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

Phyrexian Purge

Sorcery

Destroy any number of target creatures.

Phyrexian Purge costs 3 life more to cast for each target.

Only those who have nothing have nothing to fear.

Forbidden Ritual

Sorcery

Sacrifice a nontoken permanent. If you do, target opponent loses 2 life unless he or she sacrifices a permanent or discards a card. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Natural Order

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Natural Order, sacrifice a green creature.

Search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

. . . but the price of Mangara's freedom was Asmira's life.

Argivian Restoration

Sorcery

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The Argivian University taught me two things: always look to the past, and never dismiss what appears useless."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Evincar's Justice

Sorcery

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

Evincar's Justice deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

Legerdemain

Sorcery

Exchange control of target artifact or creature and another target permanent that shares one of those types with it. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Squee tucked the warm ball in his pocket and slipped a pebble in its place. ‘Glok,' he mumbled, and hid.

Aftershock

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, creature, or land. Aftershock deals 3 damage to you.

"Every act of destruction has a repercussion."
-Karn, silver golem

Deadshot

Sorcery

Tap target creature. It deals damage equal to its power to another target creature.

"Carrion! Keep your distance. My blade will come to you!"
-Crovax

Lobotomy

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand, then you choose a card other than a basic land card from it. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as the chosen card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

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.

Ruination

Sorcery

Destroy all nonbasic lands.

"We have built a wall upon sand. The wall will vanish. The sand will remain."
-Oracle en-Vec

Cataclysm

Sorcery

Each player chooses from the permanents he or she controls an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a land, then sacrifices the rest.

The Weatherlight dragged the Predator behind it, the cradle hauling the casket.

Flowstone Flood

Sorcery

Buyback-Pay 3 life, Discard a card at random. (You may pay 3 life and discard a card at random in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Destroy target land.

Path of Peace

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its owner gains 4 life.

"When the sword becomes a burden, let the warrior lay it aside that another with a truer heart might take it up."
-Radiant, archangel

Ill-Gotten Gains

Sorcery

Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards his or her hand, then returns up to three cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

Urza thought it a crusade. Xantcha knew it was a robbery.

Unnerve

Sorcery

Each opponent discards two cards.

"If fear is the only tool you have left, then you'll never control me."
-Xantcha, to Gix

Lay Waste

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

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

Hush

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments.

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

Rejuvenate

Sorcery

You gain 6 life.

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

Titania's Boon

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

When the winds rock the trees, listen for voices in the creaking of the trunks. If you hear your name, you are one of the Goddess's chosen.

Whirlwind

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures with flying.

Urza tried to rule the air, but Gaea taught him that she controlled all the elements.

Replenish

Sorcery

Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in your graveyard.)

Treasures, trinkets, trash-the relics of the past are brought forth again.

Eradicate

Sorcery

Exile target nonblack creature. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that creature and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Sowing Salt

Sorcery

Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Multani's Decree

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments. You gain 2 life for each enchantment destroyed this way.

"This is my place of power. Nothing can take root here unless I allow it."
-Multani, maro-sorcerer

Splinter

Sorcery

Exile target artifact. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that artifact and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Unmask

Sorcery

You may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay Unmask's mana cost.

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

Bifurcate

Sorcery

Search your library for a permanent card with the same name as target nontoken creature and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Spontaneous Generation

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each card in your hand.

Saprolings always thrive on the ruins of others, and Mercadia ruins more than most.

Massacre

Sorcery

If an opponent controls a Plains and you control a Swamp, you may cast Massacre without paying its mana cost.

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Pack Hunt

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three cards with the same name as target creature, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The one you see is just a diversion.

Reverent Silence

Sorcery

If you control a Forest, rather than pay Reverent Silence's mana cost, you may have each other player gain 6 life.

Destroy all enchantments.

Skyshroud Claim

Sorcery

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

The forest's constant struggle is to keep the spreading flowstone at bay.

Rhystic Scrying

Sorcery

Draw three cards. Then, if any player pays , discard three cards.

"The trick is to ask when no one's listening."
-Alexi, zephyr mage

Despoil

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller loses 2 life.

Nothing could grow where the vile smoke had been, and no one could breathe it and live.

Flay

Sorcery

Target player discards a card at random. Then that player discards another card at random unless he or she pays .

The Keldons would never admit it, but Greel unsettles them, too.

