Midnight Recovery

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Miming Slime

Sorcery

Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"We paid the Simic very well for this capability, but we should quickly recoup our expenses in saved wages."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Mind Grind

Sorcery

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard. X can't be 0.

Mugging

Sorcery

Mugging deals 2 damage to target creature. That creature can't block this turn.

Scream: muffled. Pockets: emptied. Neck function: never the same again.

Paranoid Delusions

Sorcery

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

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Purge the Profane

Sorcery

Target opponent discards two cards and you gain 2 life.

The Orzhov hear the plans of the other guilds through the guilty thoughts of the disloyal.

Righteous Charge

Sorcery

Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.

"In the name of peace, moderation, and decency-wipe them all out!"

Serene Remembrance

Sorcery

Shuffle Serene Remembrance and up to three target cards from a single graveyard into their owners' libraries.

While Lazav schemed and Niv-Mizzet researched, Trostani sought the future in the whispers of the past.

Shadow Slice

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 3 life.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Stolen Identity

Sorcery

Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of target artifact or creature.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

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.

Undercity Plague

Sorcery

Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Unexpected Results

Sorcery

Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield and return Unexpected Results to its owner's hand.

Urban Evolution

Sorcery

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals.

Voidwalk

Sorcery

Exile target creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Whispering Madness

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Decree of Pain

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.

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

When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Assassin's Strike

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller discards a card.

When Selesnya missionaries moved into the Shanav Quarter, they faced scorn, ridicule, and ultimately martyrdom.

Call of the Conclave

Sorcery

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

Centaurs are sent to evangelize in Gruul territories where words of war speak louder than prayers of peace.

Coursers' Accord

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Bleak rumors reached Trostani's ears. She decreed that no one should travel alone.

Destroy the Evidence

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

Everyone knew the Dimir had done the damage. Everyone suspected the Izzet had hired them.

Dreadbore

Sorcery

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

In Rakdos-controlled neighborhoods, everyone is part of the show.

Epic Experiment

Sorcery

Exile the top X cards of your library. For each instant and sorcery card with converted mana cost X or less among them, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren't cast into your graveyard.

Goblin Rally

Sorcery

Put four 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

You don't so much hire goblins as put ideas in their heads.

Horncaller's Chant

Sorcery

Put a 4/4 green Rhino creature token with trample onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"The Selesnya are gathering armies. Do you still believe they aren't preparing for war?"
-Teysa, to Isperia

Inaction Injunction

Sorcery

Detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Draw a card.

"To prevent action is to prevent transgression."
-Azorius Arrester motto

Jarad's Orders

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two creature cards and reveal them. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

"The Izzet are searching for something. Discern what or die trying."

Mizzium Mortars

Sorcery

Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Rakdos's Return

Sorcery

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent. That player discards X cards.

When Lord Rakdos stirred from his slumber, everyone else's nightmare began.

Rites of Reaping

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Don't cross a Devkarin elf unless you long for an early grave.

Search Warrant

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You gain life equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"And would you care to explain why your satchel is radiating an aura of unstable energy?"

Seek the Horizon

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Raked by vertical spikes of glass and stone, Ravnica's vistas offer only a rare glimpse of the horizon.

Skull Rend

Sorcery

Skull Rend deals 2 damage to each opponent. Those players each discard two cards at random.

"We could never accept anyone with a face that pretty or a mind that sane."
-Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Slaughter Games

Sorcery

Slaughter Games can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Name a nonland card. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Slime Molding

Sorcery

Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield.

"Give me enough refuse and mana and I will summon an ooze that can engulf all of Ravnica."
-Cevraya, Golgari shaman

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.

Survey the Wreckage

Sorcery

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

Goblins and architects seldom get along.

Teleportal

Sorcery

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Traitorous Instinct

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it gets +2/+0 and gains haste.

Joining the Worldsoul took years of study and meditation. Severing that connection took the snap of Rakdos's fingers.

Treasured Find

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Treasured Find.

Gorgons crave beautiful things: gems, exquisite amulets, the alabaster corpses of the petrified dead . . .

Vandalblast

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Beauty is in the eye of the exploder.

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

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

Captain's Call

Sorcery

Put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"Who among you has the courage to face certain death? Who will heed my call?"
-Rayel Vanger, Firstblade of Thune

Cleaver Riot

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Measure once, cut twice.

Craterize

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

"‘Utterly' is my favorite way to destroy something."
-Chandra Nalaar

Diabolic Revelation

Sorcery

Search your library for up to X cards and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"There are some secrets so dark no human mind should ever contain them. Interested?"
-Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis

Disentomb

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I deal so often in rotting corpses that when I come across the freshly dead . . . why, it's like my birthday come early."
-Nevinyrral, necromancer

Divination

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

"The key to unlocking this puzzle is within you."
-Doriel, mentor of Mistral Isle

Duress

Sorcery

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
-Liliana Vess

Essence Drain

Sorcery

Essence Drain deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.

