Flash of Insight

Instant

Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Flashback-, Exile X blue cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost, then exile it. You can't exile Flash of Insight to pay for its own flashback cost.)

Grip of Amnesia

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller exiles all cards from his or her graveyard.

Draw a card.

"Would you abandon your past to save your future?"
-Ambassador Laquatus

Laquatus's Disdain

Instant

Counter target spell cast from a graveyard.

Draw a card.

"The first time was amusing, but now you're getting tiresome."

Grave Consequences

Instant

Each player may exile any number of cards from his or her graveyard. Then each player loses 1 life for each card in his or her graveyard.

Draw a card.

"You call that a nightmare?"
-Braids, dementia summoner

Toxic Stench

Instant

Target nonblack creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

Flaring Pain

Instant

Damage can't be prevented this turn.

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

"I don't rub salt in wounds. I use sulfur."
-Matoc, lavamancer

Krosan Reclamation

Instant

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

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

Seedtime

Instant

Cast Seedtime only during your turn.

Take an extra turn after this one if an opponent cast a blue spell this turn.

The hippo grows wings to fight the condor.
-Nantuko teaching

Aura Extraction

Instant

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

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

Every day, Order clerics contain as much of the Mirari's energy as possible, hoping to delay Otaria's demise.

Chain of Silence

Instant

Prevent all damage target creature would deal this turn. That creature's controller may sacrifice a land. If the player does, he or she may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Backslide

Instant

Turn target creature with morph face down.

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

Some things are better left unknown.

Mage's Guile

Instant

Target creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

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

"Next time, don't bother."

Standardize

Instant

Choose a creature type other than Wall. Each creature becomes that type until end of turn.

At that point, the wizards' argument got a lot uglier.

False Cure

Instant

Until end of turn, whenever a player gains life, that player loses 2 life for each 1 life he or she gained.

"I do unto others as others have done unto me."
-Phage the Untouchable

Shade's Breath

Instant

Until end of turn, each creature you control becomes a black Shade and gains ": This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."

The grim business of the Coliseum casts long shadows.

Break Open

Instant

Turn target face-down creature an opponent controls face up.

There are two ways to resolve puzzling situations: thoughtful contemplation or force. After thoughtful contemplation, most barbarians choose force.

Chain of Plasma

Instant

Chain of Plasma deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Then that player or that creature's controller may discard a card. If the player does, he or she may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Starstorm

Instant

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature.

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

Pardic barbarians didn't complain when the Order started blaming every crisis on the Cabal.

Gilded Light

Instant

You gain shroud until end of turn. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

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

"Whoever survives the first blow lives to land the second."

Wipe Clean

Instant

Exile target enchantment.

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

"The light of the Ancestor will scour the taint of darkness from the land."

Brain Freeze

Instant

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

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

Dispersal Shield

Instant

Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is less than or equal to the highest converted mana cost among permanents you control.

"Maybe next time."

Metamorphose

Instant

Put target permanent an opponent controls on top of its owner's library. That opponent may put an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card from his or her hand onto the battlefield.

If it's not one thing, it's another.

Chill Haunting

Instant

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

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

Raise the Alarm

Instant

Put two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"The nim raid our homes without warning. We must defend our homes without hesitation."

Razor Barrier

Instant

Target permanent you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

"We protect our homelands. Why should they not protect us?"

Roar of the Kha

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn; or untap all creatures you control.

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

Shrapnel Blast

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Shrapnel Blast, sacrifice an artifact.

Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

Predator's Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.

Echoing Calm

Instant

Destroy target enchantment and all other enchantments with the same name as that enchantment.

A single light unleashes a hail of cleansing.

Purge

Instant

Destroy target artifact creature or black creature. It can't be regenerated.

For the first and last time, the horrific creature experienced terror.

Test of Faith

Instant

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn, and put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.

Those who survive the test bear a mark of power anyone can recognize.

Echoing Truth

Instant

Return target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent to their owners' hands.

A single lie unleashes a tide of disbelief.

Echoing Decay

Instant

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

A single fear unleashes a torrent of nightmares.

Echoing Courage

Instant

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get +2/+2 until end of turn.

A single seed unleashes a flurry of growth.

