Kirtar's Wrath

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy all creatures, then put two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Kiss of the Amesha

Sorcery

Target player gains 7 life and draws two cards.

Once a year, Akrasa holds a joust that draws knights and their leotaus from every nation on Bant. The prize is an Akrasan sigil, but the true reward is the angel's kiss.

Knight Watch

Sorcery

Put two 2/2 white Knight creature tokens with vigilance onto the battlefield.

"We lost respect after the battle for Barbu Rooftop. Send the troops to mingle respectfully with the citizens."
-Commander Yaszen of Boros

Knowledge Exploitation

Tribal Sorcery - Rogue

Prowl (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)

Search target opponent's library for an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Kodama's Reach

Sorcery - Arcane

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Krenko's Command

Sorcery

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

Goblins are eager to follow orders, especially when those orders involve stealing, hurting, annoying, eating, destroying, or swearing.

Kruphix's Insight

Sorcery

Reveal the top six cards of your library. Put up to three enchantment cards from among them into your hand and the rest of the revealed cards into your graveyard.

The horizon is tantalizing in both its uncertainty and its potential.

Kuldotha Rebirth

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Kuldotha Rebirth, sacrifice an artifact.

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

All goblin rituals serve a dual purpose as fertility rites, even the destructive ones. Especially the destructive ones.

Lab Rats

Sorcery

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

Put a 1/1 black Rat creature token onto the battlefield.

Lair Delve

Sorcery

Reveal the top two cards of your library. Put all creature and land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The fiends have fled. Well, good riddance. Nothing I like more than an empty lair."

Land Aid '04

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card into play tapped, then shuffle your library. If you sang a song the whole time you were searching and shuffling, you may untap that land.

Land Grant

Sorcery

If you have no land cards in hand, you may reveal your hand rather than pay Land Grant's mana cost.

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

Landbind Ritual

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each Plains you control.

"Honor this place, for our children's children will stand here and speak these same words again."
-Ayli, Kamsa cleric

Landfill

Sorcery

Choose a land type. Remove from play all lands of that type that you control. Drop those cards, one at a time, onto the playing area from a height of at least one foot. Destroy each card in play that is completely covered by those cards. Then return to play, tapped, all lands dropped in this way.

Landslide

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of Mountains. Landslide deals that much damage to target player.

Sometimes the mountain takes.
-Keldon saying

Laquatus's Creativity

Sorcery

Target player draws cards equal to the number of cards in his or her hand, then discards that many cards.

One never knows when inspiration will bubble up.

Last Caress

Sorcery

Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Draw a card.

Last Rites

Sorcery

Discard any number of cards. Target player reveals his or her hand, then you choose a nonland card from it for each card discarded this way. That player discards those cards.

Last Stand

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 2 life for each Swamp you control. Last Stand deals damage equal to the number of Mountains you control to target creature. Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each Forest you control. You gain 2 life for each Plains you control. Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard that many cards.

Last Thoughts

Sorcery

Draw a card.

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.)

Launch the Fleet

Sorcery

Strive - Launch the Fleet costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Until end of turn, any number of target creatures each gain "Whenever this creature attacks, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield tapped and attacking."

Lava Axe

Sorcery

Lava Axe deals 5 damage to target player.

It can chop down a redwood in a single stroke. Your sternum isn't going to fare any better.

Lava Blister

Sorcery

Destroy target nonbasic land unless its controller has Lava Blister deal 6 damage to him or her.

To treat flesh wounds, use earth. To treat earth wounds, use flesh.
-Barbarian saying

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

Lava Spike

Sorcery - Arcane

Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player.

Some kami attacks during the war were rife with trickery, subterfuge, and subtlety, draining hope and pride from the mortal world. Other attacks were a lot more straightforward.

Lavalanche

Sorcery

Lavalanche deals X damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

Alara's burning blood cannot be contained by mere earth and stone.

Lay of the Land

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Victory favors neither the righteous nor the wicked. It favors the prepared.

Lay Waste

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

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

Lead the Stampede

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of creature cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

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

Legerdemain

Sorcery

Exchange control of target artifact or creature and another target permanent that shares one of those types with it. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Squee tucked the warm ball in his pocket and slipped a pebble in its place. ‘Glok,' he mumbled, and hid.

