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.)

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.)

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.

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.

Stream of Consciousness

Instant - Arcane

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

"All things return to their beginnings. The waters that spill across the Kamitaki Falls flow to sea, only to be returned to her as the rain that joins the mighty river."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Terashi's Verdict

Instant - Arcane

Destroy target attacking creature with power 3 or less.

It was as though the sky opened its eyes and found what it saw displeasing.

Toils of Night and Day

Instant - Arcane

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

"The war sent Kamigawa into turmoil. Here it was spring and there winter. For some, time stood still, while for others, moments flashed past like minnows in a pond."
-Observations of the Kami War

Torrent of Stone

Instant - Arcane

Torrent of Stone deals 4 damage to target creature.

Splice onto Arcane-Sacrifice two Mountains. (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.)

Unchecked Growth

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. If it's a Spirit, it gains trample until end of turn.

"That energy was once granted to growing things. Now the kami keep it for themselves, releasing it in sudden floods that overwhelm flesh and foliage alike."
-Sakiko, Mother of Summer

Veil of Secrecy

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gains shroud until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

Splice onto Arcane-Return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand. (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.)

Vital Surge

Instant - Arcane

You gain 3 life.

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.)

Aesthetic Consultation

Instant

Name an artist. Remove the top six cards of your library from the game, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card by the named artist. Put that card in your hand, then remove all the other cards revealed this way from the game.

AWOL

Instant

Remove target attacking creature from the game. Then remove it from the removed-from-game zone and put it into the absolutely-removed-from-the-freaking-game-forever zone.

Blast from the Past

Instant

Madness , cycling , kicker , flashback , buyback

Blast from the Past deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

If the kicker cost was paid, put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token into play.

Booster Tutor

Instant

Open a sealed Magic booster pack, reveal the cards, and put one of those cards into your hand. (Remove that card from your deck before beginning a new game.)

Real men use Arabian Nights boosters.

Deal Damage

Instant

Deal Damage deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent says "Deal" or "Damage," you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Deal Damage from your graveyard to your hand.

Until he got singed . . .

Duh

Instant

Destroy target creature with reminder text. (Reminder text is any italicized text in parentheses that explains rules you already know.)

Will players understand that the creature is being crushed by two parentheses?
Not a chance.

Erase (Not the Urza's Legacy One)

Instant

If you control two or more white permanents that share an artist, you may play Erase (Not the Urza's Legacy One) without paying its mana cost.

Remove target enchantment from the game.

Synonyms for "erase" we haven't used: ablate, abrade, chafe, fray, frazzle, scuff, and scrub.

Eye to Eye

Instant

You and target creature's controller have a staring contest. If you win, destroy that creature.

True, Gargox had blinded himself for life, but the glass eyes never lost.

Flaccify

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Don't worry about it. It happens to every mage sooner or later."

Framed!

Instant

Tap or untap all permanents by the artist of your choice.

Who knew an 8˝ by 10˝ could feel like a 2˝ by 4˝?

Graphic Violence

Instant

All creatures by the artist of your choice get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn.

WARNING: THE DOMINARIAN SURGEON GENERAL HAS FOUND THAT SAVAGE BEATINGS CAN LEAD TO CHUMP BLOCKS, LIFE REDUCTION, AND EVEN GAME LOSS.

Head to Head

Instant

You and target opponent play Seven Questions about the top card of that player's library. (That player looks at the card, then you ask up to six yes-or-no questions about the card that he or she answers truthfully. You guess the card's name-that's question seven-and the player reveals the card.) If you win, prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by a source of your choice.

Kill Destroy

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent says "Kill" or "Destroy," you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Kill Destroy from your graveyard to your hand.

Getting "Gotcha'ed" again and again.

Mana Flair

Instant

Add to your mana pool for each nonland permanent by the artist of your choice.

What began as black
Has slowly shifted to red.
Fickle color pie.

Mise

Instant

Name a nonland card, then reveal the top card of your library. If that card is the named card, draw three cards.

mise 'miz v alter. of might as well (1997) 1: to win when you don't deserve to 2: to top-deck the "tings" you need 3: to be rewarded by an opponent's bad luck 4: to coin a phrase that spreads through the tournament scene like wildfire 5: to fling a monkey 6: to split firewood using a sharp instrument 7: To burn

Number Crunch

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent says a number, you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Number Crunch from your graveyard to your hand.

Can you digit?

Punctuate

Instant

Punctuate deals damage to target creature equal to half the number of punctuation marks in that creature's text box. (The punctuation marks are ? , ; : - ( ) / " ' & .)

