Dread Return

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Empty the Warrens

Sorcery

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

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

"They'd pour out of the warrens to make war (and to make room for the littering matrons)."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV

Evangelize

Sorcery

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

Gain control of target creature of an opponent's choice that he or she controls.

Gaze of Justice

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Gaze of Justice, tap three untapped white creatures you control.

Exile target creature.

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

Grapeshot

Sorcery

Grapeshot deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Mages often seek to emulate the powerful relics lost to time and apocalypse.

Ground Rift

Sorcery

Target creature without flying can't block this turn.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Some time rifts didn't take away the people but just the ground they stood on.

Hypergenesis

Sorcery

Illus. Ron Spears

Ignite Memories

Sorcery

Target player reveals a card at random from his or her hand. Ignite Memories deals damage to that player equal to that card's converted mana cost.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Living End

Sorcery

Illus. Greg Staples

Mindstab

Sorcery

Target player discards three cards.

Suspend 4- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Mwonvuli Acid-Moss

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Search your library for a Forest card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"Life gives way to death, and death to new life. Nature feeds upon her own decay."
-Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Phthisis

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to its power plus its toughness.

Suspend 5- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Plunder

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

Suspend 4- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Premature Burial

Sorcery

Destroy target nonblack creature that entered the battlefield since your last turn ended.

"This soil knows well the taste of the dead. Give it the hunger for a living meal, and it can become a deadly ally."
-Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Psychotic Episode

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand and the top card of his or her library. You choose a card revealed this way. That player puts the chosen card on the bottom of his or her library.

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Restore Balance

Sorcery

Illus. Mark Poole

Rift Bolt

Sorcery

Rift Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Suspend 1- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with a time counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Search for Tomorrow

Sorcery

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

Suspend 2- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Temporal Eddy

Sorcery

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

As the temporal fractures spread and time itself slowly fell apart, visitors started to appear from across the past and future, and those native to the present began to disappear.

Tromp the Domains

Sorcery

Domain - Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +1/+1 for each basic land type among lands you control.

Ground into the footprints of the ravaging herd were clumps of salt from Benalia, moss from Llanowar, dust from Hurloon, and ash from as far as Urborg.

Volcanic Awakening

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

With a great roar, the land opened like a titan's yawn, with teeth of blackened rock and a lolling tongue of magma.

Walk the Aeons

Sorcery

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

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Wheel of Fate

Sorcery

Illus. Kev Walker

Wurmcalling

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 an X/X green Wurm creature token onto the battlefield.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Sunscour

Sorcery

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

Destroy all creatures.

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.

Biomantic Mastery

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or .)

Draw a card for each creature target player controls, then draw a card for each creature another target player controls.

"Look beyond, to the vascular awareness that all life is a map to greater knowledge."
-Momir Vig, Biomancy, vol. I

Bond of Agony

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Bond of Agony, pay X life.

Each other player loses X life.

The Rakdos are unique in designing torture equipment they can operate while "suffering" alongside their victims.

Brain Pry

Sorcery

Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand. That player discards a card with that name. If he or she can't, you draw a card.

To the Rakdos, the fun is in the shakedown. The loot is usually discarded.

Crime (Crime/Punishment)

Sorcery

Put target creature or enchantment card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Delirium Skeins

Sorcery

Each player discards three cards.

There came a rush, a sudden fire in the mind. Then the two saw only the sooty fog of madness, heard only the crackling of their last thoughts burning away.

Demonfire

Sorcery

Demonfire deals X damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Hellbent - If you have no cards in hand, Demonfire can't be countered by spells or abilities and the damage can't be prevented.

Fertile Imagination

Sorcery

Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals his or her hand. Put two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield for each card of the chosen type revealed this way. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal are card types.)

Govern the Guildless

Sorcery

Gain control of target monocolored creature.

Forecast - , Reveal Govern the Guildless from your hand: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Infernal Tutor

Sorcery

Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Hellbent - If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Kindle the Carnage

Sorcery

Discard a card at random. If you do, Kindle the Carnage deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to each creature. You may repeat this process any number of times.

"Start knockin' heads, boys, and don't stop 'til the ragamuffyn sings!"

Macabre Waltz

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

"All dead move to the hollow rhythm of necromancy."
-Savra

Proclamation of Rebirth

Sorcery

Return up to three target creature cards with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Forecast - , Reveal Proclamation of Rebirth from your hand: Return target creature card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Pure (Pure/Simple)

Sorcery

Destroy target multicolored permanent.

Rise (Rise/Fall)

Sorcery

Return target creature card from a graveyard and target creature on the battlefield to their owners' hands.

Skyscribing

Sorcery

Each player draws X cards.

Forecast - , Reveal Skyscribing from your hand: Each player draws a card. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Stomp and Howl

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact and target enchantment.

"Mizzium may be impervious to fire, but obviously certain other things can . . . modify its form."
-Ivos Koba, indrik handler

Supply (Supply/Demand)

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Benediction of Moons

Sorcery

You gain 1 life for each player.

Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.)

When the creature Benediction of Moons haunts dies, you gain 1 life for each player.

Castigate

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.

"We have no need for military might. We wield two of the sharpest swords ever forged: Faith in our left hand, Wealth in our right."
-Vuliev of the Ghost Council

Caustic Rain

Sorcery

Exile target land.

"Looking out the great windows of Vitu-Ghazi at the foundry stacks belching their smoke to the sky, I wonder when the sky will take its vengeance."
-Heruj, Selesnya initiate

Conjurer's Ban

Sorcery

Name a card. Until your next turn, the named card can't be played.

