Renewal

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Renewal, sacrifice a land.

Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

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

Remorseless Punishment

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 5 life unless that player discards two cards or sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Repeat this process once.

"I have suffered a thousand lifetimes of agony on this wretched world. I've far less time to share with you, but I assure you, no less pain."
-Ob Nixilis

Reminisce

Sorcery

Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.

Leave the door to the past even slightly ajar and it could be blown off its hinges.

Remember the Fallen

Sorcery

Choose one or both - Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand; and/or return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

When the Mirrans had fallen, Planeswalkers carried the burden of remembrance.

Relentless Assault

Sorcery

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

"Mercy? Mercy is for the playground, not the battleground."

Release (Catch/Release)

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, a land, and a planeswalker.

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

Relearn

Sorcery

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

"Barrin taught me that the hardest lessons to grasp are the ones you've already learned."
-Ertai, wizard adept

Rekindled Flame

Sorcery

Rekindled Flame deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent has no cards in hand, you may return Rekindled Flame from your graveyard to your hand.

Rejuvenate

Sorcery

You gain 6 life.

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

Reign of the Pit

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices a creature. Put an X/X black Demon creature token with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the total power of the creatures sacrificed this way.

Reign of Terror

Sorcery

Destroy all green creatures or all white creatures. They can't be regenerated. You lose 2 life for each creature that died this way.

"I don't know what takes them; they die around me without time to scream."
-Scout Ekemet, final journal

Reign of Chaos

Sorcery

Choose one - Destroy target Plains and target white creature; or destroy target Island and target blue creature.

"The Burning Isles are the home to a dozen lords who claim dominion. Jamuraa will look to only one leader: me."
-Kaervek

Regrowth

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Reforge the Soul

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

Miracle (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

In a wave of spells called the Cursemute, Avacyn cleansed the world with divine fire.

Reduce to Dreams

Sorcery

Return all artifacts and enchantments to their owners' hands.

"This world is a dream. We cling to our toys like children, but sooner or later we must learn to live without them."
-Sensei Hisoka

Red Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

Red Sun's Zenith deals X damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead. Shuffle Red Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Recurring Insight

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in target opponent's hand.

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.)

Recross the Paths

Sorcery

Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Recross the Paths to its owner's hand. (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.)

Recover

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Draw a card.

As Barrin exhumed his daughter's body, he finally realized the full price of his faith in Urza.

Recoup

Sorcery

Target sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (Mana cost includes color.)

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

Reconstruction

Sorcery

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tedious research made the Sages of the College of Lat-Nam adept in repairing broken artifacts.

Recollect

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

"The bones of the past will tell their tales-if you know how to speak their language."
-Savra

Reclaiming Vines

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

"This world tires of its long occupation."-Nissa Revane

Reckless Charge

Sorcery

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

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

Reckless Abandon

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Reckless Abandon, sacrifice a creature.

Reckless Abandon deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

The climax of a warlord's career is always death.

Recall

Sorcery

Discard X cards, then return a card from your graveyard to your hand for each card discarded this way. Exile Recall.

Rebuking Ceremony

Sorcery

Put two target artifacts on top of their owners' libraries.

From the Radix at the hub of the Tangle all the way out to the Edges of Forgetting, a Viridian elf's life is built around the temporary.

Reborn Hope

Sorcery

Return target multicolored card from your graveyard to your hand.

"In darkness is kindled the fiercest hope."
-Hadran, sunseeder of Naya

Rebirth

Sorcery

Remove Rebirth from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

Each player may put the top card of his or her library into the ante. If a player does, his or her life total becomes 20.

Reap the Seagraf

Sorcery

Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

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

The wreck hung on the jagged reef, each night disgorging more of its gruesome cargo.

Reap Intellect

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose up to X nonland cards from it and exile them. For each card exiled this way, search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Reap and Sow

Sorcery

Choose one - Destroy target land; or search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Reanimate

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.

"You will learn to earn death."
-Volrath

Reality Strobe

Sorcery

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Exile Reality Strobe with three time counters on it.

Suspend 3- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three 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.)

Read the Bones

Sorcery

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Razia's Purification

Sorcery

Each player chooses three permanents he or she controls, then sacrifices the rest.

Only the chosen ones are spared.

Raze

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Raze, sacrifice a land.

Destroy target land.

The viashino believe that the oldest mountains hate everyone equally.

