Lethargy Trap

Instant - Trap

If three or more creatures are attacking, you may pay rather than pay Lethargy Trap's mana cost.

Attacking creatures get -3/-0 until end of turn.

Suddenly, Zurdi didn't care about treasure, glory, food . . . or the drakes circling above.

Mindbreak Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay rather than pay Mindbreak Trap's mana cost.

Exile any number of target spells.

"Life is a maze. This is one of its dead ends."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Summoner's Bane

Instant

Counter target creature spell. Put a 2/2 blue Illusion creature token onto the battlefield.

"I don't need to have the perfect plan. My foe just has to have an imperfect one."
-Jace Beleren

Ravenous Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent had three or more cards put into his or her graveyard from anywhere this turn, you may pay rather than pay Ravenous Trap's mana cost.

Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

Inferno Trap

Instant - Trap

If you've been dealt damage by two or more creatures this turn, you may pay rather than pay Inferno Trap's mana cost.

Inferno Trap deals 4 damage to target creature.

"Do you smell something burning?"

Offering to Asha

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . You gain 4 life.

"His body belongs to Bant now. His soul? I honestly don't know. I expect it belongs to the angels."
-Rafiq of the Many

Inspired Charge

Instant

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn.

"Impossible! How could they overwhelm us? We had barricades, war elephants, . . . and they were barely a tenth of our number!"
-General Avitora

Disorient

Instant

Target creature gets -7/-0 until end of turn.

"If it has a brain, even a primitive one, we can most surely scramble it."
-Garild, merfolk mage

Tendrils of Corruption

Instant

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Darkness doesn't always send its minions to do its dirty work.

Might of Oaks

Instant

Target creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

May your weapon be no sword forged. May your armor be no metal wrought.
-Elvish saying

Cankerous Thirst

Instant

If was spent to cast Cankerous Thirst, you may have target creature get -3/-3 until end of turn. If was spent to cast Cankerous Thirst, you may have target creature get +3/+3 until end of turn. (Do both if was spent.)

Nothing warms the bark on a chilly day like a draught of elf.

Invert the Skies

Instant

Creatures your opponents control lose flying until end of turn if was spent to cast Invert the Skies, and creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

Put Away

Instant

Counter target spell. You may shuffle up to one target card from your graveyard into your library.

Kithkin spellbottlers spend half their time preserving old memories and the other half punishing the new.

Gloomwidow's Feast

Instant

Destroy target creature with flying. If that creature was blue or black, put a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach onto the battlefield. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Each night, gloomwidows cull fresh prey for their ravenous hatchlings.

Æthertow

Instant

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

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.)

Mirrorweave

Instant

Each other creature becomes a copy of target nonlegendary creature until end of turn.

"Those who are different are untrustworthy, unpredictable. Put your safety in the hands of your own kind."
-Bowen, Barrenton guardcaptain

Repel Intruders

Instant

Put two 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield if was spent to cast Repel Intruders. Counter up to one target creature spell if was spent to cast Repel Intruders. (Do both if was spent.)

Memory Plunder

Instant

You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

"Vengeance is the echo of the victim's own crime."
-Grensch, merrow cutthroat

Neck Snap

Instant

Destroy target attacking or blocking creature.

"We merrows need not be disadvantaged when fighting on land. We lack the vulnerability of those who breathe only through their throats."
-Minnarin, merrow reejerey

Cryptic Command

Instant

Choose two - Counter target spell; or return target permanent to its owner's hand; or tap all creatures your opponents control; or draw a card.

Makeshift Mannequin

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a mannequin counter on it. For as long as that creature has a mannequin counter on it, it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

"This vulgar mimicry will end now."
-Desmera, perfect of Wren's Run

Wild Ricochet

Instant

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

"I knew that trick long before your great-grandmother's great-grandmother was born."

Heal the Scars

Instant

Regenerate target creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Elvish battle-magic has evolved two specialties: inflicting wounds that scar, and healing wounds without scarring. Politics determines the recipients of each.

