Burning OilInstantBurning Oil deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Every now and then, a devil's prank can give you a good idea. |
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Fires of UndeathInstantFires of Undeath deals 2 damage to target creature or player. "I drink of those who are worthy of my palate. The rest I burn." |
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Increasing VengeanceInstantCopy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If Increasing Vengeance was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies.
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Clinging MistsInstantPrevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
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Crushing VinesInstantChoose one - Destroy target creature with flying; or destroy target artifact. "Your veil's curse won't stop me, deathmage. I have taken down countless night hunters and this dark plane is not big enough for you to hide." |
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Hunger of the HowlpackInstantPut a +1/+1 counter on target creature. "Werewolves are an unholy mix of a predator's instinct and a human's hatred." |
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Wild HungerInstantTarget creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample until end of turn. Otto the Hunter was filled with many grand ambitions. The snake was filled only with Otto. |
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Feeling of DreadInstantTap up to two target creatures. People only say "I'm sure it was nothing" when they're sure it was something. |
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Midnight HauntingInstantPut two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. The path back to the world of the living is murky and bewildering. A geist may not even realize that it's terrifying its own loved ones. |
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Moment of HeroismInstantTarget creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.) "My faith is stronger than fang, claw, or mindless hunger." |
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Purify the GraveInstantExile target card from a graveyard. Some priests speak in whispers of the Helvault, a silver prison of unpurged evils. |
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Rally the PeasantsInstantCreatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. "If you must go out at night, bring a mob." |
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RebukeInstantDestroy target attacking creature. "No one chooses to be stitched together into a skaab. If it could speak, it would beg for its own destruction." |
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Smite the MonstrousInstantDestroy target creature with power 4 or greater. Though the old holy wards and roadside shrines have begun to fail, faith in Avacyn still holds true power. |
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Spare from EvilInstantCreatures you control gain protection from non-Human creatures until end of turn. "As long as we can utter a prayer or lift a weapon, we have the power to fight back." |
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Urgent ExorcismInstantDestroy target Spirit or enchantment. "To show geists pity is to prolong their agonies. Whether they know it or not, they seek the Blessed Sleep, and we are to give it to them." |
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Cackling CounterpartInstantPut a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of target creature you control.
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DissipateInstantCounter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. "This abomination never belonged in our world. I'm merely setting it free." |
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Dream TwistInstantTarget player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
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Forbidden AlchemyInstantLook at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
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Frightful DelusionInstantCounter target spell unless its controller pays . That player discards a card. Whether he actually exists is in question, but the terror she feels is excruciatingly real. |
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Hysterical BlindnessInstantCreatures your opponents control get -4/-0 until end of turn. "The panic is amusing, but the real fun comes when the spell passes and the villagers start looking for a scapegoat." |
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Lost in the MistInstantCounter target spell. Return target permanent to its owner's hand. The secrets she carried could have saved many lives, but they quietly drowned with her. |
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Memory's JourneyInstantTarget player shuffles up to three target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.
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Think TwiceInstantDraw a card. "Either I know just the spell I need, or I'm about to." |
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Altar's ReapInstantAs an additional cost to cast Altar's Reap, sacrifice a creature. "The demons don't care if we mutter niceties and act out ceremonies. Just kill him." |
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Corpse LungeInstantAs an additional cost to cast Corpse Lunge, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
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Tribute to HungerInstantTarget opponent sacrifices a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness. Marella was delighted. The ball had attracted so many suitors for her daughter, including that handsome stranger. She wondered where the two were now . . . . |
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Victim of NightInstantDestroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature. "Do not touch a drop. Not yet. I want to watch this so-called slayer's last crisis of faith." |
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Ancient GrudgeInstantDestroy target artifact. If there's anything a werewolf hates, it's a collar-especially Avacyn's Collar, the symbol of her church. |
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Brimstone VolleyInstantBrimstone Volley deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
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Desperate RavingsInstantDraw two cards, then discard a card at random. Her mind was quite gone, yet she spoke nothing but truth. |
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GeistflameInstantGeistflame deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Innistrad pyromancers find their best raw materials in the fury of the dead. |
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Harvest PyreInstantAs an additional cost to cast Harvest Pyre, exile X cards from your graveyard. Corpses destroyed by fire form the most destructive geists. |
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Vampiric FuryInstantVampire creatures you control get +2/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn. Many peasants secretly admire vampires' glamour and elegance-until they witness a moment of pure bloodlust. |
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Gnaw to the BoneInstantYou gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard.
