Devastation TideSorceryReturn all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. It's hard to argue with a force made of divine will. |
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Burn at the StakeSorceryAs an additional cost to cast Burn at the Stake, tap any number of untapped creatures you control.
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Reforge the SoulSorceryEach player discards his or her hand and draws seven cards. In a wave of spells called the Cursemute, Avacyn cleansed the world with divine fire. |
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Blessings of NatureSorceryDistribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures.
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SwitcherooSorceryExchange control of two target creatures. Say hello to your new friend. |
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Diabolic RevelationSorcerySearch your library for up to X cards and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle your library. "There are some secrets so dark no human mind should ever contain them. Interested?" |
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Essence DrainSorceryEssence Drain deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life. "Life's essence is a nectar unlike any I tasted when I lived as a mortal." |
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Rise from the GraveSorceryPut target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. "For my enemies, one death. For my allies, many." |
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Cleaver RiotSorceryCreatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Measure once, cut twice. |
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Turn to SlagSorceryTurn to Slag deals 5 damage to target creature. Destroy all Equipment attached to that creature. "If it wasn't a blackened, stinking, melted abomination before, it certainly is now." |
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Bountiful HarvestSorceryYou gain 1 life for each land you control. "When we fail to see the beauty in every tree, we are no better than humans." |
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Predatory RampageSorceryCreatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn. Each creature your opponents control blocks this turn if able. "It is the fate of the weak to fall." |
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Time ReversalSorceryEach player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library, then draws seven cards. Exile Time Reversal. "Any oaf can conquer a kingdom. It takes true power to conquer time." |
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MonomaniaSorceryTarget player chooses a card in his or her hand and discards the rest. "What do vermin cling to when all hope is lost?" |
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Lava AxeSorceryLava Axe deals 5 damage to target player. It can chop down a redwood in a single stroke. Your sternum isn't going to fare any better. |
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OverrunSorceryCreatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.
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Increasing DevotionSorceryPut five 1/1 white Human creature tokens onto the battlefield. If Increasing Devotion was cast from a graveyard, put ten of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.
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Death's CaressSorceryDestroy target creature. If that creature was a Human, you gain life equal to its toughness. The faint smell of cloves, the rustling of the wind, and a paralyzing descent into an airless, fathomless tomb. |
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Harrowing JourneySorceryTarget player draws three cards and loses 3 life. "There are always fools who attempt to traverse Kruin Pass before sundown and every time they wind up in a race for their lives." |
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Increasing AmbitionSorcerySearch your library for a card and put that card into your hand. If Increasing Ambition was cast from a graveyard, instead search your library for two cards and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
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Scorch the FieldsSorceryDestroy target land. Scorch the Fields deals 1 damage to each Human creature. "Your fields will turn as black as a ghoul's tongue and fire shall be your only harvest." |
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Maw of the MireSorceryDestroy target land. You gain 4 life. As the chapel was dragged under, the bell in the tower rang until the murky depths forever silenced its toll. |
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Unburial RitesSorceryReturn target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. All crave the Blessed Sleep. Few receive it. |
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Creeping RenaissanceSorceryChoose a permanent type. Return all cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to your hand.
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Spider SpawningSorceryPut a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach onto the battlefield for each creature card in your graveyard.
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Destroy the EvidenceSorceryDestroy target land. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard. Everyone knew the Dimir had done the damage. Everyone suspected the Izzet had hired them. |
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Goblin RallySorceryPut four 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield. You don't so much hire goblins as put ideas in their heads. |
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Survey the WreckageSorceryDestroy target land. Put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token onto the battlefield. Goblins and architects seldom get along. |
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Skull RendSorcerySkull Rend deals 2 damage to each opponent. Those players each discard two cards at random. "We could never accept anyone with a face that pretty or a mind that sane." |
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Covenant of MindsSorceryReveal 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. |
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Volcanic SubmersionSorceryDestroy target artifact or land. A dragon's death is almost as feared as its life. Old, dying dragons throw themselves into volcanoes, causing massive upheaval and widespread disaster. |
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Soul's MightSorceryPut X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power. An avatar he sculpts of instinct and force. |
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Caress of PhyrexiaSorceryTarget player draws three cards, loses 3 life, and gets three poison counters. "I am weak. Make . . . me . . . ideal." |
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Victorious DestructionSorceryDestroy target artifact or land. Its controller loses 1 life. "The refugees look at these structures with hope. We must relieve them of this burden." |
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Spread the SicknessSorceryDestroy target creature, then proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.) Life is ephemeral. Phyrexia is eternal. |
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Concussive BoltSorceryConcussive Bolt deals 4 damage to target player. Shock one, awe the rest. |
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CorpsehatchSorceryDestroy 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."
