Alarum

Instant

Untap target nonattacking creature. It gets +1/+3 until end of turn.

"One timely cry of warning can save nine of surprise."
-Sidar Jabari

Aleatory

Instant

Cast Aleatory only during combat after blockers are declared.

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Barreling Attack

Instant

Target creature gains trample until end of turn. When that creature becomes blocked this turn, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"The trollish game of push-fall inspired this impressive tactic."
-Sidar Jabari

Blind Fury

Instant

Cast Blind Fury only before the combat damage step.

All creatures lose trample until end of turn. If a creature would deal combat damage to a creature this turn, it deals double that damage to that creature instead.

"Tell me . . . have you ever sung the Song of Blood?"
-Purraj of Urborg

Bone Harvest

Instant

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Only fools believe they will face my armies but once."
-Kaervek

Carrion

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Carrion, sacrifice a creature.

Put X 0/1 black Insect creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

King or herder, the maggots care not.

Chaos Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target Wall; or Chaos Charm deals 1 damage to target creature; or target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Cinder Cloud

Instant

Destroy target creature. If a white creature dies this way, Cinder Cloud deals damage to that creature's controller equal to the creature's power.

Dazzling Beauty

Instant

Cast Dazzling Beauty only during the declare blockers step.

Target unblocked attacking creature becomes blocked. (This spell works on unblockable creatures.)

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Delirium

Instant

Cast Delirium only during an opponent's turn.

Tap target creature that player controls. That creature deals damage equal to its power to the player. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by the creature this turn.

Disempower

Instant

Put target artifact or enchantment on top of its owner's library.

"Mangara is gone. Who among you doubts that I have taken his power?"
-Kaervek

Divine Retribution

Instant

Divine Retribution deals damage to target attacking creature equal to the number of attacking creatures.

"To the undiscerning eye, justice and vengeance can look the same."
-Rashida Scalebane

Ebony Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life; or exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard; or target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Ether Well

Instant

Put target creature on top of its owner's library. If that creature is red, you may put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead.

"Whoa-my tail will never fit through that hole!"

Illumination

Instant

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. Its controller gains life equal to its converted mana cost.

"A brilliant light can either illuminate or blind. How will you know which until you open your eyes?"
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Ivory Charm

Instant

Choose one - All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn; or tap target creature; or prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Jabari's Influence

Instant

Cast Jabari's Influence only after combat.

Gain control of target nonartifact, nonblack creature that attacked you this turn and put a -1/-0 counter on it.

"Common soldiers can't understand what a sidar knows: the enemy can be a resource."
-Sidar Jabari

Jolt

Instant

You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"There's nothing like a sudden shock to clarify one's thoughts."
-Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader

Lure of Prey

Instant

Cast Lure of Prey only if an opponent cast a creature spell this turn.

You may put a green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Mangara's Blessing

Instant

You gain 5 life.

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Mangara's Blessing, you gain 2 life, and you return Mangara's Blessing from your graveyard to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Meddle

Instant

If target spell has only one target and that target is a creature, change that spell's target to another creature.

"Shadimir was as surprised as he was relieved when the blow turned aside."
-Afari, Tales

Prismatic Boon

Instant

Choose a color. X target creatures gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

"How ironic that the greatest forge of civilization is battle."
-Mangara

Prismatic Lace

Instant

Target permanent becomes the color or colors of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Reality Ripple

Instant

Target artifact, creature, or land phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during his or her next untap step.)

"Can you prepare for the unexpected? No, you cannot. You can prepare only to be surprised."
-Teferi

Reflect Damage

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to that source's controller instead.

From you to me, so me to you.
-Femeref children's taunt

Sapphire Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep; or target creature gains flying until end of turn; or target creature an opponent controls phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during his or her next untap step.)

Seedling Charm

Instant

Choose one - Return target Aura attached to a creature to its owner's hand; or regenerate target green creature; or target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Serene Heart

Instant

Destroy all Auras.

"If magic is your crutch, cast it aside and learn to walk without it."
-Teferi

Shadowbane

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you and/or creatures you control this turn, prevent that damage. If damage from a black source is prevented this way, you gain that much life.

Light creates shadow; light destroys shadow. Such is the transience of darkness.

Shallow Grave

Instant

Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Good help is hard to dig up.

Sirocco

Instant

Target player reveals his or her hand. For each blue instant card revealed this way, that player discards that card unless he or she pays 4 life.

