Head Games

Sorcery

Target opponent puts the cards from his or her hand on top of his or her library. Search that player's library for that many cards. The player puts those cards into his or her hand, then shuffles his or her library.

Heat Shimmer

Sorcery

Put a token that's a copy of target creature onto the battlefield. That token has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, exile this permanent."

"Better to flare out than to gutter."
-Flamekin expression

Heed the Mists

Sorcery - Arcane

Put the top card of your library into your graveyard, then draw cards equal to that card's converted mana cost.

"Once, I looked to the mists for wisdom. Now I wish only for understanding."

Hellfire

Sorcery

Destroy all nonblack creatures. Hellfire deals X plus 3 damage to you, where X is the number of creatures that died this way.

"High on a throne of royal state . . . insatiate to pursue vain war with heav'n." -John Milton, Paradise Lost

Hellion Eruption

Sorcery

Sacrifice all creatures you control, then put that many 4/4 red Hellion creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Just when you thought you'd be safe, in the middle of an open field with no Eldrazi around for miles.

Heroes Remembered

Sorcery

You gain 20 life.

Suspend 10- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with ten 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.)

Hex

Sorcery

Destroy six target creatures.

When killing five just isn't enough.

Hidden Strings

Sorcery

You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent.

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.)

Hideous Visage

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain intimidate until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

"Seeing you cower before me is its own reward."

Hint of Insanity

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. That player discards all nonland cards with the same name as another card in his or her hand.

"Practice makes perfect, but obsession makes better."

Hive Stirrings

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 colorless Sliver creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Sliver young are sorted into clutches according to their potential and their future role. Human scholars can only guess how those are determined.

Hoarder's Greed

Sorcery

You lose 2 life and draw two cards, then clash with an opponent. If you win, repeat this process. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Hordeling Outburst

Sorcery

Put three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"Leave no scraps, lest you attract pests."
-Mardu threat

Horncaller's Chant

Sorcery

Put a 4/4 green Rhino creature token with trample onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"The Selesnya are gathering armies. Do you still believe they aren't preparing for war?"
-Teysa, to Isperia

Horrifying Revelation

Sorcery

Target player discards a card, then puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Ours is a glorious transmission! Behold a future where all bow to the Father of Machines."
-Isila, Priest of Sheoldred

Hour of Reckoning

Sorcery

Convoke (Each creature you tap while casting this spell reduces its cost by or by one mana of that creature's color.)

Destroy all nontoken creatures.

"Ravnica, like a hedge, must be pruned, leaving only leaves of verdant uniformity."
-Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Howl of the Horde

Sorcery

When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Raid - If you attacked with a creature this turn, when you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell an additional time. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Howl of the Night Pack

Sorcery

Put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield for each Forest you control.

The murderous horrors of Raven's Run are legendary, but even that haunted place goes quiet when the night wolves howl.

Hull Breach

Sorcery

Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or destroy target enchantment; or destroy target artifact and target enchantment.

"Crovax knows we're coming now," said a grinning Sisay. "I just sent the Predator crashing into his stronghold."

Hunger of the Nim

Sorcery

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each artifact you control.

Their pain is so great, they can't help but share it with others.

Hunt Down

Sorcery

Target creature blocks target creature this turn if able.

"Springjacks and faeries can be difficult to hunt, but my favorite prey are the flamekin. They never fail to put up a worthy fight when cornered."

Hunt the Hunter

Sorcery

Target green creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn. It fights target green creature an opponent controls.

"A grudge is a tattoo worn on the inside."
-Setessan warrior saying

Hunt the Weak

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

He who hesitates is lunch.

Hunter's Prowess

Sorcery

Until end of turn, target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards."

To be counted among the warriors of Setessa's Leina Tower, you must not fear death, only failure.

Hunters' Feast

Sorcery

Any number of target players each gain 6 life.

Those who kill a jawspur rhino must prepare spells to lift the carcass-even a dozen hunters can't lift its bulk.

Hunting Triad

Tribal Sorcery - Elf

Put three 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Reinforce 3- (, Discard this card: Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature.)

"Eyeblights are easy to track. Just follow the imperfections."

Hunting Wilds

Sorcery

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

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

If Hunting Wilds was kicked, untap all Forests put onto the battlefield this way. They become 3/3 green creatures with haste that are still lands.

Hurly-Burly

Sorcery

Choose one - Hurly-Burly deals 1 damage to each creature without flying; or Hurly-Burly deals 1 damage to each creature with flying.

"Things were popping like corn in a skillet. Olly landed in the pig pen with his prize sow on top of him, both squealin' like boggarts."
-Deagan, cenn of Burrenton

Hurricane

Sorcery

Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"Don't envy the grandeur of drakes. Their impression of grace fades when the first gust sends them crashing into one another."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Hush

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments.

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

Hymn of Rebirth

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"There will come soft rains, and spring shall be amongst us, a welcome friend."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Hymn to Tourach

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards at random.

"The eerie, wailing Hymn caused insanity even in hardened warriors."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. II

Hypergenesis

Sorcery

Illus. Ron Spears

Hypnotic Cloud

Sorcery

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Target player discards a card. If Hypnotic Cloud was kicked, that player discards three cards instead.

Icatian Town

Sorcery

Put four 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Icatia's once-peaceful towns faced increasing attacks from orcs and goblins as the climate cooled. By the time the empire fell, they were little more than armed camps.

Ice Storm

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Icefall

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

Recover (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

As the Thaw met Terisiare, mountains shed their icy skins, crushing homes and hopes alike.

Icequake

Sorcery

Destroy target land. If that land was a snow land, Icequake deals 1 damage to that land's controller.

"When the earth shakes, and their animals are swallowed up by the ground, perhaps they will think twice before attacking again."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Ichor Explosion

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Ichor Explosion, sacrifice a creature.

All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

The first explosion that didn't excite goblins.

Ichor Slick

Sorcery

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

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

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

Ideas Unbound

Sorcery - Arcane

Draw three cards. Discard three cards at the beginning of the next end step.

The apprentice stared in puzzlement. "But Master, you finished writing those spells just yesterday. Don't you remember?" The jushi's heart froze.

Identity Crisis

Sorcery

Exile all cards from target player's hand and graveyard.

"To join our ranks, one must be pure. To be pure, one must be blessed by etherium. To be blessed, one must forget oneself."
-Ethersworn prayer

Idyllic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"If one's life is blessed, solutions to all life's problems will appear at the right moment."
-The Book of Kith and Kin

Ignite Memories

Sorcery

Target player reveals a card at random from his or her hand. Ignite Memories deals damage to that player equal to that card's converted mana cost.

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

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.

Illicit Auction

Sorcery

Each player may bid life for control of target creature. You start the bidding with a bid of 0. 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 gains control of the creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Illuminate

Sorcery

Kicker and/or (You may pay an additional and/or as you cast this spell.)

Illuminate deals X damage to target creature. If Illuminate was kicked with its kicker, it deals X damage to that creature's controller. If Illuminate was kicked with its kicker, you draw X cards.

Immortal Servitude

Sorcery

Return each creature card with converted mana cost X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The fine print of countless contracts has ensured we are never defenseless."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Implode

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Draw a card.

To save Dominaria, nine planeswalkers sought the annihilation of Phyrexia itself.

In Garruk's Wake

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Beyond pain, beyond obsession and wild despair, there lies a place of twisted power only the most tormented souls can reach.

Inaction Injunction

Sorcery

Detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Draw a card.

"To prevent action is to prevent transgression."
-Azorius Arrester motto

Incendiary Command

Sorcery

Choose two - Incendiary Command deals 4 damage to target player; or Incendiary Command deals 2 damage to each creature; or destroy target nonbasic land; or each player discards all the cards in his or her hand, then draws that many cards.

Incite Hysteria

Sorcery

Radiance - Until end of turn, target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain "This creature can't block."

"The Boros say they want to bring order to Ravnica. Funny then, how well they use chaos."
-Trigori, Azorius senator

Incoming!

Sorcery

Each player searches his or her library for any number of artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and lands and puts those cards into play. Each player shuffles his or her library afterwards.

Increasing Ambition

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. If Increasing Ambition was cast from a graveyard, instead search your library for two cards and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

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

Increasing Confusion

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If Increasing Confusion was cast from a graveyard, that player puts twice that many cards into his or her graveyard instead.

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

Increasing Devotion

Sorcery

Put five 1/1 white Human creature tokens onto the battlefield. If Increasing Devotion was cast from a graveyard, put ten of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.

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

Increasing Savagery

Sorcery

Put five +1/+1 counters on target creature. If Increasing Savagery was cast from a graveyard, put ten +1/+1 counters on that creature instead.

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

Incremental Blight

Sorcery

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, two -1/-1 counters on another target creature, and three -1/-1 counters on a third target creature.

Shadowmoor's main crops are rot, slime, and despair.

Incremental Growth

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature, two +1/+1 counters on another target creature, and three +1/+1 counters on a third target creature.

"Tie a mouse under a bridge, and your cabbages will triple in size."
-Kithkin superstition

Index

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"What good is having all the right answers if you have them at all the wrong times?"

Infernal Contract

Sorcery

Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.

"But I signed nothing!"
-Taraneh, Suq'Ata mage

Infernal Harvest

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Infernal Harvest, return X Swamps you control to their owner's hand.

Infernal Harvest deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

"I offered you eternal life; I just didn't say where."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Infernal Plunge

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Infernal Plunge, sacrifice a creature.

Add to your mana pool.

"Oh mighty Griselbrand, Scourge of the Heedless World, gladly I consume myself for thee!"

Infernal Tutor

Sorcery

Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Hellbent - If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Infest

Sorcery

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

"This is why we don't go out in banewasp weather."
-Rannon, Vithian holdout

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."