Outbreak

Sorcery

You may discard a Swamp card rather than pay Outbreak's mana cost.

Choose a creature type. All creatures of that type get -1/-1 until end of turn.

This plague chooses its victims.

Flameshot

Sorcery

You may discard a Mountain card rather than pay Flameshot's mana cost.

Flameshot deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures.

Calming Verse

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments you don't control. Then, if you control an untapped land, destroy all enchantments you control.

The chattering forest fell silent as the otherworldly song began.

Breaking Wave

Sorcery

You may cast Breaking Wave any time you could cast an instant if you pay more to cast it.

Simultaneously untap all tapped creatures and tap all untapped creatures.

Wash Out

Sorcery

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

"Rest now. You've neither won nor lost, but this battle is over for you just the same."
-Teferi

Bend or Break

Sorcery

Each player separates all nontoken lands he or she controls into two piles. For each player, one of his or her piles is chosen by one of his or her opponents of his or her choice. Destroy all lands in the chosen piles. Tap all lands in the other piles.

Saproling Symbiosis

Sorcery

You may cast Saproling Symbiosis any time you could cast an instant if you pay more to cast it.

Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each creature you control.

Barrin's Spite

Sorcery

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Their controller chooses and sacrifices one of them. Return the other to its owner's hand.

"Only vengeance matters now."
-Barrin

Urza's Guilt

Sorcery

Each player draws two cards, then discards three cards, then loses 4 life.

Deep in Yawgmoth's realm, Urza stopped dead in his tracks and rubbed his soot-filled eyes. "Mishra?"

Dwarven Landslide

Sorcery

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

Destroy target land. If Dwarven Landslide was kicked, destroy another target land.

Gaea's Balance

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Gaea's Balance, sacrifice five lands.

Search your library for a land card of each basic land type and put them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Churning Eddy

Sorcery

Return target creature and target land to their owners' hands.

"Magic is like the tide-both ebb, both flow, and both serve my whims."
-Empress Llawan

Deep Analysis

Sorcery

Target player draws two cards.

Flashback-, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"The specimen seems to be broken."

Acorn Harvest

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Flashback-, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Invigorating Falls

Sorcery

You gain life equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Krosan druids do not fear death, for they know that nature will only prosper from their passing.

Battle Screech

Sorcery

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

Flashback-Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Swelter

Sorcery

Swelter deals 2 damage to each of two target creatures.

No circle has a beginning, but many have foreseeable ends.

Swirling Sandstorm

Sorcery

Threshold - Swirling Sandstorm deals 5 damage to each creature without flying if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

As dust swept out, vultures swept in.

Venomous Vines

Sorcery

Destroy target enchanted permanent.

"True strength comes from within. The false promise of unnatural power only incurs Krosa's wrath."
-Seton, centaur druid

Airborne Aid

Sorcery

Draw a card for each Bird on the battlefield.

"We help our Southern Order comrades as much as we can. But the Cabal's insidious influence spreads, dividing our forces and leaving new arrivals to fend for themselves."
-Commander Eesha

Peer Pressure

Sorcery

Choose a creature type. If you control more creatures of that type than each other player, you gain control of all creatures of that type. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Aphetto Dredging

Sorcery

Return up to three target creature cards of the creature type of your choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Phage became both executioner and savior, helping others to the same rebirth she had found.

Endemic Plague

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Endemic Plague, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy all creatures that share a creature type with the sacrificed creature. They can't be regenerated.

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."

Syphon Mind

Sorcery

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Thunder of Hooves

Sorcery

Thunder of Hooves deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player, where X is the number of Beasts on the battlefield.

Chain of Acid

Sorcery

Destroy target noncreature permanent. Then that permanent's controller may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Explosive Vegetation

Sorcery

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

Torching Krosa would be pointless. It grows faster than it burns.

Kamahl's Summons

Sorcery

Each player may reveal any number of creature cards from his or her hand. Then each player puts a 2/2 green Bear creature token onto the battlefield for each card he or she revealed this way.

As Krosa unleashed the peace in Kamahl, he unleashed the fury in Krosa.

Decree of Justice

Sorcery

Put X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

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

When you cycle Decree of Justice, you may pay . If you do, put X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Tendrils of Agony

Sorcery

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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

Break Asunder

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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

"No good will come of this."

Claws of Wirewood

Sorcery

Claws of Wirewood deals 3 damage to each creature with flying and each player.

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

They say the forest has eyes. They never mention its claws.