Library of Lat-Nam

Sorcery

An opponent chooses one - You draw three cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep; or you search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Life (Life/Death)

Sorcery

All lands you control become 1/1 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

Life from the Loam

Sorcery

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Life's Finale

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures, then search target opponent's library for up to three creature cards and put them into his or her graveyard. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

The feeble resistance of the flesh is over. Phyrexia spreads its shadow over all.

Life's Legacy

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Life's Legacy, sacrifice a creature.

Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

At the instant of death, the mystery of life.

Lightning Surge

Sorcery

Lightning Surge deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead Lightning Surge deals 6 damage to that creature or player and the damage can't be prevented.

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

Lingering Souls

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

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

The murdered inhabitants of Hollowhenge impart to the living the terror they felt in death.

Liquid Fire

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Liquid Fire, choose a number between 0 and 5.

Liquid Fire deals X damage to target creature and 5 minus X damage to that creature's controller, where X is the chosen number.

There's no such thing as a little bit of lava.

Liturgy of Blood

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Add to your mana pool.

"You harbor such vast potential. It would be such a shame to let you die of old age."-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Living Death

Sorcery

Each player exiles all creature cards from his or her graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures he or she controls, then puts all cards he or she exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Living End

Sorcery

Illus. Greg Staples

Living Wish

Sorcery

You may choose a creature or land card you own from outside the game, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Exile Living Wish.

He wished for growth, but not for a way to control it.

Lobotomy

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand, then you choose a card other than a basic land card from it. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as the chosen card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Look at Me, I'm the DCI

Sorcery

Ban one card, other than a basic land, for the remainder of the match. (For the remainder of the match, each player removes from the game all copies of that card in play or in any graveyard, hand, library, or sideboard.)

Few understand the DCI's rigorous decision-making process.

Lose Calm

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste and menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

A lifetime of discipline forsaken in a moment of rage.

Lost Hours

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player puts that card into his or her library third from the top.

"Your thoughts do not interest me nearly as much as the absence thereof."
-Gorghul, augur of skulls

Lyev Decree

Sorcery

Detain up to two target creatures your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those creatures can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

The Azorius have so many codes and statutes that you're always in violation of one of them.

Macabre Waltz

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

"All dead move to the hollow rhythm of necromancy."
-Savra

Maelstrom Pulse

Sorcery

Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

During the collision of the shards, entire ways of life disappeared without a trace.

Magma Rift

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Magma Rift, sacrifice a land.

Magma Rift deals 5 damage to target creature.

"Lighting a fire needs kindling and heat. You be the kindling. I'll bring the heat."
-Chandra Nalaar

Magmatic Chasm

Sorcery

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

"Our shamans assert their mastery over the land, thwarting the lesser clans' attempts to stand in the way of our dragonlord."
-Allek, Atarka hunter

Make a Wish

Sorcery

Return two cards at random from your graveyard to your hand.

In Gavony wishing is taken as a sign of weakness, yet the wells usually brim with silver.

Mana Clash

Sorcery

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.

Mana Geyser

Sorcery

Add to your mana pool for each tapped land your opponents control.

The Quicksilver Sea hissed and bubbled at the indignity. The Vulshok shaman just smiled.

Mana Seism

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of lands. Add to your mana pool for each land sacrificed this way.

"It is the nature of humanity not to worry about tomorrow, especially when there's a good chance they won't live to see the end of today."
-Kiku, Night's Flower

Mana Severance

Sorcery

Search your library for any number of land cards and exile them. Then shuffle your library.

"And when this land is wasted, where will we go?"
-Thalakos lament

Mana Vapors

Sorcery

Lands target player controls don't untap during his or her next untap step.

The scent of magic can rob you of your senses, blinding you to the world.

Manipulate Fate

Sorcery

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

Draw a card.

Map the Wastes

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

March from the Tomb

Sorcery

Return any number of target Ally creature cards with total converted mana cost 8 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

They came from all walks of life, from every part of Zendikar, and they returned with one unifying cause.

