Grim Reminder

Instant

Search your library for a nonland card and reveal it. Each opponent who cast a card this turn with the same name as that card loses 6 life. Then shuffle your library.

: Return Grim Reminder from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Wail of the Nim

Instant

Choose one - Regenerate each creature you control; or Wail of the Nim deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

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

Incite War

Instant

Choose one - Creatures target player controls attack this turn if able; or creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn.

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

Metal Fatigue

Instant

Tap all artifacts.

The Auriok have fought the metal hordes for so long now that knowing how to cripple them has become an instinct.

Pulse of the Fields

Instant

You gain 4 life. Then if an opponent has more life than you, return Pulse of the Fields to its owner's hand.

Before religion or civilization, there was order.

Machinate

Instant

Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of artifacts you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

As long as there are questions to be asked, the vedalken will ask them.

Magnetic Flux

Instant

Artifact creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

After the researcher's astonishing success, his assistants spent six hours finding a way to return the specimens safely to the ground.

Pulse of the Grid

Instant

Draw two cards, then discard a card. Then if an opponent has more cards in hand than you, return Pulse of the Grid to its owner's hand.

Before labs or lectures, there was insight.

Second Sight

Instant

Choose one - Look at the top five cards of target opponent's library, then put them back in any order; or look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

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

Vex

Instant

Counter target spell. That spell's controller may draw a card.

"The druids would be better off if they spent more time in the lab and less time watching trees grow."
-Pontifex, elder researcher

Barbed Lightning

Instant

Choose one - Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature; or Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target player.

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

Every creature on Mirrodin is a lightning rod.

Pulse of the Forge

Instant

Pulse of the Forge deals 4 damage to target player. Then if that player has more life than you, return Pulse of the Forge to its owner's hand.

Before wars or weapons, there was anger.

Unforge

Instant

Destroy target Equipment. If that Equipment was attached to a creature, Unforge deals 2 damage to that creature.

Compared to the fire of the forge, the strength of steel is nothing.

Armed Response

Instant

Armed Response deals damage to target attacking creature equal to the number of Equipment you control.

Raksha watched as the goblins continued to pour onto the Razor Fields. "They just don't know when to stop, do they?"

Vanquish

Instant

Destroy target blocking creature.

"All beings have an inner light. Let me show you yours."
-Ushanti, leonin seer

Ferocious Charge

Instant

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

Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Hold the Line

Instant

Blocking creatures get +7/+7 until end of turn.

"Forgive me, Master Kami, but in the interest of my people I must halt your advance."

Hinder

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put that card on the top or bottom of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

"Do not react to force in kind. Turn it aside. Direct it to where it can do no harm."
-Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Lifted by Clouds

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Sift Through Sands

Instant - Arcane

Draw two cards, then discard a card.

If you've cast a spell named Peer Through Depths and a spell named Reach Through Mists this turn, you may search your library for a card named The Unspeakable, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Thoughtbind

Instant

Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or less.

"As the rest of the mortal world waged war, Lady Azami and her students invaded tomes of knowledge. Their search yielded spells critical in the fight."
-Observations of the Kami War

Rend Flesh

Instant - Arcane

Destroy target non-Spirit creature.

"The Reito Massacre was a testament to the kami's unstoppable power. The human defenders might as well have been moths battling a forest fire."
-Great Battles of Kamigawa

Rend Spirit

Instant

Destroy target Spirit.

"The battle at Ganzan Pass was a testament to human endurance. The untrained and frightened group escaped three legions of kami, leaving more than their share of slain foes in their wake."
-Great Battles of Kamigawa

Hanabi Blast

Instant

Hanabi Blast deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Return Hanabi Blast to its owner's hand, then discard a card at random.

The most powerful of akki fire spells were developed at the cost of blood, toil, tears, sweat, and usually a nose or two.

Strange Inversion

Instant - Arcane

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Yamabushi's Flame

Instant

Yamabushi's Flame deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Toils of Night and Day

Instant - Arcane

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

"The war sent Kamigawa into turmoil. Here it was spring and there winter. For some, time stood still, while for others, moments flashed past like minnows in a pond."
-Observations of the Kami War

Horobi's Whisper

Instant - Arcane

If you control a Swamp, destroy target nonblack creature.

Splice onto Arcane-Exile four cards from your graveyard. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Aura Barbs

Instant - Arcane

Each enchantment deals 2 damage to its controller, then each Aura attached to a creature deals 2 damage to the creature it's attached to.

Flames of the Blood Hand

Instant

Flames of the Blood Hand deals 4 damage to target player. The damage can't be prevented. If that player would gain life this turn, that player gains no life instead.

Many ogres extracted blood oaths from the oni they summoned. Others simply extracted blood.

Roar of Jukai

Instant - Arcane

If you control a Forest, each blocked creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Splice onto Arcane-An opponent gains 5 life. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Unchecked Growth

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. If it's a Spirit, it gains trample until end of turn.

