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.

Hidden Strings

Sorcery

You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent.

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.)

Phytoburst

Sorcery

Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

Phytohydras are banned as houseplants in many residential spires. If left unfed, they find their own exit-usually at the cost of extensive property damage.

Drown in Filth

Sorcery

Choose target creature. Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then that creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each land card in your graveyard.

The rot farmer's first rite of passage is to craft a pair of work stilts.

Armed (Armed/Dangerous)

Sorcery

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains double strike until end of turn.

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

Beck (Beck/Call)

Sorcery

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield this turn, you may draw a card.

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

Breaking (Breaking/Entering)

Sorcery

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

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

Decompose

Sorcery

Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

"Sheesh How am I supposed to make a decent living around here?"
-Cabal grave robber

Death Grasp

Sorcery

Death Grasp deals X damage to target creature or player. You gain X life.

Yawgmoth's greatest joy came from watching one hero defeat another.

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.)

Warren Weirding

Tribal Sorcery - Goblin

Target player sacrifices a creature. If a Goblin is sacrificed this way, that player puts two 1/1 black Goblin Rogue creature tokens onto the battlefield, and those tokens gain haste until end of turn.

"And that's when it was discovered that boggarts have just half a brain."
-The Book of Other Folk

Grapeshot

Sorcery

Grapeshot deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

Mages often seek to emulate the powerful relics lost to time and apocalypse.

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.

Tribal Flames

Sorcery

Domain - Tribal Flames deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

"Fire is the universal language."
-Jhoira, master artificer

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.)

Seismic Stomp

Sorcery

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

"It is not in me to tread lightly."-Ryda, geomancer

Hymn to Tourach

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards at random.

"The eerie, wailing Hymn caused insanity even in hardened warriors."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. II

Chainer's Edict

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature.

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

The pits have their own form of mercy.

Glare of Heresy

Sorcery

Exile target white permanent.

No foe is more hated than the former friend.

Curse of the Swine

Sorcery

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller puts a 2/2 green Boar creature token onto the battlefield.

Another imminent battle subsided in busy snuffling and carefree rooting.

Commune with the Gods

Sorcery

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or enchantment card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

For the first time in many years, Elspeth asked for help.

Strategic Planning

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"Plans evolved within the tent decide a victory 1,000 li away."

Restore

Sorcery

Put target land card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"See, the land itself raises an altar to the ascendancy of nature."-Mayael the Anima

Rough / Tumble

Sorcery

Rough Deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.

Scouring Sands

Sorcery

Scouring Sands deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

When Purphoros cleans the ashes from his forge, entire cities vanish.

Skyreaping

Sorcery

Skyreaping deals damage to each creature with flying equal to your devotion to green. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

Twinflame

Sorcery

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

Choose any number of target creatures you control. For each of them, put a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. Those tokens have haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

Desperate Stand

Sorcery

Strive - Desperate Stand costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain first strike and vigilance until end of turn.

At the Akroan gates, hoplites revived the tactics of Kytheon Iora's infamous irregulars.

Tyrant's Choice

Sorcery

Will of the council - Starting with you, each player votes for death or torture. If death gets more votes, each opponent sacrifices a creature. If torture gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent loses 4 life.

Blood (Flesh/Blood)

Sorcery

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

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

Return to the Ranks

Sorcery

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Return X target creature cards with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

Taigam's Scheming

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest back on top of your library in any order.

"The Jeskai would have me bow in restraint. So I have found a people unafraid of true power."

Tormenting Voice

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Tormenting Voice, discard a card.

Draw two cards.

"Unwelcome thoughts crowd my mind. Are they my own madness, or the whispers of another?"
-Sarkhan Vol

Savage Punch

Sorcery

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

Ferocious - The creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn before it fights if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Kin-Tree Invocation

Sorcery

Put an X/X black and green Spirit Warrior creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

The passing years add new rings to the tree's trunk, bolstering the spirits that dwell within.

Gift of Estates

Sorcery

If an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

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.)

Soul Summons

Sorcery

Manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Ugin's magic reaches beyond the dragons. The clans have adapted it for war.

Fascination

Sorcery

Choose one -

• Each player draws X cards.

• Each player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Grave Strength

Sorcery

Choose target creature. Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard, then put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each creature card in your graveyard.

So long as death follows life, the supply lines of the Sultai will never be cut.

Wildcall

Sorcery

Manifest the top card of your library, then put X +1/+1 counters on it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

A howl on the wind hides many dangers.

Damnable Pact

Sorcery

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

"Silumgar's mind is a dark labyrinth, full of grim secrets and subtle traps."
-Siara, the Dragon's Mouth

Defeat

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.

"Wars are decided one life at a time."
-Gvar Barzeel, Kolaghan warrior

Self-Inflicted Wound

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a green or white creature. If that player does, he or she loses 2 life.

"Worse than watching the cruelest deed is watching it done by your own hand."
-Baihir, Dromoka mage

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

Roast

Sorcery

Roast deals 5 damage to target creature without flying.

"Intruders in the lands of Atarka have but two choices: be consumed by fire, or be consumed by maw."
-Ulnok, Atarka shaman

Epic Confrontation

Sorcery

Target creature you control gets +1/+2 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

No matter the timeline, some legends will endure.

Ondu Rising

Sorcery

Whenever a creature attacks this turn, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Transgress the Mind

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 3 or greater and exile that card.

