Profane Command

Sorcery

Choose two -

• Target player loses X life.

• Return target creature card with converted mana cost X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Thoughtseize

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Weed Strangle

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Clash with an opponent. If you win, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Consuming Bonfire

Tribal Sorcery - Elemental

Choose one - Consuming Bonfire deals 4 damage to target non-Elemental creature; or Consuming Bonfire deals 7 damage to target Treefolk creature.

"The elves use treefolk to drive us away. It is time to remove their tools."
-Vessifrus, flamekin demagogue

Giant's Ire

Tribal Sorcery - Giant

Giant's Ire deals 4 damage to target player. If you control a Giant, draw a card.

The only feeling greater than hurling something a mile is crushing something else with it that was really, really irritating you.

Heat Shimmer

Sorcery

Put a token that's a copy of target creature onto the battlefield. That token has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, exile this permanent."

"Better to flare out than to gutter."
-Flamekin expression

Hurly-Burly

Sorcery

Choose one - Hurly-Burly deals 1 damage to each creature without flying; or Hurly-Burly deals 1 damage to each creature with flying.

"Things were popping like corn in a skillet. Olly landed in the pig pen with his prize sow on top of him, both squealin' like boggarts."
-Deagan, cenn of Burrenton

Incendiary Command

Sorcery

Choose two - Incendiary Command deals 4 damage to target player; or Incendiary Command deals 2 damage to each creature; or destroy target nonbasic land; or each player discards all the cards in his or her hand, then draws that many cards.

Elvish Promenade

Tribal Sorcery - Elf

Put a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token onto the battlefield for each Elf you control.

The faultless and immaculate castes form the lower tiers of elvish society, with the exquisite caste above them. At the pinnacle is the perfect, a consummate blend of aristocrat and predator.

Hunt Down

Sorcery

Target creature blocks target creature this turn if able.

"Springjacks and faeries can be difficult to hunt, but my favorite prey are the flamekin. They never fail to put up a worthy fight when cornered."

Incremental Growth

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature, two +1/+1 counters on another target creature, and three +1/+1 counters on a third target creature.

"Tie a mouse under a bridge, and your cabbages will triple in size."
-Kithkin superstition

Primal Command

Sorcery

Choose two - Target player gains 7 life; or put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library; or target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library; or search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Woodland Guidance

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Clash with an opponent. If you win, untap all Forests you control. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Exile Woodland Guidance.

Angelic Blessing

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Only the warrior who can admit mortal weakness will be bolstered by immortal strength.

Wrath of God

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Counsel of the Soratami

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

"Wisdom is not the counting of all the drops in a waterfall. Wisdom is learning why the water seeks the earth."

Reminisce

Sorcery

Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.

Leave the door to the past even slightly ajar and it could be blown off its hinges.

Sift

Sorcery

Draw three cards, then discard a card.

Dwell longest on the thoughts that shine brightest.

Tidings

Sorcery

Draw four cards.

"Though the letter was many pages long, I could tell all I needed to know from one look at the messenger's face."
-Barrin, master wizard

Time Stretch

Sorcery

Target player takes two extra turns after this one.

There's lots of time like the present.

Agonizing Memories

Sorcery

Look at target player's hand and choose two cards from it. Put them on top of that player's library in any order.

In the aftermath of war, when the slaying is long done, the greatest miseries come home to roost.

Beacon of Unrest

Sorcery

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

A vertical scream pierces the night air and echoes doom through the clouds.

Cruel Edict

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature.

"Choose your next words carefully. They will be your last."
-Phage the Untouchable

Head Games

Sorcery

Target opponent puts the cards from his or her hand on top of his or her library. Search that player's library for that many cards. The player puts those cards into his or her hand, then shuffles his or her library.

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.

Plague Wind

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

Rain of Tears

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

"When mortals die, they have family, friends, compatriots to mourn them. When the land dies, all else dies with it, and there is no one left to weep."
-Jacinth, Skyshroud ranger

Recover

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Draw a card.

