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.

Venarian Glimmer

Instant

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card with converted mana cost X or less from it. That player discards that card.

Dream of nothing, and wake to a dream come true.

Ovinize

Instant

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

"You wish for me to cow your enemies? I can do better than that . . . ."
-Teferi, second-level student

Piracy Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn; or target creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn; or target player discards a card.

Cradle to Grave

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature that entered the battlefield this turn.

"As the fell soil's appetite grows, it gulps down passersby upon their first footfall."
-Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Dash Hopes

Instant

When you cast Dash Hopes, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes.

Counter target spell.

"Focus an enemy's mind on what's already gone, and it's easier to take away more."
-Holux, stronghold racketeer

Extirpate

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.)

Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Imp's Mischief

Instant

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's converted mana cost.

"Do the innocent pay for the crimes of the guilty? Of course they do. That's the fate of the weak."
-Nicol Bolas

Midnight Charm

Instant

Choose one - Midnight Charm deals 1 damage to target creature and you gain 1 life; or target creature gains first strike until end of turn; or tap target creature.

Treacherous Urge

Instant

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You may put a creature card from it onto the battlefield under your control. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Kor Dirge

Instant

All damage that would be dealt this turn to target creature you control by a source of your choice is dealt to another target creature instead.

Rath's new evincar eliminated the brutish moggs and took a new slave race, one more reminiscent of her own feline grace.

Fatal Frenzy

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains trample and gets +X/+0, where X is its power. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

"I hope to have such a death-lying in triumph upon the broken bodies of those who slew me."
-Radha, Keldon warlord

Fury Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn; or remove two time counters from target permanent or suspended card.

Timecrafting

Instant

Choose one - Remove X time counters from target permanent or suspended card; or put X time counters on target permanent with a time counter on it or suspended card.

Oddly, an unstable time stream makes wizards want to tinker with it even more.

Dead (Dead/Gone)

Instant

Dead deals 2 damage to target creature.

Brute Force

Instant

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

Blood, bone, and sinew are magnified, as is the rage that drives them. The brain, however, remains unchanged-a little bean, swinging by a strand in a cavernous, raving head.

Evolution Charm

Instant

Choose one - Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library; or return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand; or target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Healing Leaves

Instant

Choose one - Target player gains 3 life; or prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

The elves of Llanowar don't trust in alchemy. They rely instead on pure herbs harvested from the forest's sacred heart.

Dust of Moments

Instant

Choose one - Remove two time counters from each permanent and each suspended card; or put two time counters on each permanent with a time counter on it and each suspended card.

Even the Odds

Instant

Cast Even the Odds only if you control fewer creatures than each opponent.

Put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"They who fall singing the battle hymn of Benalia go not unavenged."
-Adom Capashen, Benalish commander

Intervention Pact

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

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

Judge Unworthy

Instant

Choose target attacking or blocking creature. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Judge Unworthy deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to that creature. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Scout's Warning

Instant

The next creature card you play this turn can be played as though it had flash.

Draw a card.

"There is no tactic I enjoy more than ambushing the ambushers."

Patrician's Scorn

Instant

If you've cast another white spell this turn, you may cast Patrician's Scorn without paying its mana cost.

Destroy all enchantments.

Lady Farisa's contempt of tawdry kitsch grew even more infamous after her death.

Delay

Instant

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, remove a counter from that card. When the last is removed, the player plays it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Pact of Negation

Instant

Counter target spell.

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

Those who expect betrayal at every turn are seldom disappointed.

Venser's Diffusion

Instant

Return target nonland permanent or suspended card to its owner's hand.

"Each reality is but the dream of another, and each sleeper a god unknowing."

Logic Knot

Instant

Delve (You may exile any number of cards from your graveyard as you cast this spell. It costs less to cast for each card exiled this way.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Nix

Instant

Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.

"There is no shortcut to work done true and well. The Creators learned this to their sorrow, the first time they made the world."
-Githri the Prisoner

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.)

Slaughter Pact

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature.

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

Death is only the beginning of the end.

Death Rattle

Instant

Delve (You may exile any number of cards from your graveyard as you cast this spell. It costs less to cast for each card exiled this way.)

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

Pact of the Titan

Instant

Put a 4/4 red Giant creature token onto the battlefield.

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

Riddle of Lightning

Instant

Choose target creature or player. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Riddle of Lightning deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to that creature or player. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Ghostfire

Instant

Ghostfire is colorless.

Ghostfire deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Only those gifted with the eye of Ugin, the spirit dragon, can see his fiery breath.

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.

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.

Wrap in Vigor

Instant

Regenerate each creature you control.

Some nature mages unknowingly took advantage of the temporal energies still swirling on Dominaria. What they mistook for healing magic was in fact the manipulation of time.

AWOL

Instant

Remove target attacking creature from the game. Then remove it from the removed-from-game zone and put it into the absolutely-removed-from-the-freaking-game-forever zone.

Erase (Not the Urza's Legacy One)

Instant

If you control two or more white permanents that share an artist, you may play Erase (Not the Urza's Legacy One) without paying its mana cost.

