Spatial Contortion

Instant

({C} represents colorless mana.)

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

"For those without the Planeswalker spark, the merest touch of the Blind Eternities can kill."
-Ugin

Spawning Breath

Instant

Spawning Breath deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Put a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Death by death, Kozilek's lineage spread.

Spectral Shift

Instant

Choose one - Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one basic land type with another; or change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (These effects last indefinitely.)

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

Spell Blast

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is , X is 5.)

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.

Spell Contortion

Instant

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Draw a card for each time Spell Contortion was kicked.

Spell Crumple

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard. Put Spell Crumple on the bottom of its owner's library.

Spell Pierce

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

"There's a hole in your plan."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Spell Rupture

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays , where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"Like water, mana will drain from an inferior vessel."
-Jalan Tosk, Simic forcemage

Spell Shrivel

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

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.

Spell Snip

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

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

"Magic cast through a hand of flesh is just as weak as the flesh itself."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

Spell Syphon

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each blue permanent you control.

Warrik Brutehexer felt betrayed that his aura favored the depths of the Wanderbrine River over its rightful place, hovering around him.

Spelljack

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may play it without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)

Spellshift

Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals an instant or sorcery card. That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then he or she shuffles his or her library.

Sphinx's Revelation

Instant

You gain X life and draw X cards.

"Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order."

Spidery Grasp

Instant

Untap target creature. It gets +2/+4 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

"Nobody's seen the Lady of Videns for years. Poor dear, no companions at all in that old castle."
-Yonda of Gavony

Spin into Myth

Instant

Put target creature on top of its owner's library, then fateseal 2. (To fateseal 2, look at the top two cards of an opponent's library, then put any number of them on the bottom of that player's library and the rest on top in any order.)

Spinal Embrace

Instant

Cast Spinal Embrace only during combat.

Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Spinning Darkness

Instant

You may exile the top three black cards of your graveyard rather than pay Spinning Darkness's mana cost.

Spinning Darkness deals 3 damage to target nonblack creature. You gain 3 life.

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.)

Spiritual Visit

Instant - Arcane

Put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Spiritualize

Instant

Until end of turn, whenever target creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Draw a card.

"There is purity in all things. Even hatred."
-Lieutenant Kirtar

Spite (Spite/Malice)

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

Split Decision

Instant

Will of the council - Choose target instant or sorcery spell. Starting with you, each player votes for denial or duplication. If denial gets more votes, counter the spell. If duplication gets more votes or the vote is tied, copy the spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Spoils of Blood

Instant

Put an X/X black Horror creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn.

"There are always leftovers."
-Derecht, flesh carver

Spoils of Evil

Instant

For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add to your mana pool and you gain 1 life.

"Virtue has its rewards, as does its opposite."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Spoils of the Vault

Instant

Name a card. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal the named card, then put that card into your hand. Exile all other cards revealed this way, and you lose 1 life for each of the exiled cards.

Spontaneous Combustion

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Spontaneous Combustion, sacrifice a creature.

Spontaneous Combustion deals 3 damage to each creature.

"Heat of battle" is usually a metaphor.

Spore Cloud

Instant

Tap all blocking creatures. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Each attacking creature and each blocking creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Spring Cleaning

Instant

Destroy target enchantment. Clash with an opponent. If you win, destroy all enchantments your opponents control. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

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.

Sprout Swarm

Instant

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

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

Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Sprouting Vines

Instant

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Spy Network

Instant

Look at target player's hand, the top card of that player's library, and any face-down creatures he or she controls. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

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.

Squelch

Instant

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Draw a card.

Oku-Doku had gone through all the motions: the same akki cursewords, the same ingredients with their horrid stink, the same rude gestures. Yet not a person died.

Stabbing Pain

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Tap that creature.

"You can take the fight out of nearly any creature if you know where its soft spot is."
-Guttor, flesh-warper

Staggershock

Instant

Staggershock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Stampede

Instant

Attacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

"When are beasts like a river?"
-The One Thousand Questions

Stand (Stand/Deliver)

Instant

Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Stand Firm

Instant

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

Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Stand Together

Instant

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature and two +1/+1 counters on another target creature.

Strange times make for strange allies.

Standardize

Instant

Choose a creature type other than Wall. Each creature becomes that type until end of turn.

At that point, the wizards' argument got a lot uglier.

Starfall

Instant

Starfall deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature is an enchantment, Starfall deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.

"The most brilliant stars are not born of Nyx."
-Rhexenor, Akroan flamespeaker

Starstorm

Instant

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature.

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

Pardic barbarians didn't complain when the Order started blaming every crisis on the Cabal.

Statute of Denial

Instant

Counter target spell. If you control a blue creature, draw a card, then discard a card.

