Whispering Madness

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Mark for Death

Sorcery

Target creature an opponent controls blocks this turn if able. Untap that creature. Other creatures that player controls can't block this turn.

Everyone roots for the little guy, but nobody bets on him.

Purge the Profane

Sorcery

Target opponent discards two cards and you gain 2 life.

The Orzhov hear the plans of the other guilds through the guilty thoughts of the disloyal.

Last Thoughts

Sorcery

Draw a card.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Mental Vapors

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Voidwalk

Sorcery

Exile target creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Unexpected Results

Sorcery

Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield and return Unexpected Results to its owner's hand.

Debt to the Deathless

Sorcery

Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Some of Orzhov's cruelest collectors remember their debtors by taste alone.

Reap Intellect

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose up to X nonland cards from it and exile them. For each card exiled this way, search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Alive (Alive/Well)

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Down (Down/Dirty)

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Diabolic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Demolish

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

"To truly defeat a skaberen, you must destroy not the monster but the lab."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Bramblecrush

Sorcery

Destroy target noncreature permanent.

"Civilization is fertilizer."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Hunt the Weak

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

He who hesitates is lunch.

March of the Returned

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

The Returned have no memory of the Underworld or of their former lives. The golden masks they wear are the last gifts of the selves they left behind.

Portent of Betrayal

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Dawn to Dusk

Sorcery

Choose one or both - Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand; and/or destroy target enchantment.

"The numbers of Nyxborn among us have swelled. Is this a sign of the gods' favor, or does it portend something else?"

Excoriate

Sorcery

Exile target tapped creature.

The demon had flown past the reach of Erebos's whip but not the point of the sun god's spear.

Whelming Wave

Sorcery

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

"I can see why this appeals to Thassa."
-Kiora

Gild

Sorcery

Exile target creature. Put a colorless artifact token named Gold onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

Merchants of the Underworld trade in coins of clay. Gold serves another purpose.

Peregrination

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. Shuffle your library, then scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Pull from the Deep

Sorcery

Return up to one target instant card and up to one target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Pull from the Deep.

Ideas, not stones, form the true foundation of Meletis.

Desecration Plague

Sorcery

Destroy target enchantment or land.

"The gods think of us as insects. Perhaps there is wisdom in that."
-Perisophia the philosopher

Dangerous (Armed/Dangerous)

Sorcery

All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Into the Void

Sorcery

Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.

"The cathars have their swords, the inquisitors their axes. I prefer the ‘diplomatic' approach."
-Terhold, archmage of Drunau

Rush of Battle

Sorcery

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Warrior creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by those Warriors also causes their controller to gain that much life.)

The Mardu charge reflects the dragon's speed-and its hunger.

Bitter Revelation

Sorcery

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.

"Here you lie then, Ugin. The corpses of worlds will join you in the tomb."
-Sorin Markov

Dutiful Return

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"We have a word for enemies too mutilated for military service: furniture."
-Taigam, Sidisi's Hand

Unified Front

Sorcery

Converge - Put a 1/1 white Kor Ally creature token onto the battlefield for each color of mana spent to cast Unified Front.

The kor's pride in their independence has given way to a strong sense of community that embraces all of Zendikar.

Brilliant Spectrum

Sorcery

Converge - Draw X cards, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Brilliant Spectrum. Then discard two cards.

There are more sights on Zendikar than the eyes can see.

Coastal Discovery

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Mire's Malice

Sorcery

Target opponent discards two cards.

Awaken 3- (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Rising Miasma

Sorcery

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

Awaken 3- (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Crumble to Dust

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Reclaiming Vines

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

"This world tires of its long occupation."-Nissa Revane

Allied Reinforcements

Sorcery

Put two 2/2 white Knight Ally creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"Our formation was scattered after Sea Gate fell. If you're fighting the Eldrazi, consider us your newest recruits."

Oblivion Strike

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Exile target creature.

It's bad enough to be torn to pieces. It's worse by far to be torn from the world itself.

