Blue Sun's Zenith

Instant

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

"The Origin Query will wait. We must ensure we survive to return to it."
-Pelyus, vedalken ordinar

Blunt the Assault

Instant

You gain 1 life for each creature on the battlefield. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"Much can be gained from the appearance of vulnerability."
-Ezuri, renegade leader

Blustersquall

Instant

Tap target creature 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.")

Weather is more predictable than the Izzet.

Boil

Instant

Destroy all Islands.

"The fishers will throw out their nets and draw them back filled with dust."
-Oracle en-Vec

Boiling Blood

Instant

Target creature attacks this turn if able.

Draw a card.

Your father has no horns!
Your mother wears a bell
You drink the milk of goats!
-Talruum taunts

Bold Defense

Instant

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

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. If Bold Defense was kicked, instead creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain first strike until end of turn.

Bone Harvest

Instant

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

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

"Only fools believe they will face my armies but once."
-Kaervek

Bone to Ash

Instant

Counter target creature spell.

Draw a card.

"I can think of worse ways to go. On second thought, maybe not."
-Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Boomerang

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Early Jamuraan hunters devised a weapon that would return to its source. Tolarian Æthermancers developed a spell that skipped the weapon entirely.

Boon of Erebos

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it. You lose 2 life.

"Death is not a certainty. Erebos determines when a mortal's time is up."
-Iadorna, death priest of Erebos

Booster Tutor

Instant

Open a sealed Magic booster pack, reveal the cards, and put one of those cards into your hand. (Remove that card from your deck before beginning a new game.)

Real men use Arabian Nights boosters.

Boros Charm

Instant

Choose one - Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player; or permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn; or target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

"Practice compassion and mercy. But know when they must end."
-Aurelia

Boros Fury-Shield

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking or blocking creature this turn. If was spent to cast Boros Fury-Shield, it deals damage to that creature's controller equal to the creature's power.

Boulderfall

Instant

Boulderfall deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

"Defeating the Meletians was not so difficult. I needed only to move a mountain."
-Eocles, oracle of Purphoros

Bound (Bound/Determined)

Instant

Sacrifice a creature. Return up to X cards from your graveyard to your hand, where X is the number of colors that creature was. Exile this card.

Bounty of the Hunt

Instant

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay Bounty of the Hunt's mana cost.

Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Brace for Impact

Instant

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target multicolored creature this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Flesh can be tempered by spellcraft and forged ever stronger by the hammers of foes.

Brain Freeze

Instant

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

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Brainstorm

Instant

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"I see more than others do because I know where to look."
-Saprazzan vizier

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

Brand

Instant

Gain control of all permanents you own. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

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

"By this glyph I affirm your role."
-Urza, to Karn

Brave the Elements

Instant

Choose a color. White creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. (They can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of that color.)

"Trust me, your lost fingers and toes are nothing compared to the lost treasures of Sejiri."
-Zahr Gada, Halimar expedition leader

Brawl

Instant

Until end of turn, all creatures gain ": This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature."

Anything can happen when patience is scarce and wine is abundant.

Breach

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Break of Day

Instant

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

Fateful hour - If you have 5 or less life, those creatures also are indestructible this turn. (Lethal damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Break Open

Instant

Turn target face-down creature an opponent controls face up.

There are two ways to resolve puzzling situations: thoughtful contemplation or force. After thoughtful contemplation, most barbarians choose force.

Breath of Malfegor

Instant

Breath of Malfegor deals 5 damage to each opponent.

The blood of the demons quickened as their master rose over the battlefield. The blood of the angels also quickened: here was the chance to finally end the war started millennia ago.

Brightstone Ritual

Instant

Add to your mana pool for each Goblin on the battlefield.

Wizards fought over the stone to exploit its power. Goblins fight over it because it's shiny.

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.

Bring Low

Instant

Bring Low deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, Bring Low deals 5 damage to it instead.

"People are often humbled by the elements. But the elements, too, can be humbled."
-Surrak, khan of the Temur

Broken Ambitions

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Clash with an opponent. If you win, that spell's controller puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Broken Visage

Instant

Destroy target nonartifact attacking creature. It can't be regenerated. Put a black Spirit creature token with that creature's power and toughness onto the battlefield. Sacrifice the token at the beginning of the next end step.

Brutal Expulsion

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Choose one or both -

• Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

• Brutal Expulsion deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If that permanent would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Brute Force

Instant

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

Blood, bone, and sinew are magnified, as is the rage that drives them. The brain, however, remains unchanged-a little bean, swinging by a strand in a cavernous, raving head.

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.

Bull Rush

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"It's gone mad! Loose the chains and save what you can!"

Burden of Greed

Instant

Target player loses 1 life for each tapped artifact he or she controls.

"The one who dies with the most toys is still dead."
-Geth, keeper of the Vault

Burn (Turn/Burn)

Instant

Burn deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

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

Burn Away

Instant

Burn Away deals 6 damage to target creature. When that creature dies this turn, exile all cards from its controller's graveyard.

"Your corruption will burn, serpent, until there is nothing left to defile."
-Asmala, bloodfire mystic

Burn the Impure

Instant

Burn the Impure deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature has infect, Burn the Impure deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.

Flame doesn't kneel to Phyrexia.