As Barrin exhumed his daughter's body, he finally realized the full price of his faith in Urza.

Soul Feast

Sorcery

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

"I smell the tang of a mortal's fresh blood. I hear it sliding wetly beneath its skin. My hunger cannot refuse the invitation."
-Yuri, Sengir vampire

Stronghold Discipline

Sorcery

Each player loses 1 life for each creature he or she controls.

In Urborg, the instigators of each new rebellion are soaked in the blood of the last.

Blaze

Sorcery

Blaze deals X damage to target creature or player.

Cone of Flame

Sorcery

Cone of Flame deals 1 damage to target creature or player, 2 damage to another target creature or player, and 3 damage to a third target creature or player.

Cryoclasm

Sorcery

Destroy target Plains or Island. Cryoclasm deals 3 damage to that land's controller.

The people of Terisiare had come to live on frozen fields as though on solid ground. Nothing reminded them of the difference more clearly than the rifts brought on by the Thaw.

Flowstone Slide

Sorcery

All creatures get +X/-X until end of turn.

"Like an avalanche. With teeth. That will chase you. Uphill."
-Flint Foot, viashino runner

Goblin Lore

Sorcery

Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random.

"Now listen closely, my young gob. There are many ways to eat pimple bugs, but I say the best way is all smashed together between two slug chips."

Relentless Assault

Sorcery

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

"Mercy? Mercy is for the playground, not the battleground."

Shatterstorm

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts. They can't be regenerated.

From a marvel of magical mechanization to a smoking stack of scrap in one easy step.

Spitting Earth

Sorcery

Spitting Earth deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control.

"Within each of you is the strength of a landslide."
-Kumano, to his pupils

Threaten

Sorcery

Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

Goblins' motivational techniques are crude, but effective.

Commune with Nature

Sorcery

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

Creeping Mold

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Mold crept over the walls and into every crevice until the gleaming white stone strained and burst.

Hurricane

Sorcery

Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"Don't envy the grandeur of drakes. Their impression of grace fades when the first gust sends them crashing into one another."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Natural Spring

Sorcery

Target player gains 8 life.

"Jewels cannot be eaten nor gold drunk. What civilization trades, nature simply provides."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Recollect

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

"The bones of the past will tell their tales-if you know how to speak their language."
-Savra

Sylvan Scrying

Sorcery

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

One glimpse of an elf's home lasts her weeks away in the wild.

Gift of Estates

Sorcery

If an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Sacred Nectar

Sorcery

You gain 4 life.

"Over the silver mountains,
Where spring the nectar fountains,
There will I kiss
The bowl of bliss;
And drink my everlasting fill. . . ."
-Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Pilgrimage"

Baleful Stare

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You draw a card for each Mountain and red card in it.

"Though there is little to be learned from your dust and stones, I shall wring them dry nevertheless."

Exhaustion

Sorcery

Creatures and lands target opponent controls don't untap during his or her next untap step.

Tired doesn't even begin to cover it.

Sleight of Hand

Sorcery

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

"Gambling with mages never is."
-Remin, venerable monk

Time Ebb

Sorcery

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

Like the tide, time both ebbs and flows.

Withering Gaze

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You draw a card for each Forest and green card in it.

"Nature cares not for the knowledge to be gained from its study. Better to bleed it dry, lest its potential be wasted on lizards and leaves."

Blackmail

Sorcery

Target player reveals three cards from his or her hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card.

In addition to killing peasants, punishing subordinates, and raising an army of nightmares, Braids somehow found time for her favorite hobby: petty extortion.

Coercion

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.

"Of all I that I have lost, I miss my mind the most."

Final Punishment

Sorcery

Target player loses life equal to the damage already dealt to him or her this turn.

The pain of a lifetime-every scrape, illness, and bruise-condensed into a single moment.

Persecute

Sorcery

Choose a color. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards of that color.

