Plasm Capture

Instant

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next precombat main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

"Everything serves a purpose. Even you."
-Vorel of the Hull Clade

Warleader's Helix

Instant

Warleader's Helix deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

"There is no time to remedy our enemies' ignorance. Blast it out of them."
-Aurelia

Congregate

Instant

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

"In the gathering there is strength for all who founder, renewal for all who languish, love for all who sing."
-Song of All, canto 642

Chandra's Outrage

Instant

Chandra's Outrage deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature's controller.

Chandra never believed in using her "inside voice."

Wild Ricochet

Instant

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

"I knew that trick long before your great-grandmother's great-grandmother was born."

Divine Verdict

Instant

Destroy target attacking or blocking creature.

"Guilty."

Griptide

Instant

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

"Beware the seagrafs just off the shore. These waters are filled with hungry geists looking for an easy meal."
-Captain Eberhart

Cutthroat Maneuver

Instant

Up to two target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain lifelink until end of turn.

"Our ambition drives us forward. Together we will claim what is ours, no matter who holds it."

Artisan's Sorrow

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. 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.)

Some seers read bones or entrails. Others just like to break things.

Steam Augury

Instant

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Sudden Storm

Instant

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

No matter how big and strong you are, the sea is bigger and stronger.

Fated Conflagration

Instant

Fated Conflagration deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If it's your turn, 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.)

Lightning Volley

Instant

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

"We are the motes of rain that join to make the thundercloud. The power of the storm god surges through us!"

Countermand

Instant

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

The physical pain was nothing compared to the agony in his mind.

Ritual of the Returned

Instant

Exile target creature card from your graveyard. Put a black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield. Its power is equal to that card's power and its toughness is equal to that card's toughness.

A mask forged to avenge a death forgotten.

Silence the Believers

Instant

Strive - Silence the Believers costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Exile any number of target creatures and all Auras attached to them.

Statute of Denial

Instant

Counter target spell. If you control a blue creature, draw a card, then discard a card.

"Pyrotechnic activity of any sort is strictly prohibited. It is irrelevant that today is a holiday."

Stoke the Flames

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.)

Stoke the Flames deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Smite the Monstrous

Instant

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

Though the old holy wards and roadside shrines have begun to fail, faith in Avacyn still holds true power.

Weave Fate

Instant

Draw two cards.

Temur shamans speak of three destinies: the now, the echo of the past, and the unwritten. They find flickering paths among tangled possibilities.

Empty the Pits

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Put X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped.

The Sultai would rebuild the empire on the backs of the dead.

Bring Low

Instant

Bring Low deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, Bring Low deals 5 damage to it instead.

"People are often humbled by the elements. But the elements, too, can be humbled."
-Surrak, khan of the Temur

Swift Kick

Instant

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control.

Shintan sensed the malice in his opponent, but he did not strike until the orc's muscles tensed in preparation to throw the first punch.

Dragonscale Boon

Instant

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature and untap it.

"When we were lost and weary, the ainok showed us how to survive. They have earned the right to call themselves Abzan, and to wear the Scale."
-Anafenza, khan of the Abzan

Utter End

Instant

Exile target nonland permanent.

"I came seeking a challenge. All I found was you."
-Zurgo, khan of the Mardu

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

Adverse Conditions

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step. Put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Roilmage's Trick

Instant

Converge - Creatures your opponents control get -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast Roilmage's Trick.

Draw a card.

Weather on Zendikar is unpredictable-unless you're the one telling it what to do.

Volcanic Upheaval

Instant

Destroy target land.

Like a living organism, Zendikar rids itself of infection, and it does so abruptly and ruthlessly.

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

Brutal Expulsion

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Choose one or both -

• Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

• Brutal Expulsion deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If that permanent would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Comparative Analysis

Instant

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Target player draws two cards.

"Our time grows short. If we wish to vanquish the Eldrazi, we must unlock the hedrons' secrets."
-Jace Beleren

Overwhelming Denial

Instant

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Overwhelming Denial can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Counter target spell.

Unity of Purpose

Instant

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Untap each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Faced with the novel problem of inspiring an army, Jace asked himself: "What would Gideon say?"

Consuming Sinkhole

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Choose one -

• Exile target land creature.

• Consuming Sinkhole deals 4 damage to target player.

"What will not yield will be consumed."
-Ayli, high priest of the Eternal Pilgrims

Psychic Spiral

Instant

Shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library. Target player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

An elocutor forces criminals to confess to the laws they merely intended to break.

Fall of the Gavel

Instant

Counter target spell. You gain 5 life.

"My ruling is final. Order is upheld. Justice is done."

Thoughtflare

Instant

Draw four cards, then discard two cards.

"If this is thinking, I don't know what I was doing before."

Mystic Genesis

Instant

Counter target spell. Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

"The Simic can grow anything out of a puddle of sludge. I just hope they never join forces with the Golgari."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Totally Lost

Instant

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.

Fblthp had always hated crowds.