"Blow, fiery wind, / strip illusion from the eye. / Blow, fiery wind of truth."
-Femeref chant

Soul Rend

Instant

Destroy target creature if it's white. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Since I cannot stop death, I choose to stop life."
-Kaervek

Soulshriek

Instant

Target creature you control gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

"The flesh is a casket for the soul."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Telim'Tor's Edict

Instant

Exile target permanent you own or control.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Execution awaits the dissenter."
-Kasib ibn Naji, Letters

Tidal Wave

Instant

Put a 5/5 blue Wall creature token with defender onto the battlefield. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

When mountains ride the sea, waves live upon the fields.

Tranquil Domain

Instant

Destroy all non-Aura enchantments.

"An ancient court mage unified the houses into guilds to serve Zhalfir above their own interests. Even during the civil war, the guilds stood together, a testament to the wisdom of Teferi."
-Afari, Tales

Vitalizing Cascade

Instant

You gain X plus 3 life.

"Water is like breathing-necessary for life."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Withering Boon

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Withering Boon, pay 3 life.

Counter target creature spell.

"Life for life: this is the immutable law."
-Panya, Granger Guildmage

Yare

Instant

Target creature defending player controls gets +3/+0 until end of turn. That creature can block up to two additional creatures this turn.

Aliban's Tower

Instant

Target blocking creature gets +3/+1 until end of turn.

"Those who hide in hollow towers would do well to remember the rain."
-Reyhan, Samite Alchemist

Ambush

Instant

Blocking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.

"Don't these goons have anything better to do?"
-Joskun, An-Havva Constable

Chain Stasis

Instant

You may tap or untap target creature. Then that creature's controller may pay . If the player does, he or she may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

"Here we go again."
-Kakra, Sea Troll

Headstone

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Your headstone is the last page in the book of your life."
-Murat, Death Speaker

Jinx

Instant

Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"What wizards upset, the land soon rights."
-Gemma, Willow Priestess

Arcane Denial

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Battle Cry

Instant

Untap all white creatures you control.

Whenever a creature blocks this turn, it gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"In the thick of battle, you must keep your wits about you. Yelling a lot helps, too."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Battle Frenzy

Instant

Green creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Nongreen creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

"One day you, too, shall drink the blood of your foes. It is something to look forward to."
-Toothlicker Harj, Orcish Captain

Bounty of the Hunt

Instant

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay Bounty of the Hunt's mana cost.

Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Burnout

Instant

Counter target instant spell if it's blue.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"GOTCHA!"
-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Burnt Offering

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Burnt Offering, sacrifice a creature.

Add X mana in any combination of and/or to your mana pool, where X is the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost.

"My foes serve me twice: in dying, and in death."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Clairvoyance

Instant

Look at target player's hand.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"As we followed the ice wall, we had the distinct feeling of being watched. Many of the party wanted to turn back."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Contagion

Instant

You may pay 1 life and exile a black card from your hand rather than pay Contagion's mana cost.

Distribute two -2/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Death Spark

Instant

Death Spark deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Death Spark is in your graveyard with a creature card directly above it, you may pay . If you do, return Death Spark to your hand.

Demonic Consultation

Instant

Name a card. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal the named card. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

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

Errand of Duty

Instant

Put a 1/1 white Knight creature token with banding onto the battlefield. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"Call every able sword to our side. Kjeldor will stand triumphant!"
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Essence Vortex

Instant

Destroy target creature unless its controller pays life equal to its toughness. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.

Fanatical Fever

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

"Let go your fury, and hone your anger. Become the fist of Freyalise!"
-Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Feast or Famine

Instant

Choose one - Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield; or destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature and it can't be regenerated.

"We are not yet free of Lim-Dûl's terrors."
-Halvor Arensson, Kjeldoran Priest

Fevered Strength

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"The burst of strength brought on by this plague should not be mistaken for a sign of renewed health."
-Kolbjörn, High Honored Druid

Fire Covenant

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Fire Covenant, pay X life.

Fire Covenant deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

Force of Will

Instant

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay Force of Will's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Force Void

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"My mind and spirit are one-a barrier not readily passed."
-Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran Royal Mage

Formation

Instant

Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"I have been a warrior for over four hundred years, and yet each generation of Kjeldorans teaches me new tricks. There can be no better allies."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Gorilla War Cry

Instant

Cast Gorilla War Cry only during combat before blockers are declared.

Creatures can't be blocked this turn except by two or more creatures.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"The only ‘art' these beasts possess is the art of noise!" -Jaya Ballard

Gravebind

Instant

Target creature can't be regenerated this turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

One foot in the grave,
firmly planted.

Hail Storm

Instant

Hail Storm deals 2 damage to each attacking creature and 1 damage to you and each creature you control.

