Pale Moon

Instant

Until end of turn, if a player taps a nonbasic land for mana, it produces colorless mana instead of any other type.

Denizens of Rath had never seen the moon before. It was a symbol of change, not constancy.

Refreshing Rain

Instant

If an opponent controls a Swamp and you control a Forest, you may cast Refreshing Rain without paying its mana cost.

Target player gains 6 life.

Sivvi's Ruse

Instant

If an opponent controls a Mountain and you control a Plains, you may cast Sivvi's Ruse without paying its mana cost.

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

Sivvi's Valor

Instant

If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay Sivvi's Valor's mana cost.

All damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to you instead.

Submerge

Instant

If an opponent controls a Forest and you control an Island, you may cast Submerge without paying its mana cost.

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

Blood Oath

Instant

Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals his or her hand. Blood Oath deals 3 damage to that player for each card of the chosen type revealed this way. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal are card types.)

Brawl

Instant

Until end of turn, all creatures gain ": This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature."

Anything can happen when patience is scarce and wine is abundant.

Crash

Instant

You may sacrifice a Mountain rather than pay Crash's mana cost.

Destroy target artifact.

Gerrard shook his head as the ground rushed to meet him. "This," he thought, "is not the start I was hoping for."

Ghoul's Feast

Instant

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Mercadians not wealthy enough to buy a tomb are thrown into a bog called "the Ghoul's Larder."

Gush

Instant

You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay Gush's mana cost.

Draw two cards.

Don't trust your secrets to the sea.

Honor the Fallen

Instant

Exile all creature cards from all graveyards. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way.

"May the River claim Cho-Manno's body, wherever it lies."
-Ta-Karnst, Cho-Arrim healer

Hoodwink

Instant

Return target artifact, enchantment, or land to its owner's hand.

The youths of Rishada's marketplace are always ready for a quick footrace.

Invigorate

Instant

If you control a Forest, rather than pay Invigorate's mana cost, you may have an opponent gain 3 life.

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

Karn's Touch

Instant

Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost until end of turn. (It retains its abilities.)

Lunge

Instant

Lunge deals 2 damage to target creature and 2 damage to target player.

Cho-Arrim righteousness was no match for Benalish combat training.

Mercadia's Downfall

Instant

Each attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each nonbasic land defending player controls.

With an explosion that shook the foundation of the city, the Weatherlight burst from the underground hangar.

Misdirection

Instant

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

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Moment of Silence

Instant

Target player skips his or her next combat phase this turn.

The silence commemorates not those who've died, but those about to.

Orim's Cure

Instant

If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay Orim's Cure's mana cost.

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

Puppet's Verdict

Instant

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy all creatures with power 2 or less. If you lose the flip, destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

"What was heads again?"
-Mercadian magistrate

Ramosian Rally

Instant

If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay Ramosian Rally's mana cost.

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

Renounce

Instant

Sacrifice any number of permanents. You gain 2 life for each permanent sacrificed this way.

Gerrard offered no defense to Orim's condemnation; the mission was under his command, and he was responsible.

Reverent Mantra

Instant

You may exile a white card from your hand rather than pay Reverent Mantra's mana cost.

Choose a color. All creatures gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

Rouse

Instant

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 2 life rather than pay Rouse's mana cost.

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Shoving Match

Instant

Until end of turn, all creatures gain ": Tap target creature."

Rishadan barkeeps know something the Mercadians have yet to learn: if you keep pushing, someone will eventually push back.

Snuff Out

Instant

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay Snuff Out's mana cost.

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

Squee watched his Kyren cousins fall with a mixture of sympathy and relief.

Soothing Balm

Instant

Target player gains 5 life.

Orim taught Ta-Karnst and the other Cho-Arrim healers a far less invasive method of healing.

Thunderclap

Instant

You may sacrifice a Mountain rather than pay Thunderclap's mana cost.

Thunderclap deals 3 damage to target creature.