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.)

Fill with Fright

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

Scry 2. (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.)

Granulate

Sorcery

Destroy each nonland artifact with converted mana cost 4 or less.

There aren't that many ways to destroy a solid steel weapon, but somehow the goblins keep finding new ones.

Beacon of Creation

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token onto the battlefield for each Forest you control. Shuffle Beacon of Creation into its owner's library.

A chorus of life heralds the arrival of Mirrodin's final sun.

Channel the Suns

Sorcery

Add to your mana pool.

To some the birth of the fifth sun was a sign of doom. To others it was a sign of salvation. But to all it was a sign.

Terashi's Cry

Sorcery - Arcane

Tap up to three target creatures.

"The sun kami is terrible to behold. When its temper flares, best seek shade and pray for forgiveness."
-Sensei Golden-Tail

Cut the Tethers

Sorcery

For each Spirit, return it to its owner's hand unless that player pays .

"You cannot bar the path of gods. You can only divert their journey for a while."
-Sensei Hisoka

Cranial Extraction

Sorcery - Arcane

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

Devouring Greed

Sorcery - Arcane

As an additional cost to cast Devouring Greed, you may sacrifice any number of Spirits.

Target player loses 2 life plus 2 life for each Spirit sacrificed this way. You gain that much life.

Struggle for Sanity

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. That player exiles a card from it, then you exile a card from it. Repeat this process until all cards in that hand have been exiled. That player returns the cards he or she exiled this way to his or her hand and puts the rest into his or her graveyard.

Joyous Respite

Sorcery - Arcane

You gain 1 life for each land you control.

"I have been gifted by the kami with long life. So far, they have not seen fit to withdraw their gift. There may yet be a way to stop the killing without more blood, human or kami, being spilled."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Uproot

Sorcery - Arcane

Put target land on top of its owner's library.

"We arrived at the battlefield too late. Again. Another error on your part, and you will have to answer to me personally."
-General Takeno, letter to the imperial mapmaker

Presence of the Wise

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

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

Sink into Takenuma

Sorcery - Arcane

Sweep - Return any number of Swamps you control to their owner's hand. Target player discards a card for each Swamp returned this way.

Inner Fire

Sorcery

Add to your mana pool for each card in your hand.

"Heart of Sokenzan, I call to you! Lend me your fire."

Spiraling Embers

Sorcery - Arcane

Spiraling Embers deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of cards in your hand.

The akki knew to stay indoors on the days the oni flew their kites.

Sunder from Within

Sorcery - Arcane

Destroy target artifact or land.

Trapped for eons within the sacred gong, the kami boomed and clanged to a deafening tempo as they destroyed their erstwhile prison.

Thoughts of Ruin

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices a land for each card in your hand.

"In our war with the kami, we annihilate what is our own. Do they too suffer ruination in their hidden world?"
-Diary of Azusa

Empty the Catacombs

Sorcery

Each player returns all creature cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

When the dead are laid to rest in Ravnica, it's usually just a nap.

Nightmare Void

Sorcery

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

Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two 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.)

Vigor Mortis

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If was spent to cast Vigor Mortis, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

After fear and weakness rot away, that which remains is stronger than its living form.

Flame Fusillade

Sorcery

Until end of turn, permanents you control gain ": This permanent deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

"A single item acting as lantern and lance? Now that's military efficiency."
-Brev Grezar, Boros lieutenant

Seismic Spike

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Add to your mana pool.

Natural disasters in Ravnica are largely nullified by the Izzet. Unnatural disasters, on the other hand, happen all of the time.

Rolling Spoil

Sorcery

Destroy target land. If was spent to cast Rolling Spoil, all creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

The shadow that fell over the grove was silent yet horribly alive, roiling with millions of tiny minions dedicated to the process of rot.

Brightflame

Sorcery

Radiance - Brightflame deals X damage to target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

"Let the pyres of the unbelievers light our way."
-Razia

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.

Caustic Rain

Sorcery

Exile target land.

"Looking out the great windows of Vitu-Ghazi at the foundry stacks belching their smoke to the sky, I wonder when the sky will take its vengeance."
-Heruj, Selesnya initiate

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

Wreak Havoc

Sorcery

Wreak Havoc can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Destroy target artifact or land.

Fertile Imagination

Sorcery

Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals his or her hand. Put two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield for each card of the chosen type revealed this way. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal are card types.)