"Ooh-right in the colon."

Sauté

Instant

Sauté deals 3½ damage to target creature or player.

"Selecting the proper beeble is the key to a good sauté. The pinker the fur and the heartier the yelp, the more succulent the beeble will be when you pop it in your mouth."
-Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar,
The Underworld Cookbook,

Save Life

Instant

Choose one Target player gains 2½ life; or prevent the next 2½ damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent says "Save" or "Life," you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Save Life from your graveyard to your hand.

Who consistently managed to win.

Spell Counter

Instant

Counter target spell.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent says "Spell" or "Counter," you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Spell Counter from your graveyard to your hand.

Playing Unhinged, . . .

Stop That

Instant

Target player discards a card.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent audibly flicks the cards in his or her hand, you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Stop That from your graveyard to your hand.

Now for a squirt of lemon juice.

When Fluffy Bunnies Attack

Instant

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of times the letter of your choice appears in that creature's name.

"Get it? Bunnies, letters, -X/-X? Me neither."
-Bucky, flavor text writer

Blessed Breath

Instant - Arcane

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

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.)

Blind with Anger

Instant - Arcane

Untap target nonlegendary creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn.

"I can post only the most honorable and strong-willed samurai to defend your stronghold. I have seen what can happen to lesser men."
-General Takeno, letter to Lord Konda

Call to Glory

Instant

Untap all creatures you control. Samurai creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"General Takeno glared at us as if we were the enemy. ‘The day is not over yet,' he shouted, ‘and unless you have a nezumi's heart, you will stand and fight'"
-Battle of Akagi River: A Survivor's Tale

Candles' Glow

Instant - Arcane

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

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.)

Consuming Vortex

Instant - Arcane

Return target creature to its owner's 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.)

Crushing Pain

Instant - Arcane

Crushing Pain deals 6 damage to target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

It is said that the mere touch of a kami is like embracing the sun itself.

Dampen Thought

Instant - Arcane

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

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.)

Desperate Ritual

Instant - Arcane

Add to your mana pool.

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.)

Devouring Rage

Instant - Arcane

As an additional cost to cast Devouring Rage, you may sacrifice any number of Spirits.

Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn. For each Spirit sacrificed this way, that creature gets an additional +3/+0 until end of turn.

Ethereal Haze

Instant - Arcane

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by creatures this turn.

"Imagine a dove flying through smoke. Does the dove injure the smoke? Does the smoke impede the dove?"
-Teachings of Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Gifts Ungiven

Instant

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Glacial Ray

Instant - Arcane

Glacial Ray deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

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.)

Hanabi Blast

Instant

Hanabi Blast deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Return Hanabi Blast to its owner's hand, then discard a card at random.

The most powerful of akki fire spells were developed at the cost of blood, toil, tears, sweat, and usually a nose or two.

Hideous Laughter

Instant - Arcane

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

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.)

Hinder

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put that card on the top or bottom of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

"Do not react to force in kind. Turn it aside. Direct it to where it can do no harm."
-Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Hisoka's Defiance

Instant

Counter target Spirit or Arcane spell.

"With every passing day, the kami shape our world to suit their will. I, for one, would not see them succeed."

Hold the Line

Instant

Blocking creatures get +7/+7 until end of turn.

"Forgive me, Master Kami, but in the interest of my people I must halt your advance."

Kodama's Might

Instant - Arcane

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

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.)

Lifted by Clouds

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

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.)

Otherworldly Journey

Instant - Arcane

Exile target creature. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

"The landscape shimmered and I felt a chill breeze. When my vision cleared, I found myself alone among the corpses of my fallen friends."
-Journal found in Numai

Part the Veil

Instant - Arcane

Return all creatures you control to their owner's hand.

At the waterfall, the border between the humanoid and the spirit worlds was weakest. The kami moved across it with ease and at will.

Peer Through Depths

Instant - Arcane

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Psychic Puppetry

Instant - Arcane

You may tap or untap target permanent.

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.)

Pull Under

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

"Although nowhere on Kamigawa was safe during the war, the Takenuma Swamp was the most horrifying. The rotting bamboo itself rebelled against its mortal inhabitants, pulling them into unmarked graves."
-Observations of the Kami War

Quiet Purity

Instant - Arcane

Destroy target enchantment.

"When the Kami of Utter Silence passes, walls lose their secrets. Scrolls lose their lessons. Tapestries lose their beauty. Where there was meaning, there is only stillness."
-Sensei Hisoka

Reach Through Mists

Instant - Arcane

Draw a card.