"Fear of the unknown can be a wonderfully innocent thing, relatively speaking."-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

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.

Boiling Earth

Sorcery

Boiling Earth deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Rolling Thunder

Sorcery

Rolling Thunder deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

"Such rage," thought Vhati, gazing up at the thunderhead from the Predator. "It is Greven's mind manifest."

Earthen Arms

Sorcery

Put two +1/+1 counters on target permanent.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Seek the Wilds

Sorcery

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"In my downtime I used to paint the vistas. Now the vistas disappear faster than my downtime."

Sylvan Scrying

Sorcery

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

One glimpse of an elf's home lasts her weeks away in the wild.

Sparkmage's Gambit

Sorcery

Sparkmage's Gambit deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. Those creatures can't block this turn.

"A touch of lightning, and anyone can be taught to dance."
-Tobin, sparkmage

Ruin in Their Wake

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Search your library for a basic land card and reveal it. You may put that card onto the battlefield tapped if you control a land named Wastes. Otherwise, put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Appetite for Brains

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.

Just as with a peach, the first bite is always the juiciest.

Bone Splinters

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Bone Splinters, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy target creature.

"Which do you deserve, the heft of a femur or the graceful sharpness of a forearm? Decisions, decisions . . ."
-Gisa the Mad

Killing Wave

Sorcery

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless he or she pays X life.

"I come looking for demons and I find a plane full of angels. I hate angels."
-Liliana Vess

Bonfire of the Damned

Sorcery

Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

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

Pillar of Flame

Sorcery

Pillar of Flame deals 2 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

"May the worthy spend an eternity in Blessed Sleep. May the wicked find the peace of oblivion."

Index

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"What good is having all the right answers if you have them at all the wrong times?"

Disentomb

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I deal so often in rotting corpses that when I come across the freshly dead . . . why, it's like my birthday come early."
-Nevinyrral, necromancer

Duress

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
-Liliana Vess

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

Ponder

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle your library.

Draw a card.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Deathmark

Sorcery

Destroy target green or white creature.

"Let the final vision of doom be etched upon their unblinking eyes."
-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Taste of Blood

Sorcery

Taste of Blood deals 1 damage to target player and you gain 1 life.

"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."
-Bram Stoker, Dracula

Fireball

Sorcery

Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of target creatures and/or players.

Fireball costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Goblin Grenade

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Goblin Grenade, sacrifice a Goblin.

Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

Don't underestimate the aerodynamic qualities of the common goblin.

Artful Dodge

Sorcery

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

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

Those who know the alleys and sewers of the Erdwal can disappear like smoke.

Increasing Confusion

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If Increasing Confusion was cast from a graveyard, that player puts twice that many cards into his or her graveyard instead.

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

Deadly Allure

Sorcery

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn and must be blocked this turn if able.

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

What could be more irresistible than death?

Faithless Looting

Sorcery

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

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

"Avacyn has abandoned us! We have nothing left except what we can take!"

Silent Departure

Sorcery

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

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

The same magic that lets geists pass through our realm can force them out of it.

Bump in the Night

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 3 life.

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

It's not just the wind. It's not all in your head. And it's definitely something to worry about.

Ghoulcaller's Chant

Sorcery

Choose one - Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand; or return two target Zombie cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"The living are born small and weak. The dead rise ready to serve. The choice is obvious."
-Gisa, ghoulcaller of Gavony

Devil's Play

Sorcery

Devil's Play deals X damage to target creature or player.

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

A devil's hands are never idle.

Infernal Plunge

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Infernal Plunge, sacrifice a creature.

Add to your mana pool.

"Oh mighty Griselbrand, Scourge of the Heedless World, gladly I consume myself for thee!"

Caravan Vigil

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Morbid - You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.

Vandalblast

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact 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.")

Beauty is in the eye of the exploder.

Slime Molding

Sorcery

Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield.

"Give me enough refuse and mana and I will summon an ooze that can engulf all of Ravnica."
-Cevraya, Golgari shaman

Alliance of Arms

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

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.

Gitaxian Probe

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Look at target player's hand.

Draw a card.

"My flesh holds no secrets, monster. The spirit of Mirrodin will fight on."
-Vy Covalt, Mirran resistance

Despise

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

"Truth is always a weapon in your enemies' hands."
-Geth, Lord of the Vault

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.

Corrosive Gale

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Corrosive Gale deals X damage to each creature with flying.

"Wipe Sheoldred's spies from the sky. She'll see the result of our vision soon enough."
-Glissa

Horrifying Revelation

Sorcery

Target player discards a card, then puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Ours is a glorious transmission! Behold a future where all bow to the Father of Machines."
-Isila, Priest of Sheoldred

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.

Green Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

Search your library for a green creature card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

As the green sun crowned, Phyrexian prophecies glowed on the Tree of Tales.

Assault Strobe

Sorcery

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

When breaking someone's face once just isn't enough.

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.

Oust

Sorcery

Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top. Its controller gains 3 life.

"‘Invincible' is just a word."
-Gideon Jura

Distortion Strike

Sorcery

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

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.)

Shared Discovery

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Shared Discovery, tap four untapped creatures you control.

Draw three cards.

Riches must be divided, but real wealth can be shared.

Inquisition of Kozilek

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.

You will scream out your innermost secrets just to make it stop.

Nighthaze

Sorcery

Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"To evade the brood lineages, one must be made dark to all the senses."
-Traga, Zulaport runner