Nourish

Instant

You gain 6 life.

Gelfruit grows abundantly wherever Sylvok druids live, as if the Tangle knows that humans are not as hardy as the beasts or as nimble as the elves.

Early Frost

Instant

Tap up to three target lands.

Under its mists, the earth sleeps.

Spectral Shift

Instant

Choose one - Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one basic land type with another; or change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (These effects last indefinitely.)

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

Devour in Shadow

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

"Feel the burn of the mists. Master them. They will devour your enemies."
-Geth, keeper of the Vault

Plunge into Darkness

Instant

Choose one - Sacrifice any number of creatures, then you gain 3 life for each sacrificed creature; or pay X life, then look at the top X cards of your library, put one of those cards into your hand, and exile the rest.

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

Magma Jet

Instant

Magma Jet deals 2 damage to target creature or player. 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.)

Tel-Jilad Justice

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

Scry 2. (To 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.)

Call to Glory

Instant

Untap all creatures you control. Samurai creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"General Takeno glared at us as if we were the enemy. ‘The day is not over yet,' he shouted, ‘and unless you have a nezumi's heart, you will stand and fight'"
-Battle of Akagi River: A Survivor's Tale

Candles' Glow

Instant - Arcane

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Otherworldly Journey

Instant - Arcane

Exile target creature. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

"The landscape shimmered and I felt a chill breeze. When my vision cleared, I found myself alone among the corpses of my fallen friends."
-Journal found in Numai

Consuming Vortex

Instant - Arcane

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Dampen Thought

Instant - Arcane

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

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Hisoka's Defiance

Instant

Counter target Spirit or Arcane spell.

"With every passing day, the kami shape our world to suit their will. I, for one, would not see them succeed."

Peer Through Depths

Instant - Arcane

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

Psychic Puppetry

Instant - Arcane

You may tap or untap target permanent.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Squelch

Instant

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Draw a card.

Oku-Doku had gone through all the motions: the same akki cursewords, the same ingredients with their horrid stink, the same rude gestures. Yet not a person died.

Soulless Revival

Instant - Arcane

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Crushing Pain

Instant - Arcane

Crushing Pain deals 6 damage to target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

It is said that the mere touch of a kami is like embracing the sun itself.

Desperate Ritual

Instant - Arcane

Add to your mana pool.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Glacial Ray

Instant - Arcane

Glacial Ray deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Sideswipe

Instant

You may change any targets of target Arcane spell.

Hisoka's wizards struggled for years to master the art of redirection that came so naturally to the shamans of Ganzan Pass.

Wear Away

Instant - Arcane

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Shining Shoal

Instant - Arcane

You may exile a white card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay Shining Shoal's mana cost.

The next X damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or creatures you control this turn is dealt to target creature or player instead.

Terashi's Verdict

Instant - Arcane

Destroy target attacking creature with power 3 or less.

It was as though the sky opened its eyes and found what it saw displeasing.

Disrupting Shoal

Instant - Arcane

You may exile a blue card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay Disrupting Shoal's mana cost.

Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is X.

Stream of Consciousness

Instant - Arcane

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

"All things return to their beginnings. The waters that spill across the Kamitaki Falls flow to sea, only to be returned to her as the rain that joins the mighty river."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Veil of Secrecy

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gains shroud until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

Splice onto Arcane-Return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Goryo's Vengeance

Instant - Arcane

Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Hero's Demise

Instant

Destroy target legendary creature.

"What will it say on our graves, Lord Konda? Will it say we led our world to conquer immortal forces or that we were crushed by our own arrogance? At each defeat, I wonder."
-Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda

Sickening Shoal

Instant - Arcane

You may exile a black card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay Sickening Shoal's mana cost.

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

Blazing Shoal

Instant - Arcane

You may exile a red card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay Blazing Shoal's mana cost.

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

First Volley

Instant - Arcane

First Volley deals 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to that creature's controller.

"We searched their bodies for signs of the blades that had killed them, but found nothing more than scorched flesh."
-Tender-Hand, kitsune healer

Nourishing Shoal

Instant - Arcane

You may exile a green card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay Nourishing Shoal's mana cost.

You gain X life.

