Knowledge Exploitation

Tribal Sorcery - Rogue

Prowl (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)

Search target opponent's library for an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Kodama's Reach

Sorcery - Arcane

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Krenko's Command

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Goblins are eager to follow orders, especially when those orders involve stealing, hurting, annoying, eating, destroying, or swearing.

Kruphix's Insight

Sorcery

Reveal the top six cards of your library. Put up to three enchantment cards from among them into your hand and the rest of the revealed cards into your graveyard.

The horizon is tantalizing in both its uncertainty and its potential.

Kuldotha Rebirth

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Kuldotha Rebirth, sacrifice an artifact.

Put three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

All goblin rituals serve a dual purpose as fertility rites, even the destructive ones. Especially the destructive ones.

Lair Delve

Sorcery

Reveal the top two cards of your library. Put all creature and land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The fiends have fled. Well, good riddance. Nothing I like more than an empty lair."

Landbind Ritual

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each Plains you control.

"Honor this place, for our children's children will stand here and speak these same words again."
-Ayli, Kamsa cleric

Last Thoughts

Sorcery

Draw a card.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Launch the Fleet

Sorcery

Strive - Launch the Fleet costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Until end of turn, any number of target creatures each gain "Whenever this creature attacks, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield tapped and attacking."

Lava Axe

Sorcery

Lava Axe deals 5 damage to target player.

It can chop down a redwood in a single stroke. Your sternum isn't going to fare any better.

Lava Spike

Sorcery - Arcane

Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player.

Some kami attacks during the war were rife with trickery, subterfuge, and subtlety, draining hope and pride from the mortal world. Other attacks were a lot more straightforward.

Lavalanche

Sorcery

Lavalanche deals X damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

Alara's burning blood cannot be contained by mere earth and stone.

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.

Lead the Stampede

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of creature cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Life from the Loam

Sorcery

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Life's Finale

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures, then search target opponent's library for up to three creature cards and put them into his or her graveyard. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

The feeble resistance of the flesh is over. Phyrexia spreads its shadow over all.

Life's Legacy

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Life's Legacy, sacrifice a creature.

Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

At the instant of death, the mystery of life.

Lingering Souls

Sorcery

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

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

The murdered inhabitants of Hollowhenge impart to the living the terror they felt in death.

Liturgy of Blood

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Add to your mana pool.

"You harbor such vast potential. It would be such a shame to let you die of old age."-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Living Death

Sorcery

Each player exiles all creature cards from his or her graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures he or she controls, then puts all cards he or she exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Living End

Sorcery

Illus. Greg Staples

Lose Calm

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste and menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

A lifetime of discipline forsaken in a moment of rage.

Lost Hours

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player puts that card into his or her library third from the top.

"Your thoughts do not interest me nearly as much as the absence thereof."
-Gorghul, augur of skulls

Lyev Decree

Sorcery

Detain up to two target creatures your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those creatures can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

The Azorius have so many codes and statutes that you're always in violation of one of them.

Macabre Waltz

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

"All dead move to the hollow rhythm of necromancy."
-Savra

Maelstrom Pulse

Sorcery

Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

During the collision of the shards, entire ways of life disappeared without a trace.

Magma Rift

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Magma Rift, sacrifice a land.

Magma Rift deals 5 damage to target creature.

"Lighting a fire needs kindling and heat. You be the kindling. I'll bring the heat."
-Chandra Nalaar

Magmatic Chasm

Sorcery

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

"Our shamans assert their mastery over the land, thwarting the lesser clans' attempts to stand in the way of our dragonlord."
-Allek, Atarka hunter

Make a Wish

Sorcery

Return two cards at random from your graveyard to your hand.

In Gavony wishing is taken as a sign of weakness, yet the wells usually brim with silver.

Mana Clash

Sorcery

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.

Mana Geyser

Sorcery

Add to your mana pool for each tapped land your opponents control.

The Quicksilver Sea hissed and bubbled at the indignity. The Vulshok shaman just smiled.

Mana Seism

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of lands. Add to your mana pool for each land sacrificed this way.

"It is the nature of humanity not to worry about tomorrow, especially when there's a good chance they won't live to see the end of today."
-Kiku, Night's Flower

Map the Wastes

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

March from the Tomb

Sorcery

Return any number of target Ally creature cards with total converted mana cost 8 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

They came from all walks of life, from every part of Zendikar, and they returned with one unifying cause.

