Spell Blast

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is , X is 5.)

Thoughtlace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes blue. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Twiddle

Instant

You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Berserk

Instant

Cast Berserk only before the combat damage step.

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Camouflage

Instant

Cast Camouflage only during your declare attackers step.

This turn, instead of declaring blockers, each defending player chooses any number of creatures he or she controls and divides them into a number of piles equal to the number of attacking creatures for whom that player is the defending player. Creatures he or she controls that can block additional creatures may likewise be put into additional piles. Assign each pile to a different one of those attacking creatures at random. Each creature in a pile that can block the creature that pile is assigned to does so. (Piles can be empty.)

Lifelace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes green. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Natural Selection

Instant

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.

Chaoslace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes red. (Its mana symbols remain unchanged.)

False Orders

Instant

Cast False Orders only during the declare blockers step.

Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Fork

Instant

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

Red Elemental Blast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target blue spell; or destroy target blue permanent.

Tunnel

Instant

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Blaze of Glory

Instant

Cast Blaze of Glory only during combat before blockers are declared.

Target creature defending player controls can block any number of creatures this turn. It blocks each attacking creature this turn if able.

Death Ward

Instant

Regenerate target creature.

Disenchant

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Guardian Angel

Instant

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that creature or player this turn.

Healing Salve

Instant

Choose one - Target player gains 3 life; or prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Purelace

Instant

Target spell or permanent becomes white. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)

Swords to Plowshares

Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Crumble

Instant

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. That artifact's controller gains life equal to its converted mana cost.

The spirits of Argoth grant new life to those who repent the folly of enslaving their labors to devices.

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.

Marsh Gas

Instant

All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.

"Comes right outta th' ground. If ya can smell it, it's too late."
-Keevy Bogsbury

Sandstorm

Instant

Sandstorm deals 1 damage to each attacking creature.

Even the landscape turned against Sarsour, first rising up and pelting him, then rearranging itself so he could no longer find his way.

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.

Fissure

Instant

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

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"
-Plato

Inferno

Instant

Inferno deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.

"Any scrap of compassion that still existed in my soul was permanently snuffed out when they cast me out into the flames."
-Mairsil, called the Pretender

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

Morale

Instant

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

"After Lacjsi's speech, the Knights grew determined to crush their ancient enemies clan by clan."
-Tivadar of Thorn, History of the Goblin Wars

Piety

Instant

Blocking creatures get +0/+3 until end of turn.

"Whoever obeys God and His Prophet, fears God and does his duty to Him, will surely find success."
-The Qur'an, 24:52

Broken Visage

Instant

Destroy target nonartifact attacking creature. It can't be regenerated. Put a black Spirit creature token with that creature's power and toughness onto the battlefield. Sacrifice the token at the beginning of the next end step.

Deflection

Instant

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Up and down,
over and through,
back around-
the joke's on you.

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

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"

Hydroblast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target spell if it's red; or destroy target permanent if it's red.

"Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within."
-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"

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

Shrink

Instant

Target creature gets -5/-0 until end of turn.

"May you decrease like coal upon the hearth . . . Evaporate like water in a pail, Become as little as a linseed-grain . . . And so diminish that you come to nothing."
-Anglo-Saxon curse

Stampede

Instant

Attacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

"When are beasts like a river?"
-The One Thousand Questions

Dwarven Catapult

Instant

Dwarven Catapult deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among all creatures target opponent controls.

"Often greatly outnumbered in battle, dwarves relied on catapults as one means of damaging a large army."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV

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.

Panic

Instant

Cast Panic only during combat before blockers are declared.

Target creature can't block this turn.

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

Pyroblast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target spell if it's blue; or destroy target permanent if it's blue.

"Just the thing for those pesky water mages."
-Jaya Ballard, task mage

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

Heal

Instant

Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

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

"Sometimes even the smallest boon can save a life."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

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.

Truce

Instant

Each player may draw up to two cards. For each card less than two a player draws this way, that player gains 2 life.