Vital Surge

Instant - Arcane

You gain 3 life.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Curtain of Light

Instant

Cast Curtain of Light only during combat after blockers are declared.

Target unblocked attacking creature becomes blocked. (This spell works on unblockable creatures.)

Draw a card.

"Paint gold upon the wind,
Shape the wind into a shield,
And vanish behind the brightness."
-Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Plow Through Reito

Instant - Arcane

Sweep - Return any number of Plains you control to their owner's hand. Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Plains returned this way.

The paths of the kami crisscrossed Kamigawa like scars left by a maddened surgeon.

Death Denied

Instant - Arcane

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

Takenuma was filled with a chorus of moans, shrieks, and wails. Some came from the living, some from the dying, and some, most horribly, from the dead.

Leave No Trace

Instant

Radiance - Destroy target enchantment and each other enchantment that shares a color with it.

The magic of the Boros patrols the streets even when their soldiers do not.

Muddle the Mixture

Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell.

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.)

Quickchange

Instant

Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Draw a card.

Most Ravnicans lead lives of desperate survival. Those who thrive are malleable enough to change with the ever-shifting politics of the guilds.

Remand

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard.

Draw a card.

"Well, at least all of that arm-waving and arcane babbling you did was impressive."

Last Gasp

Instant

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

"Allow me a moment to catch your breath."

Shred Memory

Instant

Exile up to four target cards from a single graveyard.

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.)

Fiery Conclusion

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Fiery Conclusion, sacrifice a creature.

Fiery Conclusion deals 5 damage to target creature.

The Boros legionnaire saw a noble sacrifice, the Rakdos thug a blazing suicide, and the Izzet alchemist an experiment gone awry.

Reroute

Instant

Change the target of target activated ability with a single target. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Draw a card.

Three hundred years of practice thwarted by an instant of mischief.

Lightning Helix

Instant

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Seeds of Strength

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Beneath the beauty of light and seed is the might of Vitu-Ghazi.

Shadow of Doubt

Instant

( can be paid with either or .)

Players can't search libraries this turn.

Draw a card.

"Your ignorance is my bliss."
-Szadek

To Arms!

Instant

Untap all creatures you control.

Draw a card.

"The call came, spell-borne through mortar and stone to the ear of every soldier. The call came, and the advantage was ours."
-Lodusz, captain of the watch

Pyromatics

Instant

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

Pyromatics deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Leap of Flame

Instant

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 creature gets +1/+0 and gains flying and first strike until end of turn.

Carom

Instant

The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to another target creature instead.

Draw a card.

Her enemy's strength is her own.

Vision Skeins

Instant

Each player draws two cards.

"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."

Nightcreep

Instant

Until end of turn, all creatures become black and all lands become Swamps.

"Please tell me I'm hallucinating. I'd rather be crazy than here."
-Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator

Ignorant Bliss

Instant

Exile all cards from your hand face down. At the beginning of the next end step, return those cards to your hand, then draw a card.

"A quick step beyond oblivion lies a place so full of thoughts that it leaves no room for your own."
-Quyzl, chronarch prodigy

Psychotic Fury

Instant

Target multicolored creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"Rage, my servants. Our ancient power is renewed in blood."
-Rakdos

Might of the Nephilim

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each of its colors.

"Send a runner to Tin Street, and tell 'em the delivery has been . . . uh . . . held up."
-Bonmod, caravan rear guard

Overrule

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . You gain X life.

With one commanding word, the spell was put down and a fine collected for its casting.

Hide (Hide/Seek)

Instant

Put target artifact or enchantment on the bottom of its owner's library.

Odds (Odds/Ends)

Instant

Flip a coin. If it comes up heads, counter target instant or sorcery spell. If it comes up tails, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Research (Research/Development)

Instant

Choose up to four cards you own from outside the game and shuffle them into your library.

Trial (Trial/Error)

Instant

Return all creatures blocking or blocked by target creature to their owner's hand.

Momentary Blink

Instant

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

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

Snapback

Instant

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay Snapback's mana cost.

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"If it returns years hence, our knowledge of how to combat it will be that much greater."
-Andorel, Tolarian sentinel

Trickbind

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Counter target activated or triggered ability. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, activated abilities of that permanent can't be activated this turn. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)