Return to the Earth

Instant

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.

"Dragons are feared for their breath and their bite, but it is their wings that make them unconquerable. Bring them to earth, and they die like any other beast."
-Kassur, Sultai hunter

Return to Dust

Instant

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Some timelines forever fray, branch, and intermingle. Others end abruptly.

Retraction Helix

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains ": Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Where the geometries of the world collapse, a master of the Æther can harvest power beyond comprehending.

Resupply

Instant

You gain 6 life.

Draw a card.

"If the scalelords are the brains of Dromoka's army, the supply caravans are its beating heart."
-Baihir, Dromoka mage

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

Rest for the Weary

Instant

Target player gains 4 life.

Landfall - If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that player gains 8 life instead.

Zendikar is a brutal taskmaster, but sometimes it offers unexpected solace.

Respite

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. You gain 1 life for each attacking creature.

"If they board us we're finished," warned Orim. Crovax nodded. "And if they don't . . . what then?"

Resounding Wave

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

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

When you cycle Resounding Wave, return two target permanents to their owners' hands.

Resounding Thunder

Instant

Resounding Thunder deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

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

When you cycle Resounding Thunder, it deals 6 damage to target creature or player.

Resounding Silence

Instant

Exile target attacking creature.

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

When you cycle Resounding Silence, exile up to two target attacking creatures.

Resounding Roar

Instant

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

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

When you cycle Resounding Roar, target creature gets +6/+6 until end of turn.

Rescue from the Underworld

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Rescue from the Underworld, sacrifice a creature.

Choose target creature card in your graveyard. Return that card and the sacrificed card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rescue from the Underworld.

Repulse

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Draw a card.

"You aren't invited."

Reprisal

Instant

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated.

"The meek shall fight as one, and they shall overcome even the greatest of foes."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Repel the Darkness

Instant

Tap up to two target creatures.

Draw a card.

A boon to those who cannot see in the dark. A bane to those who live in it.

Renounce the Guilds

Instant

Each player sacrifices a multicolored permanent.

"Scores will die in the name of peace. That is what you call compromise?"
-Gideon Jura, to Aurelia

Rending Volley

Instant

Rending Volley can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Rending Volley deals 4 damage to target white or blue creature.

The sky offers few hiding places.

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."

Relic Crush

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment and up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

There are many ruins, but there used to be many more.

Reins of Power

Instant

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Reincarnation

Instant

Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, return a creature card from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield under the control of that creature's owner.

Regress

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"Never look too deep, where the waters turn dark. What the sea has hidden there may not stay down forever."
-Jaby, Silundi Sea nomad

Regenerate

Instant

Regenerate target creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

"This wound shall be like the chills of winter: swiftly forgotten when spring shoots rise."

Refraction Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent cast a red instant or sorcery spell this turn, you may pay rather than pay Refraction Trap's mana cost.

Prevent the next 3 damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or permanents you control this turn. If damage is prevented this way, Refraction Trap deals that much damage to target creature or player.

Refocus

Instant

Untap target creature.

Draw a card.

"Before you can open your third eye, you must prove you can open the first two."

Redirect

Instant

You may choose new targets for target spell.

"It's actually quite simple, but since you've only recently begun to walk upright, it may take some time to explain."
-Jace Beleren, to Garruk Wildspeaker

Reclaim

Instant

Put target card from your graveyard on top of your library.

The wise pay as much attention to what they throw away as to what they keep.

Reckless Spite

Instant

Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.

"My plan's elegance leads my enemies to believe it is spite that fuels me."
-Volrath

Rebuke

Instant

Destroy target attacking creature.

"No one chooses to be stitched together into a skaab. If it could speak, it would beg for its own destruction."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Reap What Is Sown

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to three target creatures.

The strength of the people comes from the land. And the bounty of the land comes from Karametra.

Realms Uncharted

Instant

Search your library for four land cards with different names and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Reality Spasm

Instant

Choose one - Tap X target permanents; or untap X target permanents.

From the moment the first Eldrazi spawn squirmed free, everything on Zendikar took on an adjusted meaning, a new slant toward or away from the waking giants.

Reality Shift

Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of his or her library. (That player puts the top card of his or her library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Reality Hemorrhage

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Reality Hemorrhage deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Tarek could not tell whether he was losing his blood or his mind.

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.)

Reach Through Mists

Instant - Arcane

Draw a card.

"Know one part of the name, obsession begins. Know two parts, paranoia sets in. Know three parts, madness descends. Know all, and only the kami know what will become of you."
-Lady Azami

Reach of Shadows

Instant

Destroy target creature that's one or more colors.

"Is it better to be a fool or a coward? Fools may get things done occasionally, but cowards live longer."
-Ghelesh Shadowmane, rakshasa mage

Ray of Revelation

Instant

Destroy target enchantment.

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

"May angels carry him into the Blessed Sleep with dreams of sunlit days and moonless nights."
-Tomb inscription of Saint Raban

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.

Ray of Command

Instant

Untap target creature an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the creature, tap it.

"Heel."