Thwart

Instant

You may return three Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay Thwart's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Tidal Bore

Instant

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay Tidal Bore's mana cost.

You may tap or untap target creature.

The dry riverbed became a raging torrent, and the Cho-Arrim claimed their prize.

Warpath

Instant

Warpath deals 3 damage to each blocking creature and each blocked creature.

Cho-Manno had never seen Mercadia City's forces fight so well. The magistrate must have hired a new hero.

Fend Off

Instant

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

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

The best defense is to not get hit.

Magnify

Instant

All creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

The seed torches' pollen gives off light, but the elves find it heightens their senses as well.

Quash

Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Rapid Decay

Instant

Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

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

The grave robbers arrived the day after the burial. They were a day too late.

Rescue

Instant

Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

"Urza, I've discovered more promising students than you and my husband have, combined. And I haven't lost a single one."
-Rayne, Academy Chancellor

Scent of Brine

Instant

Reveal any number of blue cards in your hand. Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each card revealed this way.

Scent of Ivy

Instant

Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

Scent of Jasmine

Instant

Reveal any number of white cards in your hand. You gain 2 life for each card revealed this way.

Scent of Nightshade

Instant

Reveal any number of black cards in your hand. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

Scour

Instant

Exile target enchantment. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that enchantment and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Boil

Instant

Destroy all Islands.

"The fishers will throw out their nets and draw them back filled with dust."
-Oracle en-Vec

Desertion

Instant

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

First the insult, then the injury.

Enlightened Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal."
-Daudi, Femeref tutor

Exile

Instant

Exile target nonwhite attacking creature. You gain life equal to its toughness.

Fatal Blow

Instant

Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. It can't be regenerated.

"What is crueler? To let a wound of the heart fester, or to simply cut it out?"
-Crovax

Final Fortune

Instant

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Want all, lose all.
-Zhalfirin aphorism

Flash

Instant

You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you do, sacrifice it unless you pay its mana cost reduced by up to .

Lightning Blast

Instant

Lightning Blast deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

"Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do."
-Selenia, dark angel

Mystical Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"To the tutors, a ‘poem of sand' was of little account, a ‘poem of ivory,' priceless."
-Afari, Tales

Remedy

Instant

Prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of target creatures and/or players, divided as you choose.

"These things will protect you while I'm gone, remind you of my love for you."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Reprisal

Instant

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated.

"The meek shall fight as one, and they shall overcome even the greatest of foes."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Vampiric Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a card, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it. You lose 2 life.

"I write upon clean white parchment with a sharp quill and the blood of my students, divining their secrets."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Vertigo

Instant

Vertigo deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. That creature loses flying until end of turn.

"I saw the wizard gesturing, but I didn't guess his plan until my aesthir cried out and went into a dive."
-Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Vitalize

Instant

Untap all creatures you control.

"After waking to the magic of Llanowar, no dreams can compare."
-Mirri of the Weatherlight

Worldly Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a creature card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"Aselbo soon had the rhino eating from his palm and the snake waiting at his heels."
-Afari, Tales

About Face

Instant

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

The overconfident are the most vulnerable.

Burst of Energy

Instant

Untap target permanent.

"I stand ready to die for our world. Who will stand with me?"
-Radiant, archangel

Crop Rotation

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Crop Rotation, sacrifice a land.

Search your library for a land card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

"Hmm . . . maybe lotuses this year."

Frantic Search

Instant

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Motivation was high in the academy once students realized flunking their exams could kill them.

Harmonic Convergence

Instant

Put all enchantments on top of their owners' libraries.

When the eternal stars align, can mere mortals resist?

Hope and Glory

Instant

Untap two target creatures. Each of them gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Serra ruled by faith. I cannot afford that luxury."
-Radiant, archangel

Intervene

Instant

Counter target spell that targets a creature.

"At first I simply observed. But I found that without investment in others, life serves no purpose."
-Karn, silver golem

Iron Will

Instant

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

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

Last-Ditch Effort

Instant

Sacrifice any number of creatures. Last-Ditch Effort deals that much damage to target creature or player.

