Bull Rush

Instant

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

"It's gone mad! Loose the chains and save what you can!"

Groundswell

Instant

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

Landfall - If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

"This world will not be tamed."

Nature's Claim

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

"On this plane, the use of magic can provoke a ferocious reprisal from nature. Whoever the Eldrazi were, their relics left Zendikar forever enraged."
-Jace Beleren

Brave the Elements

Instant

Choose a color. White creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. (They can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of that color.)

"Trust me, your lost fingers and toes are nothing compared to the lost treasures of Sejiri."
-Zahr Gada, Halimar expedition leader

Shieldmate's Blessing

Instant

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"Even land dwellers may call for Emeria's grace in times of need."
-Emeria's Creed

Spell Pierce

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

"There's a hole in your plan."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Disfigure

Instant

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

"Brave scar or unfortunate tale? It all depends on your pain threshold."

Vampire's Bite

Instant

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn. If Vampire's Bite was kicked, that creature gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Burst Lightning

Instant

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to target creature or player. If Burst Lightning was kicked, it deals 4 damage to that creature or player instead.

Unstable Footing

Instant

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Damage can't be prevented this turn. If Unstable Footing was kicked, it deals 5 damage to target player.

A long way down is shorter than you think.

Primal Bellow

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Forest you control.

"A might spell can be handy against baloths, giants, kraken, the Roil-or if you lose your bearings in the woods."
-Chadir the Navigator

Vines of Vastwood

Instant

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Target creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn. If Vines of Vastwood was kicked, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Condemn

Instant

Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

"No doubt the arbiters would put you away, after all the documents are signed. But I will have justice now."
-Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Silence

Instant

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn. (Spells cast before this resolves are unaffected.)

"Take a quiet moment to reflect on your sins."
-Cleph, Order of Redeemed Souls

Diminish

Instant

Target creature becomes 1/1 until end of turn.

"‘That was a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence."
-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Stabbing Pain

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Tap that creature.

"You can take the fight out of nearly any creature if you know where its soft spot is."
-Guttor, flesh-warper

Incite

Instant

Target creature becomes red until end of turn and attacks this turn if able.

The veneer of rationality peeled from the mage, revealing the spite and rage beneath.

Lightning Bolt

Instant

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Hornet Sting

Instant

Hornet Sting deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

It was only then-to his infinite sorrow-that Gork realized hornets don't make honey.

Harm's Way

Instant

The next 2 damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or permanents you control this turn is dealt to target creature or player instead.

Even when fate is already written, there's always time to change the names.

Righteousness

Instant

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

Sometimes the greatest strength is the strength of conviction.

Jump

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Humanity has always envied the power of flight. So we took it."
-Scytha, aeromage

Windstorm

Instant

Windstorm deals X damage to each creature with flying.

"We don't like interlopers and thieves cluttering our skies."
-Dionus, elvish archdruid

Constricting Tendrils

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Priests of Bant protect their temples with traps more elaborate than any mosaic floor.

Might of Alara

Instant

Domain - Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

The combined strength of all five planes spawned creations none had seen before.

Banishing Knack

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains ": Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Suddenly he realized that everything was connected by invisible strings, strings that could be pulled-or cut.

Beckon Apparition

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard. Put a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When a graveyard is full, the gwyllions rattle the tombs and unleash the spirits into the sky.

Niveous Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes white until end of turn. Tap that creature.

Draw a card.

In a world devoid of sun, illumination comes from cheerless fires or the wandering spirits of the dead.

Strip Bare

Instant

Destroy all Auras and Equipment attached to target creature.

"All glamers lifted, all lies revealed, all flesh exposed."
-Awylla, elvish safewright

Cerulean Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes blue until end of turn. Untap that creature.

Draw a card.

"If you see ghostly lights by the river, eat three twigs of marshroot to ward off kelpies."
-Kithkin superstition

Aphotic Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Draw a card.