"Life's essence is a nectar unlike any I tasted when I lived as a mortal."
-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Farseek

Sorcery

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"How truly vast this city must be, that I have traveled so far and seen so much, yet never once found the place where the buildings fail."

Flames of the Firebrand

Sorcery

Flames of the Firebrand deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

"You're in luck. I brought enough to share."
-Chandra Nalaar

Fungal Sprouting

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"Saprolings need only a host to feed upon. Numbers will take care of the rest."
-Ghave, Guru of Spores

Index

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"What good is having all the right answers if you have them at all the wrong times?"

Krenko's Command

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Goblins are eager to follow orders, especially when those orders involve stealing, hurting, annoying, eating, destroying, or swearing.

Mark of Mutiny

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it and untap it. That creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

The flame of anger is hard to douse once lit.

Mind Rot

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

"What a pity. You should have written it down."
-Liliana Vess

Mind Sculpt

Sorcery

Target opponent puts the top seven cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Your mind was a curious mix of madness and genius. I just took away the genius."
-Jace Beleren

Mutilate

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

"It's only torture if you're strong enough to survive. Otherwise, it's a simple, gruesome death. I'm happy with either outcome."
-Liliana Vess

Planar Cleansing

Sorcery

Destroy all nonland permanents.

Predatory Rampage

Sorcery

Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn. Each creature your opponents control blocks this turn if able.

"It is the fate of the weak to fall."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Prey Upon

Sorcery

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters."
-Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Ranger's Path

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two Forest cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

The forest can seem like a dense maze. Those who travel the canopy know otherwise.

Revive

Sorcery

Return target green card from your graveyard to your hand.

Even what is lost beyond recall returns when coaxed by a dryad's hand.

Rise from the Grave

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

"For my enemies, one death. For my allies, many."
-Liliana Vess

Sign in Blood

Sorcery

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sleep

Sorcery

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious."
-Garild, merfolk mage

Spelltwine

Sorcery

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Switcheroo

Sorcery

Exchange control of two target creatures.

Say hello to your new friend.

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.

Turn to Slag

Sorcery

Turn to Slag deals 5 damage to target creature. Destroy all Equipment attached to that creature.

"If it wasn't a blackened, stinking, melted abomination before, it certainly is now."
-Koth of the Hammer

Wild Guess

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Wild Guess, discard a card.

Draw two cards.

No guts, no glory.

Wit's End

Sorcery

Target player discards his or her hand.

"Your pathetic ideas lie in shambles, Planeswalker. Where is your arrogant pride now?"
-Nicol Bolas

Worldfire

Sorcery

Exile all permanents. Exile all cards from all hands and graveyards. Each player's life total becomes 1.

Even the smallest spark may set a world ablaze.

Akroma's Vengeance

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

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

Ixidor had only to imagine their ruin and Akroma made it so.

Alliance of Arms

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Austere Command

Sorcery

Choose two - Destroy all artifacts; or destroy all enchantments; or destroy all creatures with converted mana cost 3 or less; or destroy all creatures with converted mana cost 4 or greater.

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.

Buried Alive

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three creature cards and put them into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Collective Voyage

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player searches his or her library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way, puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles his or her library.

Death by Dragons

Sorcery

Each player other than target player puts a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Suddenly, Eldo felt very alone.

Death Mutation

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Evincar's Justice

Sorcery

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Evincar's Justice deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

Explosive Vegetation

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

Torching Krosa would be pointless. It grows faster than it burns.

Hour of Reckoning

Sorcery

Convoke (Each creature you tap while casting this spell reduces its cost by or by one mana of that creature's color.)

Destroy all nontoken creatures.

"Ravnica, like a hedge, must be pruned, leaving only leaves of verdant uniformity."
-Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Hull Breach

Sorcery

Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or destroy target enchantment; or destroy target artifact and target enchantment.

"Crovax knows we're coming now," said a grinning Sisay. "I just sent the Predator crashing into his stronghold."

Insurrection

Sorcery

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

"Maybe they wanted to be on the winning side for once."
-Matoc, lavamancer

Living Death

Sorcery

Each player exiles all creature cards from his or her graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures he or she controls, then puts all cards he or she exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Minds Aglow

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player draws X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Ruination

Sorcery

Destroy all nonbasic lands.

"We have built a wall upon sand. The wall will vanish. The sand will remain."
-Oracle en-Vec

Shared Trauma

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Stitch Together

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Threshold - Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Storm Herd

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is your life total.

"When you hear thunder on a cloudless day, take cover and brace for the coming of the storm herd."
-Skotov, Tin Street basket vendor

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 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.

Trade Secrets

Sorcery

Target opponent draws two cards, then you draw up to four cards. That opponent may repeat this process as many times as he or she chooses.

Unnerve

Sorcery

Each opponent discards two cards.

"If fear is the only tool you have left, then you'll never control me."
-Xantcha, to Gix

Windfall

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

"To fill your mind with knowledge, we must start by emptying it."
-Barrin, master wizard

Amass the Components

Sorcery

Draw three cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.

"I knew I'd find a use for all that newt spittle!"