Slingbow Trap

Instant - Trap

If a black creature with flying is attacking, you may pay rather than pay Slingbow Trap's mana cost.

Destroy target attacking creature with flying.

The Tajuru elves devised ways to let the forest defend itself.

Lethargy Trap

Instant - Trap

If three or more creatures are attacking, you may pay rather than pay Lethargy Trap's mana cost.

Attacking creatures get -3/-0 until end of turn.

Suddenly, Zurdi didn't care about treasure, glory, food . . . or the drakes circling above.

Mindbreak Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay rather than pay Mindbreak Trap's mana cost.

Exile any number of target spells.

"Life is a maze. This is one of its dead ends."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Summoner's Bane

Instant

Counter target creature spell. Put a 2/2 blue Illusion creature token onto the battlefield.

"I don't need to have the perfect plan. My foe just has to have an imperfect one."
-Jace Beleren

Ravenous Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent had three or more cards put into his or her graveyard from anywhere this turn, you may pay rather than pay Ravenous Trap's mana cost.

Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

Inferno Trap

Instant - Trap

If you've been dealt damage by two or more creatures this turn, you may pay rather than pay Inferno Trap's mana cost.

Inferno Trap deals 4 damage to target creature.

"Do you smell something burning?"

Offering to Asha

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . You gain 4 life.

"His body belongs to Bant now. His soul? I honestly don't know. I expect it belongs to the angels."
-Rafiq of the Many

Inspired Charge

Instant

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

"Impossible! How could they overwhelm us? We had barricades, war elephants, . . . and they were barely a tenth of our number!"
-General Avitora

Disorient

Instant

Target creature gets -7/-0 until end of turn.

"If it has a brain, even a primitive one, we can most surely scramble it."
-Garild, merfolk mage

Tendrils of Corruption

Instant

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Darkness doesn't always send its minions to do its dirty work.

Might of Oaks

Instant

Target creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

May your weapon be no sword forged. May your armor be no metal wrought.
-Elvish saying

Cankerous Thirst

Instant

If was spent to cast Cankerous Thirst, you may have target creature get -3/-3 until end of turn. If was spent to cast Cankerous Thirst, you may have target creature get +3/+3 until end of turn. (Do both if was spent.)

Nothing warms the bark on a chilly day like a draught of elf.

Invert the Skies

Instant

Creatures your opponents control lose flying until end of turn if was spent to cast Invert the Skies, and creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

Put Away

Instant

Counter target spell. You may shuffle up to one target card from your graveyard into your library.

Kithkin spellbottlers spend half their time preserving old memories and the other half punishing the new.

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.

Æthertow

Instant

Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Mirrorweave

Instant

Each other creature becomes a copy of target nonlegendary creature until end of turn.

"Those who are different are untrustworthy, unpredictable. Put your safety in the hands of your own kind."
-Bowen, Barrenton guardcaptain

Repel Intruders

Instant

Put two 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield if was spent to cast Repel Intruders. Counter up to one target creature spell if was spent to cast Repel Intruders. (Do both if was spent.)

Memory Plunder

Instant

You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

"Vengeance is the echo of the victim's own crime."
-Grensch, merrow cutthroat

Neck Snap

Instant

Destroy target attacking or blocking creature.

"We merrows need not be disadvantaged when fighting on land. We lack the vulnerability of those who breathe only through their throats."
-Minnarin, merrow reejerey

Cryptic Command

Instant

Choose two - Counter target spell; or return target permanent to its owner's hand; or tap all creatures your opponents control; or draw a card.

Makeshift Mannequin

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a mannequin counter on it. For as long as that creature has a mannequin counter on it, it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

"This vulgar mimicry will end now."
-Desmera, perfect of Wren's Run

Wild Ricochet

Instant

You may choose new targets for target instant or sorcery spell. Then copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"I knew that trick long before your great-grandmother's great-grandmother was born."

Heal the Scars

Instant

Regenerate target creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Elvish battle-magic has evolved two specialties: inflicting wounds that scar, and healing wounds without scarring. Politics determines the recipients of each.

Discombobulate

Instant

Counter target spell. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"I said ‘pick his brain,' not ‘tear off his head.'"
-Riptide Project researcher

Plagiarize

Instant

Until end of turn, if target player would draw a card, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Sudden Impact

Instant

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

"Some say it's better to think before you act. While those people are considering all the options, that's usually when I kill them."
-Dravus, lava mage

Chastise

Instant

Destroy target attacking creature. You gain life equal to its power.

"Why do we pray to the Ancestor? Because She listens."
-Mystic elder

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.

Boil

Instant

Destroy all Islands.

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

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

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.

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

Reverberation

Instant

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

Storm Seeker

Instant

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

Rapid Fire

Instant

Cast Rapid Fire only before blockers are declared.

Target creature gains first strike until end of turn. If it doesn't have rampage, that creature gains rampage 2 until end of turn. (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Fanatical Fever

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

"Let go your fury, and hone your anger. Become the fist of Freyalise!"
-Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Trailblazer

Instant

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

"Our Elvish Hunter Taaveti led us swiftly along hidden paths through the dense forest. We caught the Orcs from behind, and completely by surprise."
-Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Venomous Breath

Instant

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

Ambush

Instant

Blocking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.

"Don't these goons have anything better to do?"
-Joskun, An-Havva Constable