Glimpse the Sun God

Instant

Tap X target creatures. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Better to be beneath Heliod's notice than beneath his heel.

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.)

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.)

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.)

Gilded Light

Instant

You gain shroud until end of turn. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

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

"Whoever survives the first blow lives to land the second."

Gigadrowse

Instant

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Tap target permanent.

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.

Gift of Tusks

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and becomes a green Elephant with base power and toughness 3/3.

It's an experience you'll never forget.

Gideon's Reproach

Instant

Gideon's Reproach deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"Suddenly, Gideon was there with us, clearing the way so that we could escape."-The War Diaries

Giant Growth

Instant

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

"The prohibition of unnecessary tossing of the citizenry by giants shall also extend to spontaneous giants."
-Isperia's Edict, provision VII.789.2

Ghoul's Feast

Instant

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Mercadians not wealthy enough to buy a tomb are thrown into a bog called "the Ghoul's Larder."

Ghostway

Instant

Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"I watched its blade swing through me, but I was hollow, empty. I saw its face contort in rage but could not hear it snarl."
-Klattic, Boros legionnaire

Ghostly Flicker

Instant

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Sometimes it's useful to take a break from existence.

Ghostfire

Instant

Ghostfire is colorless.

Ghostfire deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Only those gifted with the eye of Ugin, the spirit dragon, can see his fiery breath.

Ghastly Demise

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature if its toughness is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.

"Anyone can snap her fingers and yank a soul. I prefer to kill creatively."
-Braids, dementia summoner

Geth's Verdict

Instant

Target player sacrifices a creature and loses 1 life.

"Everyone should owe you something."
-Geth, Lord of the Vault

Gerrard's Command

Instant

Untap target creature. It gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"Unless you like the idea of becoming some goblin's lunch, get up and move"

Geistflame

Instant

Geistflame deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

Innistrad pyromancers find their best raw materials in the fury of the dead.

Geist Snatch

Instant

Counter target creature spell. Put a 1/1 blue Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Angels and demons aren't the only ones listening to your prayers.

Gaze of the Gorgon

Instant

( can be paid with either or .)

Regenerate target creature. At end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by that creature this turn.

Even the dead give way to the mineral gaze of the gorgon.

Gaze of Adamaro

Instant - Arcane

Gaze of Adamaro deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Wherever it looked, it saw destruction-the wake of its own gaze.

Gather Specimens

Instant

If a creature would enter the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, it enters the battlefield under your control instead.

"It's free to do whatever it wants. I've merely told it what that is."
-Xorin, Architect of Will

Gather Courage

Instant

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.)

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

Galvanic Blast

Instant

Galvanic Blast deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Metalcraft - Galvanic Blast deals 4 damage to that creature or player instead if you control three or more artifacts.

Mirrodin has little weather, but it certainly has lightning.

Gallantry

Instant

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

Draw a card.

The courageous accomplish more in a single moment than the cowardly do in a lifetime.

Gainsay

Instant

Counter target blue spell.

"I'd be happy to stop contradicting you, Urza, just as soon as you start being right."
-Bo Levar, planeswalker

Gaea's Might

Instant

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

With the Heart of Yavimaya aiding him, Multani didn't even strain at the load.

Fury Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn; or remove two time counters from target permanent or suspended card.

Furious Resistance

Instant

Target blocking creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"At least the Gateless rebels have ideals. Rakdos just mocks, defiles, and kills all we hold dear."
-Libuse, Boros sergeant

Funeral Pyre

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard. Its owner puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"Raze the body. Raise the soul."
-Mystic elder

Funeral Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target player discards a card; or target creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn; or target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn.

Fulgent Distraction

Instant

Choose two target creatures. Tap those creatures, then unattach all Equipment from them.

"Channeling the white-hot power of all five suns creates a pretty good diversion."
-Yavash of the Accorders

Fuel for the Cause

Instant

Counter target spell, 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.)

"Your ideas will be discarded and your will repurposed."

Frost Breath

Instant

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.

If you have to be stuck somewhere for a while, it's better to be stuck there with a friend.

Frightful Delusion

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . That player discards a card.

