Browbeat

Sorcery

Any player may have Browbeat deal 5 damage to him or her. If no one does, target player draws three cards.

"Even the threat of power has power."
-Jeska, warrior adept

Bump in the Night

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 3 life.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

It's not just the wind. It's not all in your head. And it's definitely something to worry about.

Buried Alive

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three creature cards and put them into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Burn at the Stake

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Burn at the Stake, tap any number of untapped creatures you control.

Burn at the Stake deals damage to target creature or player equal to three times the number of creatures tapped this way.

Burn Trail

Sorcery

Burn Trail deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

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.)

Burning Inquiry

Sorcery

Each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

Jariad burned the midnight oil, burned through scroll after scroll, and then burned down his laboratory.

Burst of Speed

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn. (They can attack and even if they just came under your control.)

Great generals inspire by example. Goblin chieftains inspire by electrifying the barracks.

Cached Defenses

Sorcery

Bolster 3. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

The glittering scales in the Abzan vaults represent mighty deeds of the past and protection for generations to come.

Call (Beck/Call)

Sorcery

Put four 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

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

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.

Call of the Herd

Sorcery

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

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Call of the Nightwing

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 blue and black Horror creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

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.)

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

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.

Call the Skybreaker

Sorcery

Put a 5/5 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

It hears and answers every orison across Shadowmoor.

Call to Mind

Sorcery

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"It's hard to say which is more satisfying: the search for that missing piece or fitting that piece into place."
-Evo Ragus

Call to the Netherworld

Sorcery

Return target black creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

The ritual was normally performed only by horrors and pit spawn. Lesser mages had but one sanity to crack in the casting.

Captain's Call

Sorcery

Put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"Who among you has the courage to face certain death? Who will heed my call?"
-Rayel Vanger, Firstblade of Thune

Captured Sunlight

Sorcery

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

You gain 4 life.

Caravan Vigil

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Morbid - You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.

Caress of Phyrexia

Sorcery

Target player draws three cards, loses 3 life, and gets three poison counters.

"I am weak. Make . . . me . . . ideal."

Castigate

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.

"We have no need for military might. We wield two of the sharpest swords ever forged: Faith in our left hand, Wealth in our right."
-Vuliev of the Ghost Council

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.)

Caustic Rain

Sorcery

Exile target land.

"Looking out the great windows of Vitu-Ghazi at the foundry stacks belching their smoke to the sky, I wonder when the sky will take its vengeance."
-Heruj, Selesnya initiate

Cenn's Enlistment

Sorcery

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

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

The more the scarier.

Cerebral Eruption

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals the top card of his or her library. Cerebral Eruption deals damage equal to the revealed card's converted mana cost to that player and each creature he or she controls. If a land card is revealed this way, return Cerebral Eruption to its owner's hand.

Chain Reaction

Sorcery

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

"We train for the improbable, like lightning striking the same place twice, or striking everywhere at once."
-Nundari, Sea Gate militia captain

Chainer's Edict

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The pits have their own form of mercy.

Channel the Suns

Sorcery

Add to your mana pool.

To some the birth of the fifth sun was a sign of doom. To others it was a sign of salvation. But to all it was a sign.

Chill of Foreboding

Sorcery

Each player puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Wait . . . did you fellows hear something?"

Choice of Damnations

Sorcery - Arcane

Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents.

"Life is a series of choices between bad and worse."
-Toshiro Umezawa

Chronomantic Escape

Sorcery

Until your next turn, creatures can't attack you. Exile Chronomantic Escape with three time counters on it.

Suspend 3- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Clan Defiance

Sorcery

Choose one or more - Clan Defiance deals X damage to target creature with flying; Clan Defiance deals X damage to target creature without flying; and/or Clan Defiance deals X damage to target player.

Clarion Ultimatum

Sorcery

Choose five permanents you control. For each of those permanents, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that permanent. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Be worthy of a single blessing, and many more will follow.

Cleanfall

Sorcery - Arcane

Destroy all enchantments.

During the war, the rites of purification were still effective, but the kami, not the kitsune, chose what to cleanse.

Clear a Path

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with defender.

