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.

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

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.

Natural Spring

Sorcery

Target player gains 8 life.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Promise of Power

Sorcery

Choose one -

• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.

• Put an X/X black Demon creature token with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the number of cards in your hand as the token enters the battlefield.

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

Æther Snap

Sorcery

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

"May you wake to find you were only ever a dream."
-Mephidross curse

Rebuking Ceremony

Sorcery

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

From the Radix at the hub of the Tangle all the way out to the Edges of Forgetting, a Viridian elf's life is built around the temporary.

Acquire

Sorcery

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

Sometimes "innovation" means "stealing another's secret before anyone else can."

Vicious Betrayal

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Vicious Betrayal, sacrifice any number of creatures.

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature sacrificed this way.

Mana Geyser

Sorcery

Add to your mana pool for each tapped land your opponents control.

The Quicksilver Sea hissed and bubbled at the indignity. The Vulshok shaman just smiled.

All Suns' Dawn

Sorcery

For each color, return up to one target card of that color from your graveyard to your hand. Exile All Suns' Dawn.

Rude Awakening

Sorcery

Choose one - Untap all lands you control; or until end of turn, lands you control become 2/2 creatures that are still lands.

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

Petals of Insight

Sorcery - Arcane

Look at the top three cards of your library. You may put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order. If you do, return Petals of Insight to its owner's hand. Otherwise, draw three cards.

Dance of Shadows

Sorcery - Arcane

Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"Only one man survived, barely sane. He got out two words before collapsing: shadows' shadows."

Feast of Worms

Sorcery - Arcane

Destroy target land. If that land was legendary, its controller sacrifices another land.

"The dust beneath our feet was once part of a mighty civilization. Shall we too provide the path for a future generation?"
-Sensei Golden-Tail

Gale Force

Sorcery

Gale Force deals 5 damage to each creature with flying.

Everything the kami had done, they did with more force. Gentle breezes became typhoons, rolling rivers turned to crushing rapids, and gentle growth became overnight masses of thorns and vines.

Heed the Mists

Sorcery - Arcane

Put the top card of your library into your graveyard, then draw cards equal to that card's converted mana cost.

"Once, I looked to the mists for wisdom. Now I wish only for understanding."

Reduce to Dreams

Sorcery

Return all artifacts and enchantments to their owners' hands.

"This world is a dream. We cling to our toys like children, but sooner or later we must learn to live without them."
-Sensei Hisoka

Ribbons of the Reikai

Sorcery - Arcane

Draw a card for each Spirit you control.

"If wisdom is a river, then we cup our hands, reach in, and drink from it in sips. The kami, however, are like fish, swimming, breathing, surrounded in its presence."
-Dosan the Falling Leaf

Three Tragedies

Sorcery - Arcane

Target player discards three cards.

"As the kami passed over the village of Mita, the inhabitants relived their three most grievous tragedies. Some cried. Some raged. Some were driven to madness. But the next morning, none possessed the will to fight."
-Observations of the Kami War

Exile into Darkness

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature with converted mana cost 3 or less.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more cards in hand than each opponent, you may return Exile into Darkness from your graveyard to your hand.

Dosan's Oldest Chant

Sorcery

You gain 6 life.

Draw a card.

As Dosan's chant grew in volume, a second, deeper voice rose up in harmony behind it, strong enough to shake the earth and yet vibrant enough to fill the spirit.

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

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.)

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

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.

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

Crime (Crime/Punishment)

Sorcery

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

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.

Demonic Collusion

Sorcery

Buyback-Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

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.)

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.)

Saltblast

Sorcery

Destroy target nonwhite permanent.

Dominaria erodes with each passing gust.

Shivan Meteor

Sorcery

Shivan Meteor deals 13 damage to target creature.

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.)

Festering March

Sorcery

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. Exile Festering March with three time counters on it.

Suspend 3- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three 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.)

Arc Blade

Sorcery

Arc Blade deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Exile Arc Blade with three time counters on it.

Suspend 3- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three 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.)

Cyclical Evolution

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Exile Cyclical Evolution with three time counters on it.

