Ride Down

Instant

Destroy target blocking creature. Creatures that were blocked by that creature this combat gain trample until end of turn.

"I will wash you from my hooves!"
-Mardu taunt

Malicious Affliction

Instant

Morbid - When you cast Malicious Affliction, if a creature died this turn, you may copy Malicious Affliction and may choose a new target for the copy.

Destroy target nonblack creature.

"Such an affliction appears to seek out the pure."
-Byro, plague doctor

Wake the Dead

Instant

Cast Wake the Dead only during combat on an opponent's turn.

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Impact Resonance

Instant

Impact Resonance deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures, where X is the greatest amount of damage dealt by a source to a permanent or player this turn.

Abzan Advantage

Instant

Target player sacrifices an enchantment. Bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"To survive, you must seize every opportunity."
-Daghatar the Adamant

Pressure Point

Instant

Tap target creature.

Draw a card.

By studying dragon anatomy, Jeskai monks have learned how to locate clusters of nerves that will incapacitate even the mightiest dragons.

Rally the Ancestors

Instant

Return each creature card with converted mana cost X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile those creatures at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rally the Ancestors.

"The family is a tree, and in times of need, every branch can be a weapon."
-Daghatar the Adamant

Valorous Stance

Instant

Choose one -

• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

• Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

"Every choice alters the path of fate."
-Sarkhan Vol

Neutralizing Blast

Instant

Counter target multicolored spell.

"To defeat your enemies, you must remove their ability to make war against you."

Reality Shift

Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of his or her library. (That player puts the top card of his or her library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Refocus

Instant

Untap target creature.

Draw a card.

"Before you can open your third eye, you must prove you can open the first two."

Temur Battle Rage

Instant

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Ferocious - That creature also gains trample until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Winds of Qal Sisma

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures your opponents control.

Artful Maneuver

Instant

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

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Center Soul

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Radiant Purge

Instant

Exile target multicolored creature or multicolored enchantment.

The Shifting Wastes are Dromoka's domain. She will not tolerate intruders.

Surge of Righteousness

Instant

Destroy target black or red creature that's attacking or blocking. You gain 2 life.

Though she stood alone, she struck with the force of an army.

Anticipate

Instant

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"When I have meditated on all outcomes, my opponent has no recourse."

Dance of the Skywise

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a blue Dragon Illusion with base power and toughness 4/4, loses all abilities, and gains flying.

The Ojutai believe in the Great Wheel: those who best serve the dragonlord are destined to be reborn as dragons.

Glint

Instant

Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Rakshasa waste no opportunity to display their wealth and power, even in the midst of a sorcerous duel.

Silumgar's Scorn

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Silumgar's Scorn, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast Silumgar's Scorn, counter that spell instead.

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.

Draconic Roar

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Draconic Roar, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.

Draconic Roar deals 3 damage to target creature. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast Draconic Roar, Draconic Roar deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.

Twin Bolt

Instant

Twin Bolt deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two target creatures and/or players.

Kolaghan archers are trained in Dakla, the way of the bow. They utilize their dragonlord's lightning to strike their target, no matter how small, how fast, or how far away.

Display of Dominance

Instant

Choose one -

• Destroy target blue or black noncreature permanent.

• Permanents you control can't be the targets of blue or black spells your opponents control this turn.

Tread Upon

Instant

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

"Boasting impenetrable defenses only draws the most tenacious of attackers."
-Yikaro, Atarka warrior

Atarka's Command

Instant

Choose two -

• Your opponents can't gain life this turn.

• Atarka's Command deals 3 damage to each opponent.

• You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

• Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain reach until end of turn.

Dromoka's Command

Instant

Choose two -

• Prevent all damage target instant or sorcery spell would deal this turn.

• Target player sacrifices an enchantment.

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

• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

Gideon's Reproach

Instant

Gideon's Reproach deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"Suddenly, Gideon was there with us, clearing the way so that we could escape."-The War Diaries

Tandem Tactics

Instant

Up to two target creatures each get +1/+2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

In times of infestation and war, Zendikar favors the blades that strike in unison.

