Cobra Trap

Instant - Trap

If a noncreature permanent under your control was destroyed this turn by a spell or ability an opponent controlled, you may pay rather than pay Cobra Trap's mana cost.

Put four 1/1 green Snake creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Collateral Damage

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Collateral Damage, sacrifice a creature.

Collateral Damage deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

It is much easier to create fire than to contain it.

Collected Company

Instant

Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Many can stand where one would fall.

Colossal Heroics

Instant

Strive - Colossal Heroics costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap those creatures.

Colossal Might

Instant

Target creature gets +4/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

"Never corner a barbarian. You become the path of least resistance."
-Sarkhan Vol

Combust

Instant

Combust can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Combust deals 5 damage to target white or blue creature. The damage can't be prevented.

Comet Storm

Instant

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Choose target creature or player, then choose another target creature or player for each time Comet Storm was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

Comeuppance

Instant

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and planeswalkers you control this turn by sources you don't control. If damage from a creature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to that creature. If damage from a noncreature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to the source's controller.

Common Bond

Instant

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

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

Wolf riders hone their skills traversing the perilous rooftops, each dizzying step bringing elf and wolf closer together.

Commune with Lava

Instant

Exile the top X cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Atarka conquered Qadat, the Fire Rim, long ago, winning over its efreet with a promise to spread the glory of fire to all the world.

Comparative Analysis

Instant

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

Target player draws two cards.

"Our time grows short. If we wish to vanquish the Eldrazi, we must unlock the hedrons' secrets."
-Jace Beleren

Complete Disregard

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Exile target creature with power 3 or less.

"We returned to the field and found poor Len, every detail of his final moment perfectly cast in that awful dust."-Javad Nasrin, outrider captain

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

Congregate

Instant

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

"In the gathering there is strength for all who founder, renewal for all who languish, love for all who sing."
-Song of All, canto 642

Consign to Dust

Instant

Strive - Consign to Dust costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Destroy any number of target artifacts and/or enchantments.

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.

Consume the Meek

Instant

Destroy each creature with converted mana cost 3 or less. They can't be regenerated.

"Why does it destroy? It does, and to talk of reasons wastes time and breath."
-Nirthu, lone missionary

Consuming Sinkhole

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Choose one -

• Exile target land creature.

• Consuming Sinkhole deals 4 damage to target player.

"What will not yield will be consumed."
-Ayli, high priest of the Eternal Pilgrims

Contradict

Instant

Counter target spell.

Draw a card.

Those who question Ojutai may not like the answers they receive.

Coordinated Assault

Instant

Up to two target creatures each get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.

It's hard to shout "Shields up!" with a javelin in your chest.

Corpse Churn

Instant

Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"The distraction of your life has ended. Now your service begins."
-Kalitas, thrall of Ulamog

Corpse Lunge

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Corpse Lunge, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Corpse Lunge deals damage equal to the exiled card's power to target creature.

Corrupted Resolve

Instant

Counter target spell if its controller is poisoned.

"Flesh is a sickness that infects Phyrexia."
-Avaricta, Gitaxian sective

Counterflux

Instant

Counterflux can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Counter target spell 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.")

Counterlash

Instant

Counter target spell. You may cast a nonland card in your hand that shares a card type with that spell without paying its mana cost.

"Pathetic. Let me show you how it's done."

Countermand

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

The physical pain was nothing compared to the agony in his mind.

Countersquall

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Each of the twenty-three winds of Esper is named and chronicled, and every possible interaction with the flow of magic is exhaustively detailed.

Cower in Fear

Instant

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"You will fully understand fear when you discover it is the final thing you put your faith in."
-Nicol Bolas

Crackling Doom

Instant

Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures he or she controls.

Do not fear the lightning. Fear the one it obeys.

Cremate

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard.

Draw a card.

"Without a body, the soul is helpless to fight the terms of our contracts."
-Somhaur, Orzhov pontiff

Crippling Chill

Instant

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Draw a card.

One breath of the geist turns veins to rivers of ice and freezes hearts midbeat.

Crosis's Charm

Instant

Choose one - Return target permanent to its owner's hand; or destroy target nonblack creature, and it can't be regenerated; or destroy target artifact.

Crowd's Favor

Instant

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.)

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Cruel Feeding

Instant

Strive - Cruel Feeding costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +1/+0 and gain lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Crush

Instant

Destroy target noncreature artifact.

A golem's hands know no tenderness.

Crushing Vines

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target creature with flying; or destroy target artifact.

"Your veil's curse won't stop me, deathmage. I have taken down countless night hunters and this dark plane is not big enough for you to hide."
-Garruk Wildspeaker, to Liliana Vess

Crypsis

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from creatures your opponents control until end of turn. Untap it.

Tritons borrow the camouflage of their oceanic prey to become predators on land.

Crypt Incursion

Instant

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

The Golgari maze-runner Varolz hungers to prove his fortitude in battle, and his trail of victims feeds other hungers.

Cryptic Command

Instant

Choose two - Counter target spell; or return target permanent to its owner's hand; or tap all creatures your opponents control; or draw a card.

Cunning Strike

Instant

Cunning Strike deals 2 damage to target creature and 2 damage to target player.

Draw a card.

"The opponent who blocks the path, becomes the path."
-Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest