Disembowel

Instant

Destroy target creature with converted mana cost X.

"We thought we found the victim's clothes lumped in the street. As it turned out, it was the victim, insides sucked out-just a sack of skin and robes."
-Agrus Kos

Thoughtpicker Witch

Creature - Human Wizard

, Sacrifice a creature: Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library, then exile one of them.

"Once the brew gets the brains nice and pickled, they're a lot easier to pick through."

Frenzied Goblin

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Whenever Frenzied Goblin attacks, you may pay . If you do, target creature can't block this turn.

The upside to not thinking about the consequences is that you'll always surprise those who do.

Surge of Zeal

Instant

Radiance - Target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain haste until end of turn.

"If only my poxes were as infectious as their zealotry."
-Savra

Torpid Moloch

Creature - Lizard

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Sacrifice three lands: Torpid Moloch loses defender until end of turn.

Market hucksters sell molochs for use as watchdogs. Of course, that's all molochs do. Sit around . . . and watch.

War-Torch Goblin

Creature - Goblin Warrior

, Sacrifice War-Torch Goblin: War-Torch Goblin deals 2 damage to target blocking creature.

"In a town shaped by the subtle machinations and political intrigue of its guilds, it's reassuring to see a goblin waving his torch and screaming about some nonsense or other."
-Agrus Kos

Elvish Skysweeper

Creature - Elf Warrior

, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature with flying.

The spires of Ravnica are no different from the tall trees of other planes. The elves navigate and protect them just the same.

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.

Boros Recruit

Creature - Goblin Soldier

( can be paid with either or .)

First strike

"Look at this goblin, once wild, untamed, and full of idiocy. The Boros have given him the skill of a soldier and focused his heart with a single cause."
-Razia

Peregrine Mask

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has defender, flying, and first strike.

Equip

The mask confers both the prowess of a falcon and its loyalty.

Terrarion

Artifact

Terrarion enters the battlefield tapped.

, , Sacrifice Terrarion: Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool.

When Terrarion is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Voyager Staff

Artifact

, Sacrifice Voyager Staff: Exile target creature. Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Voyager staffs are sought by those hoping to find an escape from the sprawling glut of Ravnica.

Benediction of Moons

Sorcery

You gain 1 life for each player.

Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.)

When the creature Benediction of Moons haunts dies, you gain 1 life for each player.

Lionheart Maverick

Creature - Human Knight

Vigilance

: Lionheart Maverick gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

"Your signet is no symbol of power. It marks only your need for numbers to aid you. What do you do, guild-rat, now that you face my blade alone?"

Martyred Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature can't attack this turn.

Rakdos cultists hanged her for sport in the township square. Her ghost now stands vigil at what has become known as the Tree of Weeping.

Order of the Stars

Creature - Human Cleric

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

As Order of the Stars enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Order of the Stars has protection from the chosen color.

As stoic as the marble halls, as unblinking as the stars upon their shields.

Shadow Lance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has first strike.

: Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Shadow lances are crafted from harvested souls. The more wicked the sinner, the keener the blade.

Drowned Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: Discard a card, then draw a card.

Lurking below the current, she thirsts until others come to drink.

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.

Quicken

Instant

The next sorcery card you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. (It can be cast any time you could cast an instant.)

Draw a card.

A skilled Izzet chronarch can carry out an epic vendetta between the fall of one hourglass grain and the next.

Repeal

Instant

Return target nonland permanent with converted mana cost X to its owner's hand.

Draw a card.

"Your deed cannot be undone. You, however, can be."
-Agosto, Azorius imperator

Cry of Contrition

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.)

When the creature Cry of Contrition haunts dies, target player discards a card.

Plagued Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies."
-Savra

Scorched Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: Scorched Rusalka deals 1 damage to target player.

Each small blaze she sets jogs her memory, letting her piece together the mystery of her own fiery end.

Shattering Spree

Sorcery

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

Destroy target artifact.

Skarrgan Pit-Skulk

Creature - Human Warrior

Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creatures with power less than Skarrgan Pit-Skulk's power can't block it.

Starved Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

"No more wretched fate is there than to waste away. If you are slain, your ghost may at least avenge itself upon your killer. But what release is there for one slain by Time?"
-Ilromov, traveling storyteller

Wild Cantor

Creature - Human Druid

( can be paid with either or .)

Sacrifice Wild Cantor: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Moratorium Stone

Artifact

, : Exile target card from a graveyard.

, , Sacrifice Moratorium Stone: Exile target nonland card from a graveyard, all other cards from graveyards with the same name as that card, and all permanents with that name.

Blessing of the Nephilim

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each of its colors.

"Before the first stone was laid or the first elf-child born, the power of the nephilim was gathering. Let that power be spread by my hands."

Haazda Exonerator

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice Haazda Exonerator: Destroy target Aura.

"This aura threatens the sanctity of your soul. Wrenching it free won't be easy on either of us. If you're ready, we'll begin."

Valor Made Real

Instant

Target creature can block any number of creatures this turn.