Horribly Awry

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Counter target creature spell with converted mana cost 4 or less. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"We are nothing but dust to them-our bodies, our actions, even our words."-Jori En, expedition leader

Sure Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

To survive imminent doom, it sometimes takes a foolhardy soul who acts first and fears later.

Swell of Growth

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Nissa is not the only one with a deep connection to Zendikar's primal elements."-Kiora

Spatial Contortion

Instant

({C} represents colorless mana.)

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

"For those without the Planeswalker spark, the merest touch of the Blind Eternities can kill."
-Ugin

Warping Wail

Instant

({C} represents colorless mana.)

Choose one -

• Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less.

• Counter target sorcery spell.

• Put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool."

Dazzling Reflection

Instant

You gain life equal to target creature's power. The next time that creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

"The light of a felidar's horns can give even an Eldrazi pause."
-Zarra, lullmage

Immolating Glare

Instant

Destroy target attacking creature.

"The sun can warm your skin or blister it, nurture your crops or wither them, light your path or blind you. She is a fickle friend, but a far worse enemy."
-Nazra of the Stone Havens

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

Reality Hemorrhage

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Reality Hemorrhage deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Tarek could not tell whether he was losing his blood or his mind.

Brute Strength

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

It's not the size of the rock. It's how badly you want to lift it.

Tears of Valakut

Instant

Tears of Valakut can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Tears of Valakut deals 5 damage to target creature with flying.

When Kozilek destroyed Sea Gate, distant Valakut could not contain its grief.

Elemental Uprising

Instant

Target land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature with haste until end of turn. It's still a land. It must be blocked this turn if able.

"My heart and Zendikar's beat as one. Together we will endure."
-Nissa Revane

Lead by Example

Instant

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

Gideon and Nissa carved a path through the Eldrazi swarm, and their Zendikari allies charged into the fray behind them.

Leap of Faith

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to that creature this turn.

The finest maneuvers take place in three dimensions.

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.

Ghostly Flicker

Instant

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Sometimes it's useful to take a break from existence.

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.

Rush of Blood

Instant

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power.

Sometimes it's not for sustenance or to feed the dependence. Sometimes it's just to feel again.

Eaten by Spiders

Instant

Destroy target creature with flying and all Equipment attached to that creature.

After sampling many victims, the spider developed a preference for the undead and their accoutrements.

Natural End

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 3 life.

The haunted blade shattered, and the geist drifted gratefully to the Blessed Sleep.

Safe Passage

Instant

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

As she shepherds the faithful, the angel's radiance is a shield of salvation.

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

Murder

Instant

Destroy target creature.

Trumpet Blast

Instant

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Keldon warriors don't need signals to tell them when to attack. They need signals to tell them when to stop.

Serpent's Gift

Instant

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Venom is nature's way of redressing the imbalance between weak and mighty.

Guardians' Pledge

Instant

White creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.

A dozen fighting for each other are worth a thousand fighting for themselves.

Cancel

Instant

Counter target spell.

Frost Breath

Instant

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.

If you have to be stuck somewhere for a while, it's better to be stuck there with a friend.

Slaughter Cry

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

It's rather embarrassing to end up with your head mounted over his hearth.

Hunter's Insight

Instant

Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.

"The predator knows the true way of the world. Life is conflict. Only the strong survive."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Bar the Door

Instant

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

"It may not look like much, but it's a good old door with strong wards. It'll hold."
-Olgard of the Skiltfolk

Gravepurge

Instant

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.

Draw a card.

"The Blessed Sleep? Ha! Wake up my lovelies, there's work to be done!"
-Gisa, ghoulcaller of Gavony

Fires of Undeath

Instant

Fires of Undeath deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

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

"I drink of those who are worthy of my palate. The rest I burn."

Clinging Mists

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Fateful hour - If you have 5 or less life, tap all attacking creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.

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

Wild Hunger

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

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

Otto the Hunter was filled with many grand ambitions. The snake was filled only with Otto.

Midnight Haunting

Instant

Put two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

The path back to the world of the living is murky and bewildering. A geist may not even realize that it's terrifying its own loved ones.

