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Twiddle

Instant

You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Mana:
Cardset: Eighth Edition #111 (Common)
Seventh Edition #107 (Common)
Fifth Edition #130 (Common)
Fourth Edition #109 (Common)
Unlimited Edition #86 (Common)
Beta Edition #86 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #86 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Berserk

Instant

Cast Berserk only before the combat damage step.

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Mana:
Cardset: Unlimited Edition #94 (Uncommon)
Beta Edition #94 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #94 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Camouflage

Instant

Cast Camouflage only during your declare attackers step.

This turn, instead of declaring blockers, each defending player chooses any number of creatures he or she controls and divides them into a number of piles equal to the number of attacking creatures for whom that player is the defending player. Creatures he or she controls that can block additional creatures may likewise be put into additional piles. Assign each pile to a different one of those attacking creatures at random. Each creature in a pile that can block the creature that pile is assigned to does so. (Piles can be empty.)

Mana:
Cardset: Unlimited Edition #96 (Uncommon)
Beta Edition #96 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #96 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Lifelace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes green. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Mana:
Cardset: Fourth Edition #142 (Rare)
Revised Edition #115 (Rare)
Unlimited Edition #116 (Rare)
Beta Edition #116 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #116 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Natural Selection

Instant

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle his or her library.

Mana:
Cardset: Unlimited Edition #121 (Rare)
Beta Edition #121 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #121 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Chaoslace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes red. (Its mana symbols remain unchanged.)

Mana:
Cardset: Fourth Edition #200 (Rare)
Revised Edition #140 (Rare)
Unlimited Edition #140 (Rare)
Beta Edition #141 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #140 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

False Orders

Instant

Cast False Orders only during the declare blockers step.

Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Mana:
Cardset: Unlimited Edition #148 (Common)
Beta Edition #149 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #148 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Red Elemental Blast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target blue spell; or destroy target blue permanent.

Mana:
Cardset: Fourth Edition #236 (Common)
Revised Edition #170 (Common)
Unlimited Edition #170 (Common)
Beta Edition #171 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #170 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Tunnel

Instant

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Mana:
Cardset: Fourth Edition #245 (Uncommon)
Revised Edition #180 (Uncommon)
Unlimited Edition #179 (Uncommon)
Beta Edition #180 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #179 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Blaze of Glory

Instant

Cast Blaze of Glory only during combat before blockers are declared.

Target creature defending player controls can block any number of creatures this turn. It blocks each attacking creature this turn if able.

Mana:
Cardset: Unlimited Edition #190 (Rare)
Beta Edition #191 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #190 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Death Ward

Instant

Regenerate target creature.

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Edition #301 (Common)
Ice Age #243 (Common)
Fourth Edition #271 (Common)
Revised Edition #200 (Common)
Unlimited Edition #202 (Common)
Beta Edition #203 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #201 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Guardian Angel

Instant

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that creature or player this turn.

Mana:
Cardset: Revised Edition #205 (Common)
Unlimited Edition #206 (Common)
Beta Edition #207 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #205 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Healing Salve

Instant

Choose one - Target player gains 3 life; or prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Mana:
Cardset: Divine vs. Demonic #14 (Common)
Eighth Edition #22 (Common)
Seventh Edition #18 (Common)
Sixth Edition #22 (Unknown)
Urza's Saga #16 (Common)
Fifth Edition #309 (Common)
Mirage #224 (Common)
Fourth Edition #278 (Common)
Revised Edition #206 (Common)
Unlimited Edition #207 (Common)
Beta Edition #208 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #206 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Purelace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes white. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Mana:
Cardset: Fourth Edition #293 (Rare)
Revised Edition #216 (Rare)
Unlimited Edition #217 (Rare)
Beta Edition #218 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #216 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Swords to Plowshares

Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Mana:
Cardset: Conspiracy #84 (Uncommon)
From the Vault: Twenty #2 (Mythic Rare)
Elspeth vs. Tezzeret #22 (Uncommon)
Ice Age #278 (Uncommon)
Fourth Edition #302 (Uncommon)
Revised Edition #225 (Uncommon)
Unlimited Edition #225 (Uncommon)
Beta Edition #226 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #224 (Unknown)
Type: Instant

Crumble

Instant

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. That artifact's controller gains life equal to its converted mana cost.

The spirits of Argoth grant new life to those who repent the folly of enslaving their labors to devices.

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Edition #149 (Uncommon)
Fourth Edition #123 (Uncommon)
Revised Edition #98 (Uncommon)
Antiquities #62 (Common)
Type: Instant

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

Mana:
Cardset: Fourth Edition #30 (Common)
The Dark #10 (Common)
Type: Instant

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Mirage #137 (Common)
Fourth Edition #153 (Common)
Arabian Nights #38 (Common)
Type: Instant

Force Spike

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Unknown spears / Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes . . . ."
-William Butler Yeats,
"The Valley of the Black Pig"

Mana:
Cardset: Izzet vs. Golgari #14 (Common)
Seventh Edition #76 (Common)
Fifth Edition #88 (Common)
Legends #58 (Common)
Type: Instant

Hydroblast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target spell if it's red; or destroy target permanent if it's red.

"Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within."
-Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran royal mage

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Edition #94 (Uncommon)
Ice Age #72 (Common)
Type: Instant

Shrink

Instant

Target creature gets -5/-0 until end of turn.

"May you decrease like coal upon the hearth . . . Evaporate like water in a pail, Become as little as a linseed-grain . . . And so diminish that you come to nothing."
-Anglo-Saxon curse

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Edition #188 (Common)
Homelands #70 (Common)
Homelands #71 (Common)
Type: Instant

Dwarven Catapult

Instant

Dwarven Catapult deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among all creatures target opponent controls.

"Often greatly outnumbered in battle, dwarves relied on catapults as one means of damaging a large army."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Edition #220 (Uncommon)
Fallen Empires #105 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Panic

Instant

Cast Panic only during combat before blockers are declared.

Target creature can't block this turn.

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

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Edition #260 (Common)
Ice Age #212 (Common)
Type: Instant

Pyroblast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target spell if it's blue; or destroy target permanent if it's blue.

"Just the thing for those pesky water mages."
-Jaya Ballard, task mage

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Edition #262 (Uncommon)
Ice Age #213 (Common)
Type: Instant

Heal

Instant

Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

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

"Sometimes even the smallest boon can save a life."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Edition #308 (Common)
Ice Age #254 (Common)
Type: Instant

Enlightened Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal."
-Daudi, Femeref tutor

Mana:
Cardset: Sixth Edition #19 (Unknown)
Mirage #218 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Mystical Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"To the tutors, a ‘poem of sand' was of little account, a ‘poem of ivory,' priceless."
-Afari, Tales

Mana:
Cardset: Sixth Edition #83 (Unknown)
Mirage #80 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Fatal Blow

Instant

Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. It can't be regenerated.

"What is crueler? To let a wound of the heart fester, or to simply cut it out?"
-Crovax

Mana:
Cardset: Sixth Edition #128 (Unknown)
Weatherlight #9 (Common)
Type: Instant

Vampiric Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a card, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it. You lose 2 life.

"I write upon clean white parchment with a sharp quill and the blood of my students, divining their secrets."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Mana:
Cardset: Sixth Edition #161 (Unknown)
Visions #22 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Vertigo

Instant

Vertigo deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. That creature loses flying until end of turn.

"I saw the wizard gesturing, but I didn't guess his plan until my aesthir cried out and went into a dive."
-Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Mana:
Cardset: Sixth Edition #212 (Unknown)
Ice Age #222 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Vitalize

Instant

Untap all creatures you control.

"After waking to the magic of Llanowar, no dreams can compare."
-Mirri of the Weatherlight

Mana:
Cardset: Sixth Edition #265 (Unknown)
Weatherlight #87 (Common)
Type: Instant

Worldly Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a creature card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"Aselbo soon had the rhino eating from his palm and the snake waiting at his heels."
-Afari, Tales

Mana:
Cardset: Sixth Edition #269 (Unknown)
Mirage #153 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Artifact Blast

Instant

Counter target artifact spell.

The first line of defense against Urza and Mishra, the Artifact Blast achieved widespread fame until an unlucky mage discovered it was useless on the devices the brothers had already created.

Mana:
Cardset: Antiquities #87 (Common)
Type: Instant

Darkness

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride,/ And hug it in my arms." -William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Mana:
Cardset: Time Spiral "Timeshifted" #40 (Special)
Legends #8 (Common)
Type: Instant

Glyph of Doom

Instant

At end of combat, destroy all creatures that were blocked by target Wall this turn.

"He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion . . ." -William Faulkner

Mana:
Cardset: Legends #14 (Common)
Type: Instant

Hell Swarm

Instant

All creatures get -1/-0 until end of turn.

The brightness of day turned in an instant to dusk as the swarm descended upon the battlefield.

Mana:
Cardset: Legends #17 (Common)
Type: Instant

Touch of Darkness

Instant

Any number of target creatures become black until end of turn.

"Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,/ Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may." -Thomas Middleton, The Witch

Mana:
Cardset: Legends #36 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Enchantment Alteration

Instant

Attach target Aura attached to a creature or land to another permanent of that type.

Mana:
Cardset: Urza's Saga #72 (Uncommon)
Legends #53 (Common)
Type: Instant

Flash Flood

Instant

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

Many people say that no power can bring the mountains low. Many people are fools.

Mana:
Cardset: Legends #57 (Common)
Type: Instant

Glyph of Delusion

Instant

Put X glyph counters on target creature that target Wall blocked this turn, where X is the power of that blocked creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a glyph counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a glyph counter from this creature."

Mana:
Cardset: Legends #60 (Common)
Type: Instant