"If they can't take the hail, they'd better stay home."
-Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Infuse

Instant

Untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"The potential for change lies in all things. Know a thing's nature, know its possibilities, and know it anew."
-Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran Royal Mage

Lat-Nam's Legacy

Instant

Shuffle a card from your hand into your library. If you do, draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"All the knowledge of Lat-Nam could not protect its sages from the Brothers' War." -Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Lightning Blow

Instant

Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"If you do it right, they'll never know what hit them."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

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.

Martyrdom

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains ": The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn is dealt to this creature instead." Only you may activate this ability.

"Martyrs are cheaper than mercenaries, and a far better investment."
-General Varchild

Melee

Instant

Cast Melee only during your turn and only during combat before blockers are declared.

You choose which creatures block this combat and how those creatures block.

Whenever a creature attacks and isn't blocked this combat, untap it and remove it from combat.

Misinformation

Instant

Put up to three target cards from an opponent's graveyard on top of his or her library in any order.

"When you cannot rely on your sources, trust your own senses. When you cannot trust those, you must follow your instincts." -Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Omen of Fire

Instant

Return all Islands to their owners' hands.

Each player sacrifices a Plains or a white permanent for each white permanent he or she controls.

"Let Balduvia burn to warm Kjeldor's hearth!"
-General Varchild

Pyrokinesis

Instant

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay Pyrokinesis's mana cost.

Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

"Anybody want some . . . toast?"
-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Rally

Instant

Blocking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Stand your ground, troops! This shall be our finest hour!"
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox, last words

Ray of Erasure

Instant

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

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"What is real can be unreal."
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Reinforcements

Instant

Put up to three target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.

"Let them send their legions! I will show them that my truth is stronger than their swords."
-General Varchild

Scars of the Veteran

Instant

You may exile a white card from your hand rather than pay Scars of the Veteran's mana cost.

Prevent the next 7 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. At the beginning of the next end step, put a +0/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.

Songs of the Damned

Instant

Add to your mana pool for each creature card in your graveyard.

Not wind, but the breath of the dead.

Spoils of Evil

Instant

For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add to your mana pool and you gain 1 life.

"Virtue has its rewards, as does its opposite."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Stench of Decay

Instant

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

"Disa is dead, and I am left. I shall allow no others to succumb to this pestilence."
-Kolbjörn, High Honored Druid

Suffocation

Instant

Cast Suffocation only if you were dealt damage this turn by a red instant or sorcery spell.

Suffocation deals 4 damage to the controller of the last red instant or sorcery spell that dealt damage to you this turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

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.

Touch of Vitae

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains haste and ": Untap this creature. Activate this ability only once."

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Trailblazer

Instant

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

"Our Elvish Hunter Taaveti led us swiftly along hidden paths through the dense forest. We caught the Orcs from behind, and completely by surprise."
-Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Undergrowth

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Undergrowth, you may pay .

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. If its additional cost was paid, Undergrowth doesn't affect combat damage that would be dealt by red creatures.

"It is the work of sorcery. Burn it!" -Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Venomous Breath

Instant

Choose target creature. At end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by it this turn.

Warning

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

"The folk of the Karplusan Mountains are impossible to ambush."
-Lovisa Coldeyes,
Balduvian Chieftain

Whiteout

Instant

All creatures lose flying until end of turn.

Sacrifice a snow land: Return Whiteout from your graveyard to your hand.

Winter's Chill

Instant

Cast Winter's Chill only during combat before blockers are declared.

X can't be greater than the number of snow lands you control.

Choose X target attacking creatures. For each of those creatures, its controller may pay or . If that player doesn't, destroy that creature at end of combat. If that player pays only , prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this combat.

Word of Undoing

Instant

Return target creature and all white Auras you own attached to it to their owners' hands.

"It was in Urza's journals that I finally found the secret at the core of the summonings."
-Journal, author unknown

Alabaster Potion

Instant

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

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
-D'Avenant proverb

Blood Lust

Instant

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

Fissure

Instant

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

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"
-Plato

Inferno

Instant

Inferno deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.

"Any scrap of compassion that still existed in my soul was permanently snuffed out when they cast me out into the flames."
-Mairsil, called the Pretender

Marsh Gas

Instant

All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.

"Comes right outta th' ground. If ya can smell it, it's too late."
-Keevy Bogsbury

Morale

Instant

Attacking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"After Lacjsi's speech, the Knights grew determined to crush their ancient enemies clan by clan."
-Tivadar of Thorn, History of the Goblin Wars

Piety

Instant

Blocking creatures get +0/+3 until end of turn.

"Whoever obeys God and His Prophet, fears God and does his duty to Him, will surely find success."
-The Qur'an, 24:52