"As my father taught, ‘Training will raise your shield to the blow, but courage fills the gaps the shield leaves open.'"

Spell Snare

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.

Every culture has its unlucky numbers. In a city where you're either alone, in a crowd, or being stabbed in the back, two is the worst number of all.

Writ of Passage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, if its power is 2 or less, it's unblockable this turn.

Forecast - , Reveal Writ of Passage from your hand: Target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Bond of Agony

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Bond of Agony, pay X life.

Each other player loses X life.

The Rakdos are unique in designing torture equipment they can operate while "suffering" alongside their victims.

Slithering Shade

Creature - Shade

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Slithering Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Hellbent - Slithering Shade can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as you have no cards in hand.

Demonfire

Sorcery

Demonfire deals X damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Hellbent - If you have no cards in hand, Demonfire can't be countered by spells or abilities and the damage can't be prevented.

Kill-Suit Cultist

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Kill-Suit Cultist attacks each turn if able.

, Sacrifice Kill-Suit Cultist: The next time damage would be dealt to target creature this turn, destroy that creature instead.

Dressed to kill.

Taste for Mayhem

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.

Hellbent - Enchanted creature gets an additional +2/+0 as long as you have no cards in hand.

The taste of blood breaks down what little self-control the Rakdos possess.

Weight of Spires

Instant

Weight of Spires deals damage to target creature equal to the number of nonbasic lands that creature's controller controls.

"Finally, a good use for an Azorius courthouse."
-Ghut Rak, Gruul guildmage

Simic Initiate

Creature - Human Mutant

Graft 1 (This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

Simic initiates begin their training as experimental subjects. Failures are flushed to the undersewers.

Street Savvy

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and can block creatures with landwalk abilities as though they didn't have those abilities.

"It takes more than swift feet and dark shadows to slip by me unnoticed."

Utopia Sprawl

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Forest

As Utopia Sprawl enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of the chosen color to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Riot Spikes

Enchantment - Aura

( can be paid with either or .)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/-1.

Most auramancers would have let the spikes hover just above the skin. Having the spikes rip through the skin from beneath was a touch added by Rakdos himself.

Angel's Grace

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Children of Korlis

Creature - Human Rebel Cleric

Sacrifice Children of Korlis: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"We have a proud history of self-sacrifice. But it is easy, in these bleak times, to find one among us who is eager to die for any cause."
-Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Detainment Spell

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature's activated abilities can't be activated.

: Attach Detainment Spell to target creature.

Bind the mind rather than the wrist, and you stop the intent to harm before it starts.

Gaze of Justice

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Gaze of Justice, tap three untapped white creatures you control.

Exile target creature.

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

Pull from Eternity

Instant

Put target face-up exiled card into its owner's graveyard.

It is best to conquer dragons before they hatch.
-Femeref adage

Sidewinder Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have flanking. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks a Sliver, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

"They encircled our patrol with the stealth of snakes, corralling us like livestock."
-Merrik Aidar, Benalish patrol

Clockspinning

Instant

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

Choose a counter on target permanent or suspended card. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.

Drifter il-Dal

Creature - Human Wizard

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Drifter il-Dal unless you pay .

They study the deeds of their traitorous ancestors, hoping the stories may reveal a way back to the physical world.

Moonlace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes colorless.

Once a vision of constancy in the sky, the moon had long been hidden from view by the haze that chokes the heavens. The very sight of it had become a sign that change was in the air.

Sage of Epityr

Creature - Human Wizard

When Sage of Epityr enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Clairvoyants across Dominaria were driven mad by the overload from the widening time rifts, while other random folk gained the gift of future sight.

Screeching Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ": Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard."

"What wears down my people most, I think, is not the danger, but the endless screeching outside our camp."
-Merrik Aidar, Benalish patrol

Spell Burst

Instant

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

Counter target spell with converted mana cost X.

The brutish mage's version of thinking.

Call to the Netherworld

Sorcery

Return target black creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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

The ritual was normally performed only by horrors and pit spawn. Lesser mages had but one sanity to crack in the casting.

Mindlash Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ", Sacrifice this permanent: Each player discards a card."

Though Dominaria's queenless slivers lack a single purpose, in some the instinct for self-sacrifice remains extremely strong.

Conflagrate

Sorcery

Conflagrate deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

Flashback-, Discard X cards. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Ground Rift

Sorcery

Target creature without flying can't block this turn.

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

Some time rifts didn't take away the people but just the ground they stood on.

Lightning Axe

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Lightning Axe, discard a card or pay .

Lightning Axe deals 5 damage to target creature.

"A gargoyle's meat can be carved with an ordinary cleaver, but for its petrous hide . . ."
-Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar,
The Underworld Cookbook

Magus of the Scroll

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Name a card. Reveal a card at random from your hand. If it's the named card, Magus of the Scroll deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Norin the Wary

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

When a player casts a spell or a creature attacks, exile Norin the Wary. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"I have a bad feeling about this."

