Skull Rend

Sorcery

Skull Rend deals 2 damage to each opponent. Those players each discard two cards at random.

"We could never accept anyone with a face that pretty or a mind that sane."
-Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Skullscorch

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards at random unless that player has Skullscorch deal 4 damage to him or her.

"A good whack on the head usually has the same effect."
-Kamahl, pit fighter

Skulltap

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Skulltap, sacrifice a creature.

Draw two cards.

"Finally, a use for that head of yours."
-Braids, dementia summoner

Skyreaping

Sorcery

Skyreaping deals damage to each creature with flying equal to your devotion to green. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

Skyscribing

Sorcery

Each player draws X cards.

Forecast - , Reveal Skyscribing from your hand: Each player draws a card. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Skyshroud Claim

Sorcery

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

The forest's constant struggle is to keep the spreading flowstone at bay.

Slagstorm

Sorcery

Choose one - Slagstorm deals 3 damage to each creature; or Slagstorm deals 3 damage to each player.

"As long as we have the will to fight, we are never without weapons."
-Koth of the Hammer

Slaughter Games

Sorcery

Slaughter Games can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Name a nonland card. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Slave of Bolas

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Nicol Bolas doesn't distinguish between servants and victims.

Sleep

Sorcery

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious."
-Garild, merfolk mage

Sleight of Hand

Sorcery

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

"Gambling with mages never is."
-Remin, venerable monk

Slice and Dice

Sorcery

Slice and Dice deals 4 damage to each creature.

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

When you cycle Slice and Dice, you may have it deal 1 damage to each creature.

Slime Molding

Sorcery

Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield.

"Give me enough refuse and mana and I will summon an ooze that can engulf all of Ravnica."
-Cevraya, Golgari shaman

Slip Through Space

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Draw a card.

The Eldrazi twisted in a direction that had no name, and a frontal assault became a panicked rout.

Smallpox

Sorcery

Each player loses 1 life, discards a card, sacrifices a creature, then sacrifices a land.

Take away a few things, and a rebellion may ensue. Take away everything, and the oppression will be accepted as fate.

Solar Tide

Sorcery

Choose one - Destroy all creatures with power 2 or less; or destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Entwine-Sacrifice two lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Solemn Offering

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.

"A relic donation is suggested."
"The suggestion is mandatory."
-Temple signs

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.

Sorin's Vengeance

Sorcery

Sorin's Vengeance deals 10 damage to target player and you gain 10 life.

"Cherish these last moments. Though your miserable life has come to nothing, I have given it a magnificent end."

Sosuke's Summons

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Whenever a nontoken Snake enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Sosuke's Summons from your graveyard to your hand.

Soul Burn

Sorcery

Spend only black and/or red mana on X.

Soul Burn deals X damage to target creature or player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more than the amount of spent on X, the player's life total before Soul Burn dealt damage, or the creature's toughness.

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.

Soul Feast

Sorcery

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

"I smell the tang of a mortal's fresh blood. I hear it sliding wetly beneath its skin. My hunger cannot refuse the invitation."
-Yuri, Sengir vampire

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.

Soul Strings

Sorcery

Return two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand unless any player pays .

Everyone is manipulated. It's just more obvious with the dead.

Soul Summons

Sorcery

Manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Ugin's magic reaches beyond the dragons. The clans have adapted it for war.

Soul's Majesty

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the power of target creature you control.

An avatar he sculpts of wisdom and strength.

Soul's Might

Sorcery

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power.

An avatar he sculpts of instinct and force.

Soulquake

Sorcery

Return all creatures on the battlefield and all creature cards in graveyards to their owners' hands.

The Maelstrom sent a wave of raw mana through the battlefield, carrying off the fighting and fallen alike.

Soulscour

Sorcery

Destroy all nonartifact permanents.

"I have seen the end of times, a future in which all our kind are torn from this world."
-Ushanti, leonin shaman

Sound the Call

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield. It has "This creature gets +1/+1 for each card named Sound the Call in each graveyard."

"If you call the wolves, ensure you have a worthy hunt, or you may become the hunted."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko, elvish hunter

Sowing Salt

Sorcery

Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Sparkmage's Gambit

Sorcery

Sparkmage's Gambit deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. Those creatures can't block this turn.