Whether he actually exists is in question, but the terror she feels is excruciatingly real.

Friendly Fire

Instant

Target creature's controller reveals a card at random from his or her hand. Friendly Fire deals damage to that creature and that player equal to the revealed card's converted mana cost.

"Never tell goblins to ‘fire at will.'"
-Urut Barzeel, Mardu hordechief

Fresh Meat

Instant

Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

A scavenger's favorite appetizer is death.

Frazzle

Instant

Counter target nonblue spell.

The chant was interrupted, the components cooked, and Zok worried that it was his brain he smelled smoking.

Frantic Search

Instant

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Motivation was high in the academy once students realized flunking their exams could kill them.

Frantic Salvage

Instant

Put any number of target artifact cards from your graveyard on top of your library.

Draw a card.

"We will mourn when there is time. For now, we survive."

Frantic Purification

Instant

Destroy target enchantment.

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

By definition, madness ends in one of two ways: clarity . . . or death.

Fracturing Gust

Instant

Destroy all artifacts and enchantments. You gain 2 life for each permanent destroyed this way.

Elvish dawnhands test a relic's worthiness before collecting it for the safehold. If it can't stand up to a stiff breeze, it's left behind.

Foxfire

Instant

Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

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

"Only the foolish fear foxfire."
-Kolbjörn,
Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Foul-Tongue Shriek

Instant

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

Foul-Tongue shamans draw their powers from a dark twisting of the Draconic language.

Foul-Tongue Invocation

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Foul-Tongue Invocation, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.

Target player sacrifices a creature. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast Foul-Tongue Invocation, you gain 4 life.

Foul Renewal

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the toughness of the card returned this way.

The cycle of life and death is rarely pretty.

Fortify

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn; or creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

"Where metal is tainted and wood is scarce, we are best armed by faith."
-Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Formation

Instant

Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

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

"I have been a warrior for over four hundred years, and yet each generation of Kjeldorans teaches me new tricks. There can be no better allies."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Fork

Instant

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, except that the copy is red. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Forge Armor

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Forge Armor, sacrifice an artifact.

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost.

Forfend

Instant

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

"Suddenly there stood a fortress protecting the clachan, its walls hewn of valor and mortared with honor."
-Clachan Tales

Foreshadow

Instant

Name a card, then target opponent puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If that card is the named card, you draw a card.

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

Force Void

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

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

"My mind and spirit are one-a barrier not readily passed."
-Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran Royal Mage

Force Spike

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Unknown spears / Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes . . . ."
-William Butler Yeats,
"The Valley of the Black Pig"

Force of Will

Instant

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay Force of Will's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Force Away

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Where an enemy once rode, not even a whisper remains.

Forbidden Alchemy

Instant

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

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

Forbid

Instant

Buyback-Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Counter target spell.

Footbottom Feast

Instant

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.

Draw a card.

The scent of rot and vinegar fills the marsh, inviting boggarts from every warren to reunite and feast.

Folk Medicine

Instant

You gain 1 life for each creature you control.

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

Sometimes the healers need healing.

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.

Foil

Instant

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay Foil's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Fog Patch

Instant

Cast Fog Patch only during the declare blockers step.

Attacking creatures become blocked. (This spell works on unblockable creatures.)

Realizing they weren't getting past the fog, the elves did the only thing they could do: wait.

Fog

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"I fear no army or beast, but only the morning fog. Our assault can survive everything else."
-Lord Hilneth

Flying Crane Technique

Instant

Untap all creatures you control. They gain flying and double strike until end of turn.

There are many Jeskai styles: Riverwalk imitates flowing water, Dragonfist the ancient hellkites, and Flying Crane the wild aven of the high peaks.

Flusterstorm

Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays .

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Flurry of Wings

Instant

Put X 1/1 white Bird Soldier creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

"We are born soldiers. The call to battle is a homecoming."

Flowstone Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +1/-1 and gains haste until end of turn.

Aggression exacts its toll.

Fling

Instant

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

Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target creature or player.

About halfway to the target, Snukk vowed that he had been tricked for the last time.

Flesh to Dust

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"Pain is temporary. So is life."
-Liliana Vess

Fleeting Distraction

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

The first spell taught to young mages, it has spared the lives of many whose hands are too small to hold a sword.

