Sundering Vitae

Instant

Convoke (Each creature you tap while casting this spell reduces its cost by or by one mana of that creature's color.)

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Centuries of wind, rain, and roots compressed into an instant of destruction: such is the power of Selesnya.

Clutch of the Undercity

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Congregation at Dawn

Instant

Search your library for up to three creature cards and reveal them. Shuffle your library, then put those cards on top of it in any order.

"It is fitting that we meet in the first hour of light, for we are called by the Conclave to pierce a threat of darkness."

Lightning Helix

Instant

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Perplex

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller discards his or her hand.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Putrefy

Instant

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

"All matter, animate or not, rots when exposed to time. We merely speed up the process."
-Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer

Rally the Righteous

Instant

Radiance - Untap target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it. Those creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Yuri took up the ragged Boros banner, and his brethren, inspired by the act, followed him back into the fight.

Seeds of Strength

Instant

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

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

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

Beneath the beauty of light and seed is the might of Vitu-Ghazi.

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.

Master Warcraft

Instant

Cast Master Warcraft only before attackers are declared.

You choose which creatures attack this turn.

You choose which creatures block this turn and how those creatures block.

Shadow of Doubt

Instant

( can be paid with either or .)

Players can't search libraries this turn.

Draw a card.

"Your ignorance is my bliss."
-Szadek

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

To Arms!

Instant

Untap all creatures you control.

Draw a card.

"The call came, spell-borne through mortar and stone to the ear of every soldier. The call came, and the advantage was ours."
-Lodusz, captain of the watch

Withstand

Instant

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Draw a card.

"Defense is as much a part of war as offense, the shield as important a tool as the sword."
-Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Frazzle

Instant

Counter target nonblue spell.

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

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

Runeboggle

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Draw a card.

"Ever try to count hyperactive schoolchildren while someone shouts random numbers in your ear? It's like that."
-Geetra, frustrated mage

Thunderheads

Instant

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)

Put a 3/3 blue Weird creature token with defender and flying onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

The clouds grew thick, and then they grew teeth.

Douse in Gloom

Instant

Douse in Gloom deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Orzhov prisoners are steeped in a blackened brew that robs their souls of strength. Patriarchs drink that brew to extend their own lives.

Seize the Soul

Instant

Destroy target nonwhite, nonblack creature. Put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

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

When the creature Seize the Soul haunts dies, destroy target nonwhite, nonblack creature. Put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Parallectric Feedback

Instant

Parallectric Feedback deals damage to target spell's controller equal to that spell's converted mana cost.

"You can't have so many people living so close together, all practicing so much magic, and not expect some feedback."

Pyromatics

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.)

Pyromatics deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Crash Landing

Instant

Target creature with flying loses flying until end of turn. Crash Landing deals damage to that creature equal to the number of Forests you control.

"The other guilds think they're untouchable. It's time we brought them back down to earth."
-Ghut Rak, Gruul guildmage

Wildsize

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

Draw a card.

Two times the size, four times the smell.

Cerebral Vortex

Instant

Target player draws two cards, then Cerebral Vortex deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards he or she has drawn this turn.

Izzet brains and Izzet boilers: contents under pressure.

Electrolyze

Instant

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

Draw a card.

The Izzet learn something from every lesson they teach.

Leap of Flame

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.)

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains flying and first strike until end of turn.

Mortify

Instant

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Schismotivate

Instant

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

Brace for Impact

Instant

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target multicolored creature this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Flesh can be tempered by spellcraft and forged ever stronger by the hammers of foes.

Carom

Instant

The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to another target creature instead.

Draw a card.

Her enemy's strength is her own.

Steeling Stance

Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Forecast - , Reveal Steeling Stance from your hand: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

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.

Vision Skeins

Instant

Each player draws two cards.

"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."

Nightcreep

Instant

Until end of turn, all creatures become black and all lands become Swamps.

"Please tell me I'm hallucinating. I'd rather be crazy than here."
-Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator

Cackling Flames

Instant

Cackling Flames deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Hellbent - Cackling Flames deals 5 damage to that creature or player instead if you have no cards in hand.

"I like a little entertainment with my dinner."
-Rakdos

Ignorant Bliss

Instant

Exile all cards from your hand face down. At the beginning of the next end step, return those cards to your hand, then draw a card.

"A quick step beyond oblivion lies a place so full of thoughts that it leaves no room for your own."
-Quyzl, chronarch prodigy

Psychotic Fury

Instant

Target multicolored creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"Rage, my servants. Our ancient power is renewed in blood."
-Rakdos

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

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

Might of the Nephilim

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each of its colors.

"Send a runner to Tin Street, and tell 'em the delivery has been . . . uh . . . held up."
-Bonmod, caravan rear guard

Æthermage's Touch

Instant

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It has "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Azorius Ploy

Instant

Prevent all combat damage target creature would deal this turn.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Azorius military tactics, like their legal tactics, capitalize on delay and nullification.

Cytoshape

Instant

Choose a nonlegendary creature on the battlefield. Target creature becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn.

"Though highly effective at reshaping flesh, these specially bred cytoplasts leave the subject reeking of omnibian mucus."
-Simic research notes

Overrule

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . You gain X life.