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Explosive RevelationSorceryChoose target creature or player. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Explosive Revelation deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to that creature or player. Put the nonland card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
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Fissure VentSorceryChoose one or both - Destroy target artifact; and/or destroy target nonbasic land. "Something down there has an appetite for what we're standing on. Let's hope it doesn't want seconds." |
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World at WarSorceryAfter the first postcombat main phase this turn, there's an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures that attacked this turn.
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Iona's JudgmentSorceryExile target creature or enchantment. Beneath the gaze of angels, only the righteous may stand without fear. |
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Bestial MenaceSorceryPut a 1/1 green Snake creature token, a 2/2 green Wolf creature token, and a 3/3 green Elephant creature token onto the battlefield. "My battle cry reaches ears far keener than yours." |
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Conqueror's PledgeSorceryKicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
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Landbind RitualSorceryYou gain 2 life for each Plains you control. "Honor this place, for our children's children will stand here and speak these same words again." |
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Desecrated EarthSorceryDestroy target land. Its controller discards a card. "The land is swollen with mana, cursed relics, and secrets. If you puncture it, you never know what will burst out." |
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Mind SludgeSorceryTarget player discards a card for each Swamp you control. "Guard your thoughts. You never know who might wish to take them from you." |
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Spire BarrageSorcerySpire Barrage deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Mountains you control. Goblin lessons include the 2,071 tips for survival. Frek only remembered 2,070. |
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Deny RealitySorceryCascade (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.)
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Drastic RevelationSorceryDiscard your hand. Draw seven cards, then discard three cards at random. Every disaster holds mystery, for lack of a sane witness. |
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Slave of BolasSorceryGain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Nicol Bolas doesn't distinguish between servants and victims. |
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TraumatizeSorceryTarget player puts the top half of his or her library, rounded down, into his or her graveyard. Dreads had half a mind to leave. |
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Haunting EchoesSorceryExile all cards from target player's graveyard other than basic land cards. For each card exiled this way, search that player's library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
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Overwhelming StampedeSorceryUntil end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. (If a creature you control would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)
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Time WarpSorceryTarget player takes an extra turn after this one. Just when you thought you'd survived the first wave. |
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Yawning FissureSorceryEach opponent sacrifices a land. The mapmaker scowled. He sighed, unrolled his parchment, and painted a large black blob where the Eternal Meadow was once marked. |
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Telemin PerformanceSorceryTarget opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a creature card. That player puts all noncreature cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard, then you put the creature card onto the battlefield under your control.
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Voices from the VoidSorceryDomain - Target player discards a card for each basic land type among lands you control. As Grixis collided with the rest of Alara, the worlds began to hear the hateful whispers of the forgotten dead. |
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Soul's MajestySorceryDraw cards equal to the power of target creature you control. An avatar he sculpts of wisdom and strength. |
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Hallowed BurialSorceryPut all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. "I'd rather hear the screams of battle than the quiet that follows." |
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Phosphorescent FeastSorceryChroma - Reveal any number of cards in your hand. You gain 2 life for each green mana symbol in those cards' mana costs. The boggarts gorged themselves until their bellies glowed. |
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Savage ConceptionSorceryPut a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield. Some beasts are born not of a mother, but of magic. |
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Worm HarvestSorceryPut a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token onto the battlefield for each land card in your graveyard.
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Waves of AggressionSorceryUntap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.
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GloomlanceSorceryDestroy target creature. If that creature was green or white, its controller discards a card. Death stings the victim only once, but those left behind feel the pain of loss with every passing memory. |
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Incremental BlightSorceryPut a -1/-1 counter on target creature, two -1/-1 counters on another target creature, and three -1/-1 counters on a third target creature. Shadowmoor's main crops are rot, slime, and despair. |
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Torrent of SoulsSorceryReturn up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield if was spent to cast Torrent of Souls. Creatures target player controls get +2/+0 and gain haste until end of turn if was spent to cast Torrent of Souls. (Do both if was spent.)
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Traitor's RoarSorceryTap target untapped creature. It deals damage equal to its power to its controller.