Witness the End

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target opponent exiles two cards from his or her hand and loses 2 life.

"Ulamog stood before us at Sea Gate, ready to succumb . . . and then Kozilek arose. Whatever hope I had for our world died."
-Vandri, Kalastria emissary

Mind Rot

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

"What a pity. You should have written it down."
-Liliana Vess

Righteous Charge

Sorcery

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

"In the name of peace, moderation, and decency-wipe them all out!"

Act of Treason

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

"Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison."
-Sarkhan Vol

Miming Slime

Sorcery

Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"We paid the Simic very well for this capability, but we should quickly recoup our expenses in saved wages."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Immortal Servitude

Sorcery

Return each creature card with converted mana cost X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The fine print of countless contracts has ensured we are never defenseless."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Uncovered Clues

Sorcery

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

The Implicit Maze winds through Ravnica, connecting arcane landmarks of all ten guilds.

Awe for the Guilds

Sorcery

Monocolored creatures can't block this turn.

When the guilds cooperate, the guildless celebrate their peaceful society. When the guilds clash, the guildless just try to keep out of the way.

Gaze of Granite

Sorcery

Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost X or less.

Golgari reclaimers resent the gorgons, begrudging the loss of so many fine nutrients locked away in stone.

Pilfered Plans

Sorcery

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

Mirko Vosk hunted anyone with knowledge of the maze, draining the chances of the other guilds.

Catch (Catch/Release)

Sorcery

Gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Give (Give/Take)

Sorcery

Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Toil (Toil/Trouble)

Sorcery

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Hive Stirrings

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 colorless Sliver creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Sliver young are sorted into clutches according to their potential and their future role. Human scholars can only guess how those are determined.

Solemn Offering

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.

"A relic donation is suggested."
"The suggestion is mandatory."
-Temple signs

Divination

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

"The key to unlocking this puzzle is within you."
-Doriel, mentor of Mistral Isle

Glimpse the Future

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"No simple coin toss can solve this riddle. You must think and choose wisely."-Shai Fusan, archmage

Time Ebb

Sorcery

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Like the tide, time both ebbs and flows.

Flames of the Firebrand

Sorcery

Flames of the Firebrand deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

"You're in luck. I brought enough to share."
-Chandra Nalaar

Molten Birth

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens onto the battlefield. Then flip a coin. If you win the flip, return Molten Birth to its owner's hand.

"Few can coax the creatures within the magma to be cooled and take form."-Koth of the Hammer

Read the Bones

Sorcery

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Anger of the Gods

Sorcery

Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

There was no reason to pray. This was already an act of the gods.

Peak Eruption

Sorcery

Destroy target Mountain. Peak Eruption deals 3 damage to that land's controller.

"Early olive buds? A good omen. Flock of crows? Not so good. Mountain exploding? Bad. Very, very bad."
-Hira, street oracle

Fade into Antiquity

Sorcery

Exile target artifact or enchantment.

"Are the gods angry at our discontent with what they give us, or jealous that we made a thing they cannot?"
-Kleon the Iron-Booted

Time to Feed

Sorcery

Choose target creature an opponent controls. When that creature dies this turn, you gain 3 life. Target creature you control fights that creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Asphyxiate

Sorcery

Destroy target untapped creature.

"Some poisons enter through the blood. Some are ingested. Some are inhaled. All ways through which mortals draw strength are paths for poison."
-Agathe, priest of Pharika

Drown in Sorrow

Sorcery

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

"The sad truth is that the whip of Erebos is long enough to wrap around all our throats."
-Perisophia the philosopher

Bolt of Keranos

Sorcery

Bolt of Keranos deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

The breakthroughs granted by Keranos, god of epiphany, can be surprisingly literal.

Culling Mark

Sorcery

Target creature blocks this turn if able.

Hunt without Nylea's leave and you may find yourself the next quarry.

Tormented Thoughts

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Tormented Thoughts, sacrifice a creature.

