Flare

Instant

Flare deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

The secret of destruction is simple: everything burns.

Flaring Pain

Instant

Damage can't be prevented this turn.

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

"I don't rub salt in wounds. I use sulfur."
-Matoc, lavamancer

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 .

Flash Conscription

Instant

Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. If was spent to cast Flash Conscription, the creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you gain that much life" until end of turn.

Flash Counter

Instant

Counter target instant spell.

"So much for that bright idea"

Flash Flood

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target red permanent; or return target Mountain to its owner's hand.

Many people say that no power can bring the mountains low. Many people are fools.

Flash Foliage

Instant

Cast Flash Foliage only during combat after blockers are declared.

Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield blocking target creature attacking you.

Draw a card.

"This undemanding vegetation takes root in a mote of dust but grows incredibly quickly."
-Simic research notes

Flash of Insight

Instant

Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Flashback-, Exile X blue cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost, then exile it. You can't exile Flash of Insight to pay for its own flashback cost.)

Flashfreeze

Instant

Counter target red or green spell.

"Is cold merely the absence of heat, or a force unto itself? Would a display of its power help you decide?"
-Zubarek, Icewinder Magus

Flatten

Instant

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

Like their dragonlord, the Kolaghan take no trophies. They find true fulfillment only in the battle itself, in clash of steel and thunder of hooves.

Fleeting Distraction

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

The first spell taught to young mages, it has spared the lives of many whose hands are too small to hold a sword.

Flesh to Dust

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"Pain is temporary. So is life."
-Liliana Vess

Fling

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Fling, sacrifice a creature.

Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target creature or player.

About halfway to the target, Snukk vowed that he had been tricked for the last time.

Flowstone Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +1/-1 and gains haste until end of turn.

Aggression exacts its toll.

Flurry of Wings

Instant

Put X 1/1 white Bird Soldier creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

"We are born soldiers. The call to battle is a homecoming."

Flusterstorm

Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays .

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

Flying Crane Technique

Instant

Untap all creatures you control. They gain flying and double strike until end of turn.

There are many Jeskai styles: Riverwalk imitates flowing water, Dragonfist the ancient hellkites, and Flying Crane the wild aven of the high peaks.

Fog

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"I fear no army or beast, but only the morning fog. Our assault can survive everything else."
-Lord Hilneth

Fog Patch

Instant

Cast Fog Patch only during the declare blockers step.

Attacking creatures become blocked. (This spell works on unblockable creatures.)

Realizing they weren't getting past the fog, the elves did the only thing they could do: wait.

Foil

Instant

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay Foil's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Fold into Æther

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, its controller may put a creature card from his or her hand onto the battlefield.

Æther portals drift across Mirrodin's surface, dragging creatures across time and space.

Folk Medicine

Instant

You gain 1 life for each creature you control.

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

Sometimes the healers need healing.

Footbottom Feast

Instant

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.

Draw a card.

The scent of rot and vinegar fills the marsh, inviting boggarts from every warren to reunite and feast.

Forbid

Instant

Buyback-Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Counter target spell.

Forbidden Alchemy

Instant

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

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

Force Away

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Where an enemy once rode, not even a whisper remains.

Force of Will

Instant

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay Force of Will's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Force Spike

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Unknown spears / Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes . . . ."
-William Butler Yeats,
"The Valley of the Black Pig"

Force Void

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

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

"My mind and spirit are one-a barrier not readily passed."
-Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran Royal Mage

Foreshadow

Instant

Name a card, then target opponent puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If that card is the named card, you draw a card.

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

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

Forge Armor

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Forge Armor, sacrifice an artifact.

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost.

Fork

Instant

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

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

Fortify

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn; or creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

"Where metal is tainted and wood is scarce, we are best armed by faith."
-Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Foul Renewal

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the toughness of the card returned this way.

The cycle of life and death is rarely pretty.

Foul-Tongue Invocation

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Foul-Tongue Invocation, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.

Target player sacrifices a creature. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast Foul-Tongue Invocation, you gain 4 life.

