Portent

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle his or her library.

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

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.

Polymorph

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into his or her library.

Political Trickery

Sorcery

Exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"Politics is a game-move a stone here, move a stone there-except sometimes the stones bleed."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Poison the Well

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Poison the Well deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Wells that provide clean, unhaunted water are rare enough to be worth building an entire town around.

Plunder

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

Suspend 4- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four 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.)

Plow Under

Sorcery

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

To renew the land, plow the land.
To destroy the land, do nothing.
-Druids' saying

Plea for Power

Sorcery

Will of the council - Starting with you, each player votes for time or knowledge. If time gets more votes, take an extra turn after this one. If knowledge gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw three cards.

Plea for Guidance

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two enchantment cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

On Theros, the dove is a symbol not of peace but of discovery. Quick wings herald the arrival of a revelation.

Planar Overlay

Sorcery

Each player chooses a land he or she controls of each basic land type. Return those lands to their owners' hands.

The Phyrexians don't want to conquer Dominaria. They want to remake it.

Planar Outburst

Sorcery

Destroy all nonland creatures.

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.)

Planar Despair

Sorcery

Domain - All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

All of Dominaria recoiled as Yawgmoth and his retainers arrived.

Planar Cleansing

Sorcery

Destroy all nonland permanents.

Planar Birth

Sorcery

Return all basic land cards from all graveyards to the battlefield tapped under their owners' control.

"From womb of nothingness sprang this place of beauty, purity, and hope realized."
-Song of All, canto 3

Plague Wind

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

Plague Spores

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature and target land. They can't be regenerated.

"Breathe deep, Dominaria. Breathe deep and die."
-Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Plague of Vermin

Sorcery

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player puts a 1/1 black Rat creature token onto the battlefield for each 1 life he or she paid this way.

Piper's Melody

Sorcery

Shuffle any number of target creature cards from your graveyard into your library.

Those who follow nature's path eventually walk in a circle.

Pinnacle of Rage

Sorcery

Pinnacle of Rage deals 3 damage to each of two target creatures and/or players.

Mount Sulano erupted not in magma but in anger.

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."

Pillage

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

Pilfered Plans

Sorcery

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

Mirko Vosk hunted anyone with knowledge of the maze, draining the chances of the other guilds.

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.

Phyrexian Tribute

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Phyrexian Tribute, sacrifice two creatures.

Destroy target artifact.

"In your final breath you still have something to offer Phyrexia."
-Afari, Tales

Phyrexian Rebirth

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures, then put an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creatures destroyed this way.

As long as one drop of the oil exists, the joyous work continues.

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.

Phthisis

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to its power plus its toughness.

Suspend 5- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with five 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.)

Phosphorescent Feast

Sorcery

Chroma - Reveal any number of cards in your hand. You gain 2 life for each green mana symbol in those cards' mana costs.

The boggarts gorged themselves until their bellies glowed.

Petals of Insight

Sorcery - Arcane

Look at the top three cards of your library. You may put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order. If you do, return Petals of Insight to its owner's hand. Otherwise, draw three cards.

Persecute

Sorcery

Choose a color. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards of that color.

"Of all the tyrannies on humane kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind."
-John Dryden,
"The Hind and the Panther"

Perish the Thought

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it. That player shuffles that card into his or her library.

It removed only one idea from her mind: defiance.

Perish

Sorcery

Destroy all green creatures. They can't be regenerated.

"There will come a time when the voices of soil and seedling will sing only laments."
-Oracle en-Vec

Peregrination

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. Shuffle your library, then scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Pegasus Stampede

Sorcery

Buyback-Sacrifice a land. (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Put a 1/1 white Pegasus creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

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.)

Peak Eruption

Sorcery

Destroy target Mountain. Peak Eruption deals 3 damage to that land's controller.

"Early olive buds? A good omen. Flock of crows? Not so good. Mountain exploding? Bad. Very, very bad."
-Hira, street oracle

Peach Garden Oath

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

"We three, though of separate ancestry, join in brotherhood. . . . We dare not hope to be together always but hereby vow to die the selfsame day."
-Peach Garden Oath

Peace Talks

Sorcery

This turn and next turn, creatures can't attack, and players and permanents can't be the targets of spells or activated abilities.

"By the tongues of a thousand serpents, this time I do not lie."
-Ahmahz il Kin, Suq'Ata diplomat

Patriarch's Bidding

Sorcery

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

"Family plots are so convenient."
-Cabal Patriarch

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

Past in Flames

Sorcery

Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.

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

Part Water

Sorcery

X target creatures gain islandwalk until end of turn.

". . . and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." -Exodus, 14:22

Part the Waterveil

Sorcery

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Part the Waterveil.

Awaken 6- (If you cast this spell for , also put six +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Paraselene

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments. You gain 1 life for each enchantment destroyed this way.

"Moonlight has a way of showing all things as they truly are-for better or for worse."
-Zilla of Lambholt

Paranoid Delusions

Sorcery

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

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.)

Parallel Evolution

Sorcery

For each creature token on the battlefield, its controller puts a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield.

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

Paradigm Shift

Sorcery

Exile all cards from your library. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

"Barrin always said that reality is relative. ‘The world,' he cautioned, ‘is but pieces of one's perception.'"
-Ertai, wizard adept

Panic Attack

Sorcery

Up to three target creatures can't block this turn.