Merrows skulk the silty bogs around the Wanderbrine, their very thoughts stained with evil.

Crimson Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes red and gains haste until end of turn.

Draw a card.

The whispers are incomprehensible, yet cinders always hear a message of urgency.

Viridescent Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes green and gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

In the wisps that night, the once timid boggart saw all the terrible, bloody things he was capable of. And it was glorious.

Dream Salvage

Instant

Draw cards equal to the number of cards target opponent discarded this turn.

Awylla tried hard to forget the horrors she had seen, but someone else had developed a keen interest in them.

Scar

Instant

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

"What is a scar? A sign of courage in the face of danger? A mere trick of flesh? Or a constant reminder of agonizing pain, and the follies of war."
-Illulia of Nighthearth

Guttural Response

Instant

Counter target blue instant spell.

Wort had a raiding-bellow that could shatter steel, melt auras, and slice countermagic in half.

Barkshell Blessing

Instant

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

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Coordinated Barrage

Instant

Choose a creature type. Coordinated Barrage deals damage to target attacking or blocking creature equal to the number of permanents you control of the chosen type.

Shard Volley

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Shard Volley, sacrifice a land.

Shard Volley deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

"Let the mountain's teeth pierce our oppressors."

Broken Ambitions

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Clash with an opponent. If you win, that spell's controller puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Needle Drop

Instant

Needle Drop deals 1 damage to target creature or player that was dealt damage this turn.

Draw a card.

"First it was plovers and mulldrifters. Now it's knitting needles the size of javelins."
-Calydd, kithkin farmer

Bandage

Instant

Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Draw a card.

Life is measured in inches. To a healer, every one of those inches is precious.

Hail of Arrows

Instant

Hail of Arrows deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking creatures.

"Do not let a single shaft loose until my word. And when I give that word, do not leave a single shaft in Eiganjo."
-General Takeno

Holy Day

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"Today there is feasting and peace across our land, but the war has not ended. Tuck away your bloodlust. You'll need it tomorrow."
-Karrim, Samite healer

Luminesce

Instant

Prevent all damage that black sources and red sources would deal this turn.

"The White Shield is not the burnished metal you lash to your forearm but the conviction that burns in your chest."
-Lucilde Fiksdotter,
leader of the Order of the White Shield

Mind Bend

Instant

Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another. (For example, you may change "nonblack creature" to "nongreen creature" or "forestwalk" to "islandwalk." This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"The world, I've come to realize, is a blank canvas on which to paint."
-Ixidor, reality sculptor

Mending Hands

Instant

Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"I can staunch their blood, mend their flesh, and knit their bones. But I cannot restore their hope."
-Tender-Hand, kitsune healer

Enrage

Instant

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

The barbarians call it "touching the soul of the dragon."

Dark Ritual

Instant

Add to your mana pool.

Deathlace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes black. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Howl from Beyond

Instant

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

Sacrifice

Instant

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

Add to your mana pool an amount of equal to the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost.

Ancestral Recall

Instant

Target player draws three cards.

Blue Elemental Blast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target red spell; or destroy target red permanent.

Magical Hack

Instant

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one basic land type with another. (For example, you may change "swampwalk" to "plainswalk." This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Power Sink

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If he or she doesn't, that player taps all lands with mana abilities he or she controls and empties his or her mana pool.

Siren's Call

Instant

Cast Siren's Call only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared.

Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able.

At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Sleight of Mind

Instant

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (For example, you may change "target black spell" to "target blue spell." This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Spell Blast

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is , X is 5.)

Thoughtlace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes blue. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Twiddle

Instant

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

Berserk

Instant

Cast Berserk only before the combat damage step.

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Camouflage

Instant

Cast Camouflage only during your declare attackers step.

