Awe for the Guilds

Sorcery

Monocolored creatures can't block this turn.

When the guilds cooperate, the guildless celebrate their peaceful society. When the guilds clash, the guildless just try to keep out of the way.

Clear a Path

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with defender.

"Why do guards always look surprised when we bash them?" asked Ruric.
"I think they expect a bribe," said Thar.

Phytoburst

Sorcery

Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

Phytohydras are banned as houseplants in many residential spires. If left unfed, they find their own exit-usually at the cost of extensive property damage.

Blast of Genius

Sorcery

Choose target creature or player. Draw three cards, then discard a card. Blast of Genius deals damage equal to the discarded card's converted mana cost to that creature or player.

Ral Zarek's brainstorms bring actual thunder and lightning.

Debt to the Deathless

Sorcery

Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Some of Orzhov's cruelest collectors remember their debtors by taste alone.

Drown in Filth

Sorcery

Choose target creature. Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then that creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each land card in your graveyard.

The rot farmer's first rite of passage is to craft a pair of work stilts.

Gaze of Granite

Sorcery

Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost X or less.

Golgari reclaimers resent the gorgons, begrudging the loss of so many fine nutrients locked away in stone.

Morgue Burst

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Morgue Burst deals damage to target creature or player equal to the power of the card returned this way.

"Let him in. He's on the list."
-Olrich, Rakdos club owner

Obzedat's Aid

Sorcery

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The Obzedat have revived you with purpose. Don't squander their blessing."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Pilfered Plans

Sorcery

Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Draw two cards.

Mirko Vosk hunted anyone with knowledge of the maze, draining the chances of the other guilds.

Reap Intellect

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose up to X nonland cards from it and exile them. For each card exiled this way, search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Alive (Alive/Well)

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

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

Armed (Armed/Dangerous)

Sorcery

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains double strike until end of turn.

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

Beck (Beck/Call)

Sorcery

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield this turn, you may draw a card.

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

Breaking (Breaking/Entering)

Sorcery

Target player puts the top eight cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

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

Catch (Catch/Release)

Sorcery

Gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.

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

Down (Down/Dirty)

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

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

Flesh (Flesh/Blood)

Sorcery

Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is the power of the card you exiled.

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

Give (Give/Take)

Sorcery

Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature.

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

Toil (Toil/Trouble)

Sorcery

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

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

Ancient Craving

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Knowledge demands sacrifice.

Devout Invocation

Sorcery

Tap any number of untapped creatures you control. Put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each creature tapped this way.

A prayer to bring demons to their knees.

Hive Stirrings

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 colorless Sliver creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Sliver young are sorted into clutches according to their potential and their future role. Human scholars can only guess how those are determined.

Glimpse the Future

Sorcery

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

"No simple coin toss can solve this riddle. You must think and choose wisely."-Shai Fusan, archmage

Liturgy of Blood

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Add to your mana pool.

"You harbor such vast potential. It would be such a shame to let you die of old age."-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Rise of the Dark Realms

Sorcery

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

"For every living person there are generations of dead. Which realm would you rather rule?"-Liliana Vess

Molten Birth

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens onto the battlefield. Then flip a coin. If you win the flip, return Molten Birth to its owner's hand.

"Few can coax the creatures within the magma to be cooled and take form."-Koth of the Hammer

Seismic Stomp

Sorcery

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

"It is not in me to tread lightly."-Ryda, geomancer

Enlarge

Sorcery

Target creature gets +7/+7 and gains trample until end of turn. It must be blocked this turn if able. (If a creature with trample 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.)

Hunt the Weak

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

He who hesitates is lunch.

Glare of Heresy

Sorcery

Exile target white permanent.

No foe is more hated than the former friend.

Vanquish the Foul

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Curse of the Swine

Sorcery

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller puts a 2/2 green Boar creature token onto the battlefield.

Another imminent battle subsided in busy snuffling and carefree rooting.

Sea God's Revenge

Sorcery

Return up to three target creatures your opponents control to their owners' hands. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

"What has neither mouth nor throat, yet swallows captain, crew, and boat?"
-Sphinx's riddle

Thassa's Bounty

Sorcery

Draw three cards. Target player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Was this gift cast adrift for any to find, or did Thassa guide the currents to bring it to me alone?"
-Kenessos, priest of Thassa

March of the Returned

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

The Returned have no memory of the Underworld or of their former lives. The golden masks they wear are the last gifts of the selves they left behind.

Read the Bones

Sorcery

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To 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.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Sip of Hemlock

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Conspirators poisoned the oracle not because her visions were wrong, but because they were right.

Anger of the Gods

Sorcery

Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

There was no reason to pray. This was already an act of the gods.

Peak Eruption

Sorcery

Destroy target Mountain. Peak Eruption deals 3 damage to that land's controller.

"Early olive buds? A good omen. Flock of crows? Not so good. Mountain exploding? Bad. Very, very bad."
-Hira, street oracle