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TyrannizeSorceryTarget player discards his or her hand unless he or she pays 7 life. "I can stab you where it hurts, or where you will feel absolutely nothing." |
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Fathom TrawlSorceryReveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal three nonland cards. Put the nonland cards revealed this way into your hand, then put the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
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Final RevelsSorceryChoose one - All creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn; or all creatures get -0/-2 until end of turn. One whiff of the sweet, pungent scent leads to euphoria-or to an early grave. |
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Weed StrangleSorceryDestroy target creature. Clash with an opponent. If you win, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. (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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Consuming BonfireTribal Sorcery - ElementalChoose 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." |
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Incendiary CommandSorceryChoose two - Incendiary Command deals 4 damage to target player; or Incendiary Command deals 2 damage to each creature; or destroy target nonbasic land; or each player discards all the cards in his or her hand, then draws that many cards.
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Incremental GrowthSorceryPut a +1/+1 counter on target creature, two +1/+1 counters on another target creature, and three +1/+1 counters on a third target creature. "Tie a mouse under a bridge, and your cabbages will triple in size." |
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Primal CommandSorceryChoose two - Target player gains 7 life; or put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library; or target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library; or search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
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TidingsSorceryDraw four cards. "Though the letter was many pages long, I could tell all I needed to know from one look at the messenger's face." |
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Beacon of UnrestSorceryPut target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library. A vertical scream pierces the night air and echoes doom through the clouds. |
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Head GamesSorceryTarget opponent puts the cards from his or her hand on top of his or her library. Search that player's library for that many cards. The player puts those cards into his or her hand, then shuffles his or her library.
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Soul FeastSorceryTarget player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life. "I smell the tang of a mortal's fresh blood. I hear it sliding wetly beneath its skin. My hunger cannot refuse the invitation." |
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Cone of FlameSorceryCone 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.
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Natural SpringSorceryTarget player gains 8 life. "Jewels cannot be eaten nor gold drunk. What civilization trades, nature simply provides." |
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Final PunishmentSorceryTarget player loses life equal to the damage already dealt to him or her this turn. The pain of a lifetime-every scrape, illness, and bruise-condensed into a single moment. |
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Balance of PowerSorceryIf target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference. "To empty your mind is to fill your grave." |
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BriberySorcerySearch target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library. In Mercadia City, loyalties extend only as far as your purse can stretch. |
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Sever SoulSorceryDestroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You gain life equal to its toughness. "The mortal world is a grove of sweet fruit, and I am ready to harvest it." |
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PyrotechnicsSorceryPyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. "Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! |
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Plow UnderSorceryPut two target lands on top of their owners' libraries. To renew the land, plow the land. |
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ThoughtcastSorceryAffinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.) Vedalken eyes don't see the beauty in things. They see only what those things can teach. |
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Promise of PowerSorceryChoose one -
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Æther SnapSorceryRemove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens. "May you wake to find you were only ever a dream." |
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Rebuking CeremonySorceryPut two target artifacts on top of their owners' libraries. From the Radix at the hub of the Tangle all the way out to the Edges of Forgetting, a Viridian elf's life is built around the temporary. |
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AcquireSorcerySearch target opponent's library for an artifact card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library. Sometimes "innovation" means "stealing another's secret before anyone else can." |
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Vicious BetrayalSorceryAs an additional cost to cast Vicious Betrayal, sacrifice any number of creatures.
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Mana GeyserSorceryAdd to your mana pool for each tapped land your opponents control. The Quicksilver Sea hissed and bubbled at the indignity. The Vulshok shaman just smiled. |
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All Suns' DawnSorceryFor each color, return up to one target card of that color from your graveyard to your hand. Exile All Suns' Dawn.
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Rude AwakeningSorceryChoose one - Untap all lands you control; or until end of turn, lands you control become 2/2 creatures that are still lands.
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Petals of InsightSorcery - ArcaneLook at the top three cards of your library. You may put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order. If you do, return Petals of Insight to its owner's hand. Otherwise, draw three cards.
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Dance of ShadowsSorcery - ArcaneCreatures 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." |
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Feast of WormsSorcery - ArcaneDestroy target land. If that land was legendary, its controller sacrifices another land. "The dust beneath our feet was once part of a mighty civilization. Shall we too provide the path for a future generation?" |
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Gale ForceSorceryGale Force deals 5 damage to each creature with flying. Everything the kami had done, they did with more force. Gentle breezes became typhoons, rolling rivers turned to crushing rapids, and gentle growth became overnight masses of thorns and vines. |
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