March of the Returned

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

The Returned have no memory of the Underworld or of their former lives. The golden masks they wear are the last gifts of the selves they left behind.

Mark for Death

Sorcery

Target creature an opponent controls blocks this turn if able. Untap that creature. Other creatures that player controls can't block this turn.

Everyone roots for the little guy, but nobody bets on him.

Mark of Mutiny

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it and untap it. That creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

The flame of anger is hard to douse once lit.

Marsh Casualties

Sorcery

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

Creatures target player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn. If Marsh Casualties was kicked, those creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn instead.

Marshaling Cry

Sorcery

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

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

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

Martial Coup

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.

Their war forgotten, the nations of Bant stood united in the face of a common threat.

Mass Appeal

Sorcery

Draw a card for each Human you control.

"We have emerged triumphant from the darkness. Let our hard-won wisdom guide us to prosperity."

Mass Calcify

Sorcery

Destroy all nonwhite creatures.

The dead serve as their own tombstones.

Mass Mutiny

Sorcery

For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

"What say you, my most trusted advisors? . . . Advisors?"
-Edra, merfolk sovereign

Mass Polymorph

Sorcery

Exile all creatures you control, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal that many creature cards. Put all creature cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.

Master the Way

Sorcery

Draw a card. Master the Way deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of cards in your hand.

"The Way has no beginning and no end. It is simply the path."
-Narset, khan of the Jeskai

Maw of the Mire

Sorcery

Destroy target land. You gain 4 life.

As the chapel was dragged under, the bell in the tower rang until the murky depths forever silenced its toll.

Melt Terrain

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Melt Terrain deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Just as the most finely wrought metal can warp and rust, so too does Mirrodin buckle under pressures from without and within.

Memoricide

Sorcery

Name a nonland card. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

"You claim wisdom, yet I see nothing in here but tawdry wishes."

Memory Sluice

Sorcery

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

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Mental Agony

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards and loses 2 life.

"His mind is feeble. Feed him to the bats."

Mental Vapors

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Merchant Scroll

Sorcery

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

Lat-Nam wizards trade knowledge on scrolls made of magic so they can better guard against thieves and spies.

Merciless Eviction

Sorcery

Choose one - Exile all artifacts; or exile all creatures; or exile all enchantments; or exile all planeswalkers.

"I once saw the Obzedat moved to action. Since that day, I've been thankful that they're mainly lazy, and dead."
-Aurelia, to Gideon Jura

Metallic Mastery

Sorcery

Gain control of target artifact until end of turn. Untap that artifact. It gains haste until end of turn.

"All will be reforged in the fires of glory."
-Urabrask the Hidden

Midnight Recovery

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Midnight Ritual

Sorcery

Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each creature card exiled this way, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Bury old friends deeply, lest they return bearing worms.

Mimeofacture

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Choose target permanent an opponent controls. Search that player's library for a card with the same name and put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Miming Slime

Sorcery

Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"We paid the Simic very well for this capability, but we should quickly recoup our expenses in saved wages."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Mind Funeral

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until four land cards are revealed. That player puts all cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard.

"The soul is only as eternal as I say it is."
-Sharuum the Hegemon

Mind Grind

Sorcery

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard. X can't be 0.

Mind Rot

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

"What a pity. You should have written it down."
-Liliana Vess

Mind Sculpt

Sorcery

Target opponent puts the top seven cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Your mind was a curious mix of madness and genius. I just took away the genius."
-Jace Beleren

Mind Shatter

Sorcery

Target player discards X cards at random.

Dark thoughts hatch and twist within the mind, straining to take wing.

Mind Sludge

Sorcery

Target player discards a card for each Swamp you control.

"Guard your thoughts. You never know who might wish to take them from you."
-Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet

Mind Spring

Sorcery

Draw X cards.

Fragments of thought refract and multiply, surging in a geyser of dizzying insight.

Mindblaze

Sorcery

Name a nonland card and choose a number greater than 0. Target player reveals his or her library. If that library contains exactly the chosen number of the named card, Mindblaze deals 8 damage to that player. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Mindculling

Sorcery

You draw two cards and target opponent discards two cards.

