Assassin's Strike

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller discards a card.

When Selesnya missionaries moved into the Shanav Quarter, they faced scorn, ridicule, and ultimately martyrdom.

Asphyxiate

Sorcery

Destroy target untapped creature.

"Some poisons enter through the blood. Some are ingested. Some are inhaled. All ways through which mortals draw strength are paths for poison."
-Agathe, priest of Pharika

Ashes to Ashes

Sorcery

Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.

"All rivers eventually run to the sea. My job is to sort out who goes first."
-Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier

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

Artful Dodge

Sorcery

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Those who know the alleys and sewers of the Erdwal can disappear like smoke.

Arrow Storm

Sorcery

Arrow Storm deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Raid - If you attacked with a creature this turn, instead Arrow Storm deals 5 damage to that creature or player and the damage can't be prevented.

First the thunder, then the rain.

Army of the Damned

Sorcery

Put thirteen 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Armed (Armed/Dangerous)

Sorcery

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains double strike until end of turn.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Armageddon

Sorcery

Destroy all lands.

Arm with Æther

Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand."

"Anything we can do to hurt the Phyrexian invaders is worth dying for."

Argivian Restoration

Sorcery

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The Argivian University taught me two things: always look to the past, and never dismiss what appears useless."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Archangel's Light

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your graveyard, then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

"This is the light of Avacyn. Even in her absence she offers us hope."
-Radulf, priest of Avacyn

Arc Trail

Sorcery

Arc Trail deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to another target creature or player.

"Don't try to hit your enemies. Concentrate on the space between them, and fill the air with doom."
-Spear-Tribe teaching

Arc Lightning

Sorcery

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

Rainclouds don't last long in Shiv, but that doesn't stop the lightning.

Arc Blade

Sorcery

Arc Blade deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Exile Arc Blade with three time counters on it.

Suspend 3- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Aquitect's Will

Tribal Sorcery - Merfolk

Put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. If you control a Merfolk, draw a card.

There is nowhere on Lorwyn that the Merrow Lanes cannot go.

Appetite for Brains

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.

Just as with a peach, the first bite is always the juiciest.

Apocalypse

Sorcery

Exile all permanents. You discard your hand.

"There is a future in which I can see only mist and a single shadow."
-Oracle en-Vec

Aphetto Dredging

Sorcery

Return up to three target creature cards of the creature type of your choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Phage became both executioner and savior, helping others to the same rebirth she had found.

Animal Magnetism

Sorcery

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent chooses a creature card from among them. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest into your graveyard.

Anger of the Gods

Sorcery

Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

There was no reason to pray. This was already an act of the gods.

Angelic Edict

Sorcery

Exile target creature or enchantment.

The Boros built a prison in the sky where Azorius statutes couldn't restrict their sense of justice.

Angelic Blessing

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Only the warrior who can admit mortal weakness will be bolstered by immortal strength.

Ancient Stirrings

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a colorless card from among them and put it into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (Cards with no colored mana in their mana costs are colorless. Lands are also colorless.)

Ancient Craving

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Knowledge demands sacrifice.

Ancestral Vision

Sorcery

Illus. Mark Poole

Ancestral Tribute

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your graveyard.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Ancestral Memories

Sorcery

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Anarchy

Sorcery

Destroy all white permanents.

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

An-Havva Inn

Sorcery

You gain X plus 1 life, where X is the number of green creatures on the battlefield.

"The Inn was ever a steady source of good cheer and kindness. Greatly do I miss it, now that I am gone."
-Ihsan's Shade

Amnesia

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all nonland cards.

"When one has witnessed the unspeakable, 'tis sometimes better to forget." -Vervamon the Elder

Ambition's Cost

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

"Knowledge demands sacrifice."

Amass the Components

Sorcery

Draw three cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.

"I knew I'd find a use for all that newt spittle!"

Altar of Bone

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Altar of Bone, sacrifice a creature.

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

Alpha Brawl

Sorcery

Target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to each other creature that player controls, then each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to that creature.

Being an alpha means proving it every full moon.

Allied Strategies

Sorcery

Domain - Target player draws a card for each basic land type among lands he or she controls.

Each commander looked at the others and wondered who would be first to break the alliance.

Allied Reinforcements

Sorcery

Put two 2/2 white Knight Ally creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"Our formation was scattered after Sea Gate fell. If you're fighting the Eldrazi, consider us your newest recruits."

Alliance of Arms

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

All Suns' Dawn

Sorcery

For each color, return up to one target card of that color from your graveyard to your hand. Exile All Suns' Dawn.

All Is Dust

Tribal Sorcery - Eldrazi

Each player sacrifices all colored permanents he or she controls.

"The emergence of the Eldrazi isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as you've already lived a fulfilling and complete life without regrets."
-Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

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.

Alive (Alive/Well)

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Akroma's Vengeance

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

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

Ixidor had only to imagine their ruin and Akroma made it so.

Airborne Aid

Sorcery

Draw a card for each Bird on the battlefield.

"We help our Southern Order comrades as much as we can. But the Cabal's insidious influence spreads, dividing our forces and leaving new arrivals to fend for themselves."
-Commander Eesha

Agonizing Memories

Sorcery

Look at target player's hand and choose two cards from it. Put them on top of that player's library in any order.

In the aftermath of war, when the slaying is long done, the greatest miseries come home to roost.

Aftershock

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, creature, or land. Aftershock deals 3 damage to you.

"Every act of destruction has a repercussion."
-Karn, silver golem

Advice from the Fae

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Look at the top five cards of your library. If you control more creatures than each other player, put two of those cards into your hand. Otherwise, put one of them into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Addle

Sorcery

Choose a color. Target player reveals his or her hand and you choose a card of that color from it. That player discards that card.

"I'll wring out your tiny mind like a sponge."
-Urborg witch

Act on Impulse

Sorcery

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled this way. (If you cast a spell this way, you still pay its costs. You can play a land this way only if you have an available land play remaining.)

"You don't want to know what happens after I put on the goggles."

Act of Treason

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

"Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison."
-Sarkhan Vol

Acquire

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for an artifact card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Sometimes "innovation" means "stealing another's secret before anyone else can."

Acorn Harvest

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens onto the battlefield.

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

Acidic Soil

Sorcery

Acidic Soil deals damage to each player equal to the number of lands he or she controls.

Phyrexia had tried to take Urza's soul. He was relieved that Shiv tried to claim only his soles.

Acid Rain

Sorcery

Destroy all Forests.

Acceptable Losses

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Acceptable Losses, discard a card at random.

Acceptable Losses deals 5 damage to target creature.

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.)

Abandon Hope

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Abandon Hope, discard X cards.

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

As Gerrard's form vanished into the maw of trees, Hanna mouthed a silent plea, mourning a crushed dream.