Krovikan Rot

Instant

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.

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.)

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

Kozilek's Return

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Kozilek's Return deals 2 damage to each creature.

Whenever you cast an Eldrazi creature spell with converted mana cost 7 or greater, you may exile Kozilek's Return from your graveyard. If you do, Kozilek's Return deals 5 damage to each creature.

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.

Kor Chant

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.

The true treasure no thief can touch.

Kolaghan's Command

Instant

Choose two -

• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

• Target player discards a card.

• Destroy target artifact.

• Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Kodama's Might

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gets +2/+2 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.)

Kjeldoran War Cry

Instant

Creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Kjeldoran War Cry in all graveyards.

King Darien's breath crystallized and fell to the frozen battlefield, but its command carried true to all soldiers of New Argive.

Kiora's Dismissal

Instant

Strive - Kiora's Dismissal costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Return any number of target enchantments to their owners' hands.

Kindled Fury

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"Rage is a dangerous weapon. Your enemies will try to use your anger against you. Use it against them first."
-Ajani Goldmane

Killing Glare

Instant

Destroy target creature with power X or less.

A casual glance into a dark corner may be your last.

Kill Shot

Instant

Destroy target attacking creature.

Mardu archers are trained in Dakla, the way of the bow. They never miss their target, no matter how small, how fast, or how far away.

Jund Charm

Instant

Choose one - Exile all cards from target player's graveyard; or Jund Charm deals 2 damage to each creature; or put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Jund pulses with raw energy, waiting for shamans to shape it into useful form.

Jump

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Humanity has always envied the power of flight. So we took it."
-Scytha, aeromage

Judge Unworthy

Instant

Choose target attacking or blocking creature. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Judge Unworthy deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to that creature. (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.)

Joint Assault

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If it's paired with a creature, that creature also gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"By my power, werewolves shall become the wolfir, our allies in combat against darkness."
-Avacyn's Cursemute Decree

Join the Ranks

Instant

Put two 1/1 white Soldier Ally creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Expeditionary houses are notorious for their rivalries. But when adventurers meet in the wilderness, the instinct for mutual survival outweighs petty grudges.

Jeskai Charm

Instant

Choose one -

• Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

• Jeskai Charm deals 4 damage to target opponent.

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

Jace's Ingenuity

Instant

Draw three cards.

"Brute force can sometimes kick down a locked door, but knowledge is a skeleton key."

Izzet Charm

Instant

Choose one - Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays ; or Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature; or draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Irradiate

Instant

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

The blast ignores the cage of metal but devours the flesh inside.

Ire of Kaminari

Instant - Arcane

Ire of Kaminari deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Arcane cards in your graveyard.

"Thunder broke the brittle silence over the Araba. A surge of raw energy lifted the soldier's body into the air and briefly, in the heart of the flash, he saw the face of a god."
-Great Battles of Kamigawa

Invigorate

Instant

If you control a Forest, rather than pay Invigorate's mana cost, you may have an opponent gain 3 life.

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

Invert the Skies

Instant

Creatures your opponents control lose flying until end of turn if was spent to cast Invert the Skies, and creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if was spent to cast it. (Do both if was spent.)

Into Thin Air

Instant

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Return target artifact to its owner's hand.

"Perhaps I should take Mirrodin apart and begin again."
-Memnarch

Into the Roil

Instant

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

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If Into the Roil was kicked, draw a card.

"Roil tide! Roil tide! Tie yourselves down!"

Into the Fray

Instant - Arcane

Target creature attacks this turn if able.

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.)

Into the Core

Instant

Exile two target artifacts.

"They believe they're driving us back, but we're leading them to their doom."
-Kethek, furnace stoker

Intimidation Bolt

Instant

Intimidation Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature. Other creatures can't attack this turn.

For hours afterward, all they could see was the grisly silhouette of their master, screaming.

Intervention Pact

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay . If you don't, you lose the game.

Intellectual Offering

Instant

Choose an opponent. You and that player each draw three cards.

Choose an opponent. Untap all nonland permanents you control and all nonland permanents that player controls.

Instill Infection

Instant

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Draw a card.

"The results of our ninth inoculation were the same. The specimen was, of course, euthanized before the contagion could spread."
-Vedalken research notes

Inspirit

Instant

Untap target creature. It gets +2/+4 until end of turn.

"The hour of your redemption is here. . . . Rally to me. . . . rise and strike. Strike at every favorable opportunity. For your homes and hearths, strike!"
-General Douglas MacArthur,
to the people of the Philippines

Inspiring Call

Instant

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Inspired Charge

Instant

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn.

