Scarscale Ritual

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Scarscale Ritual, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.

Draw two cards.

Some words are too important to trust to something as fragile as memory.

Scorch the Fields

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Scorch the Fields deals 1 damage to each Human creature.

"Your fields will turn as black as a ghoul's tongue and fire shall be your only harvest."
-Minaldra, the Vizag Atum

Scouring Sands

Sorcery

Scouring Sands deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

When Purphoros cleans the ashes from his forge, entire cities vanish.

Scout the Borders

Sorcery

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

"I am in my element: the element of surprise."
-Mogai, Sultai scout

Scrambleverse

Sorcery

For each nonland permanent, choose a player at random. Then each player gains control of each permanent for which he or she was chosen. Untap those permanents.

Sometimes a little chaos is in order.

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."

Scrapyard Salvo

Sorcery

Scrapyard Salvo deals damage to target player equal to the number of artifact cards in your graveyard.

"Squealstokers! Build me a glorious pile of Mirran metal. Then add yourselves to the pile."
-Furnace boss, sector 11

Screaming Fury

Sorcery

Target creature gets +5/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

He's got an axe to grind.

Scrounge

Sorcery

Target opponent chooses an artifact card in his or her graveyard. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

When leonin settlers abandon their homes to the nim, items of value are often left behind.

Sea God's Revenge

Sorcery

Return up to three target creatures your opponents control to their owners' hands. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

"What has neither mouth nor throat, yet swallows captain, crew, and boat?"
-Sphinx's riddle

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.)

Search Warrant

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You gain life equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"And would you care to explain why your satchel is radiating an aura of unstable energy?"

See Beyond

Sorcery

Draw two cards, then shuffle a card from your hand into your library.

Ancient lore locked in a mind driven mad is just as safe as when it was locked deep underground.

See the Unwritten

Sorcery

Reveal the top eight cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you may put two creature cards onto the battlefield instead of one.

Seek the Horizon

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Raked by vertical spikes of glass and stone, Ravnica's vistas offer only a rare glimpse of the horizon.

Seek the Wilds

Sorcery

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

"In my downtime I used to paint the vistas. Now the vistas disappear faster than my downtime."

Seismic Rupture

Sorcery

Seismic Rupture deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.

The shaman opened the earth beneath their feet, trapping the survivors within the crevices of Ayagor for Atarka to devour at her leisure.

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.

Seismic Stomp

Sorcery

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

"It is not in me to tread lightly."-Ryda, geomancer

Selective Memory

Sorcery

Search your library for any number of nonland cards and exile them. Then shuffle your library.

"I of all people know that memory is not a safe place to hide valuables."
-Jace Beleren

Self-Inflicted Wound

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a green or white creature. If that player does, he or she loses 2 life.

"Worse than watching the cruelest deed is watching it done by your own hand."
-Baihir, Dromoka mage

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.

Serene Remembrance

Sorcery

Shuffle Serene Remembrance and up to three target cards from a single graveyard into their owners' libraries.

While Lazav schemed and Niv-Mizzet researched, Trostani sought the future in the whispers of the past.

Serpentine Spike

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Serpentine Spike deals 2 damage to target creature, 3 damage to another target creature, and 4 damage to a third target creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Serum Visions

Sorcery

Draw a card.

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.)

Set Adrift

Sorcery

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.

The envoy spoke, and Sidisi replied.

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

Sever the Bloodline

Sorcery

Exile target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature.

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

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.)

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.

Shape Anew

Sorcery

The controller of target artifact sacrifices it, then reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals an artifact card. That player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into his or her library.

Shard Convergence

Sorcery

Search your library for a Plains card, an Island card, a Swamp card, and a Mountain card. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Alara is broken no more.

Shared Discovery

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Shared Discovery, tap four untapped creatures you control.

Draw three cards.

Riches must be divided, but real wealth can be shared.

Shared Trauma

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Shattered Dreams

Sorcery

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

Victims are lucky if they remember ever having had what was lost.

Shattered Perception

Sorcery

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

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

"You must shatter the fetters of the past. Only then can you truly act."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

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.

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.

Sheer Drop

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

Awaken 3- (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Shifting Loyalties

Sorcery

Exchange control of two target permanents that share a card type. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are card types.)

"Show the enemy the true path, and the spirit will yearn to follow it."
-Houn, Jeskai elder

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.)

Shoulder to Shoulder

Sorcery

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

Draw a card.

"Sea Gate may have fallen, but we still stand. We still fight."
-Gideon Jura

Shrivel

Sorcery

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

"Have you ever killed insects nibbling at your crops? I think that's what the Eldrazi believe they're doing to us."
-Sheyda, Ondu gamekeeper

Shrouded Lore

Sorcery

Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay . If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Shrouded Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.

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.

Sift

Sorcery

Draw three cards, then discard a card.

Dwell longest on the thoughts that shine brightest.

Sight Beyond Sight

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.

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.)

Sign in Blood

Sorcery

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Silent Departure

Sorcery

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

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

The same magic that lets geists pass through our realm can force them out of it.

Sink into Takenuma

Sorcery - Arcane

Sweep - Return any number of Swamps you control to their owner's hand. Target player discards a card for each Swamp returned this way.

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.

Sip of Hemlock

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Conspirators poisoned the oracle not because her visions were wrong, but because they were right.