"If you're gonna lose, at least make sure they don't win as much."
-Jula, goblin raider

Miscalculation

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

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

Parch

Instant

Choose one - Parch deals 2 damage to target creature or player; or Parch deals 4 damage to target blue creature.

"Your porous flesh betrays you."
-Fire Eye, viashino bey

Peace and Quiet

Instant

Destroy two target enchantments.

"In time our realm will shine again. But it will gleam only when we scour away the taint of doubt."
-Radiant, archangel

Rack and Ruin

Instant

Destroy two target artifacts.

"My people are bound by masters centuries dead. Each artifact we destroy is another link broken in that chain."
-Barb Tail, viashino heretic

Radiant's Judgment

Instant

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

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

Rebuild

Instant

Return all artifacts to their owners' hands.

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

Repopulate

Instant

Shuffle all creature cards from target player's graveyard into that player's library.

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

Sick and Tired

Instant

Two target creatures each get -1/-1 until end of turn.

The Phyrexians' only interest in organic life is discerning its weakness.

Silk Net

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Sometimes it's possible to pull a meal out of thin air.

Snap

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Good riddance.

Swat

Instant

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.

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

Annul

Instant

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

The most effective way to destroy a spell is to ensure it was never cast in the first place.

Brand

Instant

Gain control of all permanents you own. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

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

"By this glyph I affirm your role."
-Urza, to Karn

Breach

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Clear

Instant

Destroy target enchantment.

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

Curfew

Instant

Each player returns a creature he or she controls to its owner's hand.

". . . But I'm not tired!"

Expunge

Instant

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

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

Falter

Instant

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

Like a sleeping dragon, Shiv stirs and groans at times.

Fault Line

Instant

Fault Line deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

We live on the serpent's back.
-Viashino saying

Headlong Rush

Instant

Attacking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.

A landslide of goblins poured toward the defenders-tumbling, rolling, and bouncing their way down the steep hillside.

Humble

Instant

Target creature loses all abilities and becomes 0/1 until end of turn.

"It is not your place to rule, Radiant. It may not even be mine."
-Serra

Lull

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

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

Outmaneuver

Instant

X target blocked creatures assign their combat damage this turn as though they weren't blocked.

"Push one goblin into sight, an' run a lot. That's tactics."
-Jula, goblin raider

Rain of Filth

Instant

Until end of turn, lands you control gain "Sacrifice this land: Add to your mana pool."

"When I say it rained, it was not small drops, but a thick, greasy drool pouring from the heavens."
-Urza, journal

Rescind

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

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

Scrap

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

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

Shower of Sparks

Instant

Shower of Sparks deals 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to target player.

The viashino had learned how to operate the rig through trial and error-mostly error.

Stroke of Genius

Instant

Target player draws X cards.

After a hundred failed experiments, Urza was stunned to find that common silver passed through the portal undamaged. He immediately designed a golem made of the metal.

Sunder

Instant

Return all lands to their owners' hands.

The flow of time was disrupted; like a flooding river it rose from its banks. Tolaria was drowned in an instant that stretched toward infinity.

Symbiosis

Instant

Two target creatures each get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Although the elves of Argoth always considered them a nuisance, the pixies made fine allies during the war against the machines.

Turnabout

Instant

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

The best cure for a big ego is a little failure.

Waylay

Instant

Put three 2/2 white Knight creature tokens onto the battlefield. Exile them at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

"You reek of corruption," spat the knight. "Why are you even here?"

Allay

Instant

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

Destroy target enchantment.

Culling the Weak

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Culling the Weak, sacrifice a creature.

Add to your mana pool.

"The blood of the weak shall be the ink with which we scribe great Yawgmoth's glorious name."
-Stronghold architect, journal

Fighting Chance

Instant

For each blocking creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by that creature this turn.

A stroke of luck can smite an army.