Memory Lapse

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

"Oh, I had a conscience once. But alas, I seem to have forgotten where I put it."
-Chandler

Panic

Instant

Cast Panic only during combat before blockers are declared.

Target creature can't block this turn.

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

Pyroblast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target spell if it's blue; or destroy target permanent if it's blue.

"Just the thing for those pesky water mages."
-Jaya Ballard, task mage

Sacred Boon

Instant

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature 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.

"Divine gifts are granted to those who are worthy."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Shield Wall

Instant

Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

The strongest walls are made not of stone or steel but of the focused strength of warriors.

Shrink

Instant

Target creature gets -5/-0 until end of turn.

"May you decrease like coal upon the hearth . . . Evaporate like water in a pail, Become as little as a linseed-grain . . . And so diminish that you come to nothing."
-Anglo-Saxon curse

Stampede

Instant

Attacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

"When are beasts like a river?"
-The One Thousand Questions

Truce

Instant

Each player may draw up to two cards. For each card less than two a player draws this way, that player gains 2 life.

Not all victories require defeat.
-Onean idiom

Updraft

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

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

"Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I."
-Sir Walter Scott, "The Lady of the Lake"

Word of Blasting

Instant

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated. Word of Blasting deals damage equal to that Wall's converted mana cost to the Wall's controller.

"Walls? What walls?"
-Jaya Ballard, task mage

Emerald Charm

Instant

Choose one - Untap target permanent; or destroy target non-Aura enchantment; or target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Feral Instinct

Instant

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

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

"If a rhino's head is lower than its shoulders, trust me-it is not praying."
-Mwani, Mtenda herder

Fireblast

Instant

You may sacrifice two Mountains rather than pay Fireblast's mana cost.

Fireblast deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Embermages aren't well known for their diplomatic skills.

Foreshadow

Instant

Name a card, then target opponent puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If that card is the named card, you draw a card.

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

Funeral Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target player discards a card; or target creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn; or target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn.

Hearth Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target artifact creature; or attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn; or target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn.

Honorable Passage

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature or player this turn, prevent that damage. If damage from a red source is prevented this way, Honorable Passage deals that much damage to the source's controller.

Hope Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gains first strike until end of turn; or target player gains 2 life; or destroy target Aura.

Impulse

Instant

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"Controlling time ensures you need never look impulsive again."
-Teferi

Kaervek's Spite

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Kaervek's Spite, sacrifice all permanents you control and discard your hand.

Target player loses 5 life.

"The end justifies the means. What do I care if I rule over the dead rather than over the living? The dead ask fewer questions."
-Kaervek

Miraculous Recovery

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"You stop breathing for just a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions."
-Zarkuu, necrosavant

Rock Slide

Instant

Rock Slide deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking or blocking creatures without flying.

"Good ol' rock. Nothing beats rock."
-Rhirhok, goblin archer

Simoon

Instant

Simoon deals 1 damage to each creature target opponent controls.

"The black-and-white sacred monkey holds her children to her, and waits."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Solfatara

Instant

Target player can't play land cards this turn.

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

"A burst of hot air tossed the moon into the air, and the moon liked it up there so much it never needed the ground again."
-Azeworai, "Glitter Moon"

Three Wishes

Instant

Exile the top three cards of your library face down. You may look at those cards for as long as they remain exiled. Until your next turn, you may play those cards. At the beginning of your next upkeep, put any of those cards you didn't play into your graveyard.

Time and Tide

Instant

Simultaneously, all phased-out creatures phase in and all creatures with phasing phase out.

"Time may heal all wounds, but what heals time?"
-Teferi

Tithe

Instant

Search your library for a Plains card. If target opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for an additional Plains card. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Vision Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard; or choose a land type and a basic land type, and each land of the first chosen type becomes the second chosen type until end of turn; or target artifact 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.)

Wicked Reward

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Wicked Reward, sacrifice a creature.

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

"The blood on my hands is merely proof of my ambition."
-Kaervek

Wind Shear

Instant

Attacking creatures with flying get -2/-2 and lose flying until end of turn.

"As the winds abated, there was a shower of dragonscales, then nothing more."
-Azeworai, "The Unruly Wind"

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