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

Skittering Invasion

Tribal Sorcery - Eldrazi

Put five 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

"The brood spread far faster than we could kill it. I fear the worst is yet to come."
-The War Diaries

Skull Rend

Sorcery

Skull Rend deals 2 damage to each opponent. Those players each discard two cards at random.

"We could never accept anyone with a face that pretty or a mind that sane."
-Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Skyreaping

Sorcery

Skyreaping deals damage to each creature with flying equal to your devotion to green. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)

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.)

Slagstorm

Sorcery

Choose one - Slagstorm deals 3 damage to each creature; or Slagstorm deals 3 damage to each player.

"As long as we have the will to fight, we are never without weapons."
-Koth of the Hammer

Slaughter Games

Sorcery

Slaughter Games can't be countered by spells or abilities.

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

Slave of Bolas

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Nicol Bolas doesn't distinguish between servants and victims.

Sleep

Sorcery

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious."
-Garild, merfolk mage

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

Slice and Dice

Sorcery

Slice and Dice deals 4 damage to each creature.

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

When you cycle Slice and Dice, you may have it deal 1 damage to each creature.

Slime Molding

Sorcery

Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield.

"Give me enough refuse and mana and I will summon an ooze that can engulf all of Ravnica."
-Cevraya, Golgari shaman

Slip Through Space

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Draw a card.

The Eldrazi twisted in a direction that had no name, and a frontal assault became a panicked rout.

Smallpox

Sorcery

Each player loses 1 life, discards a card, sacrifices a creature, then sacrifices a land.

Take away a few things, and a rebellion may ensue. Take away everything, and the oppression will be accepted as fate.

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.)

Solemn Offering

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.

"A relic donation is suggested."
"The suggestion is mandatory."
-Temple signs

Sorin's Vengeance

Sorcery

Sorin's Vengeance deals 10 damage to target player and you gain 10 life.

"Cherish these last moments. Though your miserable life has come to nothing, I have given it a magnificent end."

Sosuke's Summons

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Whenever a nontoken Snake enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Sosuke's Summons from your graveyard to your hand.

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

Soul Reap

Sorcery

Destroy target nongreen creature. Its controller loses 3 life if you've cast another black spell this turn.

Their thoughtweft carried Darial's last thoughts back to his doun. They sorely wished it had not.

Soul Summons

Sorcery

Manifest the top card of your library. (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.)

Ugin's magic reaches beyond the dragons. The clans have adapted it for war.

Soul's Majesty

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the power of target creature you control.

An avatar he sculpts of wisdom and strength.

Soul's Might

Sorcery

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power.

An avatar he sculpts of instinct and force.

Soulquake

Sorcery

Return all creatures on the battlefield and all creature cards in graveyards to their owners' hands.

The Maelstrom sent a wave of raw mana through the battlefield, carrying off the fighting and fallen alike.

Soulscour

Sorcery

Destroy all nonartifact permanents.

"I have seen the end of times, a future in which all our kind are torn from this world."
-Ushanti, leonin shaman

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

Sowing Salt

Sorcery

Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Sparkmage's Gambit

Sorcery

Sparkmage's Gambit deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. Those creatures can't block this turn.

"A touch of lightning, and anyone can be taught to dance."
-Tobin, sparkmage

Spectral Procession

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Put three 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

"The dead have it easy. They suffer no more. If breaking their rest helps the living, so be it."
-Olka, mistmeadow witch

Spelltwine

Sorcery

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Spider Spawning

Sorcery

Put a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach onto the battlefield for each creature card in your graveyard.

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

Spiraling Embers

Sorcery - Arcane

Spiraling Embers deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of cards in your hand.

The akki knew to stay indoors on the days the oni flew their kites.

Spire Barrage

Sorcery

Spire Barrage deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Mountains you control.

Goblin lessons include the 2,071 tips for survival. Frek only remembered 2,070.

Spite of Mogis

Sorcery

Spite of Mogis deals damage to target creature equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Spiteful Blow

Sorcery

Destroy target creature and target land.

"Only a fool takes Phenax at his word. What do you expect from a god born of lies and betrayal?"
-Verenes, priest of Iroas

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

Spitting Image

Sorcery

Put a token that's a copy of target creature onto the battlefield.

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Spitting is the customary greeting between a creature and its magical impostor.

Splinter

Sorcery

Exile target artifact. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that artifact and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Splitting Headache

Sorcery

Choose one - Target player discards two cards; or target player reveals his or her hand, you choose a card from it, then that player discards that card.

All faeries delve for dreams. But not all wait for their victims to fall asleep.

Spoils of Victory

Sorcery

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Spore Burst

Sorcery

Domain - Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each basic land type among lands you control.

Seeds from Jund don't drift gently on the wind. They get up and stampede.

Spread the Sickness

Sorcery

Destroy target creature, then proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Life is ephemeral. Phyrexia is eternal.

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.

Steelshaper's Gift

Sorcery

Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Some blades seek their own wielders.

Stir the Grave

Sorcery

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

"Your lungs may not draw breath, but while your hands can grip a sword, you will be useful to me."
-Nighteyes, nezumi necromancer

Stitch in Time

Sorcery

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

Stitch Together

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Threshold - Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Stolen Goods

Sorcery

Target opponent exiles cards from the top of his or her library until he or she exiles a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.