"Why do guards always look surprised when we bash them?" asked Ruric.
"I think they expect a bribe," said Thar.

Cleaver Riot

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Measure once, cut twice.

Clone Legion

Sorcery

For each creature target player controls, put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that creature.

Their lust for battle was so great that they didn't care their enemies wore their own faces.

Clutch of Currents

Sorcery

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

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.)

Coalition Victory

Sorcery

You win the game if you control a land of each basic land type and a creature of each color.

"You can build a perfect machine out of imperfect parts."
-Urza

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.)

Coerced Confession

Sorcery

Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. You draw a card for each creature card put into that graveyard this way.

"Ask the right questions in the right way and truth is inevitable."
-Lazav

Coercion

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.

"Of all I that I have lost, I miss my mind the most."

Collective Unconscious

Sorcery

Draw a card for each creature you control.

"The beasts of the wild are my senses. It is through their eyes that all knowledge shall come to me."

Collective Voyage

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player searches his or her library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way, puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles his or her library.

Commune with Nature

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Commune with the Gods

Sorcery

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

For the first time in many years, Elspeth asked for help.

Compulsive Research

Sorcery

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless he or she discards a land card.

"Four parts molten bronze, yes . . . one part frozen mercury, yes, yes . . . but then what?"

Concentrate

Sorcery

Draw three cards.

"The treasure in my mind is greater than any worldly glory."

Concussive Bolt

Sorcery

Concussive Bolt deals 4 damage to target player.

Metalcraft - If you control three or more artifacts, creatures that player controls can't block this turn.

Shock one, awe the rest.

Cone of Flame

Sorcery

Cone of Flame deals 1 damage to target creature or player, 2 damage to another target creature or player, and 3 damage to a third target creature or player.

Conflagrate

Sorcery

Conflagrate deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

Flashback-, Discard X cards. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Conflux

Sorcery

Search your library for a white card, a blue card, a black card, a red card, and a green card. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

After years of world-bending machinations, Bolas's triumph is at hand.

Conjurer's Ban

Sorcery

Name a card. Until your next turn, the named card can't be played.

Draw a card.

Orzhov faithful file past to have their minds purged of "impure" desires. There, the guiltwardens eliminate any thoughts of hope or self-sufficiency.

Conqueror's Pledge

Sorcery

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

Put six 1/1 white Kor Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield. If Conqueror's Pledge was kicked, put twelve of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.

Consult the Necrosages

Sorcery

Choose one - Target player draws two cards; or target player discards two cards.

Dimir rank and file never see nor hear their guildmaster. All orders are given through mysterious necrosages who appear from the shadows, tersely toss out a command, and then melt into the darkness.

Consume Spirit

Sorcery

Spend only black mana on X.

Consume Spirit deals X damage to target creature or player and you gain X life.

"You clerics brag about your strength of spirit, yet I take away the tiniest fragment, and you crumple like a rag doll."
-Sorin Markov

Consuming Bonfire

Tribal Sorcery - Elemental

Choose one - Consuming Bonfire deals 4 damage to target non-Elemental creature; or Consuming Bonfire deals 7 damage to target Treefolk creature.

"The elves use treefolk to drive us away. It is time to remove their tools."
-Vessifrus, flamekin demagogue

Consuming Vapors

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Corpsehatch

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature. Put two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Corrosive Gale

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Corrosive Gale deals X damage to each creature with flying.

"Wipe Sheoldred's spies from the sky. She'll see the result of our vision soon enough."
-Glissa

Corrupt

Sorcery

Corrupt deals damage equal to the number of Swamps you control to target creature or player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

The power of the fens sleeps lightly, and always awakens hungry.

Council's Judgment

Sorcery

Will of the council - Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

When its power is threatened, the council speaks with a unified voice.

Counsel of the Soratami

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

"Wisdom is not the counting of all the drops in a waterfall. Wisdom is learning why the water seeks the earth."

Coursers' Accord

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Bleak rumors reached Trostani's ears. She decreed that no one should travel alone.

Covenant of Blood

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Covenant of Blood deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

Covenant of Minds

Sorcery

Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent may choose to put those cards into your hand. If he or she doesn't, put those cards into your graveyard and draw five cards.

