Batwing Brume

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if was spent to cast Batwing Brume. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature he or she controls if was spent to cast Batwing Brume. (Do both if was spent.)

Cauldron Haze

Instant

Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Inside Out

Instant

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Draw a card.

Seyden's temperament didn't take well to the puca's magic. Nor did his face.

Double Cleave

Instant

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

"When in doubt, kill 'em twice."

Inquisitor's Snare

Instant

Prevent all damage target attacking or blocking creature would deal this turn. If that creature is black or red, destroy it.

Driven by their paranoia, kithkin inflict on their foes all the agonies they believe would have been inflicted on them.

Last Breath

Instant

Exile target creature with power 2 or less. Its controller gains 4 life.

"Tsk. You'd think those nasty merrows would know how to hold their breath."
-Olka, mistmeadow witch

Spell Syphon

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each blue permanent you control.

Warrik Brutehexer felt betrayed that his aura favored the depths of the Wanderbrine River over its rightful place, hovering around him.

Puncture Bolt

Instant

Puncture Bolt deals 1 damage to target creature. Put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Cinder pyromancers measure their success by counting their enemies' smoking holes.

Smash to Smithereens

Instant

Destroy target artifact. Smash to Smithereens deals 3 damage to that artifact's controller.

The giant Tarvik dreamed that trinkets and machines caused all the world's woe. When he awoke from his troubled sleep, he took the name Tarvik Relicsmasher.

Turn to Mist

Instant

Exile target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Did you expect me to dodge? How quaint."
-Olka, mistmeadow witch

Fate Transfer

Instant

Move all counters from target creature onto another target creature.

"The cinders find strength in suffering, the elves in beauty. But if you make an elf suffer, he gets weaker. I wonder what happens if you make a cinder beautiful?"
-Hrugash, leech bonder

Manamorphose

Instant

Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool.

Draw a card.

For a moment, objects of pure mana glimmered in the wonderstruck boggart's hands. In the next moment, they were in his mouth, as he chewed contentedly.

Reknit

Instant

Regenerate target permanent.

"An axe may break upon a ribbon if the ribbon's will is the stronger."
-Awylla, elvish safewright

Forfend

Instant

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

"Suddenly there stood a fortress protecting the clachan, its walls hewn of valor and mortared with honor."
-Clachan Tales

Graceful Reprieve

Instant

When target creature dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

"In my moment of death, I had a vision of the world, dark and unwelcoming. I wanted to hide in the deepest meander, but the light pulled me back."

Redeem the Lost

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Redeem the Lost 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.)

Pack's Disdain

Instant

Choose a creature type. Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each permanent of the chosen type you control.

Like the sun to a flower, the adoring gaze of the tribe is sustenance to an elf. To be shunned is to wither.

Release the Ants

Instant

Release the Ants deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Release the Ants 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.)

Deglamer

Instant

Choose target artifact or enchantment. Its owner shuffles it into his or her library.

The more pleasant an illusion's garb, the more indecent its form laid bare.

Earthbrawn

Instant

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

Reinforce 1- (, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.)

Gremil finally felt in touch with nature-and felt a need to share the experience with others.

Familiar's Ruse

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Familiar's Ruse, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Counter target spell.

Because of their capricious nature, faeries can serve as living lenses for disruptive magic.

Whirlpool Whelm

Instant

Clash with an opponent, then return target creature to its owner's hand. If you win, you may put that creature on top of its owner's library instead. (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.)

Lash Out

Instant

Lash Out deals 3 damage to target creature. Clash with an opponent. If you win, Lash Out deals 3 damage to that creature's controller. (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.)

Fistful of Force

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Clash with an opponent. If you win, that creature gets an additional +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. (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.)

Lammastide Weave

Instant

Name a card, then target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If that card is the named card, you gain life equal to its converted mana cost.

Draw a card.

"A ribbon torn will ward away dark dreams."

Spring Cleaning

Instant

Destroy target enchantment. Clash with an opponent. If you win, destroy all enchantments your opponents control. (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.)

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.

Hurkyl's Recall

Instant

Return all artifacts target player owns to his or her hand.

Hurkyl's research at the College of Lat-Nam wasn't enough to stop the two brothers, but for centuries thereafter her spellcraft taught artificers restraint.

Remove Soul

Instant

Counter target creature spell.

When your enemies are denied soldiers, they are denied victory.

Telling Time

Instant

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand, one on top of your library, and one on the bottom of your library.

