Hex

Sorcery

Destroy six target creatures.

When killing five just isn't enough.

Nightmare Void

Sorcery

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

Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Ribbons of Night

Sorcery

Ribbons of Night deals 4 damage to target creature and you gain 4 life. If was spent to cast Ribbons of Night, draw a card.

"My favorite meal is angel's flesh, slain in agony and iced with black vinegar."
-Aszala of House Dimir

Sins of the Past

Sorcery

Until end of turn, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that card would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead. Exile Sins of the Past.

Vigor Mortis

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If was spent to cast Vigor Mortis, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

After fear and weakness rot away, that which remains is stronger than its living form.

Flame Fusillade

Sorcery

Until end of turn, permanents you control gain ": This permanent deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

"A single item acting as lantern and lance? Now that's military efficiency."
-Brev Grezar, Boros lieutenant

Incite Hysteria

Sorcery

Radiance - Until end of turn, target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain "This creature can't block."

"The Boros say they want to bring order to Ravnica. Funny then, how well they use chaos."
-Trigori, Azorius senator

Rain of Embers

Sorcery

Rain of Embers deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

There's plenty to talk about in the marketplaces of Ravnica, be it the latest feud between guilds or the terrible weather.

Seismic Spike

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Add to your mana pool.

Natural disasters in Ravnica are largely nullified by the Izzet. Unnatural disasters, on the other hand, happen all of the time.

Life from the Loam

Sorcery

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Overwhelm

Sorcery

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.)

Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

"Let the song of Selesnya be heard above the rhythm of our thundering hordes!"

Rolling Spoil

Sorcery

Destroy target land. If was spent to cast Rolling Spoil, all creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

The shadow that fell over the grove was silent yet horribly alive, roiling with millions of tiny minions dedicated to the process of rot.

Brightflame

Sorcery

Radiance - Brightflame deals X damage to target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

"Let the pyres of the unbelievers light our way."
-Razia

Consult the Necrosages

Sorcery

Choose one - Target player draws two cards; or target player discards two cards.

Dimir rank and file never see nor hear their guildmaster. All orders are given through mysterious necrosages who appear from the shadows, tersely toss out a command, and then melt into the darkness.

Glimpse the Unthinkable

Sorcery

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

"I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir."
-Szadek

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

Razia's Purification

Sorcery

Each player chooses three permanents he or she controls, then sacrifices the rest.

Only the chosen ones are spared.

Twisted Justice

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power.

In Otiev's mind, he ruled in favor of the accused. But in his courtroom he was only a spectator, watching his hand deliver the sign of death.

Benediction of Moons

Sorcery

You gain 1 life for each player.

Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.)

When the creature Benediction of Moons haunts dies, you gain 1 life for each player.

Mimeofacture

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Choose target permanent an opponent controls. Search that player's library for a card with the same name and put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Train of Thought

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)

Draw a card.

"But then . . . oh, but . . . which means . . . which would lead to . . . exactly!"

Vacuumelt

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Caustic Rain

Sorcery

Exile target land.

"Looking out the great windows of Vitu-Ghazi at the foundry stacks belching their smoke to the sky, I wonder when the sky will take its vengeance."
-Heruj, Selesnya initiate

Cry of Contrition

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.)

When the creature Cry of Contrition haunts dies, target player discards a card.

Shattering Spree

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Destroy target artifact.

Siege of Towers

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Target Mountain becomes a 3/1 creature. It's still a land.

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.

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

Castigate

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.

"We have no need for military might. We wield two of the sharpest swords ever forged: Faith in our left hand, Wealth in our right."
-Vuliev of the Ghost Council

Conjurer's Ban

Sorcery

Name a card. Until your next turn, the named card can't be played.

Draw a card.

Orzhov faithful file past to have their minds purged of "impure" desires. There, the guiltwardens eliminate any thoughts of hope or self-sufficiency.

Culling Sun

Sorcery

Destroy each creature with converted mana cost 3 or less.

"Who truly runs this city? Look to the sky on hallowed days, and see whose sigil is stamped clearly onto the heavens."
-Vuliev of the Ghost Council

Invoke the Firemind

Sorcery

Choose one - Draw X cards; or Invoke the Firemind deals X damage to target creature or player.

To those in tune with the Firemind, there is no difference between knowledge and flame.

Savage Twister

Sorcery

Savage Twister deals X damage to each creature.

"Frozen, we watched the funnel pluck up three of the goats-pook! pook! pook!-before we ran for the wadi."
-Travelogue of Najat

Stitch in Time

Sorcery

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, take an extra turn after this one.

Wreak Havoc

Sorcery

Wreak Havoc can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Destroy target artifact or land.

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.)

Govern the Guildless

Sorcery

Gain control of target monocolored creature.

Forecast - , Reveal Govern the Guildless from your hand: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Skyscribing

Sorcery

Each player draws X cards.

Forecast - , Reveal Skyscribing from your hand: Each player draws a card. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Bond of Agony

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Bond of Agony, pay X life.

Each other player loses X life.

The Rakdos are unique in designing torture equipment they can operate while "suffering" alongside their victims.

Brain Pry

Sorcery

Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand. That player discards a card with that name. If he or she can't, you draw a card.

To the Rakdos, the fun is in the shakedown. The loot is usually discarded.