Not all victories require defeat.
-Onean idiom

Enlightened Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal."
-Daudi, Femeref tutor

Exile

Instant

Exile target nonwhite attacking creature. You gain life equal to its toughness.

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

Desertion

Instant

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

First the insult, then the injury.

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 .

Mystical Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"To the tutors, a ‘poem of sand' was of little account, a ‘poem of ivory,' priceless."
-Afari, Tales

Fatal Blow

Instant

Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. It can't be regenerated.

"What is crueler? To let a wound of the heart fester, or to simply cut it out?"
-Crovax

Vampiric Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a card, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it. You lose 2 life.

"I write upon clean white parchment with a sharp quill and the blood of my students, divining their secrets."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Boil

Instant

Destroy all Islands.

"The fishers will throw out their nets and draw them back filled with dust."
-Oracle en-Vec

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

Lightning Blast

Instant

Lightning Blast deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

"Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do."
-Selenia, dark angel

Vertigo

Instant

Vertigo deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. That creature loses flying until end of turn.

"I saw the wizard gesturing, but I didn't guess his plan until my aesthir cried out and went into a dive."
-Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Vitalize

Instant

Untap all creatures you control.

"After waking to the magic of Llanowar, no dreams can compare."
-Mirri of the Weatherlight

Worldly Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a creature card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"Aselbo soon had the rhino eating from his palm and the snake waiting at his heels."
-Afari, Tales

Blessed Reversal

Instant

You gain 3 life for each creature attacking you.

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

Hibernation

Instant

Return all green permanents to their owners' hands.

The deep sleep of winter is not always restful.

Opportunity

Instant

Target player draws four cards.

Little things like morals shouldn't hinder one's ambition.
-Pirate creed

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?"

Necrologia

Instant

Cast Necrologia only during your end step.

As an additional cost to cast Necrologia, pay X life.

Draw X cards.

Nocturnal Raid

Instant

Black creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

The Eastern Paladin doesn't attack at night for the tactical advantage. He does it for the sheer joy of fighting beneath the moon.

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

Solidarity

Instant

Creatures you control get +0/+5 until end of turn.

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
-Benjamin Franklin

Catalog

Instant

Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Though those who study are as many as the hairs on an ox, those who succeed are as rare as unicorns' horns.
-Chinese proverb

Flash Counter

Instant

Counter target instant spell.

"So much for that bright idea"

Searing Wind

Instant

Searing Wind deals 10 damage to target creature or player.

"The first wind of ascension is Forger, burning away impurity."
-Keld Triumphant

Army of Allah

Instant

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

On the day of victory no one is tired. -Arab proverb

Artifact Blast

Instant

Counter target artifact spell.

The first line of defense against Urza and Mishra, the Artifact Blast achieved widespread fame until an unlucky mage discovered it was useless on the devices the brothers had already created.

Darkness

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride,/ And hug it in my arms." -William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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

Hell Swarm

Instant

All creatures get -1/-0 until end of turn.

The brightness of day turned in an instant to dusk as the swarm descended upon the battlefield.

Touch of Darkness

Instant

Any number of target creatures become black until end of turn.

"Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,/ Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may." -Thomas Middleton, The Witch

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

Enchantment Alteration

Instant

Attach target Aura attached to a creature or land to another permanent of that type.

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.

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."

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.

Reverberation

Instant

All damage that would be dealt this turn by target sorcery spell is dealt to that spell's controller instead.

Sea Kings' Blessing

Instant

Any number of target creatures become blue until end of turn.

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.

Teleport

Instant

Cast Teleport only during the declare attackers step.

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

Avoid Fate

Instant

Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.

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.

Reincarnation

Instant

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

Rust

Instant

Counter target activated ability from an artifact source. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

"How dull it is to pause, to make an end,/ To rust unburnished, not to shine in use,/ As though to breathe were life!" -Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"

Storm Seeker

Instant

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

Subdue

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn. That creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is its converted mana cost.

Sylvan Paradise

Instant

Any number of target creatures become green until end of turn.