Primitive Justice

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Primitive Justice, you may pay and/or any number of times.

Destroy target artifact. For each additional you paid, destroy another target artifact. For each additional you paid, destroy another target artifact, and you gain 1 life.

Sunscour

Sorcery

You may exile two white cards from your hand rather than pay Sunscour's mana cost.

Destroy all creatures.

Feast of Flesh

Sorcery

Feast of Flesh deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Feast of Flesh in all graveyards.

"Starving an army that feeds on its enemies is a sound strategy."
-Garza Zol, plague queen

Surging Dementia

Sorcery

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as this spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Target player discards a card.

Fury of the Horde

Sorcery

You may exile two red cards from your hand rather than pay Fury of the Horde's mana cost.

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Icefall

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

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.)

As the Thaw met Terisiare, mountains shed their icy skins, crushing homes and hopes alike.

Rite of Flame

Sorcery

Add to your mana pool, then add to your mana pool for each card named Rite of Flame in each graveyard.

Deep beneath the ice, beneath the soil and the rock, Dominaria's fire still burned hot.

Into the North

Sorcery

Search your library for a snow land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"Our border lands fall under the grip of Heidar's second winter. Go forth and reclaim them for Yavimaya."
-Kaysa, elder druid of the Juniper Order

Sound the Call

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield. It has "This creature gets +1/+1 for each card named Sound the Call in each graveyard."

"If you call the wolves, ensure you have a worthy hunt, or you may become the hunted."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko, elvish hunter

Choking Sands

Sorcery

Destroy target non-Swamp land. If that land was nonbasic, Choking Sands deals 2 damage to the land's controller.

"The people wiped the sand from their eyes and cursed-and left the barren land to the hyenas and vipers."
-Afari, Tales

Kaervek's Hex

Sorcery

Kaervek's Hex deals 1 damage to each nonblack creature and an additional 1 damage to each green creature.

"If the curse does not strike you dead, question your soul."
-Kaervek

Phyrexian Tribute

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Phyrexian Tribute, sacrifice two creatures.

Destroy target artifact.

"In your final breath you still have something to offer Phyrexia."
-Afari, Tales

Reign of Terror

Sorcery

Destroy all green creatures or all white creatures. They can't be regenerated. You lose 2 life for each creature that died this way.

"I don't know what takes them; they die around me without time to scream."
-Scout Ekemet, final journal

Political Trickery

Sorcery

Exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"Politics is a game-move a stone here, move a stone there-except sometimes the stones bleed."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Natural Balance

Sorcery

Each player who controls six or more lands chooses five lands he or she controls and sacrifices the rest. Each player who controls four or fewer lands may search his or her library for X basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield, where X is five minus the number of lands he or she controls. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Seeds of Innocence

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts. They can't be regenerated. The controller of each of those artifacts gains life equal to its converted mana cost.

"I have hidden from the machinations of Zhalfir for centuries. Why should I join your campaign?"
-Jolrael

Superior Numbers

Sorcery

Superior Numbers deals damage to target creature equal to the number of creatures you control in excess of the number of creatures target opponent controls.

Tropical Storm

Sorcery

Tropical Storm deals X damage to each creature with flying and 1 additional damage to each blue creature.

"After the storm, I found a sea turtle dying on the sands, a blade of grass driven through its shell."
-Travelogue of Najat

Unyaro Bee Sting

Sorcery

Unyaro Bee Sting deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Much can be learned from the bees about dying for a cause."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Builder's Bane

Sorcery

Destroy X target artifacts. Builder's Bane deals damage to each player equal to the number of artifacts he or she controlled put into a graveyard this way.

There is only so much a person may be buried with.

Goblin Scouts

Sorcery

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

"Pathetic-like I wouldn't know a goblin painted up to look like a dwarf!"
-Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader

Kaervek's Torch

Sorcery

As long as Kaervek's Torch is on the stack, spells that target it cost more to cast.

Kaervek's Torch deals X damage to target creature or player.

The pulsing heat of the midday Sun burns in the Lion's eye.
-Stone inscription, source unknown

Reign of Chaos

Sorcery

Choose one - Destroy target Plains and target white creature; or destroy target Island and target blue creature.

"The Burning Isles are the home to a dozen lords who claim dominion. Jamuraa will look to only one leader: me."
-Kaervek

Torrent of Lava

Sorcery

Torrent of Lava deals X damage to each creature without flying.

As long as Torrent of Lava is on the stack, each creature has ": Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature by Torrent of Lava this turn."

The mountain's voice shouts us all down.

Blinding Light

Sorcery

Tap all nonwhite creatures.

"My shield will bear a shining sun so you will always be with me. / Inlaid with gold, it will shine like glowing embers."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Energy Bolt

Sorcery

Choose one - Energy Bolt deals X damage to target player; or target player gains X life.