"Impossible! How could they overwhelm us? We had barricades, war elephants, . . . and they were barely a tenth of our number!"
-General Avitora

Inspiration

Instant

Target player draws two cards.

"Day 31: I finally succeeded in my time reversal experiment!
"Day 30: I might have a problem here."
-Journal of the Prime Izmagnus

Inside Out

Instant

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

Draw a card.

Seyden's temperament didn't take well to the puca's magic. Nor did his face.

Inquisitor's Snare

Instant

Prevent all damage target attacking or blocking creature would deal this turn. If that creature is black or red, destroy it.

Driven by their paranoia, kithkin inflict on their foes all the agonies they believe would have been inflicted on them.

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.

Infuse with the Elements

Instant

Converge - Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Infuse with the Elements. That creature gains trample until end of turn.

"Zendikar has given us the weapons to wage war on the appropriate scale."-Najiya, leader of the Tajuru

Inflame

Instant

Inflame deals 2 damage to each creature dealt damage this turn.

Wound, maim, kill: it's all the same to a Keldon.

Inferno Trap

Instant - Trap

If you've been dealt damage by two or more creatures this turn, you may pay rather than pay Inferno Trap's mana cost.

Inferno Trap deals 4 damage to target creature.

"Do you smell something burning?"

Inferno

Instant

Inferno 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."
-Mairsil, called the Pretender

Induce Paranoia

Instant

Counter target spell. If was spent to cast Induce Paranoia, that spell's controller puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the spell's converted mana cost.

Induce Despair

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Induce Despair, reveal a creature card from your hand.

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the revealed card's converted mana cost.

All the angel saw was her doom.

Increasing Vengeance

Instant

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If Increasing Vengeance was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies.

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

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.)

Incite

Instant

Target creature becomes red until end of turn and attacks this turn if able.

The veneer of rationality peeled from the mage, revealing the spite and rage beneath.

Incinerate

Instant

Incinerate deals 3 damage to target creature or player. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn.

"Spontaneous combustion is a myth. If you burst into flame, someone wanted you to."
-Chandra Nalaar

Impulse

Instant

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

"Controlling time ensures you need never look impulsive again."
-Teferi

Impact Resonance

Instant

Impact Resonance deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures, where X is the greatest amount of damage dealt by a source to a permanent or player this turn.

Imp's Mischief

Instant

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's converted mana cost.

"Do the innocent pay for the crimes of the guilty? Of course they do. That's the fate of the weak."
-Nicol Bolas

Immolating Glare

Instant

Destroy target attacking creature.

"The sun can warm your skin or blister it, nurture your crops or wither them, light your path or blind you. She is a fickle friend, but a far worse enemy."
-Nazra of the Stone Havens

Illusionist's Gambit

Instant

Cast Illusionist's Gambit only during the declare blockers step on an opponent's turn.Remove all attacking creatures from combat and untap them. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Each of those creatures attacks that combat if able. They can't attack you or a planeswalker you control that combat.

Ignorant Bliss

Instant

Exile all cards from your hand face down. At the beginning of the next end step, return those cards to your hand, then draw a card.

"A quick step beyond oblivion lies a place so full of thoughts that it leaves no room for your own."
-Quyzl, chronarch prodigy

Ignite Disorder

Instant

Ignite Disorder deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target white and/or blue creatures.

The shaman prowled the academy halls, shaking his head at the pomp and babble of the sages inside. He knew just the spell to liven the place up.

Icy Blast

Instant

Tap X target creatures.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

"Do not think the sand or the sun will hold back the breath of winter."

Hysterical Blindness

Instant

Creatures your opponents control get -4/-0 until end of turn.

"The panic is amusing, but the real fun comes when the spell passes and the villagers start looking for a scapegoat."
-Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Hydrosurge

Instant

Target creature gets -5/-0 until end of turn.

"Thirsty?"
-Drunvalus, hydromancer

Hydroform

Instant

Target land becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

"While the sea may be our home, the sky is our destiny."
-Prime Speaker Zegana

Hurkyl's Recall

Instant

Return all artifacts target player owns to his or her hand.

Hurkyl's research at the College of Lat-Nam wasn't enough to stop the two brothers, but for centuries thereafter her spellcraft taught artificers restraint.

Hunting Pack

Instant

Put a 4/4 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Hunter's Insight

Instant

Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.

"The predator knows the true way of the world. Life is conflict. Only the strong survive."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

Hunter's Ambush

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by nongreen creatures this turn.

First you lose your enemy's trail. Then you lose all sense of direction. Then you hear the growls . . .

Hunger of the Howlpack

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Morbid - Put three +1/+1 counters on that creature instead if a creature died this turn.

