Fresh Meat

Instant

Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

A scavenger's favorite appetizer is death.

Frantic Salvage

Instant

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

Draw a card.

"We will mourn when there is time. For now, we survive."

Fuel for the Cause

Instant

Counter target spell, then proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

"Your ideas will be discarded and your will repurposed."

Into the Core

Instant

Exile two target artifacts.

"They believe they're driving us back, but we're leading them to their doom."
-Kethek, furnace stoker

Instill Infection

Instant

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Draw a card.

"The results of our ninth inoculation were the same. The specimen was, of course, euthanized before the contagion could spread."
-Vedalken research notes

Blunt the Assault

Instant

You gain 1 life for each creature on the battlefield. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"Much can be gained from the appearance of vulnerability."
-Ezuri, renegade leader

Carrion Call

Instant

Put two 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with infect onto the battlefield. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

The natural order is out of order.

Slice in Twain

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Draw a card.

"The hypocrisy of these elves is thicker than steel-destroying ‘unnatural metal' with their own enchanted swords."
-Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

Harmless Assault

Instant

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

After encasing it in a paralyzing beam of light, the angel studied the Eldrazi as a child would study a bug, curiously and without fear.

Lay Bare

Instant

Counter target spell. Look at its controller's hand.

"It's good to learn from your failures, but I prefer to learn from the failures of others."
-Jace Beleren

Living Destiny

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Living Destiny, reveal a creature card from your hand.

You gain life equal to the revealed card's converted mana cost.

"That our enemies are great only brings us greater hope."

Momentous Fall

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Momentous Fall, sacrifice a creature.

You draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then you gain life equal to its toughness.

It wasn't long until the elves had developed a use for every part of the Eldrazi.

Join the Ranks

Instant

Put two 1/1 white Soldier Ally creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Expeditionary houses are notorious for their rivalries. But when adventurers meet in the wilderness, the instinct for mutual survival outweighs petty grudges.

Refraction Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent cast a red instant or sorcery spell this turn, you may pay rather than pay Refraction Trap's mana cost.

Prevent the next 3 damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or permanents you control this turn. If damage is prevented this way, Refraction Trap deals that much damage to target creature or player.

Permafrost Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent had a green creature enter the battlefield under his or her control this turn, you may pay rather than pay Permafrost Trap's mana cost.

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.

Ricochet Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent cast a blue spell this turn, you may pay rather than pay Ricochet Trap's mana cost.

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

In his last seconds, Remhas regretted using his most powerful spell.

Slingbow Trap

Instant - Trap

If a black creature with flying is attacking, you may pay rather than pay Slingbow Trap's mana cost.

Destroy target attacking creature with flying.

The Tajuru elves devised ways to let the forest defend itself.

Lethargy Trap

Instant - Trap

If three or more creatures are attacking, you may pay rather than pay Lethargy Trap's mana cost.

Attacking creatures get -3/-0 until end of turn.

Suddenly, Zurdi didn't care about treasure, glory, food . . . or the drakes circling above.

Mindbreak Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay rather than pay Mindbreak Trap's mana cost.

Exile any number of target spells.

"Life is a maze. This is one of its dead ends."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Summoner's Bane

Instant

Counter target creature spell. Put a 2/2 blue Illusion creature token onto the battlefield.

"I don't need to have the perfect plan. My foe just has to have an imperfect one."
-Jace Beleren

Ravenous Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent had three or more cards put into his or her graveyard from anywhere this turn, you may pay rather than pay Ravenous Trap's mana cost.

Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

Inferno Trap

Instant - Trap

If you've been dealt damage by two or more creatures this turn, you may pay rather than pay Inferno Trap's mana cost.

Inferno Trap deals 4 damage to target creature.

"Do you smell something burning?"

Offering to Asha

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . You gain 4 life.

"His body belongs to Bant now. His soul? I honestly don't know. I expect it belongs to the angels."
-Rafiq of the Many

Inspired Charge

Instant

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn.

"Impossible! How could they overwhelm us? We had barricades, war elephants, . . . and they were barely a tenth of our number!"
-General Avitora

Disorient

Instant

Target creature gets -7/-0 until end of turn.

"If it has a brain, even a primitive one, we can most surely scramble it."
-Garild, merfolk mage

Tendrils of Corruption

Instant

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Darkness doesn't always send its minions to do its dirty work.

Might of Oaks

Instant

Target creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

May your weapon be no sword forged. May your armor be no metal wrought.
-Elvish saying

Sulfurous Blast

Instant

Sulfurous Blast deals 2 damage to each creature and each player. If you cast this spell during your main phase, Sulfurous Blast deals 3 damage to each creature and each player instead.

The Keldons used the toxic vents in the cracked earth to bolster their home's defenses.

Wild Ricochet

Instant

You may choose new targets for target instant or sorcery spell. Then copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"I knew that trick long before your great-grandmother's great-grandmother was born."

Master Warcraft

Instant

Cast Master Warcraft only before attackers are declared.

You choose which creatures attack this turn.

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

Wrecking Ball

Instant

Destroy target creature or land.

Rakdos festivals almost leave enough rubble in their wake to hide the bodies.

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."

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."

Grisly Spectacle

Instant

Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller puts a number of cards equal to that creature's power from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Watch people flock to a murder scene. Then tell me we're not all a little sick in the head."
-Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue

Homing Lightning

Instant

Homing Lightning deals 4 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.

"I see countless worlds. What makes them think I can't find them in just one?"
-Ral Zarek

Mindstatic

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"It's always satisfying to stymie the best efforts of a rival, but the reactions of the Gruul are particularly amusing."
-Bori Andon, Izzet blastseeker

Fatal Fumes

Instant

Target creature gets -4/-2 until end of turn.

Travelers in the undercity dread the horrors and assassins of the Dimir, but nearly as many die from more mundane hazards.

Advent of the Wurm

Instant

Put a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

The consciousness of Mat'Selesnya does not always spread in peaceful ways.

Plasm Capture

Instant

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next precombat main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

"Everything serves a purpose. Even you."
-Vorel of the Hull Clade

Warleader's Helix

Instant

Warleader's Helix deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

"There is no time to remedy our enemies' ignorance. Blast it out of them."
-Aurelia