"What do they see in the throes of panic? I'm not sure I want to know."
-Kezim, prodigal pyromancer

Painful Truths

Sorcery

Converge - You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Painful Truths.

As the Eldrazi spread, no secret that could give Zendikar's defenders an advantage was considered too dangerous to seek.

Painful Memories

Sorcery

Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. Put that card on top of that player's library.

"It is terrible how one brief action can live forever in memory."
-Jolrael

Pain's Reward

Sorcery

Each player may bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of any number. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and draws four cards.

Pain (Pain/Suffering)

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

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.

Overwhelming Stampede

Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. (If a creature you control would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Overwhelm

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.)

Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

"Let the song of Selesnya be heard above the rhythm of our thundering hordes!"

Overrun

Sorcery

Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Overmaster

Sorcery

The next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Draw a card.

"Trickery can't defeat raw power."
-Matoc, lavamancer

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.

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

Ostracize

Sorcery

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

"You won't be needing this."

Ordered Migration

Sorcery

Domain - Put a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each basic land type among lands you control.

"Birds reach all parts of the world," said Barrin. "They will make excellent scouts."

Order of Succession

Sorcery

Choose left or right. Starting with you and proceeding in the chosen direction, each player chooses a creature controlled by the next player in that direction. Each player gains control of the creature he or she chose.

"Long live . . . me."

Open the Vaults

Sorcery

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under their owners' control. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in graveyards.)

When the vaults are empty, everyone is rich.

One Dozen Eyes

Sorcery

Choose one - Put a 5/5 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield; or put five 1/1 green Insect creature tokens onto the battlefield.

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

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.)

Ojutai's Summons

Sorcery

Put a 2/2 blue Djinn Monk creature token with flying onto 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.)

Obzedat's Aid

Sorcery

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The Obzedat have revived you with purpose. Don't squander their blessing."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Oblivion Strike

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Exile target creature.

It's bad enough to be torn to pieces. It's worse by far to be torn from the world itself.

Obliterate

Sorcery

Obliterate can't be countered.

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated.

"The enemy has been destroyed, sir. So have the forest, the city, your palace, your dog . . ."
-Keldon soldier

Noxious Vapors

Sorcery

Each player reveals his or her hand and chooses one card of each color from it, then discards all other nonland cards.

Urborg would just as soon steal your memories as your life.

Notorious Throng

Tribal Sorcery - Rogue

Prowl (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)

Put X 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the damage dealt to your opponents this turn. If Notorious Throng's prowl cost was paid, take an extra turn after this one.

Nostalgic Dreams

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Nostalgic Dreams, discard X cards.

Return X target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Nostalgic Dreams.

Seton dreams of life renewed.

Nomads' Assembly

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 white Kor Soldier creature token onto the battlefield for each creature you control.

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.)

Noggin Whack

Tribal Sorcery - Rogue

Prowl (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)

Target player reveals three cards from his or her hand. You choose two of them. That player discards those cards.

Nissa's Renewal

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. You gain 7 life.

Her connection to the plane restored, Nissa felt the power of Zendikar surge through her.

Nissa's Judgment

Sorcery

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

Choose up to one target creature an opponent controls. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals damage equal to its power to that creature.

Nissa's Expedition

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.)

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

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.)

Nightmare Incursion

Sorcery

Search target player's library for up to X cards, where X is the number of Swamps you control, and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

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

Nightbird's Clutches

Sorcery

Up to two target creatures can't block this turn.

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

Shiny polished silver can ward off many creatures, but it attracts others.

Night's Whisper

Sorcery

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

The Moriok call the black moon the Whisperer. At her apex, she whispers of power.

Night Terrors

Sorcery

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

Innistrad is a place where dreams invade the mind and mere shadows exact a terrible toll.

New Frontiers

Sorcery

Each player may search his or her library for up to X basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Spreading a blanket of growth to warm a weary world.

Neverending Torment

Sorcery

Search target player's library for X cards, where X is the number of cards in your hand, and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

Needle Storm

Sorcery

Needle Storm deals 4 damage to each creature with flying.

The rain is driven like nails.

Necromantic Selection

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Nausea

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

No fear. No sense. And soon, no lunch.

Nature's Spiral

Sorcery

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. (A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.)

Snail shell, fern, tornado-the world connects all things in form.

Nature's Resurgence

Sorcery

Each player draws a card for each creature card in his or her graveyard.

Spring follows winter
-Elvish expression meaning
"all things pass"

Nature's Lore

Sorcery

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

"It is in our nature to recognize beauty, but to repeat it-ah, that is another feat altogether."
-Hannah of Verdura

Natural Spring

Sorcery

Target player gains 8 life.

"Jewels cannot be eaten nor gold drunk. What civilization trades, nature simply provides."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

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.

Natural Balance

Sorcery

Each player who controls six or more lands chooses five lands he or she controls and sacrifices the rest. Each player who controls four or fewer lands may search his or her library for X basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield, where X is five minus the number of lands he or she controls. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Mystic Speculation

Sorcery

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

Scry 3. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Mystic Retrieval

Sorcery

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

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

Mystic Meditation

Sorcery

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a creature card.

"Still the mind and quiet the heart. Only then will you hear the Multiverse's great truths."
-Narset

Mwonvuli Acid-Moss

Sorcery

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

"Life gives way to death, and death to new life. Nature feeds upon her own decay."
-Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Mutilate

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

"It's only torture if you're strong enough to survive. Otherwise, it's a simple, gruesome death. I'm happy with either outcome."
-Liliana Vess

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