Breath of Life

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Nothing can stop the power of life-not even death."
-Onean cleric

Breath of Darigaaz

Sorcery

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Breath of Darigaaz deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. If Breath of Darigaaz was kicked, it deals 4 damage to each creature without flying and each player instead.

Breakthrough

Sorcery

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

The ideas came flooding in so fast that they couldn't all be contained.

Breaking Wave

Sorcery

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

Simultaneously untap all tapped creatures and tap all untapped creatures.

Breaking Point

Sorcery

Any player may have Breaking Point deal 6 damage to him or her. If no one does, destroy all creatures. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

"Enough"

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.)

Break Asunder

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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

"No good will come of this."

Bramblecrush

Sorcery

Destroy target noncreature permanent.

"Civilization is fertilizer."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Brainspoil

Sorcery

Destroy target creature that isn't enchanted. It can't be regenerated.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Braingeyser

Sorcery

Target player draws X cards.

Brainbite

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.

Draw a card.

An Esper mage will leave a hole in your memory with surgical precision. A Grixis mage sees no reason to be so kind.

Brain Pry

Sorcery

Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand. That player discards a card with that name. If he or she can't, you draw a card.

To the Rakdos, the fun is in the shakedown. The loot is usually discarded.

Bountiful Harvest

Sorcery

You gain 1 life for each land you control.

"When we fail to see the beauty in every tree, we are no better than humans."
-Saelia, elvish scout

Boundless Realms

Sorcery

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of lands you control, and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"Planeswalking cannot be taught. Either you see the doors or you do not."
-Nissa Revane

Boulder Salvo

Sorcery

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Boulder Salvo deals 4 damage to target creature.

"If someone claims the sky is falling, I listen."
-Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Borrowing 100,000 Arrows

Sorcery

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

Kongming and Lu Su tricked Wei troops into shooting over 100,000 arrows at them to later use against the Wei at Red Cliffs.

Boom (Boom/Bust)

Sorcery

Destroy target land you control and target land you don't control.

Book Burning

Sorcery

Any player may have Book Burning deal 6 damage to him or her. If no one does, target player puts the top six cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

The wizard's spellbook was full of burning questions.

Bonfire of the Damned

Sorcery

Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

Miracle (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Bone Splinters

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Bone Splinters, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy target creature.

"Which do you deserve, the heft of a femur or the graceful sharpness of a forearm? Decisions, decisions . . ."
-Gisa the Mad

Bond of Agony

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Bond of Agony, pay X life.

Each other player loses X life.

The Rakdos are unique in designing torture equipment they can operate while "suffering" alongside their victims.

Bolt of Keranos

Sorcery

Bolt of Keranos deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

The breakthroughs granted by Keranos, god of epiphany, can be surprisingly literal.

Boiling Seas

Sorcery

Destroy all Islands.

What burns the land, boils the seas.

Boiling Earth

Sorcery

Boiling Earth deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Boggart Birth Rite

Tribal Sorcery - Goblin

Return target Goblin card from your graveyard to your hand.

Auntie excitedly held up the squalling newborn. "This one looks like Byoog! Maybe he'll tell us what he saw and felt in the beyond."

Bog Down

Sorcery

Kicker-Sacrifice two lands. (You may sacrifice two lands in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)

Target player discards two cards. If Bog Down was kicked, that player discards three cards instead.

Blood Tribute

Sorcery

Kicker-Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)

Target opponent loses half his or her life, rounded up. If Blood Tribute was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Blood Tithe

Sorcery

Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

The Crimson Throne may be empty, but its coffers are full.

Blood Feud

Sorcery

Target creature fights another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Succession is a matter of blood, and by blood it is often decided.

Blood (Flesh/Blood)

Sorcery

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

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

Blinding Light

Sorcery

Tap all nonwhite creatures.

"My shield will bear a shining sun so you will always be with me. / Inlaid with gold, it will shine like glowing embers."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Blinding Flare

Sorcery

Strive - Blinding Flare costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures can't block this turn.

Blightning

Sorcery

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player. That player discards two cards.

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

Blessings of Nature

Sorcery

Distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures.

Miracle (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Blessed Wind

Sorcery

Target player's life total becomes 20.

"The fourth wind of ascension is Anointer, deifying the worthy."
-Keld Triumphant

Blaze

Sorcery

Blaze deals X damage to target creature or player.

Blatant Thievery

Sorcery

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"I'll leave subtlety to the rich."

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.

Blasphemous Act

Sorcery

Blasphemous Act costs less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.

Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Blackmail

Sorcery

Target player reveals three cards from his or her hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card.

In addition to killing peasants, punishing subordinates, and raising an army of nightmares, Braids somehow found time for her favorite hobby: petty extortion.