Head Games

Sorcery

Target 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.

Soul Feast

Sorcery

Target 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."
-Yuri, Sengir vampire

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.

Natural Spring

Sorcery

Target player gains 8 life.

"Jewels cannot be eaten nor gold drunk. What civilization trades, nature simply provides."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Final Punishment

Sorcery

Target 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.

Pyrotechnics

Sorcery

Pyrotechnics 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!
Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return."
-Navajo war chant

Ancestral Memories

Sorcery

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

Library of Lat-Nam

Sorcery

An opponent chooses one - You draw three cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep; or you search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Psychic Transfer

Sorcery

If the difference between your life total and target player's life total is 5 or less, exchange life totals with that player.

"The memory of your existence will fade like the final stars of morning."
-Kaervek

Illicit Auction

Sorcery

Each player may bid life for control of target creature. You start the bidding with a bid of 0. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and gains control of the creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Purify

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

"We have no need for these trinkets. We need only the strength of our swords and the virtue of our hearts."
-The Northern Paladin

Dregs of Sorrow

Sorcery

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

"We live for a thousand years. The death of even one brings untold sorrow."
-Elvish elder

Fugue

Sorcery

Target player discards three cards.

"It's hard to keep our own troops from fleeing when he's like this. How can our foes possibly stand against him?"
-Field marshal for the Eastern Paladin

Balance of Power

Sorcery

If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

"To empty your mind is to fill your grave."
-Lat-Nam teaching

Bribery

Sorcery

Search 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.

Sever Soul

Sorcery

Destroy 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."
-Fallen angel

Plow Under

Sorcery

Put two target lands on top of their owners' libraries.

To renew the land, plow the land.
To destroy the land, do nothing.
-Druids' saying

Hellfire

Sorcery

Destroy all nonblack creatures. Hellfire deals X plus 3 damage to you, where X is the number of creatures that died this way.

"High on a throne of royal state . . . insatiate to pursue vain war with heav'n." -John Milton, Paradise Lost

Stunted Growth

Sorcery

Target player chooses three cards from his or her hand and puts them on top of his or her library in any order.

Fumarole

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Fumarole, pay 3 life.

Destroy target creature and target land.

"Too many of us have died in the explosions that wrack these hills."
-Klazina Jansdotter, Leader of the Order of the Sacred Torch

Hymn of Rebirth

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"There will come soft rains, and spring shall be amongst us, a welcome friend."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Reign of Terror

Sorcery

Destroy all green creatures or all white creatures. They can't be regenerated. You lose 2 life for each creature that died this way.

"I don't know what takes them; they die around me without time to scream."
-Scout Ekemet, final journal

Goblin Scouts

Sorcery

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

"Pathetic-like I wouldn't know a goblin painted up to look like a dwarf!"
-Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader

Extinction

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures of the creature type of your choice.

"I once had an entire race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them."
-Volrath

Living Death

Sorcery

Each player exiles all creature cards from his or her graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures he or she controls, then puts all cards he or she exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Apocalypse

Sorcery

Exile all permanents. You discard your hand.

"There is a future in which I can see only mist and a single shadow."
-Oracle en-Vec

Winds of Rath

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures that aren't enchanted. They can't be regenerated.

"There shall be a vast shout and then a vaster silence."
-Oracle en-Vec

Mogg Infestation

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures target player controls. For each creature that died this way, put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield under that player's control.

Jagged Lightning

Sorcery

Jagged Lightning deals 3 damage to each of two target creatures.

The pungent smell of roasting flesh made both mages realize they'd rather break for dinner than fight.

Wave of Reckoning

Sorcery

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Inner conflict can defeat a soldier more quickly than any army.

Extortion

Sorcery

Look at target player's hand and choose up to two cards from it. That player discards those cards.

The enforcers make no effort to distinguish gold from flesh.

Cave-In

Sorcery

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay Cave-In's mana cost.

Cave-In deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

One fleet was gone; others were poised.

Rhystic Syphon

Sorcery

Unless target player pays , he or she loses 5 life and you gain 5 life.

Jamuraan wizards are linked together by magic, a bond that only the wicked dare exploit.

Devastate

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Devastate deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

"You're willing to die for your homeland. I'm willing to kill for it."
-Latulla, Keldon overseer

Death or Glory

Sorcery

Separate all creature cards in your graveyard into two piles. Exile the pile of an opponent's choice and return the other to the battlefield.

Global Ruin

Sorcery

Each player chooses from the lands he or she controls a land of each basic land type, then sacrifices the rest.

"The earth shook, the sky rained fire, and it seemed the world was ending."
-Benalish refugee

Rout

Sorcery

You may cast Rout any time you could cast an instant if you pay more to cast it.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Restock

Sorcery

Return two target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Restock.

"We hid such stockpiles all over Rath. We should continue that practice here."
-Lin Sivvi

Frenzied Tilling

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"Beneath her scars, Dominaria's beauty yet shines."
-Multani, maro-sorcerer

Ordered Migration

Sorcery

Domain - Put a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each basic land type among lands you control.

"Birds reach all parts of the world," said Barrin. "They will make excellent scouts."