Ancestral Recall

Instant

Target player draws three cards.

Ancient Grudge

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

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

If there's anything a werewolf hates, it's a collar-especially Avacyn's Collar, the symbol of her church.

Angel's Grace

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Angel's Mercy

Instant

You gain 7 life.

"I understand your fears. I pity your doubts. I absolve you of both."

Angelic Favor

Instant

If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay Angelic Favor's mana cost.

Cast Angelic Favor only during combat.

Put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Angelsong

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

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

Clash of sword and cry of beast fall mute when angels sound the call to prayer.

Animate Land

Instant

Until end of turn, target land becomes a 3/3 creature that's still a land.

Irony is getting walked on by the earth instead of the other way around.

Annihilate

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Draw a card.

"Whatever Yawgmoth marks, dies. There is no escape."
-Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Annihilating Fire

Instant

Annihilating 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."
-Mote, Rakdos madcap

Annul

Instant

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

The most effective way to destroy a spell is to ensure it was never cast in the first place.

Anoint

Instant

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

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

Anticipate

Instant

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

"When I have meditated on all outcomes, my opponent has no recourse."

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.

Apostle's Blessing

Instant

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

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.

Arcbond

Instant

Choose target creature. Whenever that creature is dealt damage this turn, it deals that much damage to each other creature and each player.

"If you must die today, make your death worthy of legend."
-Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Archive Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent searched his or her library this turn, you may pay rather than pay Archive Trap's mana cost.

Target opponent puts the top thirteen cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Argent Mutation

Instant

Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"My world is corrupted beyond cleansing. I must prevent this from happening to other worlds."
-Karn

Argivian Find

Instant

Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

"We often bury our pasts, and then someone comes along and digs them up."
-Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Armed Response

Instant

Armed Response deals damage to target attacking creature equal to the number of Equipment you control.

Raksha watched as the goblins continued to pour onto the Razor Fields. "They just don't know when to stop, do they?"

Army of Allah

Instant

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

On the day of victory no one is tired. -Arab proverb

Arrow Volley Trap

Instant - Trap

If four or more creatures are attacking, you may pay rather than pay Arrow Volley Trap's mana cost.

Arrow Volley Trap deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking creatures.

Arrows of Justice

Instant

Arrows of Justice deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Archers from the Horizon Military Academy hone their skills by targeting pickpockets blocks away.

Artful Maneuver

Instant

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

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.)

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.

Artifact Mutation

Instant

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that artifact's converted mana cost.

"From shards and splinters I call forth my living horde."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Artificial Evolution

Instant

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one creature type with another. The new creature type can't be Wall. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Artillerize

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Artillerize, sacrifice an artifact or creature.

Artillerize deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

Phyrexian or Mirran, most goblins stick to the job they know best.

Artisan's Sorrow

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. 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.)

Some seers read bones or entrails. Others just like to break things.

Aspect of Hydra

Instant

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is your devotion to green. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

"Even alone I outnumber you."

Assert Authority

Instant

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Astral Steel

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Atarka's Command

Instant

Choose two -

• Your opponents can't gain life this turn.

• Atarka's Command deals 3 damage to each opponent.

• You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

• Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain reach until end of turn.

Auger Spree

Instant

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

"Finally, a weapon the Boros can't confiscate!"
-Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue

Aura Barbs

Instant - Arcane

Each enchantment deals 2 damage to its controller, then each Aura attached to a creature deals 2 damage to the creature it's attached to.

Aura Blast

Instant

Destroy target enchantment.

Draw a card.

"None of your history books mention me?" laughed Daria. "They will now."

Aura Extraction

Instant

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

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

Every day, Order clerics contain as much of the Mirari's energy as possible, hoping to delay Otaria's demise.

Aura Finesse

Instant

Attach target Aura you control to target creature.

Draw a card.

"Although armor and auras can be similar, the brains required to use them are worlds apart."
-Zilan, Makindi auramancer

Aura Graft

Instant

Gain control of target Aura that's attached to a permanent. Attach it to another permanent it can enchant.

"It's not really stealing. It's more like extended borrowing."

Aura Mutation

Instant

Destroy target enchantment. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that enchantment's converted mana cost.

"Life can be found in all things, even things unnatural."
-Multani, maro-sorcerer