Remove target enchantment from the game.

Synonyms for "erase" we haven't used: ablate, abrade, chafe, fray, frazzle, scuff, and scrub.

Head to Head

Instant

You and target opponent play Seven Questions about the top card of that player's library. (That player looks at the card, then you ask up to six yes-or-no questions about the card that he or she answers truthfully. You guess the card's name-that's question seven-and the player reveals the card.) If you win, prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by a source of your choice.

Save Life

Instant

Choose one Target player gains 2½ life; or prevent the next 2½ damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent says "Save" or "Life," you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Save Life from your graveyard to your hand.

Who consistently managed to win.

Flaccify

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Don't worry about it. It happens to every mage sooner or later."

Framed!

Instant

Tap or untap all permanents by the artist of your choice.

Who knew an 8˝ by 10˝ could feel like a 2˝ by 4˝?

Mise

Instant

Name a nonland card, then reveal the top card of your library. If that card is the named card, draw three cards.

mise 'miz v alter. of might as well (1997) 1: to win when you don't deserve to 2: to top-deck the "tings" you need 3: to be rewarded by an opponent's bad luck 4: to coin a phrase that spreads through the tournament scene like wildfire 5: to fling a monkey 6: to split firewood using a sharp instrument 7: To burn

Number Crunch

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent says a number, you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Number Crunch from your graveyard to your hand.

Can you digit?

Spell Counter

Instant

Counter target spell.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent says "Spell" or "Counter," you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Spell Counter from your graveyard to your hand.

Playing Unhinged, . . .

Aesthetic Consultation

Instant

Name an artist. Remove the top six cards of your library from the game, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card by the named artist. Put that card in your hand, then remove all the other cards revealed this way from the game.

Booster Tutor

Instant

Open a sealed Magic booster pack, reveal the cards, and put one of those cards into your hand. (Remove that card from your deck before beginning a new game.)

Real men use Arabian Nights boosters.

Duh

Instant

Destroy target creature with reminder text. (Reminder text is any italicized text in parentheses that explains rules you already know.)

Will players understand that the creature is being crushed by two parentheses?
Not a chance.

Eye to Eye

Instant

You and target creature's controller have a staring contest. If you win, destroy that creature.

True, Gargox had blinded himself for life, but the glass eyes never lost.

Kill Destroy

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent says "Kill" or "Destroy," you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Kill Destroy from your graveyard to your hand.

Getting "Gotcha'ed" again and again.

Stop That

Instant

Target player discards a card.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent audibly flicks the cards in his or her hand, you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Stop That from your graveyard to your hand.

Now for a squirt of lemon juice.

When Fluffy Bunnies Attack

Instant

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of times the letter of your choice appears in that creature's name.

"Get it? Bunnies, letters, -X/-X? Me neither."
-Bucky, flavor text writer

Blast from the Past

Instant

Madness , cycling , kicker , flashback , buyback

Blast from the Past deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

If the kicker cost was paid, put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token into play.

Deal Damage

Instant

Deal Damage deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Gotcha Whenever an opponent says "Deal" or "Damage," you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Deal Damage from your graveyard to your hand.

Until he got singed . . .

Mana Flair

Instant

Add to your mana pool for each nonland permanent by the artist of your choice.

What began as black
Has slowly shifted to red.
Fickle color pie.

Punctuate

Instant

Punctuate deals damage to target creature equal to half the number of punctuation marks in that creature's text box. (The punctuation marks are ? , ; : - ( ) / " ' & .)

"Ooh-right in the colon."

Sauté

Instant

Sauté deals 3½ damage to target creature or player.

"Selecting the proper beeble is the key to a good sauté. The pinker the fur and the heartier the yelp, the more succulent the beeble will be when you pop it in your mouth."
-Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar,
The Underworld Cookbook,

Graphic Violence

Instant

All creatures by the artist of your choice get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn.

WARNING: THE DOMINARIAN SURGEON GENERAL HAS FOUND THAT SAVAGE BEATINGS CAN LEAD TO CHUMP BLOCKS, LIFE REDUCTION, AND EVEN GAME LOSS.

Double Dip

Instant

Choose another player. Gain 5 life now and an additional 5 life at the beginning of the next game with that player.

In a duel and taking a lickin' . . .

Get a Life

Instant

Target player and each of his or her teammates exchange life totals.

Gimme five! (Or whatever you got.)

Sex Appeal

Instant

Prevent up to 3 damage total to any number of creatures and/or players. If there are more players in the room of the opposite sex, prevent up to 3 additional damage total to any number of creatures and/or players.

Denied!

Instant

Play Denied only as any opponent casts target spell. Name a card, then look at all cards in that player's hand. If the named card is in the player's hand, counter target spell.

"Don't worry about it. It happens to every mage sooner or later."

Double Take

Instant

Choose another player. Draw two cards now and draw an additional two cards at the beginning of the next game with that player.

"But next time we meet, . . ."

Goblin Tutor

Instant

Roll a six-sided die for Goblin Tutor. On a 1, Goblin Tutor has no effect. Otherwise, search your library for the indicated card, reveal that card to all players, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library afterwards.