"That energy was once granted to growing things. Now the kami keep it for themselves, releasing it in sudden floods that overwhelm flesh and foliage alike."
-Sakiko, Mother of Summer

Oppressive Will

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays for each card in your hand.

When Minamo was abandoned, its younger students found themselves thrust into a war beyond their skill with talents beyond their control.

Barrel Down Sokenzan

Instant - Arcane

Sweep - Return any number of Mountains you control to their owner's hand. Barrel Down Sokenzan deals damage to target creature equal to twice the number of Mountains returned this way.

Path of Anger's Flame

Instant - Arcane

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Walking the path of the kami only leaves you with singed feet."
-Soratami saying

Inner Calm, Outer Strength

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

The ghostly objects around the kami circled faster and faster, creating a dizzying cyclone of motion. When it opened its eyes, it struck.

Rending Vines

Instant - Arcane

Destroy target artifact or enchantment if its converted mana cost is less than or equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Draw a card.

Boros Fury-Shield

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking or blocking creature this turn. If was spent to cast Boros Fury-Shield, it deals damage to that creature's controller equal to the creature's power.

Devouring Light

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Exile target attacking or blocking creature.

Into the light the good are welcomed, and with the light the evil are banished.

Convolute

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

The words came to the sorcerer's lips but refused to budge any further.

Char

Instant

Char deals 4 damage to target creature or player and 2 damage to you.

Izzet mages often acquire their magic reagents from dubious sources, so the potency of their spells is never predictable.

Chord of Calling

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost X or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Sundering Vitae

Instant

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

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Centuries of wind, rain, and roots compressed into an instant of destruction: such is the power of Selesnya.

Congregation at Dawn

Instant

Search your library for up to three creature cards and reveal them. Shuffle your library, then put those cards on top of it in any order.

"It is fitting that we meet in the first hour of light, for we are called by the Conclave to pierce a threat of darkness."

Perplex

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller discards his or her hand.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Putrefy

Instant

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

"All matter, animate or not, rots when exposed to time. We merely speed up the process."
-Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer

Rally the Righteous

Instant

Radiance - Untap target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it. Those creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Yuri took up the ragged Boros banner, and his brethren, inspired by the act, followed him back into the fight.

Ghostway

Instant

Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"I watched its blade swing through me, but I was hollow, empty. I saw its face contort in rage but could not hear it snarl."
-Klattic, Boros legionnaire

Withstand

Instant

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Draw a card.

"Defense is as much a part of war as offense, the shield as important a tool as the sword."
-Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Runeboggle

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Draw a card.

"Ever try to count hyperactive schoolchildren while someone shouts random numbers in your ear? It's like that."
-Geetra, frustrated mage

Thunderheads

Instant

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)

Put a 3/3 blue Weird creature token with defender and flying onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

The clouds grew thick, and then they grew teeth.

Douse in Gloom

Instant

Douse in Gloom deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Orzhov prisoners are steeped in a blackened brew that robs their souls of strength. Patriarchs drink that brew to extend their own lives.

Crash Landing

Instant

Target creature with flying loses flying until end of turn. Crash Landing deals damage to that creature equal to the number of Forests you control.

"The other guilds think they're untouchable. It's time we brought them back down to earth."
-Ghut Rak, Gruul guildmage

Wildsize

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

Draw a card.

Two times the size, four times the smell.

Cerebral Vortex

Instant

Target player draws two cards, then Cerebral Vortex deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards he or she has drawn this turn.

Izzet brains and Izzet boilers: contents under pressure.

Electrolyze

Instant

Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two target creatures and/or players.

Draw a card.

The Izzet learn something from every lesson they teach.

Mortify

Instant

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Schismotivate

Instant

Target creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.

Steeling Stance

Instant

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

Forecast - , Reveal Steeling Stance from your hand: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Flash Foliage

Instant

Cast Flash Foliage only during combat after blockers are declared.

Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield blocking target creature attacking you.

Draw a card.

"This undemanding vegetation takes root in a mote of dust but grows incredibly quickly."
-Simic research notes

Cytoshape

Instant

Choose a nonlegendary creature on the battlefield. Target creature becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn.

"Though highly effective at reshaping flesh, these specially bred cytoplasts leave the subject reeking of omnibian mucus."
-Simic research notes

Voidslime

Instant

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

"It is technically an ooze, but its lifespan measures only seconds. In that short time, its appetite for magic is extraordinary."
-Simic research notes

Hit (Hit/Run)

Instant

Target player sacrifices an artifact or creature. Hit deals damage to that player equal to that permanent's converted mana cost.

Fortify

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn; or creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

"Where metal is tainted and wood is scarce, we are best armed by faith."
-Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Bewilder

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"Teferi snapped his fingers, and the viashino started clucking like a chicken. Silly, yes, but exactly the thing we needed to break the stifling tension."
-Jhoira, master artificer

Wipe Away

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

An eyeblink later, all that remained of the tree-beast was the breeze of its momentum.

