Makeshift Mannequin

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a mannequin counter on it. For as long as that creature has a mannequin counter on it, it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

"This vulgar mimicry will end now."
-Desmera, perfect of Wren's Run

Wild Ricochet

Instant

You may choose new targets for target instant or sorcery spell. Then copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"I knew that trick long before your great-grandmother's great-grandmother was born."

Heal the Scars

Instant

Regenerate target creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Elvish battle-magic has evolved two specialties: inflicting wounds that scar, and healing wounds without scarring. Politics determines the recipients of each.

Discombobulate

Instant

Counter target spell. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"I said ‘pick his brain,' not ‘tear off his head.'"
-Riptide Project researcher

Plagiarize

Instant

Until end of turn, if target player would draw a card, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Sudden Impact

Instant

Sudden Impact deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"Some say it's better to think before you act. While those people are considering all the options, that's usually when I kill them."
-Dravus, lava mage

Chastise

Instant

Destroy target attacking creature. You gain life equal to its power.

"Why do we pray to the Ancestor? Because She listens."
-Mystic elder

Deflection

Instant

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Up and down,
over and through,
back around-
the joke's on you.

Boil

Instant

Destroy all Islands.

"The fishers will throw out their nets and draw them back filled with dust."
-Oracle en-Vec

Lightning Blast

Instant

Lightning Blast deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

"Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do."
-Selenia, dark angel

Nocturnal Raid

Instant

Black creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

The Eastern Paladin doesn't attack at night for the tactical advantage. He does it for the sheer joy of fighting beneath the moon.

Solidarity

Instant

Creatures you control get +0/+5 until end of turn.

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
-Benjamin Franklin

Reverberation

Instant

All damage that would be dealt this turn by target sorcery spell is dealt to that spell's controller instead.

Storm Seeker

Instant

Storm Seeker deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Rapid Fire

Instant

Cast Rapid Fire only before blockers are declared.

Target creature gains first strike until end of turn. If it doesn't have rampage, that creature gains rampage 2 until end of turn. (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Fanatical Fever

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

"Let go your fury, and hone your anger. Become the fist of Freyalise!"
-Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Trailblazer

Instant

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

"Our Elvish Hunter Taaveti led us swiftly along hidden paths through the dense forest. We caught the Orcs from behind, and completely by surprise."
-Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Venomous Breath

Instant

Choose target creature. At end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by it this turn.

Ambush

Instant

Blocking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.

"Don't these goons have anything better to do?"
-Joskun, An-Havva Constable

Feast or Famine

Instant

Choose one - Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield; or destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature and it can't be regenerated.

"We are not yet free of Lim-Dûl's terrors."
-Halvor Arensson, Kjeldoran Priest

Controvert

Instant

Counter target spell.

Recover (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Surging Æther

Instant

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.)

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Chill to the Bone

Instant

Destroy target nonsnow creature.

"Thick hides and layered armor won't help when I freeze you from the inside out."
-Heidar, Rimewind master

Mystic Melting

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

The sun-hot glow radiated from the druids, leaving scattered metal in steaming pools as it passed.

Vanish into Memory

Instant

Exile target creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power. At the beginning of your next upkeep, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, discard cards equal to its toughness.

Out of sight, into mind.

Ether Well

Instant

Put target creature on top of its owner's library. If that creature is red, you may put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead.

"Whoa-my tail will never fit through that hole!"

Lure of Prey

Instant

Cast Lure of Prey only if an opponent cast a creature spell this turn.

You may put a green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Barreling Attack

Instant

Target creature gains trample until end of turn. When that creature becomes blocked this turn, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"The trollish game of push-fall inspired this impressive tactic."
-Sidar Jabari

Blind Fury

Instant

Cast Blind Fury only before the combat damage step.

All creatures lose trample until end of turn. If a creature would deal combat damage to a creature this turn, it deals double that damage to that creature instead.

"Tell me . . . have you ever sung the Song of Blood?"
-Purraj of Urborg

Dismiss

Instant

Counter target spell.

Draw a card.

"There is nothing you can do that I cannot simply deny."
-Ertai, wizard adept

Slaughter

Instant

Buyback-Pay 4 life. (You may pay 4 life in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Turnabout

Instant

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

The best cure for a big ego is a little failure.

Scour

Instant

Exile target enchantment. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that enchantment and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Quash

Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Ramosian Rally

Instant

If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay Ramosian Rally's mana cost.

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Reverent Mantra

Instant

You may exile a white card from your hand rather than pay Reverent Mantra's mana cost.

Choose a color. All creatures gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

Thwart

Instant

You may return three Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay Thwart's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Snuff Out

Instant

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay Snuff Out's mana cost.

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Squee watched his Kyren cousins fall with a mixture of sympathy and relief.

Blood Oath

Instant

Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals his or her hand. Blood Oath deals 3 damage to that player for each card of the chosen type revealed this way. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal are card types.)

Warpath

Instant

Warpath deals 3 damage to each blocking creature and each blocked creature.

Cho-Manno had never seen Mercadia City's forces fight so well. The magistrate must have hired a new hero.