With one commanding word, the spell was put down and a fine collected for its casting.

Swift Silence

Instant

Counter all other spells. Draw a card for each spell countered this way.

"This world may not know peace, but in my presence you will know quiet."
-Augustin IV

Twinstrike

Instant

Twinstrike deals 2 damage to each of two target creatures.

Hellbent - Destroy those creatures instead if you have no cards in hand.

They're dying left and right.

Vigean Intuition

Instant

Choose a card type, then reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all cards of the chosen type revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal are card types.)

Voidslime

Instant

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

"It is technically an ooze, but its lifespan measures only seconds. In that short time, its appetite for magic is extraordinary."
-Simic research notes

Wrecking Ball

Instant

Destroy target creature or land.

Rakdos festivals almost leave enough rubble in their wake to hide the bodies.

Bound (Bound/Determined)

Instant

Sacrifice a creature. Return up to X cards from your graveyard to your hand, where X is the number of colors that creature was. Exile this card.

Hide (Hide/Seek)

Instant

Put target artifact or enchantment on the bottom of its owner's library.

Hit (Hit/Run)

Instant

Target player sacrifices an artifact or creature. Hit deals damage to that player equal to that permanent's converted mana cost.

Odds (Odds/Ends)

Instant

Flip a coin. If it comes up heads, counter target instant or sorcery spell. If it comes up tails, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Research (Research/Development)

Instant

Choose up to four cards you own from outside the game and shuffle them into your library.

Trial (Trial/Error)

Instant

Return all creatures blocking or blocked by target creature to their owner's hand.

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.

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

Momentary Blink

Instant

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. 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

Bewilder

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"Teferi snapped his fingers, and the viashino started clucking like a chicken. Silly, yes, but exactly the thing we needed to break the stifling tension."
-Jhoira, master artificer

Careful Consideration

Instant

Target player draws four cards, then discards three cards. If you cast this spell during your main phase, instead that player draws four cards, then discards two cards.

"Sages who take the time to verify their sources are rewarded for their diligence."
-Jhoira, to Teferi

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.

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.

Mystical Teachings

Instant

Search your library for an instant card or a card with flash, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

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

Snapback

Instant

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay Snapback's mana cost.

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"If it returns years hence, our knowledge of how to combat it will be that much greater."
-Andorel, Tolarian sentinel

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.

Trickbind

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.)

Counter target activated or triggered ability. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, activated abilities of that permanent can't be activated this turn. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Truth or Tale

Instant

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put a card from the chosen pile into your hand, then put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Wipe Away

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.)

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

An eyeblink later, all that remained of the tree-beast was the breeze of its momentum.

Dark Withering

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature.

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

Haunting Hymn

Instant

Target player discards two cards. If you cast this spell during your main phase, that player discards four cards instead.

The hymn's melody has persisted since Tourach's time, but the words changed to invoke the phobias of each listener.

Strangling Soot

Instant

Destroy target creature with toughness 3 or less.

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

"What good is your blade without your breath?"
-Greht, Gathan warlord

Sudden Death

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.)

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

Some mages tapped into the time rifts, forcing upon others alternate timelines in which unimaginable horrors befall them.

Sudden Spoiling

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.)

Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Traitor's Clutch

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+0, becomes black, and gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

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

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

Orcish Cannonade

Instant

Orcish Cannonade deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 3 damage to you.

Draw a card.

"Crispy! Scarback! Load another volcano-ball."
-Stumphobbler Thuj, Orcish captain

Reiterate

Instant

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

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"Echoes of the Mirari's power yet linger."
-Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Sudden Shock

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.)

Sudden Shock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Arc mages aren't known for their patience.

Sulfurous Blast

Instant

Sulfurous Blast deals 2 damage to each creature and each player. If you cast this spell during your main phase, Sulfurous Blast deals 3 damage to each creature and each player instead.

The Keldons used the toxic vents in the cracked earth to bolster their home's defenses.

Word of Seizing

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.)

Untap target permanent and gain control of it until end of turn. It gains haste until end of turn.

"Obey!"

Chameleon Blur

Instant

Prevent all damage that creatures would deal to players this turn.

"Sometimes the best plan is neither fighting nor running."
-Freyalise

Krosan Grip

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.)

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Give up these unnatural weapons, these scrolls. Heart and mind and fist are enough."
-Zyd, Kamahlite druid

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.

Squall Line

Instant

Squall Line deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

The constant shifting of Dominaria's shredded timeline played havoc with its atmosphere, combining savage electrical storms from ages past.

Stonewood Invocation

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.)

Target creature gets +5/+5 and gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"Might of ancient wood and stone,
Into spirit, flesh, and bone."

Strength in Numbers

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

"The hermit dies. The outcast dies. The lone wolf dies. Only those who stick together survive this world."
-Uros, Pendelhaven elder

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.)

Dawn Charm

Instant

Choose one - Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn; or regenerate target creature; or counter target spell that targets you.

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

Dismal Failure

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller discards a card.

"Two magi could trade spells all day and never crown a victor. The real battle is not one of power but of will. If your confidence breaks, so too shall you."
-Venser

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.

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.