Strongarm Tactics

Sorcery

Each player discards a card. Then each player who didn't discard a creature card this way loses 4 life.

"If you can't pay your gambling debts, you just might be tomorrow's main attraction at the Grand Coliseum."

Stronghold Discipline

Sorcery

Each player loses 1 life for each creature he or she controls.

In Urborg, the instigators of each new rebellion are soaked in the blood of the last.

Stronghold Gambit

Sorcery

Each player chooses a card in his or her hand. Then each player reveals his or her chosen card. The owner of each creature card revealed this way with the lowest converted mana cost puts it onto the battlefield.

Structural Collapse

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices an artifact and a land. Structural Collapse deals 2 damage to that player.

The Gruul holiday of Rauck-Chauv always ends the same way.

Struggle for Sanity

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. That player exiles a card from it, then you exile a card from it. Repeat this process until all cards in that hand have been exiled. That player returns the cards he or she exiled this way to his or her hand and puts the rest into his or her graveyard.

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.

Stupor

Sorcery

Target opponent discards a card at random, then discards a card.

There are medicines for all afflictions but idleness.
-Suq'Ata saying

Sudden Demise

Sorcery

Choose a color. Sudden Demise deals X damage to each creature of the chosen color.

In the Skyfang Mountains, one misstep can mean the end of an entire clan.

Sudden Disappearance

Sorcery

Exile all nonland permanents target player controls. Return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Summer Bloom

Sorcery

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

Summer sends its kiss with warmth and blooming life.

Summon the School

Tribal Sorcery - Merfolk

Put two 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Tap four untapped Merfolk you control: Return Summon the School from your graveyard to your hand.

"When merrows talk, listeners grow fins."
-Kithkin saying

Sunbringer's Touch

Sorcery

Bolster X, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it gains trample until end of turn. (To bolster X, choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put X +1/+1 counters on it.)

Sunder from Within

Sorcery - Arcane

Destroy target artifact or land.

Trapped for eons within the sacred gong, the kami boomed and clanged to a deafening tempo as they destroyed their erstwhile prison.

Sunlance

Sorcery

Sunlance deals 3 damage to target nonwhite creature.

"It's easy for the innocent to speak of justice. They seldom feel its terrible power."
-Orim, Samite inquisitor

Sunscour

Sorcery

You may exile two white cards from your hand rather than pay Sunscour's mana cost.

Destroy all creatures.

Superior Numbers

Sorcery

Superior Numbers deals damage to target creature equal to the number of creatures you control in excess of the number of creatures target opponent controls.

Supply (Supply/Demand)

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Suppress

Sorcery

Target player exiles all cards from his or her hand face down. At the beginning of the end step of that player's next turn, that player returns those cards to his or her hand.

Supreme Verdict

Sorcery

Supreme Verdict can't be countered.

Destroy all creatures.

Leonos had no second thoughts about the abolishment edict. He'd left skyrunes warning of the eviction, even though it was cloudy.

Surging Dementia

Sorcery

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Target player discards a card.

Surreal Memoir

Sorcery

Return an instant card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

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.)

Survey the Wreckage

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token onto the battlefield.

Goblins and architects seldom get along.

Survival Cache

Sorcery

You gain 2 life. Then if you have more life than an opponent, draw a card.

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.)

Swallowing Plague

Sorcery - Arcane

Swallowing Plague deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life.

"We are recalling all forces from the Takenuma Swamp. We lose men daily to kami attacks, and it seems our defeats only encourage them further."
-General Takeno, letter to Lord Konda

Swarm Surge

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Colorless creatures you control also gain first strike until end of turn.

The Eldrazi rampaged across Zendikar in a tide of chittering, heaving flesh.

Sway of the Stars

Sorcery

Each player shuffles his or her hand, graveyard, and permanents he or she owns into his or her library, then draws seven cards. Each player's life total becomes 7.

Swelter

Sorcery

Swelter deals 2 damage to each of two target creatures.

No circle has a beginning, but many have foreseeable ends.

Swirling Sandstorm

Sorcery

Threshold - Swirling Sandstorm deals 5 damage to each creature without flying if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

As dust swept out, vultures swept in.

Switcheroo

Sorcery

Exchange control of two target creatures.

Say hello to your new friend.

Sylvan Scrying

Sorcery

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

One glimpse of an elf's home lasts her weeks away in the wild.

Syphon Flesh

Sorcery

Each other player sacrifices a creature. You put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield for each creature sacrificed this way.

Necromancers deal in commodities far more precious than gold and grain.

Syphon Life

Sorcery

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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

Leeches never tire of feeding.

Syphon Mind

Sorcery

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Syphon Soul

Sorcery

Syphon Soul deals 2 damage to each other player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Tahngarth's Glare

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of target opponent's library, then put them back in any order. That player looks at the top three cards of your library, then puts them back in any order.

Taigam's Scheming

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest back on top of your library in any order.

"The Jeskai would have me bow in restraint. So I have found a people unafraid of true power."

Taigam's Strike

Sorcery

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this 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.)

Take (Give/Take)

Sorcery

Remove all +1/+1 counters from target creature you control. Draw that many cards.

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

Talara's Bane

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a green or white creature card from it. You gain life equal that creature card's toughness, then that player discards that card.

"Your thoughts betray you."
-Illulia of Nighthearth

Talrand's Invocation

Sorcery

Put two 2/2 blue Drake creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

After Talrand conquered the depths of Shandalar, his ambitions drove him skyward, joined by servants whose drive and curiosity equaled his own.