Psychic Transfer

Sorcery

If the difference between your life total and target player's life total is 5 or less, exchange life totals with that player.

"The memory of your existence will fade like the final stars of morning."
-Kaervek

Relearn

Sorcery

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

"Barrin taught me that the hardest lessons to grasp are the ones you've already learned."
-Ertai, wizard adept

Tidal Surge

Sorcery

Tap up to three target creatures without flying.

"It is nature that gives us our boundaries and nature that enforces them."
-Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Ashen Powder

Sorcery

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"What you call decay, I call ripening. You'll gain no sustenance from this harvest."
-Kaervek

Doomsday

Sorcery

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Dry Spell

Sorcery

Dry Spell deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

"Wherever water is lacking, all things suffer."
-Autumn Willow

Infernal Contract

Sorcery

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

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

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

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

Stupor

Sorcery

Target opponent discards a card at random, then discards a card.

There are medicines for all afflictions but idleness.
-Suq'Ata saying

Syphon Soul

Sorcery

Syphon Soul deals 2 damage to each other player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Fit of Rage

Sorcery

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

"Anger is fleeting; remorse is eternal."
-Karn, silver golem

Hammer of Bogardan

Sorcery

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

: Return Hammer of Bogardan from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

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.)

Pillage

Sorcery

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

Tremor

Sorcery

Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

"Where do you run when the earth becomes your enemy?"
-Naimag, Femeref philosopher

Elven Cache

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Elves know where to harvest the best of the forest, for they planted it there themselves.

Fallow Earth

Sorcery

Put target land on top of its owner's library.

". . . and when the farmer awoke the next morning, all the seeds from his field were once again in their sacks."
-Afari, Tales

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"

Waiting in the Weeds

Sorcery

Each player puts a 1/1 green Cat creature token onto the battlefield for each untapped Forest he or she controls.

The trees have ears, eyes, and teeth.

Breath of Life

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Nothing can stop the power of life-not even death."
-Onean cleric

Gerrard's Wisdom

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

A picture is worth a thousand swords.

Purify

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

"We have no need for these trinkets. We need only the strength of our swords and the virtue of our hearts."
-The Northern Paladin

Starlight

Sorcery

You gain 3 life for each black creature target opponent controls.

"Even in the darkest night
Stars and angels still shine bright."
-Onean children's rhyme

Vengeance

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

"It is the duty of the strong to oppose any who threaten the weak."
-The Southern Paladin

Befoul

Sorcery

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

The bog's touch means death to all but the darkest of hearts.

Dregs of Sorrow

Sorcery

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

"We live for a thousand years. The death of even one brings untold sorrow."
-Elvish elder

Fugue

Sorcery

Target player discards three cards.

"It's hard to keep our own troops from fleeing when he's like this. How can our foes possibly stand against him?"
-Field marshal for the Eastern Paladin

Nausea

Sorcery

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

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

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."

Reprocess

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, creatures, and/or lands. Draw a card for each permanent sacrificed this way.

The battle's end is the meal's beginning.

Disorder

Sorcery

Disorder deals 2 damage to each white creature and each player who controls a white creature.

"Fire hurts them almost as much as the chaos that follows. Almost."
-The Western Paladin

Monstrous Growth

Sorcery

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

Get in touch with your inner monster.

Squall

Sorcery

Squall deals 2 damage to each creature with flying.

"May the winds blow till they have wakened death. . . ."
-William Shakespeare,
Othello

Wing Snare

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with flying.

The elves long ago mastered the art of hunting with nets. They call it "fishing the sky."

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

Balance of Power

Sorcery

If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

"To empty your mind is to fill your grave."
-Lat-Nam teaching

Bribery

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

In Mercadia City, loyalties extend only as far as your purse can stretch.

Merchant Scroll

Sorcery

Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Lat-Nam wizards trade knowledge on scrolls made of magic so they can better guard against thieves and spies.

Ambition's Cost

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

"Knowledge demands sacrifice."

Sever Soul

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You gain life equal to its toughness.