This turn, instead of declaring blockers, each defending player chooses any number of creatures he or she controls and divides them into a number of piles equal to the number of attacking creatures for whom that player is the defending player. Creatures he or she controls that can block additional creatures may likewise be put into additional piles. Assign each pile to a different one of those attacking creatures at random. Each creature in a pile that can block the creature that pile is assigned to does so. (Piles can be empty.)

Lifelace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes green. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Natural Selection

Instant

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle his or her library.

Chaoslace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes red. (Its mana symbols remain unchanged.)

False Orders

Instant

Cast False Orders only during the declare blockers step.

Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Red Elemental Blast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target blue spell; or destroy target blue permanent.

Tunnel

Instant

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Blaze of Glory

Instant

Cast Blaze of Glory only during combat before blockers are declared.

Target creature defending player controls can block any number of creatures this turn. It blocks each attacking creature this turn if able.

Death Ward

Instant

Regenerate target creature.

Guardian Angel

Instant

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that creature or player this turn.

Healing Salve

Instant

Choose one - Target player gains 3 life; or prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Purelace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes white. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Swords to Plowshares

Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Crumble

Instant

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. That artifact's controller gains life equal to its converted mana cost.

The spirits of Argoth grant new life to those who repent the folly of enslaving their labors to devices.

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

Sandstorm

Instant

Sandstorm deals 1 damage to each attacking creature.

Even the landscape turned against Sarsour, first rising up and pelting him, then rearranging itself so he could no longer find his way.

Force Spike

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Unknown spears / Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes . . . ."
-William Butler Yeats,
"The Valley of the Black Pig"

Hydroblast

Instant

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

"Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within."
-Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran royal mage

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

Dwarven Catapult

Instant

Dwarven Catapult deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among all creatures target opponent controls.

"Often greatly outnumbered in battle, dwarves relied on catapults as one means of damaging a large army."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV

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

Heal

Instant

Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

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

"Sometimes even the smallest boon can save a life."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Enlightened Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal."
-Daudi, Femeref tutor

Mystical Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"To the tutors, a ‘poem of sand' was of little account, a ‘poem of ivory,' priceless."
-Afari, Tales

Fatal Blow

Instant

Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. It can't be regenerated.

"What is crueler? To let a wound of the heart fester, or to simply cut it out?"
-Crovax

Vampiric Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a card, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it. You lose 2 life.

"I write upon clean white parchment with a sharp quill and the blood of my students, divining their secrets."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Vertigo

Instant

Vertigo deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. That creature loses flying until end of turn.

"I saw the wizard gesturing, but I didn't guess his plan until my aesthir cried out and went into a dive."
-Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Vitalize

Instant

Untap all creatures you control.

"After waking to the magic of Llanowar, no dreams can compare."
-Mirri of the Weatherlight

Worldly Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a creature card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"Aselbo soon had the rhino eating from his palm and the snake waiting at his heels."
-Afari, Tales

Artifact Blast

Instant

Counter target artifact spell.

The first line of defense against Urza and Mishra, the Artifact Blast achieved widespread fame until an unlucky mage discovered it was useless on the devices the brothers had already created.

Darkness

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride,/ And hug it in my arms." -William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Glyph of Doom

Instant

At end of combat, destroy all creatures that were blocked by target Wall this turn.

"He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion . . ." -William Faulkner

Hell Swarm

Instant

All creatures get -1/-0 until end of turn.

The brightness of day turned in an instant to dusk as the swarm descended upon the battlefield.

Touch of Darkness

Instant

Any number of target creatures become black until end of turn.

"Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,/ Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may." -Thomas Middleton, The Witch

Enchantment Alteration

Instant

Attach target Aura attached to a creature or land to another permanent of that type.

Flash Flood

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target red permanent; or return target Mountain to its owner's hand.

Many people say that no power can bring the mountains low. Many people are fools.

Glyph of Delusion

Instant

Put X glyph counters on target creature that target Wall blocked this turn, where X is the power of that blocked creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a glyph counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a glyph counter from this creature."