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MoonmistInstantTransform all Humans. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures other than Werewolves and Wolves. (Only double-faced cards can be transformed.)
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Ranger's GuileInstantTarget creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) In the remote corners of Kessig, protection is found in secret powers unknown to the Church of Avacyn. |
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Spidery GraspInstantUntap target creature. It gets +2/+4 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.) "Nobody's seen the Lady of Videns for years. Poor dear, no companions at all in that old castle." |
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Avenging ArrowInstantDestroy target creature that dealt damage this turn. "Forgive the theft. Punish the deception." |
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Eyes in the SkiesInstantPut a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.) "What root and branch cannot reach, our winged friends will attend to." |
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Rootborn DefensesInstantPopulate. Creatures you control are indestructible this turn. (To populate, put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy indestructible creatures.)
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Swift JusticeInstantUntil end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike and lifelink. "Having conviction is more important than being righteous." |
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Trostani's JudgmentInstantExile target creature, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.) "Some cannot be saved as they are, but all can serve the Worldsoul." |
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BlustersquallInstantTap target creature you don't control. Weather is more predictable than the Izzet. |
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Cyclonic RiftInstantReturn target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster. |
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DispelInstantCounter target instant spell. "Civilization will subsume us unless we overwhelm it instead." |
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DownsizeInstantTarget creature you don't control gets -4/-0 until end of turn.
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InspirationInstantTarget player draws two cards. "Day 31: I finally succeeded in my time reversal experiment! |
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Mizzium SkinInstantTarget creature you control gets +0/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn.
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Psychic SpiralInstantShuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library. Target player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard. An elocutor forces criminals to confess to the laws they merely intended to break. |
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SyncopateInstantCounter target spell unless its controller pays . If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. "Patience, mage. Killing you now would be too easy." |
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CremateInstantExile target card from a graveyard. "Without a body, the soul is helpless to fight the terms of our contracts." |
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Launch PartyInstantAs an additional cost to cast Launch Party, sacrifice a creature. Life's too short to not do the things you love. |
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Ultimate PriceInstantDestroy target monocolored creature. "Let him be an example to others who would default on their debts to us." |
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Annihilating FireInstantAnnihilating Fire deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead. "The most impressive performances can be done only once." |
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DynachargeInstantTarget creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Nothing evens the odds like a little lightning. |
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ElectrickeryInstantElectrickery deals 1 damage to target creature you don't control.
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Explosive ImpactInstantExplosive Impact deals 5 damage to target creature or player. "Such boorish noise is what passes for subtlety among the Boros." |
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Street SpasmInstantStreet Spasm deals X damage to target creature without flying you don't control.
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Aerial PredationInstantDestroy target creature with flying. You gain 2 life. In the towering trees of the Samok Stand and the predators that guard them, the might of the Ravnican wild has returned. |
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Chorus of MightInstantUntil end of turn, target creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control and gains trample. "In each of us is the strength of all of us." |
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Druid's DeliveranceInstantPrevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. Populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.) "So many oppose us, but we are the reed that bends without breaking." |
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Giant GrowthInstantTarget creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. "The prohibition of unnecessary tossing of the citizenry by giants shall also extend to spontaneous giants." |
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Savage SurgeInstantTarget creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap that creature. Gruul warriors never need to be stirred to battle. They need only to be shown where the battle is. |
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Abrupt DecayInstantAbrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. The Izzet quickly suspended their policy of lifetime guarantees. |
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Auger SpreeInstantTarget creature gets +4/-4 until end of turn. "Finally, a weapon the Boros can't confiscate!" |
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Azorius CharmInstantChoose one - Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn; or draw a card; or put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library. "The rules of logic and order have already made the choice for you." |
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Chemister's TrickInstantTarget creature you don't control gets -2/-0 until end of turn and attacks this turn if able.