2 Any Goblin Tutor

3 Any enchantment

4 Any artifact

5 Any creature

6 Any sorcery, instant, or interrupt

Growth Spurt

Instant

Roll a six-sided die. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is equal to the die roll.

MORE TO LOVE: Friendly, nature-loving, Bunyonesque SEM seeks SEF looking for a huge commitment.
. . . seeks atog prince

Team Spirit

Instant

All creatures controlled by target player and his or her teammates get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Due to some late-night partying, the chicken missed the group photo.

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.

Chaos Warp

Instant

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into his or her library, then reveals the top card of his or her library. If it's a permanent card, he or she puts it onto the battlefield.

Tribute to the Wild

Instant

Each opponent sacrifices an artifact or enchantment.

"You may enter, but leave those lifeless things of your world behind."
-Modruni, maro-sorcerer

Energy Arc

Instant

Untap any number of target creatures. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by those creatures this turn.

"Relent, and you may transcend your situation."
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Lim-Dûl's Vault

Instant

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle your library and put the last cards you looked at this way on top of it in any order.

Surge of Strength

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Surge of Strength, discard a red or green card.

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Pit Fight

Instant

Target creature you control fights another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"All the coins in Ravnica can't save his soul now."
-Narbulg Nine Fingers

Gruul Charm

Instant

Choose one - Creatures without flying can't block this turn; or gain control of all permanents you own; or Gruul Charm deals 3 damage to each creature with flying.

"Not Gruul? Then die!"
-Borborygmos

Gridlock

Instant

Tap X target nonland permanents.

"One tiny peg pulled from a single wagon wheel, and an entire district grinds to a halt."
-Lazav

Executioner's Swing

Instant

Target creature that dealt damage this turn gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

"The contract specified an appendage for a missed payment. Read the fine print: the head is an appendage."

Predator's Rapport

Instant

Choose target creature you control. You gain life equal to that creature's power plus its toughness.

"Other guilds say the Gruul are savages, no better than the beasts we live with. I say we've found friends who won't stab us in the back."
-Domri Rade

Dimir Charm

Instant

Choose one - Counter target sorcery spell; or destroy target creature with power 2 or less; or look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put one back and the rest into that player's graveyard.

"Dangerous to recognize. Deadly not to."
-Lazav

Aerial Maneuver

Instant

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

"When you put all of yourself into an attack, without fear or hesitation, in that instant you may attain greatness."
-Predak, Gateless freemage

Skullcrack

Instant

Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player.

The lawmage's argument was clever and well reasoned, but Blunk's response proved irrefutable.

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

Hydroform

Instant

Target land becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

"While the sea may be our home, the sky is our destiny."
-Prime Speaker Zegana

Scatter Arc

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

Draw a card.

"Should your chosen emissary be able to fluctuate triharmonic pentodes, however unlikely, I shall shunt excess negavolt radicals."

Wildwood Rebirth

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

In Ravnica, there are maladies far more difficult to treat than death.

Massive Raid

Instant

Massive Raid deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of creatures you control.

"The Boros lack vision. Give them a convenient scapegoat and they'll be blind to the true threats."
-Lazav

Aurelia's Fury

Instant

Aurelia's Fury deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Tap each creature dealt damage this way. Players dealt damage this way can't cast noncreature spells this turn.

Rapid Hybridization

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller puts a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token onto the battlefield.

"We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome."
-Speaker Trifon

Orzhov Charm

Instant

Choose one - Return target creature you control and all Auras you control attached to it to their owner's hand; or destroy target creature and you lose life equal to its toughness; or return target creature card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Burst of Strength

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and untap it.

"Our fight is not about territory or revenge. It is about freedom, plain and simple."
-Ruric Thar, Ghor-Clan chieftain

Mystic Genesis

Instant

Counter target spell. Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

"The Simic can grow anything out of a puddle of sludge. I just hope they never join forces with the Golgari."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Killing Glare

Instant

Destroy target creature with power X or less.

A casual glance into a dark corner may be your last.

Tower Defense

Instant

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

"The drakes are practice. We may one day need to bring down a sky swallower, or maybe even Rakdos himself."
-Korun Nar, Rubblebelt hunter

Psychic Strike

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Until more information could be gleaned about Niv-Mizzet's intentions, Lazav took every opportunity to stall his experiments.

Shielded Passage

Instant

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

Izzet delved into the depths of Ravnica's past, and Selesnya followed without fear.

Signal the Clans

Instant

Search your library for three creature cards and reveal them. If you reveal three cards with different names, choose one of them at random and put that card into your hand. Shuffle the rest into your library.

Gruul clanfolk obey few rules, but all feel bound to answer the call of the horn.

Ætherize

Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

"You can come back once you've learned some manners-and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Totally Lost

Instant

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.

Fblthp had always hated crowds.

Devour Flesh

Instant

Target player sacrifices a creature, then gains life equal to that creature's toughness.

His twisted mind concluded that if he was what he ate, and he wanted to stay human, . . .