Pyretic Ritual

Instant

Add to your mana pool.

The Multiverse is filled with limitless power just waiting for someone to reach out and seize it.

Thunder Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Lightning reflexes, thunderous might.

Back to Nature

Instant

Destroy all enchantments.

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

Hornet Sting

Instant

Hornet Sting deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

It was only then-to his infinite sorrow-that Gork realized hornets don't make honey.

Harm's Way

Instant

The next 2 damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or permanents you control this turn is dealt to target creature or player instead.

Even when fate is already written, there's always time to change the names.

Righteousness

Instant

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

Sometimes the greatest strength is the strength of conviction.

Tempest of Light

Instant

Destroy all enchantments.

"Let everything return to its true nature, so that destiny may take its course."

Disorient

Instant

Target creature gets -7/-0 until end of turn.

"If it has a brain, even a primitive one, we can most surely scramble it."
-Garild, merfolk mage

Jump

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Humanity has always envied the power of flight. So we took it."
-Scytha, aeromage

Twincast

Instant

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Imitation is the most dangerous form of flattery.

Tendrils of Corruption

Instant

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Darkness doesn't always send its minions to do its dirty work.

Ignite Disorder

Instant

Ignite Disorder deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target white and/or blue creatures.

The shaman prowled the academy halls, shaking his head at the pomp and babble of the sages inside. He knew just the spell to liven the place up.

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

Might of Oaks

Instant

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

May your weapon be no sword forged. May your armor be no metal wrought.
-Elvish saying

Regenerate

Instant

Regenerate target creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

"This wound shall be like the chills of winter: swiftly forgotten when spring shoots rise."

Windstorm

Instant

Windstorm deals X damage to each creature with flying.

"We don't like interlopers and thieves cluttering our skies."
-Dionus, elvish archdruid

Gleam of Resistance

Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+2 until end of turn. Untap those creatures.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Lapse of Certainty

Instant

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

Without a connection of mind and body, magic is just an idea stuck in the head, a word on the tip of a tongue.

Constricting Tendrils

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

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

Priests of Bant protect their temples with traps more elaborate than any mosaic floor.

Traumatic Visions

Instant

Counter target spell.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

View from Above

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. If you control a white permanent, return View from Above to its owner's hand.

"This air feels so heavy and thick. There are no winds to speak of. I fear the knowledge that comes from a place like this."

Worldly Counsel

Instant

Domain - Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Every horizon hides a new possibility.

Drag Down

Instant

Domain - Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

The barbarians of Jund believe the bottomless tar pits extend forever into other, darker worlds.

Dark Temper

Instant

Dark Temper deals 2 damage to target creature. If you control a black permanent, destroy the creature instead.

When you've got the temperament of a dragon, every argument is one you'll win.

Fiery Fall

Instant

Fiery Fall deals 5 damage to target creature.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Jund feasts on the unprepared.

Molten Frame

Instant

Destroy target artifact creature.

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

The metal filigree in his body glowed red-hot, and his flesh soon followed.

Volcanic Fallout

Instant

Volcanic Fallout can't be countered.

Volcanic Fallout deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

"How can we outrun the sky?"
-Hadran, sunseeder of Naya

Filigree Fracture

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If that permanent was blue or black, draw a card.

The sphinx tyrannized Bant until a rhox mage tested the hardiness of her shiny parts.

Might of Alara

Instant

Domain - Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

The combined strength of all five planes spawned creations none had seen before.

Sylvan Bounty

Instant

Target player gains 8 life.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Some who scouted new lands chose to stay.

Countersquall

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Each of the twenty-three winds of Esper is named and chronicled, and every possible interaction with the flow of magic is exhaustively detailed.

Endure

Instant

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

The Aurora had lessened the kithkins' kindness, deepened their paranoia, and dulled their sense of pain.

Banishing Knack

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains ": Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Suddenly he realized that everything was connected by invisible strings, strings that could be pulled-or cut.

Dream Fracture

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card.

Draw a card.

"Creation is a paradox. It hatches from its opposite."
-Olka, Mistmeadow witch

Glamerdye

Instant

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another.

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Oona's Grace

Instant

Target player draws a card.

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Oona grants her favored subjects a dream from her own guarded heart.

Chaotic Backlash

Instant

Chaotic Backlash deals damage to target player equal to twice the number of white and/or blue permanents he or she controls.

The concept of thoughtweft fascinates the Nighthearth cult. Imagine, bringing agony to an entire people by torturing just one.

Puncture Blast

Instant

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Puncture Blast deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Gnarltrunk didn't remember having quite that many knotholes.

Batwing Brume

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if was spent to cast Batwing Brume. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature he or she controls if was spent to cast Batwing Brume. (Do both if was spent.)

Beckon Apparition

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard. Put a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When a graveyard is full, the gwyllions rattle the tombs and unleash the spirits into the sky.