Life and death are two faces of the same coin.

Kaervek's Purge

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with converted mana cost X. If that creature dies this way, Kaervek's Purge deals damage equal to the creature's power to the creature's controller.

Phyrexian Purge

Sorcery

Destroy any number of target creatures.

Phyrexian Purge costs 3 life more to cast for each target.

Only those who have nothing have nothing to fear.

Savage Twister

Sorcery

Savage Twister deals X damage to each creature.

"Frozen, we watched the funnel pluck up three of the goats-pook! pook! pook!-before we ran for the wadi."
-Travelogue of Najat

Sealed Fate

Sorcery

Look at the top X cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of those cards and put the rest back on top of that player's library in any order.

It's good to know more about your enemy's fate than your enemy does.

Forbidden Ritual

Sorcery

Sacrifice a nontoken permanent. If you do, target opponent loses 2 life unless he or she sacrifices a permanent or discards a card. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Infernal Harvest

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Infernal Harvest, return X Swamps you control to their owner's hand.

Infernal Harvest deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

"I offered you eternal life; I just didn't say where."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Undo

Sorcery

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.

"Oft have I wished to undo past deeds, but never did I imagine they would be undone for me."
-Naimah, Femeref philosopher

Natural Order

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Natural Order, sacrifice a green creature.

Search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

. . . but the price of Mangara's freedom was Asmira's life.

Song of Blood

Sorcery

Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.

Whenever a creature attacks this turn, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each creature card put into your graveyard this way.

Purraj sang slaughter and danced death.

Peace Talks

Sorcery

This turn and next turn, creatures can't attack, and players and permanents can't be the targets of spells or activated abilities.

"By the tongues of a thousand serpents, this time I do not lie."
-Ahmahz il Kin, Suq'Ata diplomat

Retribution of the Meek

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. They can't be regenerated.

"Tread upon the meek, and they shall wound your feet and make you crawl."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Haunting Misery

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Haunting Misery, exile X creature cards from your graveyard.

Haunting Misery deals X damage to target player.

"I am condemned without end."
-Crovax

Shattered Crypt

Sorcery

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. You lose X life.

"You must be mad to want one such as I aboard the Weatherlight. But I would be mad to remain here with my rotting family. I accept."
-Crovax

Tendrils of Despair

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Tendrils of Despair, sacrifice a creature.

Target opponent discards two cards.

"Because I am incapable of tears does not mean I have no need to shed them."
-Karn, silver golem

Argivian Restoration

Sorcery

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The Argivian University taught me two things: always look to the past, and never dismiss what appears useless."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Flux

Sorcery

Each player discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards.

Draw a card.

"Every spell has the potential to be worthless."
-Ertai, wizard adept

Paradigm Shift

Sorcery

Exile all cards from your library. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

"Barrin always said that reality is relative. ‘The world,' he cautioned, ‘is but pieces of one's perception.'"
-Ertai, wizard adept

Gaea's Blessing

Sorcery

Target player shuffles up to three target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.

Draw a card.

When Gaea's Blessing is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Abandon Hope

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Abandon Hope, discard X cards.

Look at target opponent's hand and choose X cards from it. That player discards those cards.

As Gerrard's form vanished into the maw of trees, Hanna mouthed a silent plea, mourning a crushed dream.

Disturbed Burial

Sorcery

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

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Evincar's Justice

Sorcery

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

Evincar's Justice deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

Extinction

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures of the creature type of your choice.

"I once had an entire race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them."
-Volrath

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.

Reanimate

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.

"You will learn to earn death."
-Volrath

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.

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

Winter's Grasp

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Summer is buried there, centuries deep;
A crypt of years where seasons sleep.

Aftershock

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, creature, or land. Aftershock deals 3 damage to you.

"Every act of destruction has a repercussion."
-Karn, silver golem

Apocalypse

Sorcery

Exile all permanents. You discard your hand.

"There is a future in which I can see only mist and a single shadow."
-Oracle en-Vec

Deadshot

Sorcery

Tap target creature. It deals damage equal to its power to another target creature.

"Carrion! Keep your distance. My blade will come to you!"
-Crovax

Rolling Thunder

Sorcery

Rolling Thunder deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

"Such rage," thought Vhati, gazing up at the thunderhead from the Predator. "It is Greven's mind manifest."

Scorched Earth

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Scorched Earth, discard X land cards.

Destroy X target lands.

"Fire cleanses as well as destroys; that is the nature of change."
-Oracle en-Vec

Shadowstorm

Sorcery

Shadowstorm deals 2 damage to each creature with shadow.

"You've not seen a storm until you've seen the kind that roars between worlds."
-Lyna, Soltari emissary

Repentance

Sorcery

Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

"The cannon wasn't aimed at you!" pleaded Vhati.
"I'm not sure which is more pathetic," replied Greven, "your judgment or your aim."

Winds of Rath

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures that aren't enchanted. They can't be regenerated.

"There shall be a vast shout and then a vaster silence."
-Oracle en-Vec

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.

Brush with Death

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 opponent loses 2 life. You gain 2 life.

Cannibalize

Sorcery

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Exile one of those creatures and put two +1/+1 counters on the other.

"Mine."

Death Stroke

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

For a sharp second, Selenia froze, and Crovax's blade found home. As the angel shattered like glass, Crovax felt his mind collapse-the curse had been fulfilled.

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.

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.

Ransack

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of target player's library. Put any number of them on the bottom of that library in any order and the rest on top of the library in any order.

Elven Rite

Sorcery

Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

As the bough stretches, so shall you grow. As the roots spread, so shall you thrive.

Verdant Touch

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 land becomes a 2/2 creature that's still a land. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Fanning the Flames

Sorcery

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

Fanning the Flames deals X damage to target creature or player.

Mob Justice

Sorcery

Mob Justice deals damage to target player equal to the number of creatures you control.

A single stone can start an avalanche.

Mogg Infestation

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures target player controls. For each creature that died this way, put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield under that player's control.

Ruination

Sorcery

Destroy all nonbasic lands.

"We have built a wall upon sand. The wall will vanish. The sand will remain."
-Oracle en-Vec

Seething Anger

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 creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Cataclysm

Sorcery

Each player chooses from the permanents he or she controls an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a land, then sacrifices the rest.

The Weatherlight dragged the Predator behind it, the cradle hauling the casket.

Pegasus Stampede

Sorcery

Buyback-Sacrifice a land. (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Put a 1/1 white Pegasus creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Æther Tide

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Æther Tide, discard X creature cards.

Return X target creatures to their owners' hands.

The tide of magic brought them here. Now it would take them home.

Fade Away

Sorcery

For each creature, its controller sacrifices a permanent unless he or she pays .

"Consider the fable of the greedy herder. As her flock grew, so did her weariness; she slept, and the sheep wandered off."
-Karn, silver golem

Theft of Dreams

Sorcery

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

"Volrath stole everything there was of me."
-Takara

Death's Duet

Sorcery

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

Life has always been a dance. It is only fitting that death sing the tune.

Flowstone Flood

Sorcery

Buyback-Pay 3 life, Discard a card at random. (You may pay 3 life and discard a card at random in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Destroy target land.

Catastrophe

Sorcery

Destroy all lands or all creatures. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Radiant's eyes flashed. "Go, then," the angel spat at Serra, "and leave this world to those who truly care."

Path of Peace

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its owner gains 4 life.

"When the sword becomes a burden, let the warrior lay it aside that another with a truer heart might take it up."
-Radiant, archangel

Planar Birth

Sorcery

Return all basic land cards from all graveyards to the battlefield tapped under their owners' control.

"From womb of nothingness sprang this place of beauty, purity, and hope realized."
-Song of All, canto 3

Show and Tell

Sorcery

Each player may put an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card from his or her hand onto the battlefield.

At the academy, "show and tell" too often becomes "run and hide."

Time Spiral

Sorcery

Exile Time Spiral. Each player shuffles his or her graveyard and hand into his or her library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.

Windfall

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

"To fill your mind with knowledge, we must start by emptying it."
-Barrin, master wizard

Exhume

Sorcery

Each player puts a creature card from his or her graveyard onto the battlefield.

"Death-an outmoded concept. We sleep, and we change."
-Sitrik, birth priest

Ill-Gotten Gains

Sorcery

Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards his or her hand, then returns up to three cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

Urza thought it a crusade. Xantcha knew it was a robbery.

Unnerve

Sorcery

Each opponent discards two cards.

"If fear is the only tool you have left, then you'll never control me."
-Xantcha, to Gix

Victimize

Sorcery

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective. We must scrap it."

Yawgmoth's Will

Sorcery

Until end of turn, you may play cards from your graveyard.

If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Acidic Soil

Sorcery

Acidic Soil deals damage to each player equal to the number of lands he or she controls.

Phyrexia had tried to take Urza's soul. He was relieved that Shiv tried to claim only his soles.

Arc Lightning

Sorcery

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

Rainclouds don't last long in Shiv, but that doesn't stop the lightning.

Gamble

Sorcery

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle your library.

When you've got nothing, you might as well trade it for something else.

Goblin Offensive

Sorcery

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

They certainly are.

Jagged Lightning

Sorcery

Jagged Lightning deals 3 damage to each of two target creatures.

The pungent smell of roasting flesh made both mages realize they'd rather break for dinner than fight.

Lay Waste

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

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

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.