Flame Jab

Sorcery

Flame Jab deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

"Fire's out. Should be safe now."
-Gnarltrunk

Memory Sluice

Sorcery

Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Fossil Find

Sorcery

Return a card at random from your graveyard to your hand, then reorder your graveyard as you choose.

"Some secrets want to be revealed. They burst through the soil of their own accord."
-Dindun of Kulrath Mine

Dawnglow Infusion

Sorcery

You gain X life if was spent to cast Dawnglow Infusion and X life if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

Dawnglove bloom is a potent nostrum, but the dawnglow brewed from its sap is nothing less than life itself.

Safewright Quest

Sorcery

Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Elves search for sources of beauty in a nighted world. Meanwhile, the nighted world searches for the blood of elves.

Aquitect's Will

Tribal Sorcery - Merfolk

Put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. If you control a Merfolk, draw a card.

There is nowhere on Lorwyn that the Merrow Lanes cannot go.

Boggart Birth Rite

Tribal Sorcery - Goblin

Return target Goblin card from your graveyard to your hand.

Auntie excitedly held up the squalling newborn. "This one looks like Byoog! Maybe he'll tell us what he saw and felt in the beyond."

Thoughtseize

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Hunt Down

Sorcery

Target creature blocks target creature this turn if able.

"Springjacks and faeries can be difficult to hunt, but my favorite prey are the flamekin. They never fail to put up a worthy fight when cornered."

Blaze

Sorcery

Blaze deals X damage to target creature or player.

Commune with Nature

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Hurricane

Sorcery

Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"Don't envy the grandeur of drakes. Their impression of grace fades when the first gust sends them crashing into one another."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

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

Blackmail

Sorcery

Target player reveals three cards from his or her hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card.

In addition to killing peasants, punishing subordinates, and raising an army of nightmares, Braids somehow found time for her favorite hobby: petty extortion.

Raise Dead

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The earth cannot hold that which magic commands.

Mana Clash

Sorcery

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.

Stream of Life

Sorcery

Target player gains X life.

Contract from Below

Sorcery

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

Discard your hand, add the top card of your library to the ante, then draw seven cards.

Mind Twist

Sorcery

Target player discards X cards at random.

Disintegrate

Sorcery

Disintegrate deals X damage to target creature or player. That creature can't be regenerated this turn. If the creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Reconstruction

Sorcery

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tedious research made the Sages of the College of Lat-Nam adept in repairing broken artifacts.

Energy Tap

Sorcery

Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, add to your mana pool, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Mind Bomb

Sorcery

Each player may discard up to three cards. Mind Bomb deals damage to each player equal to 3 minus the number of cards he or she discarded this way.

Winter Blast

Sorcery

Tap X target creatures. Winter Blast deals 2 damage to each of those creatures with flying.

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"
-William Shakespeare, King Lear

Detonate

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact with converted mana cost X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.

Winds of Change

Sorcery

Each player shuffles the cards from his or her hand into his or her library, then draws that many cards.

"'Tis the set of sails, and not the gales, Which tells us the way to go."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Visions

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of target player's library. You may then have that player shuffle that library.

"Visions of glory, spare my aching sight,
Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!"
-Thomas Gray, "The Bard"

Portent

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle his or her library.

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

Recall

Sorcery

Discard X cards, then return a card from your graveyard to your hand for each card discarded this way. Exile Recall.

Prosperity

Sorcery

Each player draws X cards.

"Wealth is a good thing, compared to poverty-your food is better, your robes are softer, and your companions have bathed more recently."
-Kukemssa pirate

Tremor

Sorcery

Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

"Where do you run when the earth becomes your enemy?"
-Naimag, Femeref philosopher

Ostracize

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a creature card from it. That player discards that card.

"You won't be needing this."

Peach Garden Oath

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

"We three, though of separate ancestry, join in brotherhood. . . . We dare not hope to be together always but hereby vow to die the selfsame day."
-Peach Garden Oath

Metamorphosis

Sorcery

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

Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is one plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Drafna's Restoration

Sorcery

Return any number of target artifact cards from target player's graveyard to the top of his or her library in any order.

