Lay of the Land

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Victory favors neither the righteous nor the wicked. It favors the prepared.

Life's Legacy

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Life's Legacy, sacrifice a creature.

Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

At the instant of death, the mystery of life.

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

Lyev Decree

Sorcery

Detain up to two target creatures your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those creatures can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

The Azorius have so many codes and statutes that you're always in violation of one of them.

March from the Tomb

Sorcery

Return any number of target Ally creature cards with total converted mana cost 8 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

They came from all walks of life, from every part of Zendikar, and they returned with one unifying cause.

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.

Mark for Death

Sorcery

Target creature an opponent controls blocks this turn if able. Untap that creature. Other creatures that player controls can't block this turn.

Everyone roots for the little guy, but nobody bets on him.

Mass Calcify

Sorcery

Destroy all nonwhite creatures.

The dead serve as their own tombstones.

Master the Way

Sorcery

Draw a card. Master the Way deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of cards in your hand.

"The Way has no beginning and no end. It is simply the path."
-Narset, khan of the Jeskai

Mental Vapors

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

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.)

Merciless Eviction

Sorcery

Choose one - Exile all artifacts; or exile all creatures; or exile all enchantments; or exile all planeswalkers.

"I once saw the Obzedat moved to action. Since that day, I've been thankful that they're mainly lazy, and dead."
-Aurelia, to Gideon Jura

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.

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

Mire's Malice

Sorcery

Target opponent discards two cards.

Awaken 3- (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Mischief and Mayhem

Sorcery

Up to two target creatures each get +4/+4 until end of turn.

"The false god Xenagos treats the whole world as his rollick site. If his whims are left unchecked, Theros will be reduced to rubble and ashes."
-Elspeth

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.")

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

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

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.

Nissa's Expedition

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

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

Nissa's Judgment

Sorcery

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Choose up to one target creature an opponent controls. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals damage equal to its power to that creature.

Nissa's Renewal

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. You gain 7 life.

Her connection to the plane restored, Nissa felt the power of Zendikar surge through her.

Oblivion Strike

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Exile target creature.

It's bad enough to be torn to pieces. It's worse by far to be torn from the world itself.

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

Ondu Rising

Sorcery

Whenever a creature attacks this turn, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

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.)

Overwhelm

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

"Let the song of Selesnya be heard above the rhythm of our thundering hordes!"

Painful Truths

Sorcery

Converge - You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Painful Truths.

As the Eldrazi spread, no secret that could give Zendikar's defenders an advantage was considered too dangerous to seek.

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.)

Part the Waterveil

Sorcery

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Part the Waterveil.

Awaken 6- (If you cast this spell for , also put six +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

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

Peregrination

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. Shuffle your library, then scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

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.

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.

Pinnacle of Rage

Sorcery

Pinnacle of Rage deals 3 damage to each of two target creatures and/or players.

Mount Sulano erupted not in magma but in anger.

Planar Cleansing

Sorcery

Destroy all nonland permanents.

Planar Outburst

Sorcery

Destroy all nonland creatures.

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.)

Plea for Guidance

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two enchantment cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

On Theros, the dove is a symbol not of peace but of discovery. Quick wings herald the arrival of a revelation.