Mage's Guile

Instant

Target creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

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

"Next time, don't bother."

Misery Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target Cleric; or return target Cleric card from your graveyard to your hand; or target player loses 2 life.

Piety Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target Aura attached to a creature; or target Soldier creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn; or creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.

Pinpoint Avalanche

Instant

Pinpoint Avalanche deals 4 damage to target creature. The damage can't be prevented.

"Some solve problems by thinking and talking. Others use rocks."
-Toggo, goblin weaponsmith

Primal Boost

Instant

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

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

When you cycle Primal Boost, you may have target creature get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Psychic Trance

Instant

Until end of turn, Wizards you control gain ": Counter target spell."

The Riptide Project was perhaps the only school devoted to preventing the spread of knowledge.

Read the Runes

Instant

Draw X cards. For each card drawn this way, discard a card unless you sacrifice a permanent.

"The world is a puzzle, and the mind is its key."

Renewed Faith

Instant

You gain 6 life.

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

When you cycle Renewed Faith, you may gain 2 life.

Run Wild

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and ": Regenerate this creature."

Wirewood's beasts didn't seem to mind when the elves moved in. In fact, they hardly noticed them underfoot.

Shade's Breath

Instant

Until end of turn, each creature you control becomes a black Shade and gains ": This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."

The grim business of the Coliseum casts long shadows.

Solar Blast

Instant

Solar Blast deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

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

When you cycle Solar Blast, you may have it deal 1 damage to target creature or player.

Spy Network

Instant

Look at target player's hand, the top card of that player's library, and any face-down creatures he or she controls. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Standardize

Instant

Choose a creature type other than Wall. Each creature becomes that type until end of turn.

At that point, the wizards' argument got a lot uglier.

Starstorm

Instant

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature.

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

Pardic barbarians didn't complain when the Order started blaming every crisis on the Cabal.

Sunfire Balm

Instant

Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

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

When you cycle Sunfire Balm, you may prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Tribal Unity

Instant

Creatures of the creature type of your choice get +X/+X until end of turn.

Kamahl left the violence of his former life behind him, but he still believes in the power of muscle.

Trickery Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gains flying until end of turn; or target creature becomes the creature type of your choice until end of turn; or look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Unified Strike

Instant

Exile target attacking creature if its power is less than or equal to the number of Soldiers on the battlefield.

The tall, reedy grass of the Daru Plains rustles loudly in the winds, a perfect cover for any ambush.

Vitality Charm

Instant

Choose one - Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token onto the battlefield; or target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn; or regenerate target Beast.

Wheel and Deal

Instant

Any number of target opponents each discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

Draw a card.

Wirewood Pride

Instant

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

"Though you may leave this haven we have found, may our strength never leave you."

Aven Warcraft

Instant

Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, choose a color. Creatures you control also gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

Canopy Claws

Instant

Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

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

Cunning Wish

Instant

You may choose an instant card you own from outside the game, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Exile Cunning Wish.

He wished for knowledge, but not for the will to apply it.

Defy Gravity

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

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

Magical or not, it's still a cloud.

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.

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

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

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.)

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.

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

Grave Consequences

Instant

Each player may exile any number of cards from his or her graveyard. Then each player loses 1 life for each card in his or her graveyard.

Draw a card.

"You call that a nightmare?"
-Braids, dementia summoner

Grip of Amnesia

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller exiles all cards from his or her graveyard.

Draw a card.

"Would you abandon your past to save your future?"
-Ambassador Laquatus

Keep Watch

Instant

Draw a card for each attacking creature.

"I see their moral dilemmas. I see their raw courage. I see their self-sacrifice. I see our victory."

Krosan Reclamation

Instant

Target player shuffles up to two target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.

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

Laquatus's Disdain

Instant

Counter target spell cast from a graveyard.

Draw a card.

"The first time was amusing, but now you're getting tiresome."

Lava Dart

Instant

Lava Dart deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

Lead Astray

Instant

Tap up to two target creatures.

"Never underestimate our enemy's strength, brutality, . . . or stupidity."
-Commander Eesha

Mental Note

Instant

Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

Draw a card.

Some minds are more open than others.

Prismatic Strands

Instant

Prevent all damage that sources of the color of your choice would deal this turn.

Flashback-Tap an untapped white creature you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Seedtime

Instant

Cast Seedtime only during your turn.

Take an extra turn after this one if an opponent cast a blue spell this turn.

The hippo grows wings to fight the condor.
-Nantuko teaching

Serene Sunset

Instant

Prevent all combat damage X target creatures would deal this turn.

The armies paused, silent, as the warriors reflected on the sunsets of their youth.

Shaman's Trance

Instant

Until end of turn, other players can't play cards from their graveyards, and you may play cards from other players' graveyards as though they were in your graveyard.

Spelljack

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may play it without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)

Sudden Strength

Instant

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

Draw a card.

The Mirari's magic transformed the Krosan Forest-and its inhabitants.