"Know one part of the name, obsession begins. Know two parts, paranoia sets in. Know three parts, madness descends. Know all, and only the kami know what will become of you."
-Lady Azami

Reciprocate

Instant

Exile target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.

"Just as the noble soul calls virtue to itself, the evil soul summons harm."
-Teachings of Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Rend Flesh

Instant - Arcane

Destroy target non-Spirit creature.

"The Reito Massacre was a testament to the kami's unstoppable power. The human defenders might as well have been moths battling a forest fire."
-Great Battles of Kamigawa

Rend Spirit

Instant

Destroy target Spirit.

"The battle at Ganzan Pass was a testament to human endurance. The untrained and frightened group escaped three legions of kami, leaving more than their share of slain foes in their wake."
-Great Battles of Kamigawa

Reweave

Instant - Arcane

Target permanent's controller sacrifices it. If he or she does, that player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a permanent card that shares a card type with the sacrificed permanent, puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles his or her library.

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.)

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.

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.)

Squelch

Instant

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Draw a card.

Oku-Doku had gone through all the motions: the same akki cursewords, the same ingredients with their horrid stink, the same rude gestures. Yet not a person died.

Strange Inversion

Instant - Arcane

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

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.)

Strength of Cedars

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of lands you control.

"No sooner had the beast collapsed under the blows of Takeno's sword than the earth rippled and the creature rose again to face him."
-Battle of Akagi River: A Survivor's Tale

Thoughtbind

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or less.

"As the rest of the mortal world waged war, Lady Azami and her students invaded tomes of knowledge. Their search yielded spells critical in the fight."
-Observations of the Kami War

Through the Breach

Instant - Arcane

You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

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.)

Unnatural Speed

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

"How can we hope to match the speed of lightning? The fury of storms? The power of mountains? The answer is simple. We cannot. I advise against this war."
-Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda

Wear Away

Instant - Arcane

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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.)

Yamabushi's Flame

Instant

Yamabushi's Flame deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Abuna's Chant

Instant

Choose one - You gain 5 life; or prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

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

Armed Response

Instant

Armed Response deals damage to target attacking creature equal to the number of Equipment you control.

Raksha watched as the goblins continued to pour onto the Razor Fields. "They just don't know when to stop, do they?"

Blinkmoth Infusion

Instant

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Untap all artifacts.

Power begets power.

Condescend

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Devour in Shadow

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

"Feel the burn of the mists. Master them. They will devour your enemies."
-Geth, keeper of the Vault

Early Frost

Instant

Tap up to three target lands.

Under its mists, the earth sleeps.

Feedback Bolt

Instant

Feedback Bolt deals damage to target player equal to the number of artifacts you control.

The path of least resistance is often through your enemies.

Ferocious Charge

Instant

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

Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Fold into Æther

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, its controller may put a creature card from his or her hand onto the battlefield.

Æther portals drift across Mirrodin's surface, dragging creatures across time and space.

Into Thin Air

Instant

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Return target artifact to its owner's hand.

"Perhaps I should take Mirrodin apart and begin again."
-Memnarch

Lose Hope

Instant

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

Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Magma Jet

Instant

Magma Jet deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Magnetic Theft

Instant

Attach target Equipment to target creature. (Control of the Equipment doesn't change.)

Among the Vulshok, the most prized blades are those that killed their original owners.

Plunge into Darkness

Instant

Choose one - Sacrifice any number of creatures, then you gain 3 life for each sacrificed creature; or pay X life, then look at the top X cards of your library, put one of those cards into your hand, and exile the rest.

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

Rain of Rust

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or destroy target land.

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

On Mirrodin, mages who call upon the power of rust are shunned by their people and often turn mercenary to survive.

Retaliate

Instant

Destroy all creatures that dealt damage to you this turn.

The Auriok learned perseverance from their forebears. They learned justice from the leonin.

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.)

Stand Firm

Instant

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

Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Tel-Jilad Justice

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Vanquish

Instant

Destroy target blocking creature.

"All beings have an inner light. Let me show you yours."
-Ushanti, leonin seer

Barbed Lightning

Instant

Choose one - Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature; or Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target player.

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

Every creature on Mirrodin is a lightning rod.

Burden of Greed

Instant

Target player loses 1 life for each tapped artifact he or she controls.

"The one who dies with the most toys is still dead."
-Geth, keeper of the Vault

Echoing Calm

Instant

Destroy target enchantment and all other enchantments with the same name as that enchantment.

A single light unleashes a hail of cleansing.