Discombobulate

Instant

Counter target spell. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"I said ‘pick his brain,' not ‘tear off his head.'"
-Riptide Project researcher

Plagiarize

Instant

Until end of turn, if target player would draw a card, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Sudden Impact

Instant

Sudden Impact deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"Some say it's better to think before you act. While those people are considering all the options, that's usually when I kill them."
-Dravus, lava mage

Chastise

Instant

Destroy target attacking creature. You gain life equal to its power.

"Why do we pray to the Ancestor? Because She listens."
-Mystic elder

Deflection

Instant

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Up and down,
over and through,
back around-
the joke's on you.

Boil

Instant

Destroy all Islands.

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

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

Nocturnal Raid

Instant

Black creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

The Eastern Paladin doesn't attack at night for the tactical advantage. He does it for the sheer joy of fighting beneath the moon.

Solidarity

Instant

Creatures you control get +0/+5 until end of turn.

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
-Benjamin Franklin

Reverberation

Instant

All damage that would be dealt this turn by target sorcery spell is dealt to that spell's controller instead.

Storm Seeker

Instant

Storm Seeker deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Rapid Fire

Instant

Cast Rapid Fire only before blockers are declared.

Target creature gains first strike until end of turn. If it doesn't have rampage, that creature gains rampage 2 until end of turn. (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Fanatical Fever

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

"Let go your fury, and hone your anger. Become the fist of Freyalise!"
-Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Trailblazer

Instant

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

"Our Elvish Hunter Taaveti led us swiftly along hidden paths through the dense forest. We caught the Orcs from behind, and completely by surprise."
-Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Venomous Breath

Instant

Choose target creature. At end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by it this turn.

Ambush

Instant

Blocking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.

"Don't these goons have anything better to do?"
-Joskun, An-Havva Constable

Feast or Famine

Instant

Choose one - Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield; or destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature and it can't be regenerated.

"We are not yet free of Lim-Dûl's terrors."
-Halvor Arensson, Kjeldoran Priest

Controvert

Instant

Counter target spell.

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.)

Surging Æther

Instant

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Chill to the Bone

Instant

Destroy target nonsnow creature.

"Thick hides and layered armor won't help when I freeze you from the inside out."
-Heidar, Rimewind master

Mystic Melting

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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

The sun-hot glow radiated from the druids, leaving scattered metal in steaming pools as it passed.

Vanish into Memory

Instant

Exile target creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power. At the beginning of your next upkeep, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, discard cards equal to its toughness.

Out of sight, into mind.

Ether Well

Instant

Put target creature on top of its owner's library. If that creature is red, you may put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead.

"Whoa-my tail will never fit through that hole!"

Lure of Prey

Instant

Cast Lure of Prey only if an opponent cast a creature spell this turn.

You may put a green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Barreling Attack

Instant

Target creature gains trample until end of turn. When that creature becomes blocked this turn, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"The trollish game of push-fall inspired this impressive tactic."
-Sidar Jabari

Blind Fury

Instant

Cast Blind Fury only before the combat damage step.

All creatures lose trample until end of turn. If a creature would deal combat damage to a creature this turn, it deals double that damage to that creature instead.

"Tell me . . . have you ever sung the Song of Blood?"
-Purraj of Urborg

Dismiss

Instant

Counter target spell.

Draw a card.

"There is nothing you can do that I cannot simply deny."
-Ertai, wizard adept

Slaughter

Instant

Buyback-Pay 4 life. (You may pay 4 life in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thwart

Instant

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

Counter target spell.

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.

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.)

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.

Angelic Favor

Instant

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

Cast Angelic Favor only during combat.

Put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

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.

Ensnare

Instant

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

Tap all creatures.

Rootwater has become as dangerous to its denizens as to its enemies.

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.

Mirror Strike

Instant

All combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn by target unblocked creature is dealt to its controller instead.

"Enemies can be your weapons or your shields. Simply show them which they are."
-The Teachings of Zho

Foil

Instant

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay Foil's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Snag

Instant

You may discard a Forest card rather than pay Snag's mana cost.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by unblocked creatures this turn.