Innocent Blood

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices a creature.

Zombies mourn for the living and celebrate those who will soon be given the gift of death.

Inquisition

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. Inquisition deals damage to that player equal to the number of white cards in his or her hand.

Many of those entrusted to Primata Delphine's care tended to express themselves with screams.

Inquisition of Kozilek

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.

You will scream out your innermost secrets just to make it stop.

Insist

Sorcery

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

Draw a card.

"Finesse is no match for brute force."
-Seton, centaur druid

Insurrection

Sorcery

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

"Maybe they wanted to be on the winning side for once."
-Matoc, lavamancer

Interpret the Signs

Sorcery

Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Draw cards equal to that card's converted mana cost. (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.)

Into the Maw of Hell

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Into the Maw of Hell deals 13 damage to target creature.

Few entrances lead to where demons and devils lurk. Unfortunately, they occasionally open new ones.

Into the North

Sorcery

Search your library for a snow land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"Our border lands fall under the grip of Heidar's second winter. Go forth and reclaim them for Yavimaya."
-Kaysa, elder druid of the Juniper Order

Into the Void

Sorcery

Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.

"The cathars have their swords, the inquisitors their axes. I prefer the ‘diplomatic' approach."
-Terhold, archmage of Drunau

Inundate

Sorcery

Return all nonblue creatures to their owners' hands.

"For years, the landfolk have emptied their refuse into the waters. It's time to return the favor."

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.

Invincible Hymn

Sorcery

Count the number of cards in your library. Your life total becomes that number.

Bantians believe those who are born into the highest caste and live a life of discipline and virtue can ascend to become angels.

Invoke the Firemind

Sorcery

Choose one - Draw X cards; or Invoke the Firemind deals X damage to target creature or player.

To those in tune with the Firemind, there is no difference between knowledge and flame.

Iona's Judgment

Sorcery

Exile target creature or enchantment.

Beneath the gaze of angels, only the righteous may stand without fear.

Irresistible Prey

Sorcery

Target creature must be blocked this turn if able.

Draw a card.

The baloth's instincts boiled, its muscles pulled taut, and its razor-spines bristled, as it turned to face-a runt meepling.

Jagged Lightning

Sorcery

Jagged Lightning deals 3 damage to each of two target creatures.

The pungent smell of roasting flesh made both mages realize they'd rather break for dinner than fight.

Jarad's Orders

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two creature cards and reveal them. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

"The Izzet are searching for something. Discern what or die trying."

Jaws of Stone

Sorcery

Jaws of Stone deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players, where X is the number of Mountains you control as you cast Jaws of Stone.

When giants find their mountain homes infested, they have a whole range of solutions.

Jokulhaups

Sorcery

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

"The raging waters had swept away trees, bridges, and even houses. My healers had much work to do."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Journey of Discovery

Sorcery

Choose one - Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library; or you may play up to two additional lands this turn.

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

Jovial Evil

Sorcery

Jovial Evil deals X damage to target opponent, where X is twice the number of white creatures that player controls.

"Today, for a lark, let's visit the plains. I'm sure we'll find something to entertain us."

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

Juxtapose

Sorcery

You and target player exchange control of the creature you each control with the highest converted mana cost. Then exchange control of artifacts the same way. If two or more permanents a player controls are tied for highest cost, their controller chooses one of them.

Kaboom!

Sorcery

Choose any number of target players. For each of those players, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Kaboom deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to that player, then you put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Kaervek's Hex

Sorcery

Kaervek's Hex deals 1 damage to each nonblack creature and an additional 1 damage to each green creature.

"If the curse does not strike you dead, question your soul."
-Kaervek

Kaervek's Purge

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with converted mana cost X. If that creature dies this way, Kaervek's Purge deals damage equal to the creature's power to the creature's controller.

Kaervek's Torch

Sorcery

As long as Kaervek's Torch is on the stack, spells that target it cost more to cast.

Kaervek's Torch deals X damage to target creature or player.

The pulsing heat of the midday Sun burns in the Lion's eye.
-Stone inscription, source unknown

Kamahl's Sledge

Sorcery

Kamahl's Sledge deals 4 damage to target creature.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead Kamahl's Sledge deals 4 damage to that creature and 4 damage to that creature's controller.

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.

Kiku's Shadow

Sorcery

Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

"Me? No, I'm not going to kill you. I won't even lay a finger on you. I promise."
-Kiku, Night's Flower

Killing Wave

Sorcery

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless he or she pays X life.

"I come looking for demons and I find a plane full of angels. I hate angels."
-Liliana Vess

Kin-Tree Invocation

Sorcery

Put an X/X black and green Spirit Warrior creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

The passing years add new rings to the tree's trunk, bolstering the spirits that dwell within.

Kindle the Carnage

Sorcery

Discard a card at random. If you do, Kindle the Carnage deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to each creature. You may repeat this process any number of times.

"Start knockin' heads, boys, and don't stop 'til the ragamuffyn sings!"