Raven's Crime

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

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

It plucks away memories like choice bits of carrion.

Rats' Feast

Sorcery

Exile X target cards from a single graveyard.

"That does it-I quit"
-Cabal grave robber

Ransack

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of target player's library. Put any number of them on the bottom of that library in any order and the rest on top of the library in any order.

Ranger's Path

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two Forest cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

The forest can seem like a dense maze. Those who travel the canopy know otherwise.

Rancid Earth

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy that land and Rancid Earth deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Rampant Growth

Sorcery

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

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Rally the Horde

Sorcery

Exile the top card of your library. Exile the top card of your library. Exile the top card of your library. If the last card exiled isn't a land, repeat this process. Put a 1/1 red Warrior creature token onto the battlefield for each nonland card exiled this way.

Rakshasa's Secret

Sorcery

Target opponent discards two cards. Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

The voice of a rakshasa is soft, its breath sweet. But every word is the murmur of madness.

Rakdos's Return

Sorcery

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent. That player discards X cards.

When Lord Rakdos stirred from his slumber, everyone else's nightmare began.

Raise Dead

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The earth cannot hold that which magic commands.

Rain of Thorns

Sorcery

Choose one or more - Destroy target artifact; destroy target enchantment; and/or destroy target land.

When the forests became havens for evil, the archmages devised new ways to cleanse the wilds.

Rain of Tears

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

"When mortals die, they have family, friends, compatriots to mourn them. When the land dies, all else dies with it, and there is no one left to weep."
-Jacinth, Skyshroud ranger

Rain of Salt

Sorcery

Destroy two target lands.

Here, rain does not wash the land; it desiccates it.

Rain of Embers

Sorcery

Rain of Embers deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

There's plenty to talk about in the marketplaces of Ravnica, be it the latest feud between guilds or the terrible weather.

Rage of Purphoros

Sorcery

Rage of Purphoros deals 4 damage to target creature. It can't be regenerated this turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Radiant Flames

Sorcery

Converge - Radiant Flames deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Radiant Flames.

The fires of Zendikar are always hungry, and there is much on which they can feed.

Quiet Speculation

Sorcery

Search target player's library for up to three cards with flashback and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles his or her library.

"The best foresight is hindsight."
-Empress Llawan

Quenchable Fire

Sorcery

Quenchable Fire deals 3 damage to target player. It deals an additional 3 damage to that player at the beginning of your next upkeep step unless he or she pays before that step.

You'd better know how to pray for rain.

Pyrrhic Revival

Sorcery

Each player returns each creature card from his or her graveyard to the battlefield with an additional -1/-1 counter on it.

They found themselves alive again, still bearing their mortal wounds.

Pyrotechnics

Sorcery

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me!
Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return."
-Navajo war chant

Pyroclasm

Sorcery

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

"Who'd want to ignite things one at a time?"
-Chandra Nalaar

Purify

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

"We have no need for these trinkets. We need only the strength of our swords and the virtue of our hearts."
-The Northern Paladin

Purge the Profane

Sorcery

Target opponent discards two cards and you gain 2 life.

The Orzhov hear the plans of the other guilds through the guilty thoughts of the disloyal.

Pure (Pure/Simple)

Sorcery

Destroy target multicolored permanent.

Pulverize

Sorcery

You may sacrifice two Mountains rather than pay Pulverize's mana cost.

Destroy all artifacts.

Pulse of the Tangle

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield. Then if an opponent controls more creatures than you, return Pulse of the Tangle to its owner's hand.

Before predators or prey, there was life.

Pulse of the Dross

Sorcery

Target player reveals three cards from his or her hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card. Then if that player has more cards in hand than you, return Pulse of the Dross to its owner's hand.

Before tyrants or torturers, there was evil.

Pulling Teeth

Sorcery

Clash with an opponent. If you win, target player discards two cards. Otherwise, that player discards a card. (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.)

Pull from the Deep

Sorcery

Return up to one target instant card and up to one target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Pull from the Deep.

Ideas, not stones, form the true foundation of Meletis.

Psychotic Episode

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand and the top card of his or her library. You choose a card revealed this way. That player puts the chosen card on the bottom of his or her library.

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Psychic Transfer

Sorcery

If the difference between your life total and target player's life total is 5 or less, exchange life totals with that player.