Rally the Peasants

Instant

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

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

"If you must go out at night, bring a mob."
-Master of the Elgaud Cathars

Rebuke

Instant

Destroy target attacking creature.

"No one chooses to be stitched together into a skaab. If it could speak, it would beg for its own destruction."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Cackling Counterpart

Instant

Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of target creature you control.

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

Dissipate

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"This abomination never belonged in our world. I'm merely setting it free."
-Dierk, geistmage

Forbidden Alchemy

Instant

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

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

Frightful Delusion

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . That player discards a card.

Whether he actually exists is in question, but the terror she feels is excruciatingly real.

Hysterical Blindness

Instant

Creatures your opponents control get -4/-0 until end of turn.

"The panic is amusing, but the real fun comes when the spell passes and the villagers start looking for a scapegoat."
-Ludevic, necro-alchemist

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.

Tribute to Hunger

Instant

Target opponent sacrifices a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Marella was delighted. The ball had attracted so many suitors for her daughter, including that handsome stranger. She wondered where the two were now . . . .

Brimstone Volley

Instant

Brimstone Volley deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Morbid - Brimstone Volley deals 5 damage to that creature or player instead if a creature died this turn.

Gnaw to the Bone

Instant

You gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard.

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

Spidery Grasp

Instant

Untap target creature. It gets +2/+4 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

"Nobody's seen the Lady of Videns for years. Poor dear, no companions at all in that old castle."
-Yonda of Gavony

Avenging Arrow

Instant

Destroy target creature that dealt damage this turn.

"Forgive the theft. Punish the deception."
-Alcarus, Selesnya archer

Rootborn Defenses

Instant

Populate. Creatures you control are indestructible this turn. (To populate, put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy indestructible creatures.)

Annihilating Fire

Instant

Annihilating Fire deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

"The most impressive performances can be done only once."
-Mote, Rakdos madcap

Aerial Predation

Instant

Destroy target creature with flying. You gain 2 life.

In the towering trees of the Samok Stand and the predators that guard them, the might of the Ravnican wild has returned.

Auger Spree

Instant

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

"Finally, a weapon the Boros can't confiscate!"
-Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue

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.

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.")

Sphinx's Revelation

Instant

You gain X life and draw X cards.

"Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order."

Afterlife

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Oblation

Instant

The owner of target nonland permanent shuffles it into his or her library, then draws two cards.

"A richer people could give more but they could never give as much."

Orim's Thunder

Instant

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

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If Orim's Thunder was kicked, it deals damage equal to that permanent's converted mana cost to target creature.

Murmurs from Beyond

Instant - Arcane

Reveal the top three cards of your library. An opponent chooses one of them. Put that card into your graveyard and the rest into your hand.

Like pools of fog that hid treacherous rocks from sailors' eyes, so too were the hands of the kami.

Repulse

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Draw a card.

"You aren't invited."

Resounding Wave

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

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

When you cycle Resounding Wave, return two target permanents to their owners' hands.

Spell Snip

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

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

"Magic cast through a hand of flesh is just as weak as the flesh itself."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

Resounding Thunder

Instant

Resounding Thunder deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

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

When you cycle Resounding Thunder, it deals 6 damage to target creature or player.

Soul's Fire

Instant

Target creature you control on the battlefield deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

An avatar he sculpts of anger and flame.

Bant Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library; or counter target instant spell.

Bant is a world where death and chaos hold no sway.

Branching Bolt

Instant

Choose one or both - Branching Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature with flying; and/or Branching Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature without flying.

"Lightning lives in everything, in living flesh and growing things. It must be set free."
-Rakka Mar

Esper Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target enchantment; or draw two cards; or target player discards two cards.

"Thoughts are commodities. Someone will pay a good price for them. Even ones as simplistic as yours . . ."
-Ennor, mentalist

Grixis Charm

Instant

Choose one - Return target permanent to its owner's hand; or target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn; or creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"So many choices. Shall I choose loathing, hate, or malice today?"
-Eliza of the Keep