Psychic Transfer

Sorcery

If the difference between your life total and target player's life total is 5 or less, exchange life totals with that player.

"The memory of your existence will fade like the final stars of morning."
-Kaervek

Relearn

Sorcery

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Barrin taught me that the hardest lessons to grasp are the ones you've already learned."
-Ertai, wizard adept

Tidal Surge

Sorcery

Tap up to three target creatures without flying.

"It is nature that gives us our boundaries and nature that enforces them."
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

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

Doomsday

Sorcery

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Dry Spell

Sorcery

Dry Spell deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

"Wherever water is lacking, all things suffer."
-Autumn Willow

Infernal Contract

Sorcery

Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.

"But I signed nothing!"
-Taraneh, Suq'Ata mage

Painful Memories

Sorcery

Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. Put that card on top of that player's library.

"It is terrible how one brief action can live forever in memory."
-Jolrael

Perish

Sorcery

Destroy all green creatures. They can't be regenerated.

"There will come a time when the voices of soil and seedling will sing only laments."
-Oracle en-Vec

Stupor

Sorcery

Target opponent discards a card at random, then discards a card.

There are medicines for all afflictions but idleness.
-Suq'Ata saying

Syphon Soul

Sorcery

Syphon Soul deals 2 damage to each other player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Fit of Rage

Sorcery

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

"Anger is fleeting; remorse is eternal."
-Karn, silver golem

Hammer of Bogardan

Sorcery

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

: Return Hammer of Bogardan from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Illicit Auction

Sorcery

Each player may bid life for control of target creature. You start the bidding with a bid of 0. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and gains control of the creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Pillage

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

Tremor

Sorcery

Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

"Where do you run when the earth becomes your enemy?"
-Naimag, Femeref philosopher

Elven Cache

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Elves know where to harvest the best of the forest, for they planted it there themselves.

Fallow Earth

Sorcery

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

". . . and when the farmer awoke the next morning, all the seeds from his field were once again in their sacks."
-Afari, Tales

Nature's Resurgence

Sorcery

Each player draws a card for each creature card in his or her graveyard.

Spring follows winter
-Elvish expression meaning
"all things pass"

Waiting in the Weeds

Sorcery

Each player puts a 1/1 green Cat creature token onto the battlefield for each untapped Forest he or she controls.

The trees have ears, eyes, and teeth.

Breath of Life

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Nothing can stop the power of life-not even death."
-Onean cleric

Gerrard's Wisdom

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

A picture is worth a thousand swords.

Purify

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

"We have no need for these trinkets. We need only the strength of our swords and the virtue of our hearts."
-The Northern Paladin

Starlight

Sorcery

You gain 3 life for each black creature target opponent controls.

"Even in the darkest night
Stars and angels still shine bright."
-Onean children's rhyme

Vengeance

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

"It is the duty of the strong to oppose any who threaten the weak."
-The Southern Paladin

Befoul

Sorcery

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

The bog's touch means death to all but the darkest of hearts.

Dregs of Sorrow

Sorcery

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

"We live for a thousand years. The death of even one brings untold sorrow."
-Elvish elder

Fugue

Sorcery

Target player discards three cards.

"It's hard to keep our own troops from fleeing when he's like this. How can our foes possibly stand against him?"
-Field marshal for the Eastern Paladin

Nausea

Sorcery

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

No fear. No sense. And soon, no lunch.

Ostracize

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a creature card from it. That player discards that card.

"You won't be needing this."

Reprocess

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, creatures, and/or lands. Draw a card for each permanent sacrificed this way.

The battle's end is the meal's beginning.

Disorder

Sorcery

Disorder deals 2 damage to each white creature and each player who controls a white creature.

"Fire hurts them almost as much as the chaos that follows. Almost."
-The Western Paladin

Monstrous Growth

Sorcery

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

Get in touch with your inner monster.

Squall

Sorcery

Squall deals 2 damage to each creature with flying.

"May the winds blow till they have wakened death. . . ."
-William Shakespeare,
Othello

Wing Snare

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with flying.

The elves long ago mastered the art of hunting with nets. They call it "fishing the sky."

Peach Garden Oath

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

"We three, though of separate ancestry, join in brotherhood. . . . We dare not hope to be together always but hereby vow to die the selfsame day."
-Peach Garden Oath

Balance of Power

Sorcery

If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

"To empty your mind is to fill your grave."
-Lat-Nam teaching

Bribery

Sorcery

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

In Mercadia City, loyalties extend only as far as your purse can stretch.

Merchant Scroll

Sorcery

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

Lat-Nam wizards trade knowledge on scrolls made of magic so they can better guard against thieves and spies.

Ambition's Cost

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

"Knowledge demands sacrifice."