Flatten

Instant

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

Like their dragonlord, the Kolaghan take no trophies. They find true fulfillment only in the battle itself, in clash of steel and thunder of hooves.

Flashfreeze

Instant

Counter target red or green spell.

"Is cold merely the absence of heat, or a force unto itself? Would a display of its power help you decide?"
-Zubarek, Icewinder Magus

Flash of Insight

Instant

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

Flashback-, Exile X blue cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost, then exile it. You can't exile Flash of Insight to pay for its own flashback cost.)

Flash Foliage

Instant

Cast Flash Foliage only during combat after blockers are declared.

Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield blocking target creature attacking you.

Draw a card.

"This undemanding vegetation takes root in a mote of dust but grows incredibly quickly."
-Simic research notes

Flash Flood

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target red permanent; or return target Mountain to its owner's hand.

Many people say that no power can bring the mountains low. Many people are fools.

Flash Counter

Instant

Counter target instant spell.

"So much for that bright idea"

Flash Conscription

Instant

Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. If was spent to cast Flash Conscription, the creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you gain that much life" until end of turn.

Flash

Instant

You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you do, sacrifice it unless you pay its mana cost reduced by up to .

Flaring Pain

Instant

Damage can't be prevented this turn.

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

"I don't rub salt in wounds. I use sulfur."
-Matoc, lavamancer

Flare

Instant

Flare deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

The secret of destruction is simple: everything burns.

Flaming Gambit

Instant

Flaming Gambit deals X damage to target player. That player may choose a creature he or she controls and have Flaming Gambit deal that damage to it instead.

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

Flames of the Blood Hand

Instant

Flames of the Blood Hand deals 4 damage to target player. The damage can't be prevented. If that player would gain life this turn, that player gains no life instead.

Many ogres extracted blood oaths from the oni they summoned. Others simply extracted blood.

Flame Javelin

Instant

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

Flame Javelin deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Gyara Spearhurler would have been renowned for her deadly accuracy, if it weren't for her deadly accuracy.

Flame Burst

Instant

Flame Burst deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is 2 plus the number of cards named Flame Burst in all graveyards.

As hot as a dwarf's rage.

Fists of the Anvil

Instant

Target creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn.

Gron's mind reeled with possibilities, most of which are best left unmentioned.

Fistful of Force

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Clash with an opponent. If you win, that creature gets an additional +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. (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.)

Fissure

Instant

Destroy target creature or land. It can't be regenerated.

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"
-Plato

First Volley

Instant - Arcane

First Volley deals 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to that creature's controller.

"We searched their bodies for signs of the blades that had killed them, but found nothing more than scorched flesh."
-Tender-Hand, kitsune healer

Firestorm

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Firestorm, discard X cards.

Firestorm deals X damage to each of X target creatures and/or players.

"Glok loved storms! He'd sit an' watch an' laugh through the whole thing. I miss him."
-Squee, goblin cabin hand

Fires of Undeath

Instant

Fires of Undeath deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

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

"I drink of those who are worthy of my palate. The rest I burn."

Firemind's Foresight

Instant

Search your library for an instant card with converted mana cost 3, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then repeat this process for instant cards with converted mana costs 2 and 1. Then shuffle your library.

Fireblast

Instant

You may sacrifice two Mountains rather than pay Fireblast's mana cost.

Fireblast deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Embermages aren't well known for their diplomatic skills.

Fire Covenant

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Fire Covenant, pay X life.

Fire Covenant deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

Fire at Will

Instant

Fire at Will deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target attacking or blocking creatures.

"Make these shots count. The more foes we drop now, the fewer we'll have trying to kill us later."

Fire and Brimstone

Instant

Fire and Brimstone deals 4 damage to target player who declared an attacking creature this turn and 4 damage to you.

Fire (Fire/Ice)

Instant

Fire deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two target creatures and/or players.

Final Fortune

Instant

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Want all, lose all.
-Zhalfirin aphorism

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.

Fighting Chance

Instant

For each blocking creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by that creature this turn.

A stroke of luck can smite an army.