Builder's Bane

Sorcery

Destroy X target artifacts. Builder's Bane deals damage to each player equal to the number of artifacts he or she controlled put into a graveyard this way.

There is only so much a person may be buried with.

Kaervek's Torch

Sorcery

As long as Kaervek's Torch is on the stack, spells that target it cost more to cast.

Kaervek's Torch deals X damage to target creature or player.

The pulsing heat of the midday Sun burns in the Lion's eye.
-Stone inscription, source unknown

Tendrils of Despair

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Tendrils of Despair, sacrifice a creature.

Target opponent discards two cards.

"Because I am incapable of tears does not mean I have no need to shed them."
-Karn, silver golem

Reanimate

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.

"You will learn to earn death."
-Volrath

Scorched Earth

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Scorched Earth, discard X land cards.

Destroy X target lands.

"Fire cleanses as well as destroys; that is the nature of change."
-Oracle en-Vec

Shadowstorm

Sorcery

Shadowstorm deals 2 damage to each creature with shadow.

"You've not seen a storm until you've seen the kind that roars between worlds."
-Lyna, Soltari emissary

Lab Rats

Sorcery

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

Put a 1/1 black Rat creature token onto the battlefield.

Mind Peel

Sorcery

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

Target player discards a card.

Seething Anger

Sorcery

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

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

Æther Tide

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Æther Tide, discard X creature cards.

Return X target creatures to their owners' hands.

The tide of magic brought them here. Now it would take them home.

Gamble

Sorcery

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle your library.

When you've got nothing, you might as well trade it for something else.

Meltdown

Sorcery

Destroy each artifact with converted mana cost X or less.

Catastrophes happened so often at the mana rig that the viashino language had a special word to describe them.

Raze

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Raze, sacrifice a land.

Destroy target land.

The viashino believe that the oldest mountains hate everyone equally.

Unearth

Sorcery

Return target creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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

Bubbling Muck

Sorcery

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

The muck claims a hundred living things for each meager treasure it spews forth.

Encroach

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonbasic land card from it. That player discards that card.

"The rate of spread in this region is unacceptable. Start again."
-Davvol, Evincar of Rath

Landslide

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of Mountains. Landslide deals that much damage to target player.

Sometimes the mountain takes.
-Keldon saying

Reckless Abandon

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Reckless Abandon, sacrifice a creature.

Reckless Abandon deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

The climax of a warlord's career is always death.

Rofellos's Gift

Sorcery

Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Return an enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand for each card revealed this way.

"Rise, elf. We are both of Gaea, and thus we are equal."
-Multani, to Rofellos

Cateran Summons

Sorcery

Search your library for a Mercenary card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Even when recruitment is slow, the guild can always cook something up.

Soul Strings

Sorcery

Return two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand unless any player pays .

Everyone is manipulated. It's just more obvious with the dead.

Thrive

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of X target creatures.

"We wait and watch, and as we prepare for war, we grow strong."

Ghitu Fire

Sorcery

You may cast Ghitu Fire any time you could cast an instant if you pay more to cast it.

Ghitu Fire deals X damage to target creature or player.

Pain (Pain/Suffering)

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Assault (Assault/Battery)

Sorcery

Assault deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Strafe

Sorcery

Strafe deals 3 damage to target nonred creature.

"All right, let's light ‘em up"
-Gerrard

Divine Light

Sorcery

Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to creatures you control.

"Phyrexia is an unforgiving place, and I am an angry lord in an unforgiving mood."
-Lord Windgrace

Illuminate

Sorcery

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

Illuminate deals X damage to target creature. If Illuminate was kicked with its kicker, it deals X damage to that creature's controller. If Illuminate was kicked with its kicker, you draw X cards.

Tahngarth's Glare

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of target opponent's library, then put them back in any order. That player looks at the top three cards of your library, then puts them back in any order.

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 (Life/Death)

Sorcery

All lands you control become 1/1 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

Breakthrough

Sorcery

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

The ideas came flooding in so fast that they couldn't all be contained.

Retraced Image

Sorcery

Reveal a card in your hand, then put that card onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent.

An army from a soldier, a flock from a bird, a school from a fish . . . a profit from an atrocity.

Restless Dreams

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Restless Dreams, discard X cards.

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Braids dreams of dark rebirth.

Overmaster

Sorcery

The next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Draw a card.

"Trickery can't defeat raw power."
-Matoc, lavamancer

Dwell on the Past

Sorcery

Target player shuffles up to four target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.

None can find what hasn't been lost.
-Nantuko teaching

Insist

Sorcery

The next creature spell you cast this turn can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Draw a card.

"Finesse is no match for brute force."
-Seton, centaur druid

Cabal Therapy

Sorcery

Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards with that name.

Flashback-Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Rats' Feast

Sorcery

Exile X target cards from a single graveyard.

"That does it-I quit"
-Cabal grave robber

Wave of Indifference

Sorcery

X target creatures can't block this turn.

"Darius?"
"Yeah?"
"There's a goblin sneaking up on you."
"So?"
"Just sayin'."