Target player discards a number of cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

"Not all nightmares can be escaped by waking."
-Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

Harness by Force

Sorcery

Strive - Harness by Force costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Gain control of any number of target creatures until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

Kruphix's Insight

Sorcery

Reveal the top six cards of your library. Put up to three enchantment cards from among them into your hand and the rest of the revealed cards into your graveyard.

The horizon is tantalizing in both its uncertainty and its potential.

Reviving Melody

Sorcery

Choose one or both - Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand; and/or return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Listen to my song, and you need never forge a golden mask to return to me."

Dirty (Down/Dirty)

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Take (Give/Take)

Sorcery

Remove all +1/+1 counters from target creature you control. Draw that many cards.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Trouble (Toil/Trouble)

Sorcery

Trouble deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Festergloom

Sorcery

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

The death of a scout can be as informative as a safe return.

Act on Impulse

Sorcery

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled this way. (If you cast a spell this way, you still pay its costs. You can play a land this way only if you have an available land play remaining.)

"You don't want to know what happens after I put on the goggles."

Rakshasa's Secret

Sorcery

Target opponent discards two cards. Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

The voice of a rakshasa is soft, its breath sweet. But every word is the murmur of madness.

Arc Lightning

Sorcery

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

Rainclouds don't last long in Shiv, but that doesn't stop the lightning.

Barrage of Boulders

Sorcery

Barrage of Boulders deals 1 damage to each creature you don't control.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, creatures can't block this turn.

Crude tactics can be effective nonetheless.

Hordeling Outburst

Sorcery

Put three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"Leave no scraps, lest you attract pests."
-Mardu threat

Howl of the Horde

Sorcery

When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Raid - If you attacked with a creature this turn, when you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell an additional time. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Roar of Challenge

Sorcery

All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.

Ferocious - That creature gains indestructible until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Scout the Borders

Sorcery

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

"I am in my element: the element of surprise."
-Mogai, Sultai scout

Villainous Wealth

Sorcery

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of his or her library. You may cast any number of nonland cards with converted mana cost X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Gold buys death. Death earns gold.

Sheer Drop

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

Awaken 3- (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Swarm Surge

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Colorless creatures you control also gain first strike until end of turn.

The Eldrazi rampaged across Zendikar in a tide of chittering, heaving flesh.

Painful Truths

Sorcery

Converge - You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Painful Truths.

As the Eldrazi spread, no secret that could give Zendikar's defenders an advantage was considered too dangerous to seek.

Ruinous Path

Sorcery

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Touch of the Void

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Touch of the Void deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Some wounds never heal.

Radiant Flames

Sorcery

Converge - Radiant Flames deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Radiant Flames.

The fires of Zendikar are always hungry, and there is much on which they can feed.

Call the Scions

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Put two 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Ulamog's progeny swarm the land, draining Zendikar's mana to feed the titan's insatiable hunger.

Roil Spout

Sorcery

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Call the Gatewatch

Sorcery

Search your library for a planeswalker card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"I've heard it said that a Planeswalker is someone who can always run from danger. But Gideon's right: we're also the ones who can choose to stay."
-Jace Beleren

Shoulder to Shoulder

Sorcery

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Draw a card.

"Sea Gate may have fallen, but we still stand. We still fight."
-Gideon Jura

Flaying Tendrils

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If a creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Only one Eldrazi stood against them, yet the defenders were outnumbered.

Devour in Flames

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Devour in Flames, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Devour in Flames deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Ob Nixilis had prepared for every eventuality-except Chandra Nalaar.

Inaction Injunction

Sorcery

Detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Draw a card.

"To prevent action is to prevent transgression."
-Azorius Arrester motto

Mizzium Mortars

Sorcery

Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Call of the Conclave

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

Centaurs are sent to evangelize in Gruul territories where words of war speak louder than prayers of peace.

Dreadbore

Sorcery

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

In Rakdos-controlled neighborhoods, everyone is part of the show.