Draw a card.

Orzhov faithful file past to have their minds purged of "impure" desires. There, the guiltwardens eliminate any thoughts of hope or self-sufficiency.

Cry of Contrition

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.)

When the creature Cry of Contrition haunts dies, target player discards a card.

Culling Sun

Sorcery

Destroy each creature with converted mana cost 3 or less.

"Who truly runs this city? Look to the sky on hallowed days, and see whose sigil is stamped clearly onto the heavens."
-Vuliev of the Ghost Council

Invoke the Firemind

Sorcery

Choose one - Draw X cards; or Invoke the Firemind deals X damage to target creature or player.

To those in tune with the Firemind, there is no difference between knowledge and flame.

Mimeofacture

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Choose target permanent an opponent controls. Search that player's library for a card with the same name and put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Predatory Focus

Sorcery

You may have creatures you control assign their combat damage this turn as though they weren't blocked.

Instinct blood-tinted his world until he could see only one thing clearly: his prey.

Primeval Light

Sorcery

Destroy all enchantments target player controls.

"Look to the old tomes, those bound in hides and written in yarberry ink. They hold the spells that can free us of the clutter of modern magecraft."
-Dravash, dowsing shaman

Shattering Spree

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Destroy target artifact.

Siege of Towers

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Target Mountain becomes a 3/1 creature. It's still a land.

Stitch in Time

Sorcery

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, take an extra turn after this one.

Train of Thought

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)

Draw a card.

"But then . . . oh, but . . . which means . . . which would lead to . . . exactly!"

Vacuumelt

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Wreak Havoc

Sorcery

Wreak Havoc can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Destroy target artifact or land.

Brainspoil

Sorcery

Destroy target creature that isn't enchanted. It can't be regenerated.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Brightflame

Sorcery

Radiance - Brightflame deals X damage to target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

"Let the pyres of the unbelievers light our way."
-Razia

Compulsive Research

Sorcery

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless he or she discards a land card.

"Four parts molten bronze, yes . . . one part frozen mercury, yes, yes . . . but then what?"

Consult the Necrosages

Sorcery

Choose one - Target player draws two cards; or target player discards two cards.

Dimir rank and file never see nor hear their guildmaster. All orders are given through mysterious necrosages who appear from the shadows, tersely toss out a command, and then melt into the darkness.

Dimir Machinations

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Exile any number of those cards, then put the rest back in any order.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Empty the Catacombs

Sorcery

Each player returns all creature cards from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.

When the dead are laid to rest in Ravnica, it's usually just a nap.

Flame Fusillade

Sorcery

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

"A single item acting as lantern and lance? Now that's military efficiency."
-Brev Grezar, Boros lieutenant

Glimpse the Unthinkable

Sorcery

Target player puts the top ten cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir."
-Szadek

Hex

Sorcery

Destroy six target creatures.

When killing five just isn't enough.

Incite Hysteria

Sorcery

Radiance - Until end of turn, target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain "This creature can't block."

"The Boros say they want to bring order to Ravnica. Funny then, how well they use chaos."
-Trigori, Azorius senator

Life from the Loam

Sorcery

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Nightmare Void

Sorcery

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

Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Overwhelm

Sorcery

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.)

Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

"Let the song of Selesnya be heard above the rhythm of our thundering hordes!"

Psychic Drain

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard and you gain X life.

"Gold can be reearned, goods restored. The moroii steal youth, more precious than either, and once gone, it's gone forever."
-Berta Suszat, civic healer

Rain of Embers

Sorcery

Rain of Embers deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

There's plenty to talk about in the marketplaces of Ravnica, be it the latest feud between guilds or the terrible weather.

Razia's Purification

Sorcery

Each player chooses three permanents he or she controls, then sacrifices the rest.

Only the chosen ones are spared.

Ribbons of Night

Sorcery

Ribbons of Night deals 4 damage to target creature and you gain 4 life. If was spent to cast Ribbons of Night, draw a card.

"My favorite meal is angel's flesh, slain in agony and iced with black vinegar."
-Aszala of House Dimir

Rolling Spoil

Sorcery

Destroy target land. If was spent to cast Rolling Spoil, all creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

The shadow that fell over the grove was silent yet horribly alive, roiling with millions of tiny minions dedicated to the process of rot.

Seismic Spike

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Add to your mana pool.

Natural disasters in Ravnica are largely nullified by the Izzet. Unnatural disasters, on the other hand, happen all of the time.

Sins of the Past

Sorcery

Until end of turn, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that card would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead. Exile Sins of the Past.

Three Dreams

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three Aura cards with different names, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"Choose one to heal, one to harm, and one to grant you the prudence to use them."
-Miotri, auratouched mage

Tunnel Vision

Sorcery

Name a card. Target player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until the named card is revealed. If it is, that player puts the rest of the revealed cards into his or her graveyard and puts the named card on top of his or her library. Otherwise, the player shuffles his or her library.

Twisted Justice

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power.

In Otiev's mind, he ruled in favor of the accused. But in his courtroom he was only a spectator, watching his hand deliver the sign of death.

Vigor Mortis

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If was spent to cast Vigor Mortis, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

After fear and weakness rot away, that which remains is stronger than its living form.

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."

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

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.

Boiling Seas

Sorcery

Destroy all Islands.

What burns the land, boils the seas.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.