Suspend 3- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three 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.)

Void

Sorcery

Choose a number. Destroy all artifacts and creatures with converted mana cost equal to that number. Then target player reveals his or her hand and discards all nonland cards with converted mana cost equal to the number.

Living Death

Sorcery

Each player exiles all creature cards from his or her graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures he or she controls, then puts all cards he or she exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Syphon Flesh

Sorcery

Each other player sacrifices a creature. You put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield for each creature sacrificed this way.

Necromancers deal in commodities far more precious than gold and grain.

Knight Watch

Sorcery

Put two 2/2 white Knight creature tokens with vigilance onto the battlefield.

"We lost respect after the battle for Barbu Rooftop. Send the troops to mingle respectfully with the citizens."
-Commander Yaszen of Boros

Frenzied Tilling

Sorcery

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

"Beneath her scars, Dominaria's beauty yet shines."
-Multani, maro-sorcerer

Shadow Slice

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 3 life.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Angelic Edict

Sorcery

Exile target creature or enchantment.

The Boros built a prison in the sky where Azorius statutes couldn't restrict their sense of justice.

Coerced Confession

Sorcery

Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. You draw a card for each creature card put into that graveyard this way.

"Ask the right questions in the right way and truth is inevitable."
-Lazav

Urban Evolution

Sorcery

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals.

Obzedat's Aid

Sorcery

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The Obzedat have revived you with purpose. Don't squander their blessing."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Flesh (Flesh/Blood)

Sorcery

Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is the power of the card you exiled.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Liturgy of Blood

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Add to your mana pool.

"You harbor such vast potential. It would be such a shame to let you die of old age."-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Enlarge

Sorcery

Target creature gets +7/+7 and gains trample until end of turn. It must be blocked this turn if able. (If a creature with trample would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Rage of Purphoros

Sorcery

Rage of Purphoros deals 4 damage to target creature. It can't be regenerated this turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Psychic Intrusion

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from that player's graveyard or hand and exile it. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Brilliant Plan

Sorcery

Draw three cards.

At Red Cliffs, Kongming and Zhou Yu each wrote his plan for defeating Wei on the palm of his hand. They laughed as they both revealed the same word, "Fire."

Famine

Sorcery

Famine deals 3 damage to each creature and each player.

"Better to starve to death than be bored to death."-Liliana Vess

Tempt with Immortality

Sorcery

Tempting offer - Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Each opponent may return a creature card from his or her graveyard to the battlefield. For each player who does, return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Mass Mutiny

Sorcery

For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

"What say you, my most trusted advisors? . . . Advisors?"
-Edra, merfolk sovereign

Sanguimancy

Sorcery

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is your devotion to black. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Hunter's Prowess

Sorcery

Until end of turn, target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards."

To be counted among the warriors of Setessa's Leina Tower, you must not fear death, only failure.

Mischief and Mayhem

Sorcery

Up to two target creatures each get +4/+4 until end of turn.

"The false god Xenagos treats the whole world as his rollick site. If his whims are left unchecked, Theros will be reduced to rubble and ashes."
-Elspeth

Flurry of Horns

Sorcery

Put two 2/3 red Minotaur creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield.

A minotaur does not distinguish between human, satyr, and triton. They are all meat.

Rollick of Abandon

Sorcery

All creatures get +2/-2 until end of turn.

"Embrace every moment, for it could be your last."
-Xenagos, god of revels

Selvala's Charge

Sorcery

Parley - Each player reveals the top card of his or her library. For each nonland card revealed this way, you put a 3/3 green Elephant creature token onto the battlefield. Then each player draws a card.

Selvala's arrival never goes unnoticed.

Extract from Darkness

Sorcery

Each player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Then put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

If you want to wreak havoc above, sometimes it's best to look below.

Rout

Sorcery

You may cast Rout any time you could cast an instant if you pay more to cast it.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Stain the Mind

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.)

Name a nonland card. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Nissa's Expedition

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.)

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Restock

Sorcery

Return two target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Restock.