Agonizing Demise

Instant

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

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. If Agonizing Demise was kicked, it deals damage equal to that creature's power to the creature's controller.

Reviving Vapors

Instant

Reveal the top three cards of your library and put one of them into your hand. You gain life equal to that card's converted mana cost. Put all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.

Spite (Spite/Malice)

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

Surprise Deployment

Instant

Cast Surprise Deployment only during combat.

You may put a nonwhite creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. At the beginning of the next end step, return that creature to your hand. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Death Bomb

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Death Bomb, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller loses 2 life.

There's no higher honor in Phyrexia than dying for Yawgmoth's glorious vision.

Magma Burst

Instant

Kicker-Sacrifice two lands. (You may sacrifice two lands in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)

Magma Burst deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If Magma Burst was kicked, it deals 3 damage to another target creature or player.

Suffocating Blast

Instant

Counter target spell and Suffocating Blast deals 3 damage to target creature.

Order (Order/Chaos)

Instant

Exile target attacking creature.

Spirit Flare

Instant

Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, it deals damage equal to its power to target attacking or blocking creature an opponent controls.

Flashback-, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Insidious Dreams

Instant

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

Search your library for X cards. Then shuffle your library and put those cards on top of it in any order.

Chainer dreams of ultimate knowledge.

Psychotic Haze

Instant

Psychotic Haze deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

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

Temporary Insanity

Instant

Untap target creature with power less than the number of cards in your graveyard and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn.

Violent Eruption

Instant

Violent Eruption deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

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

Sudden Strength

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

The Mirari's magic transformed the Krosan Forest-and its inhabitants.

Defensive Maneuvers

Instant

Creatures of the creature type of your choice get +0/+4 until end of turn.

"Only on the battlefield can we repay all the Order has given us."

Choking Tethers

Instant

Tap up to four target creatures.

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

When you cycle Choking Tethers, you may tap target creature.

Psychic Trance

Instant

Until end of turn, Wizards you control gain ": Counter target spell."

The Riptide Project was perhaps the only school devoted to preventing the spread of knowledge.

Wheel and Deal

Instant

Any number of target opponents each discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

Draw a card.

Death Pulse

Instant

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

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

When you cycle Death Pulse, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Solar Blast

Instant

Solar Blast deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

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

When you cycle Solar Blast, you may have it deal 1 damage to target creature or player.

Recuperate

Instant

Choose one - You gain 6 life; or prevent the next 6 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

"Rise once more, so you may continue to destroy our enemies."
-Karona, false god

Hindering Touch

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Altar's Light

Instant

Exile target artifact or enchantment.

"The altar does nothing; the device is crushed under the weight of its own impurity."
-Ushanti, leonin seer

Irradiate

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each artifact you control.

The blast ignores the cage of metal but devours the flesh inside.

Grab the Reins

Instant

Choose one - Until end of turn, you gain control of target creature and it gains haste; or sacrifice a creature, then Grab the Reins deals damage equal to that creature's power to target creature or player.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Bloodscent

Instant

All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.

Last Word

Instant

Last Word can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Counter target spell.

"Someday, someone will best me. But it won't be today, and it won't be you."

Burden of Greed

Instant

Target player loses 1 life for each tapped artifact he or she controls.

"The one who dies with the most toys is still dead."
-Geth, keeper of the Vault

Shriveling Rot

Instant

Choose one - Until end of turn, whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it; or until end of turn, whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Tears of Rage

Instant

Cast Tears of Rage only during the declare attackers step.

Attacking creatures you control get +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of attacking creatures. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Abuna's Chant

Instant

Choose one - You gain 5 life; or prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Retaliate

Instant

Destroy all creatures that dealt damage to you this turn.

The Auriok learned perseverance from their forebears. They learned justice from the leonin.

Fold into Æther

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, its controller may put a creature card from his or her hand onto the battlefield.

Æther portals drift across Mirrodin's surface, dragging creatures across time and space.