Mastery is achieved when "telling time" becomes "telling time what to do."

Terror

Instant

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Fists of the Anvil

Instant

Target creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn.

Gron's mind reeled with possibilities, most of which are best left unmentioned.

Guerrilla Tactics

Instant

Guerrilla Tactics deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Guerrilla Tactics, Guerrilla Tactics deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Stun

Instant

Target creature can't block this turn.

Draw a card.

"Fortunately, merfolk aren't used to opponents with feet."
-Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Aggressive Urge

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

The power of the wild, concentrated in a single charge.

Simulacrum

Instant

You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.

Word of Command

Instant

Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. You control that player until Word of Command finishes resolving. The player plays that card if able. While doing so, the player can activate mana abilities only if they're from lands he or she controls and only if mana they produce is spent to activate other mana abilities of lands he or she controls and/or play that card. If the chosen card is cast as a spell, you control the player while that spell is resolving.

Counterspell

Instant

Counter target spell.

Fork

Instant

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, except that the copy is red. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Disenchant

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Eye for an Eye

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, instead that source deals that much damage to you and Eye for an Eye deals that much damage to that source's controller.

Reverse Polarity

Instant

You gain X life, where X is twice the damage dealt to you so far this turn by artifacts.

Blood Lust

Instant

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

Alabaster Potion

Instant

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

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
-D'Avenant proverb

Enervate

Instant

Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

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

"Worlds turn in crucial moments of decision. Make your choice."
-Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran royal mage

Memory Lapse

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

"Oh, I had a conscience once. But alas, I seem to have forgotten where I put it."
-Chandler

Updraft

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

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

"Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I."
-Sir Walter Scott, "The Lady of the Lake"

Word of Blasting

Instant

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated. Word of Blasting deals damage equal to that Wall's converted mana cost to the Wall's controller.

"Walls? What walls?"
-Jaya Ballard, task mage

Blessed Wine

Instant

You gain 1 life.

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

"Out there, there are spirits, but here, there is wine."
-Blessing for the bounty of Kjeld

Sacred Boon

Instant

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. At the beginning of the next end step, put a +0/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.

"Divine gifts are granted to those who are worthy."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Shield Wall

Instant

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

The strongest walls are made not of stone or steel but of the focused strength of warriors.

Remedy

Instant

Prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of target creatures and/or players, divided as you choose.

"These things will protect you while I'm gone, remind you of my love for you."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Reprisal

Instant

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated.

"The meek shall fight as one, and they shall overcome even the greatest of foes."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Flash

Instant

You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you do, sacrifice it unless you pay its mana cost reduced by up to .

Final Fortune

Instant

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Want all, lose all.
-Zhalfirin aphorism

Blessed Reversal

Instant

You gain 3 life for each creature attacking you.

"A battle's outcome is never certain."
-The Southern Paladin

Tolarian Winds

Instant

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

Why not ask the winds?
-Tolarian expression meaning
"Who knows?"

Redeem

Instant

Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to up to two target creatures.

"Let me redeem my brothers both from death."
-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

Flash Counter

Instant

Counter target instant spell.

"So much for that bright idea"

Transmutation

Instant

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

"You know what I was,/ You see what I am: change me, change me!"
-Randall

Mana Drain

Instant

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add to your mana pool, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

Reset

Instant

Cast Reset only during an opponent's turn after his or her upkeep step.

Untap all lands you control.

Silhouette

Instant

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn by spells or abilities that target it.

Telekinesis

Instant

Tap target creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by that creature this turn. It doesn't untap during its controller's next two untap steps.

Backdraft

Instant

Choose a player who cast one or more sorcery spells this turn. Backdraft deals damage to that player equal to half the damage dealt by one of those sorcery spells this turn, rounded down.

Whiteout

Instant

All creatures lose flying until end of turn.

Sacrifice a snow land: Return Whiteout from your graveyard to your hand.

Formation

Instant

Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

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

"I have been a warrior for over four hundred years, and yet each generation of Kjeldorans teaches me new tricks. There can be no better allies."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Lightning Blow

Instant

Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

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

"If you do it right, they'll never know what hit them."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Rally

Instant

Blocking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Stand your ground, troops! This shall be our finest hour!"
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox, last words

Headstone

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard.

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

"Your headstone is the last page in the book of your life."
-Murat, Death Speaker

Jinx

Instant

Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

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

"What wizards upset, the land soon rights."
-Gemma, Willow Priestess

Aliban's Tower

Instant

Target blocking creature gets +3/+1 until end of turn.

