Violent Eruption

Instant

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

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

Sudden Strength

Instant

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

Draw a card.

The Mirari's magic transformed the Krosan Forest-and its inhabitants.

Defensive Maneuvers

Instant

Creatures of the creature type of your choice get +0/+4 until end of turn.

"Only on the battlefield can we repay all the Order has given us."

Choking Tethers

Instant

Tap up to four target creatures.

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

When you cycle Choking Tethers, you may tap target creature.

Psychic Trance

Instant

Until end of turn, Wizards you control gain ": Counter target spell."

The Riptide Project was perhaps the only school devoted to preventing the spread of knowledge.

Wheel and Deal

Instant

Any number of target opponents each discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

Draw a card.

Death Pulse

Instant

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

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

When you cycle Death Pulse, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Solar Blast

Instant

Solar Blast deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

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

When you cycle Solar Blast, you may have it deal 1 damage to target creature or player.

Recuperate

Instant

Choose one - You gain 6 life; or prevent the next 6 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

"Rise once more, so you may continue to destroy our enemies."
-Karona, false god

Hindering Touch

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

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

Altar's Light

Instant

Exile target artifact or enchantment.

"The altar does nothing; the device is crushed under the weight of its own impurity."
-Ushanti, leonin seer

Irradiate

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each artifact you control.

The blast ignores the cage of metal but devours the flesh inside.

Grab the Reins

Instant

Choose one - Until end of turn, you gain control of target creature and it gains haste; or sacrifice a creature, then Grab the Reins deals damage equal to that creature's power to target creature or player.

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

Bloodscent

Instant

All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.

Last Word

Instant

Last Word can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Counter target spell.

"Someday, someone will best me. But it won't be today, and it won't be you."

Burden of Greed

Instant

Target player loses 1 life for each tapped artifact he or she controls.

"The one who dies with the most toys is still dead."
-Geth, keeper of the Vault

Shriveling Rot

Instant

Choose one - Until end of turn, whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it; or until end of turn, whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.

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

Tears of Rage

Instant

Cast Tears of Rage only during the declare attackers step.

Attacking creatures you control get +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of attacking creatures. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Abuna's Chant

Instant

Choose one - You gain 5 life; or prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

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

Retaliate

Instant

Destroy all creatures that dealt damage to you this turn.

The Auriok learned perseverance from their forebears. They learned justice from the leonin.

Fold into Æther

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, its controller may put a creature card from his or her hand onto the battlefield.

Æther portals drift across Mirrodin's surface, dragging creatures across time and space.

Gifts Ungiven

Instant

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Part the Veil

Instant - Arcane

Return all creatures you control to their owner's hand.

At the waterfall, the border between the humanoid and the spirit worlds was weakest. The kami moved across it with ease and at will.

Hideous Laughter

Instant - Arcane

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

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.)

Blind with Anger

Instant - Arcane

Untap target nonlegendary creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn.

"I can post only the most honorable and strong-willed samurai to defend your stronghold. I have seen what can happen to lesser men."
-General Takeno, letter to Lord Konda

Minamo's Meddling

Instant

Counter target spell. That spell's controller reveals his or her hand, then discards each card with the same name as a card spliced onto that spell.

Like storm water through the segments of bamboo, the spell followed the links of magic. Then it destroyed them.

Ire of Kaminari

Instant - Arcane

Ire of Kaminari deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Arcane cards in your graveyard.

"Thunder broke the brittle silence over the Araba. A surge of raw energy lifted the soldier's body into the air and briefly, in the heart of the flash, he saw the face of a god."
-Great Battles of Kamigawa

Overblaze

Instant - Arcane

Each time target permanent would deal damage to a creature or player this turn, it deals double that damage to that creature or player instead.

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.)

Torrent of Stone

Instant - Arcane

Torrent of Stone deals 4 damage to target creature.

Splice onto Arcane-Sacrifice two Mountains. (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.)

Æther Shockwave

Instant

Choose one - Tap all Spirits; or tap all non-Spirit creatures.

"The strain upon the veil between worlds began to show near the end of the Kami War. Strange happenings that neither side could control lashed out across Kamigawa."
-Observations of the Kami War

Shifting Borders

Instant - Arcane

Exchange control of two target lands.

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.)

Gaze of Adamaro

Instant - Arcane

Gaze of Adamaro deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Wherever it looked, it saw destruction-the wake of its own gaze.

Hidetsugu's Second Rite

Instant

If target player has exactly 10 life, Hidetsugu's Second Rite deals 10 damage to that player.

Hidetsugu never relinquished a grudge. He let it burn within him, gathering ever greater intensity until the final moment of vengeance.

Seed Spark

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If was spent to cast Seed Spark, put two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"If you ask me, those root-lovers value mindless dogma over progress."
-Trivaz, Izzet mage

Induce Paranoia

Instant

Counter target spell. If was spent to cast Induce Paranoia, that spell's controller puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the spell's converted mana cost.

Mnemonic Nexus

Instant

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

True enlightenment comes not with a new thought, but with understanding of all the old ones.

Dogpile

Instant

Dogpile deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of attacking creatures you control.

There is no shelter from this storm, its rain of fists, or the thunderous cackles of bloodlust.

Clutch of the Undercity

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life.

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.)

Gaze of the Gorgon

Instant

( can be paid with either or .)

Regenerate target creature. At end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by that creature this turn.

Even the dead give way to the mineral gaze of the gorgon.

Master Warcraft

Instant

Cast Master Warcraft only before attackers are declared.

You choose which creatures attack this turn.

You choose which creatures block this turn and how those creatures block.