"Of all the tyrannies on humane kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind."
-John Dryden,
"The Hind and the Panther"

Raise Dead

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The earth cannot hold that which magic commands.

Zombify

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The first birth celebrates life. The second birth mocks it."
-Mystic elder

Boiling Seas

Sorcery

Destroy all Islands.

What burns the land, boils the seas.

Flame Wave

Sorcery

Flame Wave deals 4 damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

"I hear the roaring of a wave whose waters are red and whose mists are black."
-Oracle en-Vec

Flashfires

Sorcery

Destroy all Plains.

Dry grass is tinder before the spark.

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.

Stone Rain

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Volcanic Hammer

Sorcery

Volcanic Hammer deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Fire finds its form in the heat of the forge.

Wildfire

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices four lands. Wildfire deals 4 damage to each creature.

Fire is always at the top of the food chain, and it has a big appetite.

Biorhythm

Sorcery

Each player's life total becomes the number of creatures he or she controls.

"I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own."
-Kamahl, druid acolyte

Needle Storm

Sorcery

Needle Storm deals 4 damage to each creature with flying.

The rain is driven like nails.

Stream of Life

Sorcery

Target player gains X life.

Summer Bloom

Sorcery

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

Summer sends its kiss with warmth and blooming life.

Weird Harvest

Sorcery

Each player may search his or her library for up to X creature cards, reveal those cards, and put them into his or her hand. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Krosa's distorted groves bear strange fruit.

Peach Garden Oath

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

"We three, though of separate ancestry, join in brotherhood. . . . We dare not hope to be together always but hereby vow to die the selfsame day."
-Peach Garden Oath

Balance of Power

Sorcery

If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

"To empty your mind is to fill your grave."
-Lat-Nam teaching

Bribery

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

In Mercadia City, loyalties extend only as far as your purse can stretch.

Concentrate

Sorcery

Draw three cards.

"The treasure in my mind is greater than any worldly glory."

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.

Ambition's Cost

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

"Knowledge demands sacrifice."

Nausea

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

No fear. No sense. And soon, no lunch.

Sever Soul

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You gain life equal to its toughness.

"The mortal world is a grove of sweet fruit, and I am ready to harvest it."
-Fallen angel

Vicious Hunger

Sorcery

Vicious Hunger deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Only the most ravenous soul feeds on the health of the weak.

Hammer of Bogardan

Sorcery

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

: Return Hammer of Bogardan from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Obliterate

Sorcery

Obliterate can't be countered.

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated.

"The enemy has been destroyed, sir. So have the forest, the city, your palace, your dog . . ."
-Keldon soldier

Pyrotechnics

Sorcery

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me!
Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return."
-Navajo war chant

Sizzle

Sorcery

Sizzle deals 3 damage to each opponent.

"Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire."
-Jaya Ballard, task mage

Thieves' Auction

Sorcery

Exile all nontoken permanents. Starting with you, each player chooses one of the exiled cards and puts it onto the battlefield tapped under his or her control. Repeat this process until all cards exiled this way have been chosen.

Tremor

Sorcery

Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

"Where do you run when the earth becomes your enemy?"
-Naimag, Femeref philosopher

Collective Unconscious

Sorcery

Draw a card for each creature you control.

"The beasts of the wild are my senses. It is through their eyes that all knowledge shall come to me."

Monstrous Growth

Sorcery

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

Get in touch with your inner monster.

Plow Under

Sorcery

Put two target lands on top of their owners' libraries.

To renew the land, plow the land.
To destroy the land, do nothing.
-Druids' saying

Wing Snare

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with flying.

The elves long ago mastered the art of hunting with nets. They call it "fishing the sky."

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

Solar Tide

Sorcery

Choose one - Destroy all creatures with power 2 or less; or destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Entwine-Sacrifice two lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Temporal Cascade

Sorcery

Choose one - Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library; or each player draws seven cards.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Thoughtcast

Sorcery

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

Draw two cards.

Vedalken eyes don't see the beauty in things. They see only what those things can teach.