"The mortal world is a grove of sweet fruit, and I am ready to harvest it."
-Fallen angel

Vicious Hunger

Sorcery

Vicious Hunger deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Only the most ravenous soul feeds on the health of the weak.

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

Sizzle

Sorcery

Sizzle deals 3 damage to each opponent.

"Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire."
-Jaya Ballard, task mage

Thieves' Auction

Sorcery

Exile all nontoken permanents. Starting with you, each player chooses one of the exiled cards and puts it onto the battlefield tapped under his or her control. Repeat this process until all cards exiled this way have been chosen.

Collective Unconscious

Sorcery

Draw a card for each creature you control.

"The beasts of the wild are my senses. It is through their eyes that all knowledge shall come to me."

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

Metamorphosis

Sorcery

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

Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is one plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Shahrazad

Sorcery

Players play a MAGIC subgame, using their libraries as their decks. Each player who doesn't win the subgame loses half his or her life, rounded up.

Drafna's Restoration

Sorcery

Return any number of target artifact cards from target player's graveyard to the top of his or her library in any order.

Drafna, founder of the College of Lat-Nam, could create a working model from even the smallest remnants of a newly unearthed artifact.

Transmute Artifact

Sorcery

Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card's converted mana cost is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost, put it onto the battlefield. If it's greater, you may pay , where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

All Hallow's Eve

Sorcery

Exile All Hallow's Eve with two scream counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if All Hallow's Eve is exiled with a scream counter on it, remove a scream counter from it. If there are no more scream counters on it, put it into your graveyard and each player returns all creature cards from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

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

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."

Acid Rain

Sorcery

Destroy all Forests.

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

Psychic Purge

Sorcery

Psychic Purge deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Psychic Purge, that player loses 5 life.

Eureka

Sorcery

Starting with you, each player may put a permanent card from his or her hand onto the battlefield. Repeat this process until no one puts a card onto the battlefield.

Typhoon

Sorcery

Typhoon deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of Islands that player controls.

Fierce winds ripped across the tropical landscape. What they did not destroy with their fiery breath was washed away by torrential rain.

Chain Lightning

Sorcery

Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Then that player or that creature's controller may pay . If the player does, he or she may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Falling Star

Sorcery

Flip Falling Star onto the playing area from a height of at least one foot. Falling Star deals 3 damage to each creature it lands on. Tap all creatures dealt damage by Falling Star. If Falling Star doesn't turn completely over at least once during the flip, it has no effect.

Cleanse

Sorcery

Destroy all black creatures.

The clouds broke and the sun's rays burst forth; each foul beast in its turn faltered, and was gone.

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.

Amnesia

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all nonland cards.

"When one has witnessed the unspeakable, 'tis sometimes better to forget." -Vervamon the Elder

Eternal Flame

Sorcery

Eternal Flame deals X damage to target opponent, where X is the number of Mountains you control. It deals half X damage, rounded up, to you.

Cleansing

Sorcery

For each land, destroy that land unless any player pays 1 life.

Martyr's Cry

Sorcery

Exile all white creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller draws a card.

"It is only fitting that one such as I should die in pursuit of knowledge." -Vervamon the Elder

Tivadar's Crusade

Sorcery

Destroy all Goblins.

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

Soul Exchange

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Soul Exchange, exile a creature you control.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +2/+2 counter on that creature if the exiled creature was a Thrull.

Gaze of Pain

Sorcery

Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may choose to have it deal damage equal to its power to a target creature. If you do, it assigns no combat damage this turn.

Remove the guardians to ensure your victory.

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

Soul Burn

Sorcery

Spend only black and/or red mana on X.

Soul Burn deals X damage to target creature or player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more than the amount of spent on X, the player's life total before Soul Burn dealt damage, or the creature's toughness.

Spoils of War

Sorcery

X is the number of artifact and/or creature cards in an opponent's graveyard as you cast Spoils of War.

Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures.