Foul-Tongue Shriek

Instant

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

Foul-Tongue shamans draw their powers from a dark twisting of the Draconic language.

Foxfire

Instant

Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

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

"Only the foolish fear foxfire."
-Kolbjörn,
Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Fracturing Gust

Instant

Destroy all artifacts and enchantments. You gain 2 life for each permanent destroyed this way.

Elvish dawnhands test a relic's worthiness before collecting it for the safehold. If it can't stand up to a stiff breeze, it's left behind.

Frantic Purification

Instant

Destroy target enchantment.

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

By definition, madness ends in one of two ways: clarity . . . or death.

Frantic Salvage

Instant

Put any number of target artifact cards from your graveyard on top of your library.

Draw a card.

"We will mourn when there is time. For now, we survive."

Frantic Search

Instant

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Motivation was high in the academy once students realized flunking their exams could kill them.

Frazzle

Instant

Counter target nonblue spell.

The chant was interrupted, the components cooked, and Zok worried that it was his brain he smelled smoking.

Fresh Meat

Instant

Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

A scavenger's favorite appetizer is death.

Friendly Fire

Instant

Target creature's controller reveals a card at random from his or her hand. Friendly Fire deals damage to that creature and that player equal to the revealed card's converted mana cost.

"Never tell goblins to ‘fire at will.'"
-Urut Barzeel, Mardu hordechief

Frightful Delusion

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . That player discards a card.

Whether he actually exists is in question, but the terror she feels is excruciatingly real.

Frost Breath

Instant

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.

If you have to be stuck somewhere for a while, it's better to be stuck there with a friend.

Fuel for the Cause

Instant

Counter target spell, then proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

"Your ideas will be discarded and your will repurposed."

Fulgent Distraction

Instant

Choose two target creatures. Tap those creatures, then unattach all Equipment from them.

"Channeling the white-hot power of all five suns creates a pretty good diversion."
-Yavash of the Accorders

Funeral Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target player discards a card; or target creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn; or target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn.

Funeral Pyre

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard. Its owner puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"Raze the body. Raise the soul."
-Mystic elder

Furious Resistance

Instant

Target blocking creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"At least the Gateless rebels have ideals. Rakdos just mocks, defiles, and kills all we hold dear."
-Libuse, Boros sergeant

Fury Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn; or remove two time counters from target permanent or suspended card.

Gaea's Might

Instant

Domain - Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

With the Heart of Yavimaya aiding him, Multani didn't even strain at the load.

Gainsay

Instant

Counter target blue spell.

"I'd be happy to stop contradicting you, Urza, just as soon as you start being right."
-Bo Levar, planeswalker

Gallantry

Instant

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

Draw a card.

The courageous accomplish more in a single moment than the cowardly do in a lifetime.

Galvanic Blast

Instant

Galvanic Blast deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Metalcraft - Galvanic Blast deals 4 damage to that creature or player instead if you control three or more artifacts.

Mirrodin has little weather, but it certainly has lightning.

Gather Courage

Instant

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.)

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Gather Specimens

Instant

If a creature would enter the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, it enters the battlefield under your control instead.

"It's free to do whatever it wants. I've merely told it what that is."
-Xorin, Architect of Will

Gaze of Adamaro

Instant - Arcane

Gaze of Adamaro deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Wherever it looked, it saw destruction-the wake of its own gaze.

Gaze of the Gorgon

Instant

( can be paid with either or .)

Regenerate target creature. At end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by that creature this turn.

Even the dead give way to the mineral gaze of the gorgon.

Geist Snatch

Instant

Counter target creature spell. Put a 1/1 blue Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Angels and demons aren't the only ones listening to your prayers.

Geistflame

Instant

Geistflame deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

Innistrad pyromancers find their best raw materials in the fury of the dead.

Gerrard's Command

Instant

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

"Unless you like the idea of becoming some goblin's lunch, get up and move"

Geth's Verdict

Instant

Target player sacrifices a creature and loses 1 life.

"Everyone should owe you something."
-Geth, Lord of the Vault

Ghastly Demise

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature if its toughness is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.