"Those who hide in hollow towers would do well to remember the rain."
-Reyhan, Samite Alchemist

Arcane Denial

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

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

Lat-Nam's Legacy

Instant

Shuffle a card from your hand into your library. If you do, draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"All the knowledge of Lat-Nam could not protect its sages from the Brothers' War." -Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Suffocation

Instant

Cast Suffocation only if you were dealt damage this turn by a red instant or sorcery spell.

Suffocation deals 4 damage to the controller of the last red instant or sorcery spell that dealt damage to you this turn.

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

Burnout

Instant

Counter target instant spell if it's blue.

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

"GOTCHA!"
-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Gorilla War Cry

Instant

Cast Gorilla War Cry only during combat before blockers are declared.

Creatures can't be blocked this turn except by two or more creatures.

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

"The only ‘art' these beasts possess is the art of noise!" -Jaya Ballard

Errand of Duty

Instant

Put a 1/1 white Knight creature token with banding onto the battlefield. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"Call every able sword to our side. Kjeldor will stand triumphant!"
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Kjeldoran War Cry

Instant

Creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Kjeldoran War Cry in all graveyards.

King Darien's breath crystallized and fell to the frozen battlefield, but its command carried true to all soldiers of New Argive.

Sun's Bounty

Instant

You gain 4 life.

Recover (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

"Heidar has forced the sun into hiding, but it has not forgotten us."

Swift Maneuver

Instant

Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

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

Darien's call to Yavimaya would have fallen red to the snow had it not been for the agility of the aesthir.

Rune Snag

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays plus an additional for each card named Rune Snag in each graveyard.

"Concentration is key. Without it, a mage conjures nothing but a splitting headache."
-Zur the Enchanter

Grim Harvest

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Recover (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Surging Flame

Instant

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Surging Flame deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Resize

Instant

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

Recover (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Shallow Grave

Instant

Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Good help is hard to dig up.

Soul Rend

Instant

Destroy target creature if it's white. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

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

"Since I cannot stop death, I choose to stop life."
-Kaervek

Withering Boon

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Withering Boon, pay 3 life.

Counter target creature spell.

"Life for life: this is the immutable law."
-Panya, Granger Guildmage

Meddle

Instant

If target spell has only one target and that target is a creature, change that spell's target to another creature.

"Shadimir was as surprised as he was relieved when the blow turned aside."
-Afari, Tales

Reality Ripple

Instant

Target artifact, creature, or land phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during his or her next untap step.)

"Can you prepare for the unexpected? No, you cannot. You can prepare only to be surprised."
-Teferi

Serene Heart

Instant

Destroy all Auras.

"If magic is your crutch, cast it aside and learn to walk without it."
-Teferi

Tranquil Domain

Instant

Destroy all non-Aura enchantments.

"An ancient court mage unified the houses into guilds to serve Zhalfir above their own interests. Even during the civil war, the guilds stood together, a testament to the wisdom of Teferi."
-Afari, Tales

Aleatory

Instant

Cast Aleatory only during combat after blockers are declared.

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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

Sirocco

Instant

Target player reveals his or her hand. For each blue instant card revealed this way, that player discards that card unless he or she pays 4 life.

"Blow, fiery wind, / strip illusion from the eye. / Blow, fiery wind of truth."
-Femeref chant

Alarum

Instant

Untap target nonattacking creature. It gets +1/+3 until end of turn.

"One timely cry of warning can save nine of surprise."
-Sidar Jabari

Disempower

Instant

Put target artifact or enchantment on top of its owner's library.

"Mangara is gone. Who among you doubts that I have taken his power?"
-Kaervek

Divine Retribution

Instant

Divine Retribution deals damage to target attacking creature equal to the number of attacking creatures.

"To the undiscerning eye, justice and vengeance can look the same."
-Rashida Scalebane

Illumination

Instant

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. Its controller gains life equal to its converted mana cost.

"A brilliant light can either illuminate or blind. How will you know which until you open your eyes?"
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Shadowbane

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you and/or creatures you control this turn, prevent that damage. If damage from a black source is prevented this way, you gain that much life.

Light creates shadow; light destroys shadow. Such is the transience of darkness.

Prismatic Boon

Instant

Choose a color. X target creatures gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

"How ironic that the greatest forge of civilization is battle."
-Mangara