Before signing anything on Grixis, always read the fine print.

Crack the Earth

Sorcery - Arcane

Each player sacrifices a permanent.

"As the war progressed, the destruction the kami caused became more widespread and less predictable."
-Observations of the Kami War

Cranial Extraction

Sorcery - Arcane

Name a nonland card. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Crater's Claws

Sorcery

Crater's Claws deals X damage to target creature or player.

Ferocious - Crater's Claws deals X plus 2 damage to that creature or player instead if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Craterize

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

"‘Utterly' is my favorite way to destroy something."
-Chandra Nalaar

Creeping Corrosion

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts.

"We will reveal the futility of their heresy by showing them how fragile their relics are."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Creeping Mold

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Mold crept over the walls and into every crevice until the gleaming white stone strained and burst.

Creeping Renaissance

Sorcery

Choose a permanent type. Return all cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to your hand.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Crime (Crime/Punishment)

Sorcery

Put target creature or enchantment card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Cruel Edict

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature.

"Choose your next words carefully. They will be your last."
-Phage the Untouchable

Cruel Ultimatum

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

There is always a greater power.

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.

Crush of Tentacles

Sorcery

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If Crush of Tentacles's surge cost was paid, put an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token onto the battlefield.

Crux of Fate

Sorcery

Choose one -

• Destroy all Dragon creatures.

• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Ugin's whispered summons led Sarkhan Vol to the moment that would echo down the centuries and seal Tarkir's fate: the primal battle between Ugin and Nicol Bolas.

Cry of Contrition

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.)

When the creature Cry of Contrition haunts dies, target player discards a card.

Cryoclasm

Sorcery

Destroy target Plains or Island. Cryoclasm deals 3 damage to that land's controller.

The people of Terisiare had come to live on frozen fields as though on solid ground. Nothing reminded them of the difference more clearly than the rifts brought on by the Thaw.

Culling Mark

Sorcery

Target creature blocks this turn if able.

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

Culling Sun

Sorcery

Destroy each creature with converted mana cost 3 or less.

"Who truly runs this city? Look to the sky on hallowed days, and see whose sigil is stamped clearly onto the heavens."
-Vuliev of the Ghost Council

Cultivate

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. Then shuffle your library.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Curse of the Cabal

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices half the permanents he or she controls, rounded down.

Suspend 2- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if Curse of the Cabal is suspended, that player may sacrifice a permanent. If he or she does, put two time counters on Curse of the Cabal.

Curse of the Swine

Sorcery

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller puts a 2/2 green Boar creature token onto the battlefield.

Another imminent battle subsided in busy snuffling and carefree rooting.

Cut the Tethers

Sorcery

For each Spirit, return it to its owner's hand unless that player pays .

"You cannot bar the path of gods. You can only divert their journey for a while."
-Sensei Hisoka

Cyclical Evolution

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Exile Cyclical Evolution with three time counters on it.

Suspend 3- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Damnable Pact

Sorcery

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

"Silumgar's mind is a dark labyrinth, full of grim secrets and subtle traps."
-Siara, the Dragon's Mouth

Damnation

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Dance of Shadows

Sorcery - Arcane

Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"Only one man survived, barely sane. He got out two words before collapsing: shadows' shadows."

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.)

Dark Deal

Sorcery

Each player discards all the cards in his or her hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

The first khans of the Sultai relied on the magic of the rakshasa to ensure the survival of the clan.

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?"

Dawnglow Infusion

Sorcery

You gain X life if was spent to cast Dawnglow Infusion and X life if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

Dawnglove bloom is a potent nostrum, but the dawnglow brewed from its sap is nothing less than life itself.

Day of Judgment

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures.

Dead Drop

Sorcery

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Target player sacrifices two creatures.

Got a diving lesson
-Sultai expression meaning
"was fed to the crocodiles"

Dead Reckoning

Sorcery

You may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. If you do, Dead Reckoning deals damage equal to that card's power to target creature.

Many venture out to hunt for treasures. Others lie in wait to hunt the hunters.

Deadly Allure

Sorcery

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn and must be blocked this turn if able.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

What could be more irresistible than death?