Lavalanche

Sorcery

Lavalanche deals X damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

Alara's burning blood cannot be contained by mere earth and stone.

Maelstrom Pulse

Sorcery

Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

During the collision of the shards, entire ways of life disappeared without a trace.

Mind Funeral

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until four land cards are revealed. That player puts all cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard.

"The soul is only as eternal as I say it is."
-Sharuum the Hegemon

Morbid Bloom

Sorcery

Exile target creature card from a graveyard, then put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the exiled card's toughness.

"From the damned I make my garden."
-Jorshu of Clan Nel Toth

Reborn Hope

Sorcery

Return target multicolored card from your graveyard to your hand.

"In darkness is kindled the fiercest hope."
-Hadran, sunseeder of Naya

Slave of Bolas

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Nicol Bolas doesn't distinguish between servants and victims.

Soulquake

Sorcery

Return all creatures on the battlefield and all creature cards in graveyards to their owners' hands.

The Maelstrom sent a wave of raw mana through the battlefield, carrying off the fighting and fallen alike.

Thought Hemorrhage

Sorcery

Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand. Thought Hemorrhage deals 3 damage to that player for each card with that name revealed this way. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Vengeful Rebirth

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. If you return a nonland card to your hand this way, Vengeful Rebirth deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

Exile Vengeful Rebirth.

Wargate

Sorcery

Search your library for a permanent card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Bant mages still call to the heavens for aid, but angels are not the only ones who answer.

Absorb Vis

Sorcery

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

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

Banefire

Sorcery

Banefire deals X damage to target creature or player.

If X is 5 or more, Banefire can't be countered by spells or abilities and the damage can't be prevented.

For Sarkhan Vol, the dragon is the purest expression of life's savage splendor.

Conflux

Sorcery

Search your library for a white card, a blue card, a black card, a red card, and a green card. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

After years of world-bending machinations, Bolas's triumph is at hand.

Exploding Borders

Sorcery

Domain - Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Exploding Borders deals X damage to target player, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Reuniting a world is not a gentle process.

Martial Coup

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.

Their war forgotten, the nations of Bant stood united in the face of a common threat.

Quenchable Fire

Sorcery

Quenchable Fire deals 3 damage to target player. It deals an additional 3 damage to that player at the beginning of your next upkeep step unless he or she pays before that step.

You'd better know how to pray for rain.

Shard Convergence

Sorcery

Search your library for a Plains card, an Island card, a Swamp card, and a Mountain card. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Alara is broken no more.

Soul's Majesty

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the power of target creature you control.

An avatar he sculpts of wisdom and strength.

Spore Burst

Sorcery

Domain - Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each basic land type among lands you control.

Seeds from Jund don't drift gently on the wind. They get up and stampede.

Telemin Performance

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a creature card. That player puts all noncreature cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard, then you put the creature card onto the battlefield under your control.

Voices from the Void

Sorcery

Domain - Target player discards a card for each basic land type among lands you control.

As Grixis collided with the rest of Alara, the worlds began to hear the hateful whispers of the forgotten dead.

Wretched Banquet

Sorcery

Destroy target creature if it has the least power or is tied for least power among creatures on the battlefield.

"The meek inherit nothing."
-Sedris, the Traitor King

Blightning

Sorcery

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player. That player discards two cards.

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

Brilliant Ultimatum

Sorcery

Exile the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. You may play any number of cards from one of those piles without paying their mana costs.

Revealing the truth only deepened Tezzeret's curiosity for the secrets still buried.

Clarion Ultimatum

Sorcery

Choose five permanents you control. For each of those permanents, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that permanent. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Be worthy of a single blessing, and many more will follow.

Covenant of Minds

Sorcery

Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent may choose to put those cards into your hand. If he or she doesn't, put those cards into your graveyard and draw five cards.

Before signing anything on Grixis, always read the fine print.

Cruel Ultimatum

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

There is always a greater power.

Dragon Fodder

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Goblins journey to the sacrificial peaks in pairs so that the rare survivor might be able to relate the details of the other's grisly demise.

Excommunicate

Sorcery

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

Rebels and other malcontents forced into the ritual awake lost in Topa's vast savannahs. Those who find their way back return humble and repentant.

Gift of the Gargantuan

Sorcery

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

Infest

Sorcery

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

"This is why we don't go out in banewasp weather."
-Rannon, Vithian holdout

Invincible Hymn

Sorcery

Count the number of cards in your library. Your life total becomes that number.

Bantians believe those who are born into the highest caste and live a life of discipline and virtue can ascend to become angels.

Kiss of the Amesha

Sorcery

Target player gains 7 life and draws two cards.

Once a year, Akrasa holds a joust that draws knights and their leotaus from every nation on Bant. The prize is an Akrasan sigil, but the true reward is the angel's kiss.

Resounding Scream

Sorcery

Target player discards a card at random.

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

When you cycle Resounding Scream, target player discards two cards at random.

Sangrite Surge

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains double strike until end of turn.

Some believe the spiky crystal called sangrite is concentrated dragon's breath. Others think it's crystallized life energy. The clans care only about the power it unleashes when crushed.

Soul's Might

Sorcery

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power.

An avatar he sculpts of instinct and force.

Titanic Ultimatum

Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +5/+5 and gain first strike, lifelink, and trample.

"Retribution is best delivered by claws and rage, with both magnified."
-Ajani

Violent Ultimatum

Sorcery

Destroy three target permanents.

"Words are a waste of time. Destruction is a language everyone understands."
-Sarkhan Vol

Volcanic Submersion

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

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

A dragon's death is almost as feared as its life. Old, dying dragons throw themselves into volcanoes, causing massive upheaval and widespread disaster.

Call the Skybreaker

Sorcery

Put a 5/5 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

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

It hears and answers every orison across Shadowmoor.