Drafna, founder of the College of Lat-Nam, could create a working model from even the smallest remnants of a newly unearthed artifact.

Part Water

Sorcery

X target creatures gain islandwalk until end of turn.

". . . and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." -Exodus, 14:22

Psychic Purge

Sorcery

Psychic Purge deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Psychic Purge, that player loses 5 life.

Chain Lightning

Sorcery

Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Then that player or that creature's controller may pay . If the player does, he or she may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

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

Forgotten 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 Forgotten Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.

In ashes are the gems of history.

Lava Burst

Sorcery

Lava Burst deals X damage to target creature or player. If Lava Burst would deal damage to a creature, that damage can't be prevented or dealt instead to another creature or player.

"Overkill? This isn't a game of Kick-the-Ouphe!"
-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Meteor Shower

Sorcery

Meteor Shower deals X plus 1 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

"Eenie, meenie, minie, moe . . . oh, why not all of them?"
-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Winter Sky

Sorcery

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, Winter Sky deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. If you lose the flip, each player draws a card.

Prophecy

Sorcery

Reveal the top card of target opponent's library. If it's a land, you gain 1 life. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

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

Feast of Flesh

Sorcery

Feast of Flesh deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Feast of Flesh in all graveyards.

"Starving an army that feeds on its enemies is a sound strategy."
-Garza Zol, plague queen

Rite of Flame

Sorcery

Add to your mana pool, then add to your mana pool for each card named Rite of Flame in each graveyard.

Deep beneath the ice, beneath the soil and the rock, Dominaria's fire still burned hot.

Tropical Storm

Sorcery

Tropical Storm deals X damage to each creature with flying and 1 additional damage to each blue creature.

"After the storm, I found a sea turtle dying on the sands, a blade of grass driven through its shell."
-Travelogue of Najat

Builder's Bane

Sorcery

Destroy X target artifacts. Builder's Bane deals damage to each player equal to the number of artifacts he or she controlled put into a graveyard this way.

There is only so much a person may be buried with.

Kaervek's Torch

Sorcery

As long as Kaervek's Torch is on the stack, spells that target it cost more to cast.

Kaervek's Torch deals X damage to target creature or player.

The pulsing heat of the midday Sun burns in the Lion's eye.
-Stone inscription, source unknown

Tendrils of Despair

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Tendrils of Despair, sacrifice a creature.

Target opponent discards two cards.

"Because I am incapable of tears does not mean I have no need to shed them."
-Karn, silver golem

Reanimate

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.

"You will learn to earn death."
-Volrath

Scorched Earth

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Scorched Earth, discard X land cards.

Destroy X target lands.

"Fire cleanses as well as destroys; that is the nature of change."
-Oracle en-Vec

Shadowstorm

Sorcery

Shadowstorm deals 2 damage to each creature with shadow.

"You've not seen a storm until you've seen the kind that roars between worlds."
-Lyna, Soltari emissary

Lab Rats

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 a 1/1 black Rat creature token onto the battlefield.

Mind Peel

Sorcery

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

Target player discards a card.

Seething Anger

Sorcery

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 +3/+0 until end of turn.

Æther Tide

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Æther Tide, discard X creature cards.

Return X target creatures to their owners' hands.

The tide of magic brought them here. Now it would take them home.

Gamble

Sorcery

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle your library.

When you've got nothing, you might as well trade it for something else.

Meltdown

Sorcery

Destroy each artifact with converted mana cost X or less.

Catastrophes happened so often at the mana rig that the viashino language had a special word to describe them.

Raze

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Raze, sacrifice a land.

Destroy target land.

The viashino believe that the oldest mountains hate everyone equally.

Unearth

Sorcery

Return target creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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

Bubbling Muck

Sorcery

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

The muck claims a hundred living things for each meager treasure it spews forth.

Encroach

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonbasic land card from it. That player discards that card.

"The rate of spread in this region is unacceptable. Start again."
-Davvol, Evincar of Rath

Landslide

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of Mountains. Landslide deals that much damage to target player.

Sometimes the mountain takes.
-Keldon saying

Reckless Abandon

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Reckless Abandon, sacrifice a creature.

Reckless Abandon deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

The climax of a warlord's career is always death.

Rofellos's Gift

Sorcery

Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Return an enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand for each card revealed this way.

"Rise, elf. We are both of Gaea, and thus we are equal."
-Multani, to Rofellos

Cateran Summons

Sorcery

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

Even when recruitment is slow, the guild can always cook something up.

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.

Thrive

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of X target creatures.

"We wait and watch, and as we prepare for war, we grow strong."

Ghitu Fire

Sorcery

You may cast Ghitu Fire any time you could cast an instant if you pay more to cast it.

Ghitu Fire deals X damage to target creature or player.

Pain (Pain/Suffering)

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Assault (Assault/Battery)

Sorcery

Assault deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Strafe

Sorcery

Strafe deals 3 damage to target nonred creature.

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

Divine Light

Sorcery

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

"Phyrexia is an unforgiving place, and I am an angry lord in an unforgiving mood."
-Lord Windgrace

Illuminate

Sorcery

Kicker and/or (You may pay an additional and/or as you cast this spell.)

Illuminate deals X damage to target creature. If Illuminate was kicked with its kicker, it deals X damage to that creature's controller. If Illuminate was kicked with its kicker, you draw X cards.

Tahngarth's Glare

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of target opponent's library, then put them back in any order. That player looks at the top three cards of your library, then puts them back in any order.

Lay of the Land

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Victory favors neither the righteous nor the wicked. It favors the prepared.

Life (Life/Death)

Sorcery

All lands you control become 1/1 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

Breakthrough

Sorcery

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

The ideas came flooding in so fast that they couldn't all be contained.

Retraced Image

Sorcery

Reveal a card in your hand, then put that card onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent.

An army from a soldier, a flock from a bird, a school from a fish . . . a profit from an atrocity.

Restless Dreams

Sorcery

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

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Braids dreams of dark rebirth.

Overmaster

Sorcery

The next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Draw a card.

"Trickery can't defeat raw power."
-Matoc, lavamancer

Dwell on the Past

Sorcery

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

None can find what hasn't been lost.
-Nantuko teaching

Insist

Sorcery

The next creature spell you cast this turn can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Draw a card.

"Finesse is no match for brute force."
-Seton, centaur druid

Cabal Therapy

Sorcery

Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards with that name.

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

Rats' Feast

Sorcery

Exile X target cards from a single graveyard.

"That does it-I quit"
-Cabal grave robber

Wave of Indifference

Sorcery

X target creatures can't block this turn.

"Darius?"
"Yeah?"
"There's a goblin sneaking up on you."
"So?"
"Just sayin'."

Goblin War Strike

Sorcery

Goblin War Strike deals damage equal to the number of Goblins you control to target player.

"Fire, aim, ready"

Ritual of Restoration

Sorcery

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Leonin raising ceremonies take place at the white sun's dawn, the rebirth of artifacts mirroring the birth of a new day.

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.

Serum Visions

Sorcery

Draw a card.

Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Shattered Dreams

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose an artifact card from it. That player discards that card.

Victims are lucky if they remember ever having had what was lost.

Lava Spike

Sorcery - Arcane

Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player.

Some kami attacks during the war were rife with trickery, subterfuge, and subtlety, draining hope and pride from the mortal world. Other attacks were a lot more straightforward.

Glimpse of Nature

Sorcery

Whenever you cast a creature spell this turn, draw a card.

Dosan sat in repose for many hours. He made no motion, no sound at all. And as he sat, nature revealed itself to him.

Psychic Spear

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a Spirit or Arcane card from it. That player discards that card.

"The wizards of Takenuma Swamp faced the horrors of humanity every day. It's no wonder they fared so well against the kami."
-Observations of the Kami War

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

Crack the Earth

Sorcery - Arcane

Each player sacrifices a permanent.

"As the war progressed, the destruction the kami caused became more widespread and less predictable."
-Observations of the Kami War

Enshrined Memories

Sorcery

Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The race is run in the mind before the first step is taken."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

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.

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.