"We hid such stockpiles all over Rath. We should continue that practice here."
-Lin Sivvi

End Hostilities

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures and all permanents attached to creatures.

Her palm flared like the eye of a waking dragon. Then all was calm.

Arrow Storm

Sorcery

Arrow Storm deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Raid - If you attacked with a creature this turn, instead Arrow Storm deals 5 damage to that creature or player and the damage can't be prevented.

First the thunder, then the rain.

Death Frenzy

Sorcery

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, you gain 1 life.

The crocodiles' putrid jaws swallow everything but the screams.

Master the Way

Sorcery

Draw a card. Master the Way deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of cards in your hand.

"The Way has no beginning and no end. It is simply the path."
-Narset, khan of the Jeskai

Fell the Mighty

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

"They had it coming."
-Squire Imalia, savior of Thiswick

Æther Gale

Sorcery

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

The militia formed up in the central plaza awaiting the onslaught, but the giants never quite made it.

Infernal Offering

Sorcery

Choose an opponent. You and that player each sacrifice a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way draws two cards.

Choose an opponent. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then that player returns a creature card from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

Scrap Mastery

Sorcery

Each player exiles all artifact cards from his or her graveyard, then sacrifices all artifacts he or she controls, then puts all cards he or she exiled this way onto the battlefield.

"Where a lesser mind sees junk, I see infinite potential."

Rush of Knowledge

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the highest converted mana cost among permanents you control.

"Limitless power is glorious until you gain limitless understanding."
-Ixidor, reality sculptor

Dregs of Sorrow

Sorcery

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

"We live for a thousand years. The death of even one brings untold sorrow."
-Elvish elder

Crux of Fate

Sorcery

Choose one -

• Destroy all Dragon creatures.

• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Ugin's whispered summons led Sarkhan Vol to the moment that would echo down the centuries and seal Tarkir's fate: the primal battle between Ugin and Nicol Bolas.

Fearsome Awakening

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If it's a Dragon, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

On Tarkir, dragons emerge from enormous tempests, phenomena tied to Ugin's very presence on the plane.

Fierce Invocation

Sorcery

Manifest the top card of your library, then put two +1/+1 counters on it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Anger can empower those who embrace it.

Shamanic Revelation

Sorcery

Draw a card for each creature you control.

Ferocious - You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

First, whispers of ancient days. Then, visions of things to come.

Ojutai's Summons

Sorcery

Put a 2/2 blue Djinn Monk creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Void Squall

Sorcery

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Vandalize

Sorcery

Choose one or both -

• Destroy target artifact.

• Destroy target land.

"As we have learned from Kolaghan, to ruin is to rule."
-Shensu, Kolaghan rider

Planar Outburst

Sorcery

Destroy all nonland creatures.

Awaken 4- (If you cast this spell for , also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Exert Influence

Sorcery

Converge - Gain control of target creature if its power is less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast Exert Influence.

"I can't control its mind-I'm not even sure it has one. But I can dominate its will."

Ugin's Insight

Sorcery

Scry X, where X is the highest converted mana cost among permanents you control, then draw three cards.

"You speak to me of the threat of Ulamog. But do not forget: they came as three."-Ugin, to Jace Beleren

Demon's Grasp

Sorcery

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

"Take what solace you can in the knowledge that you will not be here to witness Zendikar's demise."-Ob Nixilis

Bring to Light

Sorcery

Converge - Search your library for a creature, instant, or sorcery card with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast Bring to Light, exile that card, then shuffle your library. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

March from the Tomb

Sorcery

Return any number of target Ally creature cards with total converted mana cost 8 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

They came from all walks of life, from every part of Zendikar, and they returned with one unifying cause.

Remorseless Punishment

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 5 life unless that player discards two cards or sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Repeat this process once.

"I have suffered a thousand lifetimes of agony on this wretched world. I've far less time to share with you, but I assure you, no less pain."
-Ob Nixilis

Boulder Salvo

Sorcery

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

Boulder Salvo deals 4 damage to target creature.

"If someone claims the sky is falling, I listen."
-Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Press into Service

Sorcery

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

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.