Toxic Stench

Instant

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

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

Accelerate

Instant

Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"I've seen lightning move slower."
-Nomad sentry

Alter Reality

Instant

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

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

Cabal Ritual

Instant

Add to your mana pool.

Threshold - Add to your mana pool instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

"Each syllable chills your veins. Each word rattles your mind."
-Cabal Patriarch

Circular Logic

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each card in your graveyard.

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

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.

False Memories

Instant

Put the top seven cards of your library into your graveyard. At the beginning of the next end step, exile seven cards from your graveyard.

"My enemies will forget everything but their anguish."
-Ambassador Laquatus

Fiery Temper

Instant

Fiery Temper deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

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

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.)

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.

Insidious Dreams

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Insidious Dreams, discard X cards.

Search your library for X cards. Then shuffle your library and put those cards on top of it in any order.

Chainer dreams of ultimate knowledge.

Liquify

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost 3 or less. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Obsessive Search

Instant

Draw a card.

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

The question strained his sanity. The answer snapped it in half.

Pay No Heed

Instant

Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal this turn.

"Inhale life. Exhale pain."
-Mystic elder

Psychotic Haze

Instant

Psychotic Haze deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

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

Radiate

Instant

Choose target instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single permanent or player. Copy that spell for each other permanent or player the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those permanents and players.

Sonic Seizure

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Sonic Seizure, discard a card at random.

Sonic Seizure deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Spirit Flare

Instant

Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, it deals damage equal to its power to target attacking or blocking creature an opponent controls.

Flashback-, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Temporary Insanity

Instant

Untap target creature with power less than the number of cards in your graveyard and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn.

Vengeful Dreams

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Vengeful Dreams, discard X cards.

Exile X target attacking creatures.

Teroh dreams of his enemies' doom.

Violent Eruption

Instant

Violent Eruption deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

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

Waste Away

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Waste Away, discard a card.

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Chainer's insanity touched nearly every living thing-including viruses.

Afflict

Instant

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

Draw a card.

When one of the Patriarch's champions displeased him, he would only shake his finger. That was enough.

Aura Graft

Instant

Gain control of target Aura that's attached to a permanent. Attach it to another permanent it can enchant.

"It's not really stealing. It's more like extended borrowing."

Æther Burst

Instant

Return up to X target creatures to their owners' hands, where X is one plus the number of cards named Æther Burst in all graveyards as you cast Æther Burst.

As fleeting as a cephalid's promise.

Bash to Bits

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

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

Beast Attack

Instant

Put a 4/4 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

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

Blazing Salvo

Instant

Blazing Salvo deals 3 damage to target creature unless that creature's controller has Blazing Salvo deal 5 damage to him or her.

Barbarians equate courage with the ability to endure pain.

Cease-Fire

Instant

Target player can't cast creature spells this turn.

Draw a card.

When the crimson fades from the magical embers, a final wisp of smoke will rise. Soon after, hostilities will begin anew.

Coffin Purge

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard.

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

Deluge

Instant

Tap all creatures without flying.

"From the sea came all life, and to the sea it will return. The sooner the better."
-Emperor Aboshan

Demoralize

Instant

Each creature can't be blocked this turn except by two or more creatures.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, creatures can't block this turn.

Divert

Instant

Change the target of target spell with a single target unless that spell's controller pays .

"What's the fun of being a wizard if you can't mess with people's heads?"

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.

Execute

Instant

Destroy target white creature. It can't be regenerated.

Draw a card.

"Any fool who would die for honor is better off dead."
-Cabal Patriarch

Fervent Denial

Instant

Counter target spell.

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

"Your tenacity is admirable. And futile."
-Emperor Aboshan

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.

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.

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

Howling Gale

Instant

Howling Gale deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player.

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

Life Burst

Instant

Target player gains 4 life, then gains 4 life for each card named Life Burst in each graveyard.

As uplifting as a mystic's dreams.

Molten Influence

Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller has Molten Influence deal 4 damage to him or her.

Lavamancers make simple requests: obey or die.

Moment's Peace

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

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

Mudhole

Instant

Target player exiles all land cards from his or her graveyard.

"Doing okay back there, Tarv? Tarv?"

Muscle Burst

Instant

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is 3 plus the number of cards named Muscle Burst in all graveyards.

As strong as a centaur's will.

Peek

Instant

Look at target player's hand.

Draw a card.

Sometimes you have to read between the minds.

Predict

Instant

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

Ray of Distortion

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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

Refresh

Instant

Regenerate target creature.

Draw a card.

Death is a moth that dances toward our inner flame. The brightest fire can singe its wings.
-Nantuko teaching

Repel

Instant

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

"I have a hunch we'll be seeing that one again soon."
-Ambassador Laquatus

Rites of Initiation

Instant

Discard any number of cards at random. Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn for each card discarded this way.

Rites of Refusal

Instant

Discard any number of cards. Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each card discarded this way.