"Werewolves are an unholy mix of a predator's instinct and a human's hatred."
-Alena, trapper of Kessig

Hundred-Talon Strike

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Splice onto Arcane-Tap an untapped white creature you control. (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.)

Human Frailty

Instant

Destroy target Human creature.

"I have seen a hundred mortal families rise and fall. I shall outlast a thousand more."
-Olivia Voldaren

Hubris

Instant

Return target creature and all Auras attached to it to their owners' hands.

"You wish to learn of Nyx? Very well."
-Phenax, god of deception

Hour of Need

Instant

Strive - Hour of Need costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Exile any number of target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller puts a 4/4 blue Sphinx creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Horribly Awry

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Counter target creature spell with converted mana cost 4 or less. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"We are nothing but dust to them-our bodies, our actions, even our words."-Jori En, expedition leader

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.)

Hornet Sting

Instant

Hornet Sting deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

It was only then-to his infinite sorrow-that Gork realized hornets don't make honey.

Honorable Passage

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature or player this turn, prevent that damage. If damage from a red source is prevented this way, Honorable Passage deals that much damage to the source's controller.

Honor's Reward

Instant

You gain 4 life. Bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

It seldom rains in Abzan lands. When it does, the khan marks the occasion by honoring the families of the fallen.

Homing Lightning

Instant

Homing Lightning deals 4 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.

"I see countless worlds. What makes them think I can't find them in just one?"
-Ral Zarek

Holy Day

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"Today there is feasting and peace across our land, but the war has not ended. Tuck away your bloodlust. You'll need it tomorrow."
-Karrim, Samite healer

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."

Hold at Bay

Instant

Prevent the next 7 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

It was Daeron's bravery that brought him to Odunos. But it was the magic of Meletis that brought him home.

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.

Hisoka's Defiance

Instant

Counter target Spirit or Arcane spell.

"With every passing day, the kami shape our world to suit their will. I, for one, would not see them succeed."

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

Hindering Light

Instant

Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control.

Draw a card.

Centuries of careful practice have elevated the casting of protective spells to an art form. What little offensive magic remains on Bant stands little chance of breaching them.

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

Hidetsugu's Second Rite

Instant

If target player has exactly 10 life, Hidetsugu's Second Rite deals 10 damage to that player.

Hidetsugu never relinquished a grudge. He let it burn within him, gathering ever greater intensity until the final moment of vengeance.

Hideous Laughter

Instant - Arcane

All creatures get -2/-2 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.)

Hideous End

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

"A little dark magic won't stop me. The worse the curse, the better the prize."
-Radavi, Joraga relic hunter, last words

Hide (Hide/Seek)

Instant

Put target artifact or enchantment on the bottom of its owner's library.

Hibernation

Instant

Return all green permanents to their owners' hands.

The deep sleep of winter is not always restful.

Heroes' Reunion

Instant

Target player gains 7 life.

They share no bloodline, but a bond greater than family unites them. Such are the gifts of the Worldsoul.

Hero's Downfall

Instant

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Destiny exalts a chosen few, but even heroes break.

Hero's Demise

Instant

Destroy target legendary creature.

"What will it say on our graves, Lord Konda? Will it say we led our world to conquer immortal forces or that we were crushed by our own arrogance? At each defeat, I wonder."
-Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda

Heat Ray

Instant

Heat Ray deals X damage to target creature.

"There was clearly a scream. I'm not sure if there was a mouth."
-Sachir, Akoum Expeditionary House

Healing Salve

Instant

Choose one - Target player gains 3 life; or prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Healing Leaves

Instant

Choose one - Target player gains 3 life; or prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

The elves of Llanowar don't trust in alchemy. They rely instead on pure herbs harvested from the forest's sacred heart.

Heal the Scars

Instant

Regenerate target creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Elvish battle-magic has evolved two specialties: inflicting wounds that scar, and healing wounds without scarring. Politics determines the recipients of each.

Haunting Hymn

Instant

Target player discards two cards. If you cast this spell during your main phase, that player discards four cards instead.

The hymn's melody has persisted since Tourach's time, but the words changed to invoke the phobias of each listener.

Harvest Pyre

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Harvest Pyre, exile X cards from your graveyard.

Harvest Pyre deals X damage to target creature.

Corpses destroyed by fire form the most destructive geists.

Harsh Sustenance

Instant

Harsh Sustenance deals X damage to target creature or player and you gain X life, where X is the number of creatures you control.

The Shifting Wastes provide refuge to those who know where to look for it.

Harrow

Instant

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

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

The Roil redraws the world as it passes, leaving only the hedrons unchanged.

Harmless Assault

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by attacking creatures.

After encasing it in a paralyzing beam of light, the angel studied the Eldrazi as a child would study a bug, curiously and without fear.