"Why infiltrate their strongholds when what we seek resides in such a poorly guarded safe?"
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Minds Aglow

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player draws X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Mindstab

Sorcery

Target player discards three cards.

Suspend 4- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Mine Excavation

Sorcery

Return target artifact or enchantment card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Minions' Murmurs

Sorcery

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creatures you control.

"They are quick to offer advice, those whose mistakes doomed them to undeath. How can I not listen to the wisdom of failure?"
-Ratadrabik of Urborg

Mire's Malice

Sorcery

Target opponent discards two cards.

Awaken 3- (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Mire's Toll

Sorcery

Target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to the number of Swamps you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

As the bridge snapped, Berko was sure he heard the swamp laughing at him.

Mischief and Mayhem

Sorcery

Up to two target creatures each get +4/+4 until end of turn.

"The false god Xenagos treats the whole world as his rollick site. If his whims are left unchecked, Theros will be reduced to rubble and ashes."
-Elspeth

Mitotic Manipulation

Sorcery

Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put one of those cards onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"They can't even comprehend nature. How could they improve it?"
-Venser

Mizzium Mortars

Sorcery

Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to 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.")

Moan of the Unhallowed

Sorcery

Put two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield.

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

For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.

Mob Rule

Sorcery

Choose one -

• Gain control of all creatures with power 4 or greater until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

• Gain control of all creatures with power 3 or less until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

Molten Birth

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens onto the battlefield. Then flip a coin. If you win the flip, return Molten Birth to its owner's hand.

"Few can coax the creatures within the magma to be cooled and take form."-Koth of the Hammer

Molten Disaster

Sorcery

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

If Molten Disaster was kicked, it has split second. (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Molten Disaster deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Molten Psyche

Sorcery

Each player shuffles the cards from his or her hand into his or her library, then draws that many cards.

Metalcraft - If you control three or more artifacts, Molten Psyche deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards that player has drawn this turn.

Molten Rain

Sorcery

Destroy target land. If that land was nonbasic, Molten Rain deals 2 damage to the land's controller.

Monomania

Sorcery

Target player chooses a card in his or her hand and discards the rest.

"What do vermin cling to when all hope is lost?"
-Sorin Markov

Monstrify

Sorcery

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

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Gackt came to regret keeping his pet toads on his head.

Monstrous Growth

Sorcery

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

Get in touch with your inner monster.

Morbid Bloom

Sorcery

Exile target creature card from a graveyard, then put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the exiled card's toughness.

"From the damned I make my garden."
-Jorshu of Clan Nel Toth

Morbid Plunder

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Even the dead are raw materials for the Phyrexian vision of perfection.

Morgue Burst

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Morgue Burst deals damage to target creature or player equal to the power of the card returned this way.

"Let him in. He's on the list."
-Olrich, Rakdos club owner

Morsel Theft

Tribal Sorcery - Rogue

Prowl (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)

Target player loses 3 life and you gain 3 life. If Morsel Theft's prowl cost was paid, draw a card.

Mugging

Sorcery

Mugging deals 2 damage to target creature. That creature can't block this turn.

Scream: muffled. Pockets: emptied. Neck function: never the same again.

Mulch

Sorcery

Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

The land knows no difference between the graves of commoners and nobles.

Mutilate

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

"It's only torture if you're strong enough to survive. Otherwise, it's a simple, gruesome death. I'm happy with either outcome."
-Liliana Vess

Mwonvuli Acid-Moss

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Search your library for a Forest card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"Life gives way to death, and death to new life. Nature feeds upon her own decay."
-Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Mystic Meditation

Sorcery

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a creature card.

"Still the mind and quiet the heart. Only then will you hear the Multiverse's great truths."
-Narset

Mystic Retrieval

Sorcery

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

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

Mystic Speculation

Sorcery

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

Scry 3. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Natural Spring

Sorcery

Target player gains 8 life.

"Jewels cannot be eaten nor gold drunk. What civilization trades, nature simply provides."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Nature's Spiral

Sorcery

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. (A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.)

Snail shell, fern, tornado-the world connects all things in form.

Nausea

Sorcery

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

No fear. No sense. And soon, no lunch.

Necromantic Selection

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.