"A touch of lightning, and anyone can be taught to dance."
-Tobin, sparkmage

Specter's Wail

Sorcery

Target player discards a card at random.

As he gritted his teeth to focus through the pain, Tahngarth glanced at Takara. She seemed completely unaffected.

Spectral Procession

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Put three 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

"The dead have it easy. They suffer no more. If breaking their rest helps the living, so be it."
-Olka, mistmeadow witch

Spelltwine

Sorcery

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Spider Spawning

Sorcery

Put a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach onto the battlefield for each creature card in your graveyard.

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

Spiraling Embers

Sorcery - Arcane

Spiraling Embers deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of cards in your hand.

The akki knew to stay indoors on the days the oni flew their kites.

Spire Barrage

Sorcery

Spire Barrage deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Mountains you control.

Goblin lessons include the 2,071 tips for survival. Frek only remembered 2,070.

Spite of Mogis

Sorcery

Spite of Mogis deals damage to target creature equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Spiteful Blow

Sorcery

Destroy target creature and target land.

"Only a fool takes Phenax at his word. What do you expect from a god born of lies and betrayal?"
-Verenes, priest of Iroas

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

Spitting Image

Sorcery

Put a token that's a copy of target creature onto the battlefield.

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

Spitting is the customary greeting between a creature and its magical impostor.

Splinter

Sorcery

Exile target artifact. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that artifact and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Splitting Headache

Sorcery

Choose one - Target player discards two cards; or target player reveals his or her hand, you choose a card from it, then that player discards that card.

All faeries delve for dreams. But not all wait for their victims to fall asleep.

Spoils of Victory

Sorcery

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Spoils of War

Sorcery

X is the number of artifact and/or creature cards in an opponent's graveyard as you cast Spoils of War.

Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures.

"This is the fun part!"
-Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician

Spontaneous Generation

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each card in your hand.

Saprolings always thrive on the ruins of others, and Mercadia ruins more than most.

Spore Burst

Sorcery

Domain - Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each basic land type among lands you control.

Seeds from Jund don't drift gently on the wind. They get up and stampede.

Spread the Sickness

Sorcery

Destroy target creature, then proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Life is ephemeral. Phyrexia is eternal.

Squall

Sorcery

Squall deals 2 damage to each creature with flying.

"May the winds blow till they have wakened death. . . ."
-William Shakespeare,
Othello

Squee's Revenge

Sorcery

Choose a number. Flip a coin that many times or until you lose a flip, whichever comes first. If you win all the flips, draw two cards for each flip.

Stain the Mind

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Name a nonland card. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

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

Steam Blast

Sorcery

Steam Blast deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

The viashino knew of the cracked pipes but deliberately left them unmended to bolster the rig's defenses.

Steelshaper's Gift

Sorcery

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

Some blades seek their own wielders.

Stench of Evil

Sorcery

Destroy all Plains. For each land destroyed this way, Stench of Evil deals 1 damage to that land's controller unless he or she pays .

Stir the Grave

Sorcery

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

"Your lungs may not draw breath, but while your hands can grip a sword, you will be useful to me."
-Nighteyes, nezumi necromancer

Stitch in Time

Sorcery

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, take an extra turn after this one.

Stitch Together

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Threshold - Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Stolen Goods

Sorcery

Target opponent exiles cards from the top of his or her library until he or she exiles a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Stolen Identity

Sorcery

Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of target artifact or creature.

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.)

Stomp and Howl

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact and target enchantment.

"Mizzium may be impervious to fire, but obviously certain other things can . . . modify its form."
-Ivos Koba, indrik handler

Stomping Slabs

Sorcery

Reveal the top seven cards of your library, then put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order. If a card named Stomping Slabs was revealed this way, Stomping Slabs deals 7 damage to target creature or player.

Stone Rain

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Storm Herd

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is your life total.

"When you hear thunder on a cloudless day, take cover and brace for the coming of the storm herd."
-Skotov, Tin Street basket vendor

Strafe

Sorcery

Strafe deals 3 damage to target nonred creature.

"All right, let's light ‘em up"
-Gerrard

Strategic Planning

Sorcery

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

"Plans evolved within the tent decide a victory 1,000 li away."

Stream of Life

Sorcery

Target player gains X life.

Strongarm Tactics

Sorcery

Each player discards a card. Then each player who didn't discard a creature card this way loses 4 life.

