Phthisis

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to its power plus its toughness.

Suspend 5- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with five 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.)

Phyrexian Rebirth

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures, then put an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creatures destroyed this way.

As long as one drop of the oil exists, the joyous work continues.

Phytoburst

Sorcery

Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

Phytohydras are banned as houseplants in many residential spires. If left unfed, they find their own exit-usually at the cost of extensive property damage.

Pilfered Plans

Sorcery

Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Draw two cards.

Mirko Vosk hunted anyone with knowledge of the maze, draining the chances of the other guilds.

Pillar of Flame

Sorcery

Pillar of Flame deals 2 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

"May the worthy spend an eternity in Blessed Sleep. May the wicked find the peace of oblivion."

Pinnacle of Rage

Sorcery

Pinnacle of Rage deals 3 damage to each of two target creatures and/or players.

Mount Sulano erupted not in magma but in anger.

Plague of Vermin

Sorcery

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player puts a 1/1 black Rat creature token onto the battlefield for each 1 life he or she paid this way.

Plague Wind

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

Planar Cleansing

Sorcery

Destroy all nonland permanents.

Planar Outburst

Sorcery

Destroy all nonland creatures.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Plea for Guidance

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two enchantment cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

On Theros, the dove is a symbol not of peace but of discovery. Quick wings herald the arrival of a revelation.

Plea for Power

Sorcery

Will of the council - Starting with you, each player votes for time or knowledge. If time gets more votes, take an extra turn after this one. If knowledge gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw three cards.

Plow Under

Sorcery

Put two target lands on top of their owners' libraries.

To renew the land, plow the land.
To destroy the land, do nothing.
-Druids' saying

Plunder

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

Suspend 4- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four 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.)

Poison the Well

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Poison the Well deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Wells that provide clean, unhaunted water are rare enough to be worth building an entire town around.

Polymorph

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into his or her library.

Ponder

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle your library.

Draw a card.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Portent of Betrayal

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Postmortem Lunge

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Return target creature card with converted mana cost X from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Praetor's Counsel

Sorcery

Return all cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Praetor's Counsel. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

As the Phyrexian contagion corroded Karn's body, the praetors whispered psalms to corrupt his mind.

Praetor's Grasp

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles his or her library. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Sheoldred weaves every thread of information into a noose to hang her enemies.

Predatory Focus

Sorcery

You may have creatures you control assign their combat damage this turn as though they weren't blocked.

Instinct blood-tinted his world until he could see only one thing clearly: his prey.

Predatory Rampage

Sorcery

Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn. Each creature your opponents control blocks this turn if able.

"It is the fate of the weak to fall."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Premature Burial

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature that entered the battlefield since your last turn ended.

"This soil knows well the taste of the dead. Give it the hunger for a living meal, and it can become a deadly ally."
-Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Preordain

Sorcery

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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.)

Presence of the Wise

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

"Humbly I bow. Silently I wait. Deeply I listen."

Press into Service

Sorcery

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Prey Upon

Sorcery

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters."
-Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Primal Command

Sorcery

Choose two - Target player gains 7 life; or put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library; or target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library; or search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Primal Surge

Sorcery

Exile the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you do, repeat this process.

With Avacyn's return, the flow of life became a tidal wave.

Primeval Light

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments target player controls.

"Look to the old tomes, those bound in hides and written in yarberry ink. They hold the spells that can free us of the clutter of modern magecraft."
-Dravash, dowsing shaman

Processor Assault

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

As an additional cost to cast Processor Assault, put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard.

Processor Assault deals 5 damage to target creature.

Ulamog's processors trail behind him, converting ruined matter into furious energy.

Proclamation of Rebirth

Sorcery

Return up to three target creature cards with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Forecast - , Reveal Proclamation of Rebirth from your hand: Return target creature card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Profane Command

Sorcery

Choose two -

• Target player loses X life.

• Return target creature card with converted mana cost X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Profound Journey

Sorcery

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.)

Promise of Power

Sorcery

Choose one -

• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.

• Put an X/X black Demon creature token with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the number of cards in your hand as the token enters the battlefield.

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

Prosperity

Sorcery

Each player draws X cards.

"Wealth is a good thing, compared to poverty-your food is better, your robes are softer, and your companions have bathed more recently."
-Kukemssa pirate

Psychic Drain

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard and you gain X life.

"Gold can be reearned, goods restored. The moroii steal youth, more precious than either, and once gone, it's gone forever."
-Berta Suszat, civic healer

Psychic Intrusion

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from that player's graveyard or hand and exile it. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Psychic Miasma

Sorcery

Target player discards a card. If a land card is discarded this way, return Psychic Miasma to its owner's hand.

"A mind may be steeled against madness, but all battlements fall in time."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur