Ray of Dissolution

Instant

Destroy target enchantment. You gain 3 life.

The works of one god last only as long as the patience of another.

Rapid Hybridization

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller puts a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token onto the battlefield.

"We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome."
-Speaker Trifon

Ranger's Guile

Instant

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

In the remote corners of Kessig, protection is found in secret powers unknown to the Church of Avacyn.

Rakdos Charm

Instant

Choose one - Exile all cards from target player's graveyard; or destroy target artifact; or each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

"Let all feel joy in pain."
-Rakdos

Raise the Alarm

Instant

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

"The nim raid our homes without warning. We must defend our homes without hesitation."

Quicken

Instant

The next sorcery card you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. (It can be cast any time you could cast an instant.)

Draw a card.

A skilled Izzet chronarch can carry out an epic vendetta between the fall of one hourglass grain and the next.

Putrefy

Instant

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

"All matter, animate or not, rots when exposed to time. We merely speed up the process."
-Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer

Punish the Enemy

Instant

Punish the Enemy deals 3 damage to target player and 3 damage to target creature.

"When justice descends, the servant will burn with the master."
-Aurelia

Pulse of Murasa

Instant

Return target creature or land card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. You gain 6 life.

"Little flower twirl and bloom, arise from this your rocky tomb. Little warrior slash and brawl, be born again to free us all."

Psychic Strike

Instant

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

Until more information could be gleaned about Niv-Mizzet's intentions, Lazav took every opportunity to stall his experiments.

Psychic Spiral

Instant

Shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library. Target player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

An elocutor forces criminals to confess to the laws they merely intended to break.

Protect (Protect/Serve)

Instant

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

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Profit (Profit/Loss)

Instant

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

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Predator's Rapport

Instant

Choose target creature you control. You gain life equal to that creature's power plus its toughness.

"Other guilds say the Gruul are savages, no better than the beasts we live with. I say we've found friends who won't stab us in the back."
-Domri Rade

Polymorphous Rush

Instant

Strive - Polymorphous Rush costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Choose a creature on the battlefield. Any number of target creatures you control each become a copy of that creature until end of turn.

Polymorphist's Jest

Instant

Until end of turn, each creature target player controls loses all abilities and becomes a blue Frog with base power and toughness 1/1.

"The flies were bothering me."
-Jalira, master polymorphist

Plummet

Instant

Destroy target creature with flying.

"Let nothing own the skies but the wind."
-Dejara, Giltwood druid

Plasm Capture

Instant

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next precombat main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

"Everything serves a purpose. Even you."
-Vorel of the Hull Clade

Pit Fight

Instant

Target creature you control fights another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"All the coins in Ravnica can't save his soul now."
-Narbulg Nine Fingers

Pillar of Light

Instant

Exile target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

"The vaulted ceiling of our faith rests upon such pillars."
-Darugand, banisher priest

Pharika's Cure

Instant

Pharika's Cure deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

"The venom cleanses the sickness from your body, but it will not be pleasant, and you may not survive. Pharika's blessings are fickle."
-Solon, acolyte of Pharika

Phalanx Formation

Instant

Strive - Phalanx Formation costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Peel from Reality

Instant

Return target creature you control and target creature you don't control to their owners' hands.

"Soulless demon, you are bound to me. Now we will both dwell in oblivion."

Pay No Heed

Instant

Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal this turn.

"Inhale life. Exhale pain."
-Mystic elder

Overwhelming Denial

Instant

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

Overwhelming Denial can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Counter target spell.

Outnumber

Instant

Outnumber deals damage to target creature equal to the number of creatures you control.

Everyone who could still lift a weapon had a part in retaking Sea Gate.

Orzhov Charm

Instant

Choose one - Return target creature you control and all Auras you control attached to it to their owner's hand; or destroy target creature and you lose life equal to its toughness; or return target creature card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Opportunity

Instant

Target player draws four cards.

Little things like morals shouldn't hinder one's ambition.
-Pirate creed

Nullify

Instant

Counter target creature or Aura spell.

"Those who incur Thassa's anger will be swallowed whole by her waves, or torn asunder by her bident."
-Thrasios, triton hero

Nightmarish End

Instant

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

"To think some believe it peaceful to die in one's sleep."
-Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

Negate

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

Masters of the arcane savor a delicious irony. Their study of deep and complex arcana leads to such a simple end: the ability to say merely yes or no.

Necrobite

Instant

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Regenerate it. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat. Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

An undead snake doesn't bite in self-defense. It hungers as any zombie, never sated.

Nature's Panoply

Instant

Strive - Nature's Panoply costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Choose any number of target creatures. Put a +1/+1 counter on each of them.

Nature protects its own.

Naturalize

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"When your cities and trinkets crumble, only nature will remain."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Natural State

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment with converted mana cost 3 or less.

"Killing the Eldrazi is not enough. We must erase all memory of them from this world."
-Greenweaver Mina

Natural Connection

Instant

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

"Zendikar will not surrender, and neither can we."

Mystic Genesis

Instant

Counter target spell. Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

"The Simic can grow anything out of a puddle of sludge. I just hope they never join forces with the Golgari."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Mutant's Prey

Instant

Target creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it fights target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Every street corner is a hunting ground, every citizen potential prey.

Murderous Cut

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Destroy target creature.

The blades of a Sultai assassin stab like the fangs of a dragon.

Mortal's Resolve

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

The Fates tried to cut her string but found the thread had turned to iron.