Lim-Dûl's Vault

Instant

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle your library and put the last cards you looked at this way on top of it in any order.

Martyrdom

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains ": The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn is dealt to this creature instead." Only you may activate this ability.

"Martyrs are cheaper than mercenaries, and a far better investment."
-General Varchild

Melee

Instant

Cast Melee only during your turn and only during combat before blockers are declared.

You choose which creatures block this combat and how those creatures block.

Whenever a creature attacks and isn't blocked this combat, untap it and remove it from combat.

Misinformation

Instant

Put up to three target cards from an opponent's graveyard on top of his or her library in any order.

"When you cannot rely on your sources, trust your own senses. When you cannot trust those, you must follow your instincts." -Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Omen of Fire

Instant

Return all Islands to their owners' hands.

Each player sacrifices a Plains or a white permanent for each white permanent he or she controls.

"Let Balduvia burn to warm Kjeldor's hearth!"
-General Varchild

Pyrokinesis

Instant

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay Pyrokinesis's mana cost.

Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

"Anybody want some . . . toast?"
-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Rally

Instant

Blocking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Stand your ground, troops! This shall be our finest hour!"
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox, last words

Ray of Erasure

Instant

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

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"What is real can be unreal."
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Reinforcements

Instant

Put up to three target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.

"Let them send their legions! I will show them that my truth is stronger than their swords."
-General Varchild

Scars of the Veteran

Instant

You may exile a white card from your hand rather than pay Scars of the Veteran's mana cost.

Prevent the next 7 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. At the beginning of the next end step, put a +0/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.

Songs of the Damned

Instant

Add to your mana pool for each creature card in your graveyard.

Not wind, but the breath of the dead.

Spoils of Evil

Instant

For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add to your mana pool and you gain 1 life.

"Virtue has its rewards, as does its opposite."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Stench of Decay

Instant

Nonartifact creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Disa is dead, and I am left. I shall allow no others to succumb to this pestilence."
-Kolbjörn, High Honored Druid

Suffocation

Instant

Cast Suffocation only if you were dealt damage this turn by a red instant or sorcery spell.

Suffocation deals 4 damage to the controller of the last red instant or sorcery spell that dealt damage to you this turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Surge of Strength

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Surge of Strength, discard a red or green card.

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Touch of Vitae

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains haste and ": Untap this creature. Activate this ability only once."

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Trailblazer

Instant

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

"Our Elvish Hunter Taaveti led us swiftly along hidden paths through the dense forest. We caught the Orcs from behind, and completely by surprise."
-Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Undergrowth

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Undergrowth, you may pay .

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. If its additional cost was paid, Undergrowth doesn't affect combat damage that would be dealt by red creatures.

"It is the work of sorcery. Burn it!" -Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Venomous Breath

Instant

Choose target creature. At end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by it this turn.

Warning

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

"The folk of the Karplusan Mountains are impossible to ambush."
-Lovisa Coldeyes,
Balduvian Chieftain

Whiteout

Instant

All creatures lose flying until end of turn.

Sacrifice a snow land: Return Whiteout from your graveyard to your hand.

Winter's Chill

Instant

Cast Winter's Chill only during combat before blockers are declared.

X can't be greater than the number of snow lands you control.

Choose X target attacking creatures. For each of those creatures, its controller may pay or . If that player doesn't, destroy that creature at end of combat. If that player pays only , prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this combat.

Word of Undoing

Instant

Return target creature and all white Auras you own attached to it to their owners' hands.

"It was in Urza's journals that I finally found the secret at the core of the summonings."
-Journal, author unknown

Alabaster Potion

Instant

Choose one - Target player gains X life; or prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
-D'Avenant proverb

Blood Lust

Instant

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

Fissure

Instant

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

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"
-Plato

Inferno

Instant

Inferno deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.

"Any scrap of compassion that still existed in my soul was permanently snuffed out when they cast me out into the flames."
-Mairsil, called the Pretender

Marsh Gas

Instant

All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.

"Comes right outta th' ground. If ya can smell it, it's too late."
-Keevy Bogsbury

Morale

Instant

Attacking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"After Lacjsi's speech, the Knights grew determined to crush their ancient enemies clan by clan."
-Tivadar of Thorn, History of the Goblin Wars

Piety

Instant

Blocking creatures get +0/+3 until end of turn.

"Whoever obeys God and His Prophet, fears God and does his duty to Him, will surely find success."
-The Qur'an, 24:52

Sandstorm

Instant

Sandstorm deals 1 damage to each attacking creature.

Even the landscape turned against Sarsour, first rising up and pelting him, then rearranging itself so he could no longer find his way.

High Tide

Instant

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

"When the very tides turn against you, it's time to consider retirement."
-General Khurzog

Spore Cloud

Instant

Tap all blocking creatures. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Each attacking creature and each blocking creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Blood of the Martyr

Instant

Until end of turn, if damage would be dealt to any creature, you may have that damage dealt to you instead.

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Festival

Instant

Cast Festival only during an opponent's upkeep.

Creatures can't attack this turn.

Only after the townsfolk had drawn us into their merry celebration did we discover that their holiday rituals held a deeper purpose.

Fire and Brimstone

Instant

Fire and Brimstone deals 4 damage to target player who declared an attacking creature this turn and 4 damage to you.

Holy Light

Instant

Nonwhite creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Bathed in hallowed light, the infidels looked upon the impurities of their souls and despaired." -The Book of Tal

Riptide

Instant

Tap all blue creatures.

Active Volcano

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target blue permanent; or return target Island to its owner's hand.

Avoid Fate

Instant

Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.