Stronghold Discipline

Sorcery

Each player loses 1 life for each creature he or she controls.

In Urborg, the instigators of each new rebellion are soaked in the blood of the last.

Flowstone Slide

Sorcery

All creatures get +X/-X until end of turn.

"Like an avalanche. With teeth. That will chase you. Uphill."
-Flint Foot, viashino runner

Relentless Assault

Sorcery

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

"Mercy? Mercy is for the playground, not the battleground."

Shatterstorm

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts. They can't be regenerated.

From a marvel of magical mechanization to a smoking stack of scrap in one easy step.

Creeping Mold

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Mold crept over the walls and into every crevice until the gleaming white stone strained and burst.

Persecute

Sorcery

Choose a color. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards of that color.

"Of all the tyrannies on humane kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind."
-John Dryden,
"The Hind and the Panther"

Boiling Seas

Sorcery

Destroy all Islands.

What burns the land, boils the seas.

Flashfires

Sorcery

Destroy all Plains.

Dry grass is tinder before the spark.

Tsunami

Sorcery

Destroy all Islands.

Armageddon

Sorcery

Destroy all lands.

Resurrection

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Mind Warp

Sorcery

Look at target player's hand and choose X cards from it. That player discards those cards.

The hardest of wizards can have the softest of minds.

Juxtapose

Sorcery

You and target player exchange control of the creature you each control with the highest converted mana cost. Then exchange control of artifacts the same way. If two or more permanents a player controls are tied for highest cost, their controller chooses one of them.

Diminishing Returns

Sorcery

Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library. You exile the top ten cards of your library. Then each player draws up to seven cards.

Ashen Powder

Sorcery

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"What you call decay, I call ripening. You'll gain no sustenance from this harvest."
-Kaervek

Elven Cache

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Elves know where to harvest the best of the forest, for they planted it there themselves.

Nature's Resurgence

Sorcery

Each player draws a card for each creature card in his or her graveyard.

Spring follows winter
-Elvish expression meaning
"all things pass"

Breath of Life

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Nothing can stop the power of life-not even death."
-Onean cleric

Gerrard's Wisdom

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

A picture is worth a thousand swords.

Vengeance

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

"It is the duty of the strong to oppose any who threaten the weak."
-The Southern Paladin

Befoul

Sorcery

Destroy target land or nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

The bog's touch means death to all but the darkest of hearts.

Reprocess

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, creatures, and/or lands. Draw a card for each permanent sacrificed this way.

The battle's end is the meal's beginning.

Ambition's Cost

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

"Knowledge demands sacrifice."

All Hallow's Eve

Sorcery

Exile All Hallow's Eve with two scream counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if All Hallow's Eve is exiled with a scream counter on it, remove a scream counter from it. If there are no more scream counters on it, put it into your graveyard and each player returns all creature cards from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

Acid Rain

Sorcery

Destroy all Forests.

Eureka

Sorcery

Starting with you, each player may put a permanent card from his or her hand onto the battlefield. Repeat this process until no one puts a card onto the battlefield.

Cleanse

Sorcery

Destroy all black creatures.

The clouds broke and the sun's rays burst forth; each foul beast in its turn faltered, and was gone.

Eternal Flame

Sorcery

Eternal Flame deals X damage to target opponent, where X is the number of Mountains you control. It deals half X damage, rounded up, to you.

Stench of Evil

Sorcery

Destroy all Plains. For each land destroyed this way, Stench of Evil deals 1 damage to that land's controller unless he or she pays .

Anarchy

Sorcery

Destroy all white permanents.

"The Shaman waved the staff, and the land itself went mad."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Avalanche

Sorcery

Destroy X target snow lands.

"The pass was completely blocked by the avalanche; we're forced to turn back. Nevertheless, we've gone farther and seen more than any before us."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Baki's Curse

Sorcery

Baki's Curse deals 2 damage to each creature for each Aura attached to that creature.

"Those who fling spells too quickly should have reason to regret it."
-Baki, Wizard Attendant

Retribution

Sorcery

Choose two target creatures an opponent controls. That player chooses and sacrifices one of those creatures. Put a -1/-1 counter on the other.

Fatal Lore

Sorcery

An opponent chooses one - You draw three cards; or you destroy up to two target creatures that opponent controls and that player draws up to three cards. Those creatures can't be regenerated.

"All knowledge has its price."
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Ritual of the Machine

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Ritual of the Machine, sacrifice a creature.

Gain control of target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

"Rumors persist of dark deeds performed in the depths of Soldev. When will Dagsson heed the danger therein?"
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Taste of Paradise

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Taste of Paradise, you may pay any number of times.

You gain 3 life plus an additional 3 life for each additional you paid.

"Any who drink of Freyalise's bounty drink the mead of rebirth."
-Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Icefall

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

Recover (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

As the Thaw met Terisiare, mountains shed their icy skins, crushing homes and hopes alike.

Kaervek's Hex

Sorcery

Kaervek's Hex deals 1 damage to each nonblack creature and an additional 1 damage to each green creature.

"If the curse does not strike you dead, question your soul."
-Kaervek

Natural Balance

Sorcery

Each player who controls six or more lands chooses five lands he or she controls and sacrifices the rest. Each player who controls four or fewer lands may search his or her library for X basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield, where X is five minus the number of lands he or she controls. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Unyaro Bee Sting

Sorcery

Unyaro Bee Sting deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Much can be learned from the bees about dying for a cause."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger