Electrostatic Bolt

Instant

Electrostatic Bolt deals 2 damage to target creature. If it's an artifact creature, Electrostatic Bolt deals 4 damage to it instead.

It's hard to avoid electric shock when the entire plane is metallic.

Elemental Uprising

Instant

Target land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature with haste until end of turn. It's still a land. It must be blocked this turn if able.

"My heart and Zendikar's beat as one. Together we will endure."
-Nissa Revane

Elephant Ambush

Instant

Put a 3/3 green Elephant creature token onto the battlefield.

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

Elvish Fury

Instant

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

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

Ember Shot

Instant

Ember Shot deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Draw a card.

Dwarves bring poor coal to market, use good coal in their homes, and throw their best coal away.

Embolden

Instant

Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of target creatures and/or players, divided as you choose.

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

Emerald Charm

Instant

Choose one - Untap target permanent; or destroy target non-Aura enchantment; or target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Emerge Unscathed

Instant

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

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.)

Empty the Pits

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Put X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped.

The Sultai would rebuild the empire on the backs of the dead.

Enchantment Alteration

Instant

Attach target Aura attached to a creature or land to another permanent of that type.

Encircling Fissure

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures target opponent controls.

Awaken 2- (If you cast this spell for , also put two +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

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.

Enduring Victory

Instant

Destroy target attacking or blocking creature. Bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"My dragonlord is immortal. Most dragons are not."
-Kadri, Dromoka warrior

Energy Arc

Instant

Untap any number of target creatures. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by those creatures this turn.

"Relent, and you may transcend your situation."
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Enervate

Instant

Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

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

"Worlds turn in crucial moments of decision. Make your choice."
-Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran royal mage

Engulfing Flames

Instant

Engulfing Flames deals 1 damage to target creature. It can't be regenerated this turn.

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

Enhanced Awareness

Instant

Draw three cards, then discard a card.

"Study the topography of your enemies, and you will have a map to victory."
-Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest

Enlightened Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal."
-Daudi, Femeref tutor

Enrage

Instant

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

The barbarians call it "touching the soul of the dragon."

Ensnare

Instant

You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay Ensnare's mana cost.

Tap all creatures.

Rootwater has become as dangerous to its denizens as to its enemies.

Entomb

Instant

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

A grave is the safest place to store ill-gotten treasures.

Envelop

Instant

Counter target sorcery spell.

"What you made will be unmade. What you learned will be unlearned. And when you're done, you will be undone."
-Ambassador Laquatus

Ephemeral Shields

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 gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Equal Treatment

Instant

If any source would deal 1 or more damage to a creature or player this turn, it deals 2 damage to that creature or player instead.

Draw a card.

Erase

Instant

Exile target enchantment.

"Don't trust your eyes, for mages are skilled in deception. Trust only in your faith. It will wipe everything clean."
-Lila, Erunian priest

Errand of Duty

Instant

Put a 1/1 white Knight creature token with banding onto the battlefield. (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 you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"Call every able sword to our side. Kjeldor will stand triumphant!"
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Erratic Mutation

Instant

Choose target creature. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. That creature gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is that card's converted mana cost. Put all cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Ertai's Meddling

Instant

X can't be 0.

Target spell's controller exiles it with X delay counters on it.

At the beginning of each of that player's upkeeps, if that card is exiled, remove a delay counter from it. If the card has no delay counters on it, he or she puts it onto the stack as a copy of the original spell.

Ertai's Trickery

Instant

Counter target spell if it was kicked.

"Don't worry, Gerrard," said Ertai. "I'm sure the crew will come to your rescue as quickly as they came to mine."

Esper Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target enchantment; or draw two cards; or target player discards two cards.

"Thoughts are commodities. Someone will pay a good price for them. Even ones as simplistic as yours . . ."
-Ennor, mentalist

Essence Backlash

Instant

Counter target creature spell. Essence Backlash deals damage equal to that spell's power to its controller.

"The other guilds will learn the hard way not to interfere with our investigations."
-Bori Andon, Izzet blastseeker

Essence Scatter

Instant

Counter target creature spell.

"What you attempt to pull from the Æther, I can spread onto the wind."
-Jace Beleren

Essence Vortex

Instant

Destroy target creature unless its controller pays life equal to its toughness. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.

Ether Well

Instant

Put target creature on top of its owner's library. If that creature is red, you may put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead.

"Whoa-my tail will never fit through that hole!"

Ethereal Ambush

Instant

Manifest the top two cards of your library. (To manifest a card, 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.)

The energies of the Temur lands are readily unleashed upon intruders.

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

Evacuation

Instant

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

"Once I supply the breeze, you'll see your warriors for the smoke they truly are."
-Alexi, zephyr mage

Evasive Action

Instant

Domain - Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each basic land type among lands you control.

Effective use of terrain is a lesson good commanders learn quickly.

Even the Odds

Instant

Cast Even the Odds only if you control fewer creatures than each opponent.

Put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"They who fall singing the battle hymn of Benalia go not unavenged."
-Adom Capashen, Benalish commander

Evermind

Instant - Arcane

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