"Pyrotechnic activity of any sort is strictly prohibited. It is irrelevant that today is a holiday."

Stave Off

Instant

Target creature gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of that color.)

Steady Progress

Instant

Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Draw a card.

"More of that strange oil . . . It's probably nothing."

Steal Strength

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

With each grunt of pain from Haddad, Greel's grin widened.

Steam Augury

Instant

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Steel Sabotage

Instant

Choose one - Counter target artifact spell; or return target artifact to its owner's hand.

"You are hopelessly obsolete, my brothers. Come and join the Great Work."
-Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

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.)

Stench of Decay

Instant

Nonartifact creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Disa is dead, and I am left. I shall allow no others to succumb to this pestilence."
-Kolbjörn, High Honored Druid

Stifle

Instant

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

"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
-Pemmin, Riptide survivor

Stir the Pride

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn; or until end of turn, creatures you control gain "Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life."

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

Stoic Rebuttal

Instant

Metalcraft - Stoic Rebuttal costs less to cast if you control three or more artifacts.

Counter target spell.

Obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge above all else, vedalken can appear to be cold and emotionless.

Stoke the Flames

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Stoke the Flames deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Stone Idol Trap

Instant - Trap

Stone Idol Trap costs less to cast for each attacking creature.

Put a 6/12 colorless Construct artifact creature token with trample onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of your next end step.

Stonefury

Instant

Stonefury deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.

Akoum can make any intruder look small.

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."

Storm Seeker

Instant

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

Strange Inversion

Instant - Arcane

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

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

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

Stream of Consciousness

Instant - Arcane

Target player shuffles up to four target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.

"All things return to their beginnings. The waters that spill across the Kamitaki Falls flow to sea, only to be returned to her as the rain that joins the mighty river."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Street Spasm

Instant

Street Spasm deals X damage to target creature without flying you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

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

Strength of Cedars

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of lands you control.

"No sooner had the beast collapsed under the blows of Takeno's sword than the earth rippled and the creature rose again to face him."
-Battle of Akagi River: A Survivor's Tale

Strength of Night

Instant

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

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. If Strength of Night was kicked, Zombie creatures you control get an additional +2/+2 until end of turn.

Strength of the Tajuru

Instant

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Choose target creature, then choose another target creature for each time Strength of the Tajuru was kicked. Put X +1/+1 counters on each of them.

Strip Bare

Instant

Destroy all Auras and Equipment attached to target creature.

"All glamers lifted, all lies revealed, all flesh exposed."
-Awylla, elvish safewright

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.

Stubborn Denial

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

The Temur have no patience for subtlety.

Stun

Instant

Target creature can't block this turn.

Draw a card.

"Fortunately, merfolk aren't used to opponents with feet."
-Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Stymied Hopes

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

When a god's will is against you, the day never ends well.

Subdue

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn. That creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is its converted mana cost.

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.

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 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

Sudden Reclamation

Instant

Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then return a creature card and a land card from your graveyard to your hand.

"There is no secret buried so deep that we will never find it."
-Kurtar, Sultai necromancer

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.

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.

Sudden Storm

Instant

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

No matter how big and strong you are, the sea is bigger and stronger.

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.

Suffer the Past

Instant

Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ulamog's tentacles, their touch like burning ice, rummaged through his soul and stung his memories one by one.

Suffocating Blast

Instant

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

Suffocation

Instant

Cast Suffocation only if you were dealt damage this turn by a red instant or sorcery spell.

Suffocation deals 4 damage to the controller of the last red instant or sorcery spell that dealt damage to you this turn.

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

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.

Sultai Charm

Instant

Choose one -

• Destroy target monocolored creature.

• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

• Draw two cards, then discard a card.

"Strike," the fumes hiss. "Raise an empire with your ambition."

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

Summoner's Pact

Instant

Search your library for a green creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay . If you don't, you lose the game.

Summoning Trap

Instant - Trap

If a creature spell you cast this turn was countered by a spell or ability an opponent controlled, you may pay rather than pay Summoning Trap's mana cost.

Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Sun's Bounty

Instant

You gain 4 life.

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.)

"Heidar has forced the sun into hiding, but it has not forgotten us."

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.

Sundering Growth

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"One day every pillar will be a tree and every hall a glade."
-Trostani

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.

Sunfire Balm

Instant

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

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

When you cycle Sunfire Balm, you may prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Supplant Form

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. You put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that creature.

"Ice can be shaped to any form, even the whisper of a memory."
-Mytha, Temur shaman

Sure Strike

Instant

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

To survive imminent doom, it sometimes takes a foolhardy soul who acts first and fears later.

Surge of Righteousness

Instant

Destroy target black or red creature that's attacking or blocking. You gain 2 life.

Though she stood alone, she struck with the force of an army.