March of Souls

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

March of the Returned

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

The Returned have no memory of the Underworld or of their former lives. The golden masks they wear are the last gifts of the selves they left behind.

Mark for Death

Sorcery

Target creature an opponent controls blocks this turn if able. Untap that creature. Other creatures that player controls can't block this turn.

Everyone roots for the little guy, but nobody bets on him.

Mark of Mutiny

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it and untap it. That creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

The flame of anger is hard to douse once lit.

Marsh Casualties

Sorcery

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

Creatures target player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn. If Marsh Casualties was kicked, those creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn instead.

Marshaling Cry

Sorcery

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

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

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

Martial Coup

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.

Their war forgotten, the nations of Bant stood united in the face of a common threat.

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

Mass Appeal

Sorcery

Draw a card for each Human you control.

"We have emerged triumphant from the darkness. Let our hard-won wisdom guide us to prosperity."

Mass Calcify

Sorcery

Destroy all nonwhite creatures.

The dead serve as their own tombstones.

Mass Mutiny

Sorcery

For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

"What say you, my most trusted advisors? . . . Advisors?"
-Edra, merfolk sovereign

Mass Polymorph

Sorcery

Exile all creatures you control, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal that many creature cards. Put all creature cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.

Massacre

Sorcery

If an opponent controls a Plains and you control a Swamp, you may cast Massacre without paying its mana cost.

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

Master the Way

Sorcery

Draw a card. Master the Way deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of cards in your hand.

"The Way has no beginning and no end. It is simply the path."
-Narset, khan of the Jeskai

Maw of the Mire

Sorcery

Destroy target land. You gain 4 life.

As the chapel was dragged under, the bell in the tower rang until the murky depths forever silenced its toll.

Melt Terrain

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Melt Terrain deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Just as the most finely wrought metal can warp and rust, so too does Mirrodin buckle under pressures from without and within.

Meltdown

Sorcery

Destroy each artifact with converted mana cost X or less.

Catastrophes happened so often at the mana rig that the viashino language had a special word to describe them.

Memoricide

Sorcery

Name a nonland card. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

"You claim wisdom, yet I see nothing in here but tawdry wishes."

Memory Sluice

Sorcery

Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

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.)

Mental Agony

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards and loses 2 life.

"His mind is feeble. Feed him to the bats."

Mental Vapors

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

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.)

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.

Merciless Eviction

Sorcery

Choose one - Exile all artifacts; or exile all creatures; or exile all enchantments; or exile all planeswalkers.

"I once saw the Obzedat moved to action. Since that day, I've been thankful that they're mainly lazy, and dead."
-Aurelia, to Gideon Jura

Metallic Mastery

Sorcery

Gain control of target artifact until end of turn. Untap that artifact. It gains haste until end of turn.

"All will be reforged in the fires of glory."
-Urabrask the Hidden

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.

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

Midnight Recovery

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.)

Midnight Ritual

Sorcery

Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each creature card exiled this way, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Bury old friends deeply, lest they return bearing worms.

Mimeofacture

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Choose target permanent an opponent controls. Search that player's library for a card with the same name and put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Miming Slime

Sorcery

Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"We paid the Simic very well for this capability, but we should quickly recoup our expenses in saved wages."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Mind Bomb

Sorcery

Each player may discard up to three cards. Mind Bomb deals damage to each player equal to 3 minus the number of cards he or she discarded this way.

Mind Burst

Sorcery

Target player discards X cards, where X is one plus the number of cards named Mind Burst in all graveyards.

As haunting as a zombie's curse.

Mind Extraction

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Mind Extraction, sacrifice a creature.

Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards of each of the sacrificed creature's colors.

Mind Funeral

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until four land cards are revealed. That player puts all cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard.

"The soul is only as eternal as I say it is."
-Sharuum the Hegemon

Mind Grind

Sorcery

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard. X can't be 0.

Mind Peel

Sorcery

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

Target player discards a card.

Mind Ravel

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

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

An end to reason, an end to order. Forget all that has been.

Mind Rot

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

"What a pity. You should have written it down."
-Liliana Vess

Mind Sculpt

Sorcery

Target opponent puts the top seven cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Your mind was a curious mix of madness and genius. I just took away the genius."
-Jace Beleren