Spell BlastInstantCounter target spell with converted mana cost X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is , X is 5.)
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ThoughtlaceInstantTarget spell or permanent becomes blue. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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TwiddleInstantYou may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.
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BerserkInstantCast Berserk only before the combat damage step.
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CamouflageInstantCast Camouflage only during your declare attackers step.
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LifelaceInstantTarget spell or permanent becomes green. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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Natural SelectionInstantLook 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.
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ChaoslaceInstantTarget spell or permanent becomes red. (Its mana symbols remain unchanged.)
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False OrdersInstantCast False Orders only during the declare blockers step.
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ForkInstantCopy target instant or sorcery spell, except that the copy is red. You may choose new targets for the copy.
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Red Elemental BlastInstantChoose one - Counter target blue spell; or destroy target blue permanent.
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TunnelInstantDestroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.
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Blaze of GloryInstantCast Blaze of Glory only during combat before blockers are declared.
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Death WardInstantRegenerate target creature.
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DisenchantInstantDestroy target artifact or enchantment.
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Guardian AngelInstantPrevent 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.
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Healing SalveInstantChoose one - Target player gains 3 life; or prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.
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PurelaceInstantTarget spell or permanent becomes white. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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Swords to PlowsharesInstantExile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
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CrumbleInstantDestroy 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. |
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Eye for an EyeInstantThe 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.
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Reverse PolarityInstantYou gain X life, where X is twice the damage dealt to you so far this turn by artifacts.
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Marsh GasInstantAll creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn. "Comes right outta th' ground. If ya can smell it, it's too late." |
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SandstormInstantSandstorm 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. |
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Blood LustInstantIf 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.
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FissureInstantDestroy target creature or land. It can't be regenerated. "Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?" |
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InfernoInstantInferno 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." |
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Alabaster PotionInstantChoose 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." |
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MoraleInstantAttacking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn. "After Lacjsi's speech, the Knights grew determined to crush their ancient enemies clan by clan." |
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PietyInstantBlocking 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." |
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Broken VisageInstantDestroy 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.
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DeflectionInstantChange the target of target spell with a single target. Up and down, |
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EnervateInstantTap target artifact, creature, or land. "Worlds turn in crucial moments of decision. Make your choice." |
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Force SpikeInstantCounter target spell unless its controller pays . "Unknown spears / Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes . . . ." |
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HydroblastInstantChoose 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." |
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Memory LapseInstantCounter 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." |
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UpdraftInstantTarget creature gains flying until end of turn. "Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." |
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FoxfireInstantUntap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn. "Only the foolish fear foxfire." |
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ShrinkInstantTarget 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." |
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StampedeInstantAttacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn. "When are beasts like a river?" |
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Dwarven CatapultInstantDwarven 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." |
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FlareInstantFlare deals 1 damage to target creature or player. The secret of destruction is simple: everything burns. |
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PanicInstantCast Panic only during combat before blockers are declared.
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PyroblastInstantChoose one - Counter target spell if it's blue; or destroy target permanent if it's blue. "Just the thing for those pesky water mages." |
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Word of BlastingInstantDestroy 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?" |
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Blessed WineInstantYou gain 1 life. "Out there, there are spirits, but here, there is wine." |
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HealInstantPrevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. "Sometimes even the smallest boon can save a life." |
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Sacred BoonInstantPrevent 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." |
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Shield WallInstantCreatures 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. |
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TruceInstantEach 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. |
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Enlightened TutorInstantSearch 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." |
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ExileInstantExile target nonwhite attacking creature. You gain life equal to its toughness.
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RemedyInstantPrevent 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." |
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ReprisalInstantDestroy 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." |
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DesertionInstantCounter 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. |
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FlashInstantYou 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 .
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Mystical TutorInstantSearch 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." |
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Fatal BlowInstantDestroy 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?" |
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Vampiric TutorInstantSearch 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." |
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BoilInstantDestroy all Islands. "The fishers will throw out their nets and draw them back filled with dust." |
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Final FortuneInstantTake an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game. Want all, lose all. |
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Lightning BlastInstantLightning Blast deals 4 damage to target creature or player. "Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do." |
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VertigoInstantVertigo 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." |
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VitalizeInstantUntap all creatures you control. "After waking to the magic of Llanowar, no dreams can compare." |
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Worldly TutorInstantSearch 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." |
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Blessed ReversalInstantYou gain 3 life for each creature attacking you. "A battle's outcome is never certain." |
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HibernationInstantReturn all green permanents to their owners' hands. The deep sleep of winter is not always restful. |
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OpportunityInstantTarget player draws four cards. Little things like morals shouldn't hinder one's ambition. |
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Tolarian WindsInstantDiscard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards. Why not ask the winds? |
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NecrologiaInstantCast Necrologia only during your end step.
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Nocturnal RaidInstantBlack 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. |
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RedeemInstantPrevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to up to two target creatures. "Let me redeem my brothers both from death." |
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SolidarityInstantCreatures you control get +0/+5 until end of turn. "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." |
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CatalogInstantDraw 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. |
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Flash CounterInstantCounter target instant spell. "So much for that bright idea" |
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Searing WindInstantSearing Wind deals 10 damage to target creature or player. "The first wind of ascension is Forger, burning away impurity." |
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Army of AllahInstantAttacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn. On the day of victory no one is tired. -Arab proverb |
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Artifact BlastInstantCounter 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. |
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DarknessInstantPrevent 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 |
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Glyph of DoomInstantAt 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 |
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Hell SwarmInstantAll 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. |
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Touch of DarknessInstantAny 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 |
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TransmutationInstantSwitch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn. "You know what I was,/ You see what I am: change me, change me!" |
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Enchantment AlterationInstantAttach target Aura attached to a creature or land to another permanent of that type.
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Flash FloodInstantChoose 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. |
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Glyph of DelusionInstantPut 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."
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Mana DrainInstantCounter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add to your mana pool, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
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ResetInstantCast Reset only during an opponent's turn after his or her upkeep step.
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ReverberationInstantAll damage that would be dealt this turn by target sorcery spell is dealt to that spell's controller instead.
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Sea Kings' BlessingInstantAny number of target creatures become blue until end of turn.
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SilhouetteInstantPrevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn by spells or abilities that target it.
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TelekinesisInstantTap 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.
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TeleportInstantCast Teleport only during the declare attackers step.
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Avoid FateInstantCounter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.
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Glyph of ReincarnationInstantCast Glyph of Reincarnation only after combat.
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ReincarnationInstantChoose 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.
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RustInstantCounter 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" |
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Storm SeekerInstantStorm Seeker deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.
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SubdueInstantPrevent 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.
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Sylvan ParadiseInstantAny number of target creatures become green until end of turn.
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