"If you can't pay your gambling debts, you just might be tomorrow's main attraction at the Grand Coliseum."

Stronghold Discipline

Sorcery

Each player loses 1 life for each creature he or she controls.

In Urborg, the instigators of each new rebellion are soaked in the blood of the last.

Stronghold Gambit

Sorcery

Each player chooses a card in his or her hand. Then each player reveals his or her chosen card. The owner of each creature card revealed this way with the lowest converted mana cost puts it onto the battlefield.

Structural Collapse

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices an artifact and a land. Structural Collapse deals 2 damage to that player.

The Gruul holiday of Rauck-Chauv always ends the same way.

Struggle for Sanity

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. That player exiles a card from it, then you exile a card from it. Repeat this process until all cards in that hand have been exiled. That player returns the cards he or she exiled this way to his or her hand and puts the rest into his or her graveyard.

Stunted Growth

Sorcery

Target player chooses three cards from his or her hand and puts them on top of his or her library in any order.

Stupor

Sorcery

Target opponent discards a card at random, then discards a card.

There are medicines for all afflictions but idleness.
-Suq'Ata saying

Sudden Demise

Sorcery

Choose a color. Sudden Demise deals X damage to each creature of the chosen color.

In the Skyfang Mountains, one misstep can mean the end of an entire clan.

Sudden Disappearance

Sorcery

Exile all nonland permanents target player controls. Return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Summer Bloom

Sorcery

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

Summer sends its kiss with warmth and blooming life.

Summon the School

Tribal Sorcery - Merfolk

Put two 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Tap four untapped Merfolk you control: Return Summon the School from your graveyard to your hand.

"When merrows talk, listeners grow fins."
-Kithkin saying

Sunbringer's Touch

Sorcery

Bolster X, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it gains trample until end of turn. (To bolster X, choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put X +1/+1 counters on it.)

Sunder from Within

Sorcery - Arcane

Destroy target artifact or land.

Trapped for eons within the sacred gong, the kami boomed and clanged to a deafening tempo as they destroyed their erstwhile prison.

Sunlance

Sorcery

Sunlance deals 3 damage to target nonwhite creature.

"It's easy for the innocent to speak of justice. They seldom feel its terrible power."
-Orim, Samite inquisitor

Sunscour

Sorcery

You may exile two white cards from your hand rather than pay Sunscour's mana cost.

Destroy all creatures.

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.

Supply (Supply/Demand)

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Suppress

Sorcery

Target player exiles all cards from his or her hand face down. At the beginning of the end step of that player's next turn, that player returns those cards to his or her hand.

Supreme Verdict

Sorcery

Supreme Verdict can't be countered.

Destroy all creatures.

Leonos had no second thoughts about the abolishment edict. He'd left skyrunes warning of the eviction, even though it was cloudy.

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.

Surreal Memoir

Sorcery

Return an instant card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

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.)

Survey the Wreckage

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token onto the battlefield.

Goblins and architects seldom get along.

Survival Cache

Sorcery

You gain 2 life. Then if you have more life than an opponent, draw a card.

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.)

Swallowing Plague

Sorcery - Arcane

Swallowing Plague deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life.

"We are recalling all forces from the Takenuma Swamp. We lose men daily to kami attacks, and it seems our defeats only encourage them further."
-General Takeno, letter to Lord Konda

Swarm Surge

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Colorless creatures you control also gain first strike until end of turn.

The Eldrazi rampaged across Zendikar in a tide of chittering, heaving flesh.

Sway of the Stars

Sorcery

Each player shuffles his or her hand, graveyard, and permanents he or she owns into his or her library, then draws seven cards. Each player's life total becomes 7.

Swelter

Sorcery

Swelter deals 2 damage to each of two target creatures.

No circle has a beginning, but many have foreseeable ends.

Swirling Sandstorm

Sorcery

Threshold - Swirling Sandstorm deals 5 damage to each creature without flying if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

As dust swept out, vultures swept in.

Switcheroo

Sorcery

Exchange control of two target creatures.

Say hello to your new friend.

Sylvan Offering

Sorcery

Choose an opponent. You and that player each put an X/X green Treefolk creature token onto the battlefield.

Choose an opponent. You and that player each put X 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.

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.