"Anyone can snap her fingers and yank a soul. I prefer to kill creatively."
-Braids, dementia summoner

Ghostfire

Instant

Ghostfire is colorless.

Ghostfire deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Only those gifted with the eye of Ugin, the spirit dragon, can see his fiery breath.

Ghostly Flicker

Instant

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Sometimes it's useful to take a break from existence.

Ghostway

Instant

Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"I watched its blade swing through me, but I was hollow, empty. I saw its face contort in rage but could not hear it snarl."
-Klattic, Boros legionnaire

Ghoul's Feast

Instant

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Mercadians not wealthy enough to buy a tomb are thrown into a bog called "the Ghoul's Larder."

Giant Growth

Instant

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

"The prohibition of unnecessary tossing of the citizenry by giants shall also extend to spontaneous giants."
-Isperia's Edict, provision VII.789.2

Gideon's Reproach

Instant

Gideon's Reproach deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"Suddenly, Gideon was there with us, clearing the way so that we could escape."-The War Diaries

Gift of Tusks

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and becomes a green Elephant with base power and toughness 3/3.

It's an experience you'll never forget.

Gifts Ungiven

Instant

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Gigadrowse

Instant

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

Tap target permanent.

Gilded Light

Instant

You gain shroud until end of turn. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

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

"Whoever survives the first blow lives to land the second."

Glacial Ray

Instant - Arcane

Glacial Ray deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Glamerdye

Instant

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another.

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

Gleam of Resistance

Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+2 until end of turn. Untap those creatures.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Glimpse the Sun God

Instant

Tap X target creatures. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Better to be beneath Heliod's notice than beneath his heel.

Glint

Instant

Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Rakshasa waste no opportunity to display their wealth and power, even in the midst of a sorcerous duel.

Glissa's Scorn

Instant

Destroy target artifact. Its controller loses 1 life.

"If it were fit to survive, it wouldn't have been so easily put down."
-Glissa

Gloomwidow's Feast

Instant

Destroy target creature with flying. If that creature was blue or black, put a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach onto the battlefield. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Each night, gloomwidows cull fresh prey for their ravenous hatchlings.

Glorious Charge

Instant

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

"One's blade is only as sharp as one's conviction."
-Ajani Goldmane

Glyph of Delusion

Instant

Put X glyph counters on target creature that target Wall blocked this turn, where X is the power of that blocked creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a glyph counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a glyph counter from this creature."

Glyph of Destruction

Instant

Target blocking Wall you control gets +10/+0 until end of combat. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to it this turn. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

Glyph of Doom

Instant

At end of combat, destroy all creatures that were blocked by target Wall this turn.

"He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion . . ." -William Faulkner

Glyph of Life

Instant

Until end of turn, whenever an attacking creature deals damage to target Wall creature, you gain that much life.

Any wall can be battered down, but at what cost?

Glyph of Reincarnation

Instant

Cast Glyph of Reincarnation only after combat.

Destroy all creatures that were blocked by target Wall this turn. They can't be regenerated. For each creature that died this way, put a creature card from the graveyard of the player who controlled that creature the last time it became blocked by that Wall onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

Gnaw to the Bone

Instant

You gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard.

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

Go for the Throat

Instant

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Having flesh is increasingly a liability on Mirrodin.

Gods Willing

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice 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.)

Honor the gods of Theros, and they will return the favor.

Golgari Charm

Instant

Choose one - All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn; or destroy target enchantment; or regenerate each creature you control.

"Let the rest of Ravnica sneer. One way or another, they all end up in the undercity."
-Jarad

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

Goryo's Vengeance

Instant - Arcane

Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Grab the Reins

Instant

Choose one - Until end of turn, you gain control of target creature and it gains haste; or sacrifice a creature, then Grab the Reins deals damage equal to that creature's power to target creature or player.

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

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."

Grasp of Darkness

Instant

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

On a world with five suns, night is compelled to become an aggressive force.

Grave Birthing

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target opponent exiles a card from his or her graveyard. You put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Draw a card.