"This is the fun part!"
-Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician

Stench of Evil

Sorcery

Destroy all Plains. For each land destroyed this way, Stench of Evil deals 1 damage to that land's controller unless he or she pays .

Essence Filter

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments or all nonwhite enchantments.

"Freyalise has cleansed our bodies and minds of the plagues of Kjeldor; all she asks in return is that we keep pure our newly given home in Fyndhorn."
-Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Forgotten Lore

Sorcery

Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay . If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Forgotten Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.

In ashes are the gems of history.

Stunted Growth

Sorcery

Target player chooses three cards from his or her hand and puts them on top of his or her library in any order.

Thermokarst

Sorcery

Destroy target land. If that land was a snow land, you gain 1 life.

"Finally we understand the lesson of our home: loss begets renewal."
-Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Anarchy

Sorcery

Destroy all white permanents.

"The Shaman waved the staff, and the land itself went mad."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Avalanche

Sorcery

Destroy X target snow lands.

"The pass was completely blocked by the avalanche; we're forced to turn back. Nevertheless, we've gone farther and seen more than any before us."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Lava Burst

Sorcery

Lava Burst deals X damage to target creature or player. If Lava Burst would deal damage to a creature, that damage can't be prevented or dealt instead to another creature or player.

"Overkill? This isn't a game of Kick-the-Ouphe!"
-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Meteor Shower

Sorcery

Meteor Shower deals X plus 1 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

"Eenie, meenie, minie, moe . . . oh, why not all of them?"
-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Altar of Bone

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Altar of Bone, sacrifice a creature.

Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Diabolic Vision

Sorcery

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

"I have seen the true path. I will not warm myself by the fire-I will become the flame."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Fiery Justice

Sorcery

Fiery Justice deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Target opponent gains 5 life.

"The fire of justice burns like nothing else." -Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Fumarole

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Fumarole, pay 3 life.

Destroy target creature and target land.

"Too many of us have died in the explosions that wrack these hills."
-Klazina Jansdotter, Leader of the Order of the Sacred Torch

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

Baki's Curse

Sorcery

Baki's Curse deals 2 damage to each creature for each Aura attached to that creature.

"Those who fling spells too quickly should have reason to regret it."
-Baki, Wizard Attendant

An-Havva Inn

Sorcery

You gain X plus 1 life, where X is the number of green creatures on the battlefield.

"The Inn was ever a steady source of good cheer and kindness. Greatly do I miss it, now that I am gone."
-Ihsan's Shade

Renewal

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Renewal, sacrifice a land.

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

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

Evaporate

Sorcery

Evaporate deals 1 damage to each white and/or blue creature.

"The body is a temple with a foundation of sand."
-Autumn Willow

Retribution

Sorcery

Choose two target creatures an opponent controls. That player chooses and sacrifices one of those creatures. Put a -1/-1 counter on the other.

Winter Sky

Sorcery

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, Winter Sky deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. If you lose the flip, each player draws a card.

Leeches

Sorcery

Target player loses all poison counters. Leeches deals that much damage to that player.

"Where our potions and powders fail, perhaps nature will succeed."
-Reyhan, Samite Alchemist

Prophecy

Sorcery

Reveal the top card of target opponent's library. If it's a land, you gain 1 life. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

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

Fatal Lore

Sorcery

An opponent chooses one - You draw three cards; or you destroy up to two target creatures that opponent controls and that player draws up to three cards. Those creatures can't be regenerated.

"All knowledge has its price."
-Gerda Äagesdotter,
Archmage of the Unseen

Ritual of the Machine

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Ritual of the Machine, sacrifice a creature.

Gain control of target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

"Rumors persist of dark deeds performed in the depths of Soldev. When will Dagsson heed the danger therein?"
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Foresight

Sorcery

Search your library for three cards, exile them, then shuffle your library.

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

Taste of Paradise

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Taste of Paradise, you may pay any number of times.

You gain 3 life plus an additional 3 life for each additional you paid.

"Any who drink of Freyalise's bounty drink the mead of rebirth."
-Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order