"The memory of your existence will fade like the final stars of morning."
-Kaervek

Psychic Theft

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it and exile that card. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled. At the beginning of the next end step, if you haven't cast the card, return it to its owner's hand.

Psychic Spear

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a Spirit or Arcane card from it. That player discards that card.

"The wizards of Takenuma Swamp faced the horrors of humanity every day. It's no wonder they fared so well against the kami."
-Observations of the Kami War

Psychic Purge

Sorcery

Psychic Purge deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Psychic Purge, that player loses 5 life.

Psychic Miasma

Sorcery

Target player discards a card. If a land card is discarded this way, return Psychic Miasma to its owner's hand.

"A mind may be steeled against madness, but all battlements fall in time."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Psychic Intrusion

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from that player's graveyard or hand and exile it. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Psychic Drain

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard and you gain X life.

"Gold can be reearned, goods restored. The moroii steal youth, more precious than either, and once gone, it's gone forever."
-Berta Suszat, civic healer

Prosperity

Sorcery

Each player draws X cards.

"Wealth is a good thing, compared to poverty-your food is better, your robes are softer, and your companions have bathed more recently."
-Kukemssa pirate

Prophecy

Sorcery

Reveal the top card of target opponent's library. If it's a land, you gain 1 life. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

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

Promise of Power

Sorcery

Choose one -

• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.

• Put an X/X black Demon creature token with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the number of cards in your hand as the token enters the battlefield.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Profound Journey

Sorcery

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.)

Profane Prayers

Sorcery

Profane Prayers deals X damage to target creature or player and you gain X life, where X is the number of Clerics on the battlefield.

"We have ways to make you talk, but you have nothing interesting to say."

Profane Command

Sorcery

Choose two -

• Target player loses X life.

• Return target creature card with converted mana cost X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Proclamation of Rebirth

Sorcery

Return up to three target creature cards with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Forecast - , Reveal Proclamation of Rebirth from your hand: Return target creature card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Processor Assault

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

As an additional cost to cast Processor Assault, put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard.

Processor Assault deals 5 damage to target creature.

Ulamog's processors trail behind him, converting ruined matter into furious energy.

Probe

Sorcery

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

Draw three cards, then discard two cards.

If Probe was kicked, target player discards two cards.

Primitive Justice

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Primitive Justice, you may pay and/or any number of times.

Destroy target artifact. For each additional you paid, destroy another target artifact. For each additional you paid, destroy another target artifact, and you gain 1 life.

Primeval Light

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments target player controls.

"Look to the old tomes, those bound in hides and written in yarberry ink. They hold the spells that can free us of the clutter of modern magecraft."
-Dravash, dowsing shaman

Primal Surge

Sorcery

Exile the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you do, repeat this process.

With Avacyn's return, the flow of life became a tidal wave.

Primal Growth

Sorcery

Kicker-Sacrifice a creature. (You may sacrifice a creature in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. If Primal Growth was kicked, instead search your library for two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Primal Command

Sorcery

Choose two - Target player gains 7 life; or put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library; or target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library; or search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Prey Upon

Sorcery

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters."
-Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Press into Service

Sorcery

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

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

Presence of the Wise

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

"Humbly I bow. Silently I wait. Deeply I listen."

Preordain

Sorcery

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Premature Burial

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature that entered the battlefield since your last turn ended.

"This soil knows well the taste of the dead. Give it the hunger for a living meal, and it can become a deadly ally."
-Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Predatory Rampage

Sorcery

Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn. Each creature your opponents control blocks this turn if able.

"It is the fate of the weak to fall."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Predatory Focus

Sorcery

You may have creatures you control assign their combat damage this turn as though they weren't blocked.

Instinct blood-tinted his world until he could see only one thing clearly: his prey.

Praetor's Grasp

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles his or her library. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Sheoldred weaves every thread of information into a noose to hang her enemies.

Praetor's Counsel

Sorcery

Return all cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Praetor's Counsel. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

As the Phyrexian contagion corroded Karn's body, the praetors whispered psalms to corrupt his mind.

Pox

Sorcery

Each player loses a third of his or her life, then discards a third of the cards in his or her hand, then sacrifices a third of the creatures he or she controls, then sacrifices a third of the lands he or she controls. Round up each time.

Postmortem Lunge

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Return target creature card with converted mana cost X from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Portent of Betrayal

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)