Strangling Soot

Instant

Destroy target creature with toughness 3 or less.

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

"What good is your blade without your breath?"
-Greht, Gathan warlord

Sudden Death

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

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

Some mages tapped into the time rifts, forcing upon others alternate timelines in which unimaginable horrors befall them.

Sudden Spoiling

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Orcish Cannonade

Instant

Orcish Cannonade deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 3 damage to you.

Draw a card.

"Crispy! Scarback! Load another volcano-ball."
-Stumphobbler Thuj, Orcish captain

Reiterate

Instant

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

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

"Echoes of the Mirari's power yet linger."
-Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Krosan Grip

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Give up these unnatural weapons, these scrolls. Heart and mind and fist are enough."
-Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Erratic Mutation

Instant

Choose target creature. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. That creature gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is that card's converted mana cost. Put all cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Kor Dirge

Instant

All damage that would be dealt this turn to target creature you control by a source of your choice is dealt to another target creature instead.

Rath's new evincar eliminated the brutish moggs and took a new slave race, one more reminiscent of her own feline grace.

Fatal Frenzy

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains trample and gets +X/+0, where X is its power. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

"I hope to have such a death-lying in triumph upon the broken bodies of those who slew me."
-Radha, Keldon warlord

Dust of Moments

Instant

Choose one - Remove two time counters from each permanent and each suspended card; or put two time counters on each permanent with a time counter on it and each suspended card.

Even the Odds

Instant

Cast Even the Odds only if you control fewer creatures than each opponent.

Put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"They who fall singing the battle hymn of Benalia go not unavenged."
-Adom Capashen, Benalish commander

Venser's Diffusion

Instant

Return target nonland permanent or suspended card to its owner's hand.

"Each reality is but the dream of another, and each sleeper a god unknowing."

Ghostfire

Instant

Ghostfire is colorless.

Ghostfire deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Only those gifted with the eye of Ugin, the spirit dragon, can see his fiery breath.

Spell Crumple

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard. Put Spell Crumple on the bottom of its owner's library.

Chaos Warp

Instant

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into his or her library, then reveals the top card of his or her library. If it's a permanent card, he or she puts it onto the battlefield.

Predator's Rapport

Instant

Choose target creature you control. You gain life equal to that creature's power plus its toughness.

"Other guilds say the Gruul are savages, no better than the beasts we live with. I say we've found friends who won't stab us in the back."
-Domri Rade

Massive Raid

Instant

Massive Raid deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of creatures you control.

"The Boros lack vision. Give them a convenient scapegoat and they'll be blind to the true threats."
-Lazav

Psychic Strike

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Until more information could be gleaned about Niv-Mizzet's intentions, Lazav took every opportunity to stall his experiments.

Arrows of Justice

Instant

Arrows of Justice deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Archers from the Horizon Military Academy hone their skills by targeting pickpockets blocks away.

Hindervines

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures with no +1/+1 counters on them.

"Woodlands and laws. Both grow faster than the Azorius's ability to manage them."
-Suniel the Woodwise

Riot Control

Instant

You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

"Ravnicans need order. If they don't have it, we shall bring it to them."
-Isperia

Crypt Incursion

Instant

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

The Golgari maze-runner Varolz hungers to prove his fortitude in battle, and his trail of victims feeds other hungers.

Dragonshift

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a 4/4 blue and red Dragon, loses all abilities, and gains flying.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Render Silent

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

"We have confiscated your spells as evidence. Once we conclude our investigation, you may petition to have them returned."

Restore the Peace

Instant

Return each creature that dealt damage this turn to its owner's hand.

"You can always count on the Azorius to ruin a party."
-Massacre Girl

Showstopper

Instant

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature an opponent controls."

The audience quickly realized a few things: it wasn't a magic trick, there wasn't candy in there, and they'd need new clothes.

Protect (Protect/Serve)

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+4 until end of turn.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Ready (Ready/Willing)

Instant

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Untap each creature you control.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Turn (Turn/Burn)

Instant

Target creature loses all abilities and becomes a 0/1 red Weird until end of turn.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Grim Return

Instant

Choose target creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

The necromancer's touch strips away memory and loyalty, and only strength and malice remain.

Dauntless Onslaught

Instant

Up to two target creatures each get +2/+2 until end of turn.

"The people of Akros must learn from our leonin adversaries. If we match their staunch ferocity with our superior faith, we cannot fail."
-Cymede, queen of Akros

Ray of Dissolution

Instant

Destroy target enchantment. You gain 3 life.

The works of one god last only as long as the patience of another.

Dissolve

Instant

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

"You thought only the gods could stop you?"

Hero's Downfall

Instant

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Destiny exalts a chosen few, but even heroes break.