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Common BondInstantPut a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Wolf riders hone their skills traversing the perilous rooftops, each dizzying step bringing elf and wolf closer together. |
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CounterfluxInstantCounterflux can't be countered by spells or abilities.
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Dramatic RescueInstantReturn target creature to its owner's hand. You gain 2 life. "I never thought I'd be so glad to see two tons of beak and claws bearing down on me at the speed of an arrow." |
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Essence BacklashInstantCounter target creature spell. Essence Backlash deals damage equal to that spell's power to its controller. "The other guilds will learn the hard way not to interfere with our investigations." |
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Fall of the GavelInstantCounter target spell. You gain 5 life. "My ruling is final. Order is upheld. Justice is done." |
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Firemind's ForesightInstantSearch your library for an instant card with converted mana cost 3, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then repeat this process for instant cards with converted mana costs 2 and 1. Then shuffle your library.
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Golgari CharmInstantChoose one - All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn; or destroy target enchantment; or regenerate each creature you control. "Let the rest of Ravnica sneer. One way or another, they all end up in the undercity." |
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Grisly SalvageInstantReveal 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. To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure. |
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Heroes' ReunionInstantTarget player gains 7 life. They share no bloodline, but a bond greater than family unites them. Such are the gifts of the Worldsoul. |
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Izzet CharmInstantChoose one - Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays ; or Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature; or draw two cards, then discard two cards.
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Rakdos CharmInstantChoose one - Exile all cards from target player's graveyard; or destroy target artifact; or each creature deals 1 damage to its controller. "Let all feel joy in pain." |
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Selesnya CharmInstantChoose one - Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn; or exile target creature with power 5 or greater; or put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.
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Sphinx's RevelationInstantYou gain X life and draw X cards. "Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order." |
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ThoughtflareInstantDraw four cards, then discard two cards. "If this is thinking, I don't know what I was doing before." |
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Sundering GrowthInstantDestroy target artifact or enchantment, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.) "One day every pillar will be a tree and every hall a glade." |
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AfterlifeInstantDestroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
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Bathe in LightInstantRadiance - Choose a color. Target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. "Truth shines even in darkness. Those who march on the side of truth walk always in righteous light." |
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CongregateInstantTarget player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield. "In the gathering there is strength for all who founder, renewal for all who languish, love for all who sing." |
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OblationInstantThe owner of target nonland permanent shuffles it into his or her library, then draws two cards. "A richer people could give more but they could never give as much." |
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Orim's ThunderInstantKicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
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Path to ExileInstantExile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
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Pollen LullabyInstantPrevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Clash with an opponent. If you win, creatures that player controls don't untap during the player's next untap step. (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.)
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Return to DustInstantExile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment. Some timelines forever fray, branch, and intermingle. Others end abruptly. |
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BrainstormInstantDraw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. "I see more than others do because I know where to look." |
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Fact or FictionInstantReveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. "Try to pretend like you understand what's important." |
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FlusterstormInstantCounter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays .
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Murmurs from BeyondInstant - ArcaneReveal the top three cards of your library. An opponent chooses one of them. Put that card into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Like pools of fog that hid treacherous rocks from sailors' eyes, so too were the hands of the kami. |
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Perilous ResearchInstantDraw two cards, then sacrifice a permanent. When the School of the Unseen fell, so many magical treasures lay abandoned that no amount of death could deter the stream of thieves and desperate scholars. |
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Ray of CommandInstantUntap target creature an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the creature, tap it. "Heel." |
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Reins of PowerInstantUntap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.
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RepulseInstantReturn target creature to its owner's hand. "You aren't invited." |
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