Greenseeker

Creature - Elf Spellshaper

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

"A rumor passes among the snakes, whispered by the rushes, inspiring the seekers: the goddess Freyalise is alive in Skyshroud."

Magus of the Candelabra

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Untap X target lands.

"What would Urza think, I wonder, if he could hear how the nature mages still snarl at his name, but venerate the work of his apprentice?"
-Teferi, to Jhoira

Might of Old Krosa

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If you cast this spell during your main phase, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

Sometimes even humble forest creatures were gifted with mighty emanations from the past.

Molder

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment with converted mana cost X. It can't be regenerated. You gain X life.

"The forests have succumbed to ruin, but the spirit of Krosa remains alive and vital in these devouring spores."
-Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Sprout

Instant

Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Centuries of temporal strife had stripped Dominaria of its natural defenses, but nature fought back with armies constructed of little more than grime and sunlight.

Thrill of the Hunt

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

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

Wurmcalling

Sorcery

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

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

Brass Gnat

Artifact Creature - Insect

Flying

Brass Gnat doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Brass Gnat.

Its buzzing is the sound of its inner mechanisms, ever winding down.

Locket of Yesterdays

Artifact

Spells you cast cost less to cast for each card with the same name as that spell in your graveyard.

Every hour, at the turning of the glass, its owner had whispered to the locket, seeding it with secrets. This would be her legacy, her memory, if the rifts should take her.

Rebuff the Wicked

Instant

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

"I cannot teach you their brand of magic, but I can teach you how to defend against it."
-Tavalus, priest of Korlis

Mana Tithe

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Those who seek to upset the balance must be taxed for such ambitions."
-Verithain, mesa high priest

Porphyry Nodes

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can't be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them.

When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Porphyry Nodes.

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

Pongify

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller puts a 3/3 green Ape creature token onto the battlefield.

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Timebender

Creature - Human Wizard

Morph (You may cast this face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

When Timebender is turned face up, choose one - Remove two time counters from target permanent or suspended card; or put two time counters on target permanent with a time counter on it or suspended card.

Venarian Glimmer

Instant

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card with converted mana cost X or less from it. That player discards that card.

Dream of nothing, and wake to a dream come true.

Piracy Charm

Instant

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

Extirpate

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Midnight Charm

Instant

Choose one - Midnight Charm deals 1 damage to target creature and you gain 1 life; or target creature gains first strike until end of turn; or tap target creature.

Ridged Kusite

Creature - Horror Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"It offers but a taste of the power that the shadows have to offer. But even that is a heady wine indeed."
-Ratadrabik of Urborg

Shrouded Lore

Sorcery

Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay . If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Shrouded Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.

Vampiric Link

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

The familiar's fangs deliver the master's bite.

Dust Corona

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.

"They infiltrated deep into the enemy camp under cover of darkness . . . and dirt."
-Corus, viashino warrior

Firefright Mage

Creature - Goblin Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target creature can't be blocked this turn except by artifact creatures and/or red creatures.

After millennia of advancement in goblin military theory, Toggo VI realized that almost everyone is afraid of fire.

Timecrafting

Instant

Choose one - Remove X time counters from target permanent or suspended card; or put X time counters on target permanent with a time counter on it or suspended card.

Oddly, an unstable time stream makes wizards want to tinker with it even more.

Dead (Dead/Gone)

Instant

Dead deals 2 damage to target creature.

Brute Force

Instant

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

Blood, bone, and sinew are magnified, as is the rage that drives them. The brain, however, remains unchanged-a little bean, swinging by a strand in a cavernous, raving head.

Uktabi Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying, haste

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Essence Warden

Creature - Elf Shaman

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

"The more our numbers grow, the more I gain hope that Volrath and his cursed stronghold will one day fall."
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Healing Leaves

Instant

Choose one - Target player gains 3 life; or prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

The elves of Llanowar don't trust in alchemy. They rely instead on pure herbs harvested from the forest's sacred heart.

Keen Sense

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Crovax sensed that Mirri wasn't ready for the curse taking hold of her. Weeping in his heart, he fled.

Gift of Granite

Enchantment - Aura

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.

The blessing adds both protection to the recipient and weightlessness to the stone.

Samite Censer-Bearer

Creature - Human Rebel Cleric

, Sacrifice Samite Censer-Bearer: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to each creature you control this turn.

Samite alchemists extracted aromatic traces of healing minerals from the residue of the receding salt dunes.

Scout's Warning

Instant

The next creature card you play this turn can be played as though it had flash.

Draw a card.

"There is no tactic I enjoy more than ambushing the ambushers."

Mystic Speculation

Sorcery

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

Scry 3. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Nix

Instant

Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.

"There is no shortcut to work done true and well. The Creators learned this to their sorrow, the first time they made the world."
-Githri the Prisoner

Rift Elemental

Creature - Elemental

, Remove a time counter from a permanent you control or suspended card you own: Rift Elemental gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"It's difficult to heal a rift after it begins wandering about on its own."
-Teferi