Spell Pierce

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

"There's a hole in your plan."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Disfigure

Instant

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"Brave scar or unfortunate tale? It all depends on your pain threshold."

Vampire's Bite

Instant

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

Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn. If Vampire's Bite was kicked, that creature gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Burst Lightning

Instant

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

Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to target creature or player. If Burst Lightning was kicked, it deals 4 damage to that creature or player instead.

Unstable Footing

Instant

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

Damage can't be prevented this turn. If Unstable Footing was kicked, it deals 5 damage to target player.

A long way down is shorter than you think.

Primal Bellow

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Forest you control.

"A might spell can be handy against baloths, giants, kraken, the Roil-or if you lose your bearings in the woods."
-Chadir the Navigator

Vines of Vastwood

Instant

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

Target creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn. If Vines of Vastwood was kicked, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Condemn

Instant

Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

"No doubt the arbiters would put you away, after all the documents are signed. But I will have justice now."
-Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Silence

Instant

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn. (Spells cast before this resolves are unaffected.)

"Take a quiet moment to reflect on your sins."
-Cleph, Order of Redeemed Souls

Diminish

Instant

Target creature becomes 1/1 until end of turn.

"‘That was a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence."
-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Stabbing Pain

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Tap that creature.

"You can take the fight out of nearly any creature if you know where its soft spot is."
-Guttor, flesh-warper

Incite

Instant

Target creature becomes red until end of turn and attacks this turn if able.

The veneer of rationality peeled from the mage, revealing the spite and rage beneath.

Lightning Bolt

Instant

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Hornet Sting

Instant

Hornet Sting deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

It was only then-to his infinite sorrow-that Gork realized hornets don't make honey.

Harm's Way

Instant

The next 2 damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or permanents you control this turn is dealt to target creature or player instead.

Even when fate is already written, there's always time to change the names.

Righteousness

Instant

Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

Sometimes the greatest strength is the strength of conviction.

Jump

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Humanity has always envied the power of flight. So we took it."
-Scytha, aeromage

Windstorm

Instant

Windstorm deals X damage to each creature with flying.

"We don't like interlopers and thieves cluttering our skies."
-Dionus, elvish archdruid

Constricting Tendrils

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

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

Priests of Bant protect their temples with traps more elaborate than any mosaic floor.

Might of Alara

Instant

Domain - Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

The combined strength of all five planes spawned creations none had seen before.

Banishing Knack

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains ": Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Suddenly he realized that everything was connected by invisible strings, strings that could be pulled-or cut.

Beckon Apparition

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard. Put a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When a graveyard is full, the gwyllions rattle the tombs and unleash the spirits into the sky.

Niveous Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes white until end of turn. Tap that creature.

Draw a card.

In a world devoid of sun, illumination comes from cheerless fires or the wandering spirits of the dead.

Strip Bare

Instant

Destroy all Auras and Equipment attached to target creature.

"All glamers lifted, all lies revealed, all flesh exposed."
-Awylla, elvish safewright

Cerulean Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes blue until end of turn. Untap that creature.

Draw a card.

"If you see ghostly lights by the river, eat three twigs of marshroot to ward off kelpies."
-Kithkin superstition

Aphotic Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Draw a card.

Merrows skulk the silty bogs around the Wanderbrine, their very thoughts stained with evil.

Crimson Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes red and gains haste until end of turn.

Draw a card.

The whispers are incomprehensible, yet cinders always hear a message of urgency.

Viridescent Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes green and gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

In the wisps that night, the once timid boggart saw all the terrible, bloody things he was capable of. And it was glorious.

Dream Salvage

Instant

Draw cards equal to the number of cards target opponent discarded this turn.

Awylla tried hard to forget the horrors she had seen, but someone else had developed a keen interest in them.

Scar

Instant

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"What is a scar? A sign of courage in the face of danger? A mere trick of flesh? Or a constant reminder of agonizing pain, and the follies of war."
-Illulia of Nighthearth

Guttural Response

Instant

Counter target blue instant spell.

Wort had a raiding-bellow that could shatter steel, melt auras, and slice countermagic in half.

Barkshell Blessing

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Coordinated Barrage

Instant

Choose a creature type. Coordinated Barrage deals damage to target attacking or blocking creature equal to the number of permanents you control of the chosen type.

Shard Volley

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Shard Volley, sacrifice a land.

Shard Volley deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

"Let the mountain's teeth pierce our oppressors."

Broken Ambitions

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Clash with an opponent. If you win, that spell's controller puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Needle Drop

Instant

Needle Drop deals 1 damage to target creature or player that was dealt damage this turn.

Draw a card.

"First it was plovers and mulldrifters. Now it's knitting needles the size of javelins."
-Calydd, kithkin farmer

Bandage

Instant

Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Draw a card.

Life is measured in inches. To a healer, every one of those inches is precious.

Hail of Arrows

Instant

Hail of Arrows deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking creatures.

"Do not let a single shaft loose until my word. And when I give that word, do not leave a single shaft in Eiganjo."
-General Takeno

Holy Day

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"Today there is feasting and peace across our land, but the war has not ended. Tuck away your bloodlust. You'll need it tomorrow."
-Karrim, Samite healer

Luminesce

Instant

Prevent all damage that black sources and red sources would deal this turn.

"The White Shield is not the burnished metal you lash to your forearm but the conviction that burns in your chest."
-Lucilde Fiksdotter,
leader of the Order of the White Shield