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Stonewood Invocation

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.)

Target creature gets +5/+5 and gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"Might of ancient wood and stone,
Into spirit, flesh, and bone."

Mana:
Cardset: Time Spiral #223 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Stonefury

Instant

Stonefury deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.

Akoum can make any intruder look small.

Mana:
Cardset: Battle for Zendikar #156 (Common)
Type: Instant

Stone Idol Trap

Instant - Trap

Stone Idol Trap costs less to cast for each attacking creature.

Put a 6/12 colorless Construct artifact creature token with trample onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of your next end step.

Mana:
Cardset: Worldwake #93 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Stoke the Flames

Instant

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.)

Stoke the Flames deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Mana:
Cardset: Magic 2015 #164 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Stoic Rebuttal

Instant

Metalcraft - Stoic Rebuttal costs less to cast if you control three or more artifacts.

Counter target spell.

Obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge above all else, vedalken can appear to be cold and emotionless.

Mana:
Cardset: Scars of Mirrodin #46 (Common)
Type: Instant

Stir the Pride

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn; or until end of turn, creatures you control gain "Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life."

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

Mana:
Cardset: Modern Masters #30 (Uncommon)
Darksteel #16 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Stifle

Instant

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

"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
-Pemmin, Riptide survivor

Mana:
Cardset: Conspiracy #108 (Rare)
Scourge #52 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Stench of Decay

Instant

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

"Disa is dead, and I am left. I shall allow no others to succumb to this pestilence."
-Kolbjörn, High Honored Druid

Mana:
Cardset: Alliances #27 (Common)
Alliances #28 (Common)
Type: Instant

Steeling Stance

Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Forecast - , Reveal Steeling Stance from your hand: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Mana:
Cardset: Dissension #18 (Common)
Type: Instant

Steel Sabotage

Instant

Choose one - Counter target artifact spell; or return target artifact to its owner's hand.

"You are hopelessly obsolete, my brothers. Come and join the Great Work."
-Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

Mana:
Cardset: Mirrodin Besieged #33 (Common)
Type: Instant

Steam Augury

Instant

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Mana:
Cardset: Theros #205 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Steal Strength

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

With each grunt of pain from Haddad, Greel's grin widened.

Mana:
Cardset: Prophecy #79 (Common)
Type: Instant

Steady Progress

Instant

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

Draw a card.

"More of that strange oil . . . It's probably nothing."

Mana:
Cardset: Scars of Mirrodin #45 (Common)
Type: Instant

Stave Off

Instant

Target creature gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of that color.)

Mana:
Cardset: Conspiracy #83 (Common)
Magic 2012 #36 (Common)
Type: Instant

Statute of Denial

Instant

Counter target spell. If you control a blue creature, draw a card, then discard a card.

"Pyrotechnic activity of any sort is strictly prohibited. It is irrelevant that today is a holiday."

Mana:
Cardset: Magic 2015 #79 (Common)
Type: Instant

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Commander 2014 #182 (Rare)
Commander 2013 #122 (Rare)
Onslaught #238 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Starfall

Instant

Starfall deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature is an enchantment, Starfall deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.

"The most brilliant stars are not born of Nyx."
-Rhexenor, Akroan flamespeaker

Mana:
Cardset: Journey Into Nyx #114 (Common)
Type: Instant

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Onslaught #116 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Stand Together

Instant

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature and two +1/+1 counters on another target creature.

Strange times make for strange allies.

Mana:
Cardset: Darksteel #84 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Stand Firm

Instant

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

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.)

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Dawn #17 (Common)
Type: Instant

Stand (Stand/Deliver)

Instant

Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Mana:
Cardset: Invasion #292 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Stampede

Instant

Attacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

"When are beasts like a river?"
-The One Thousand Questions

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Edition #189 (Rare)
Ice Age #153 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Staggershock

Instant

Staggershock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

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.)

Mana:
Cardset: Rise of the Eldrazi #166 (Common)
Type: Instant

Stabbing Pain

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Tap that creature.

"You can take the fight out of nearly any creature if you know where its soft spot is."
-Guttor, flesh-warper

Mana:
Cardset: Magic 2011 #118 (Common)
Type: Instant

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Champions of Kamigawa #92 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Squall Line

Instant

Squall Line deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

The constant shifting of Dominaria's shredded timeline played havoc with its atmosphere, combining savage electrical storms from ages past.

Mana:
Cardset: Time Spiral #222 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Spy Network

Instant

Look at target player's hand, the top card of that player's library, and any face-down creatures he or she controls. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Mana:
Cardset: Onslaught #115 (Common)
Type: Instant

Sprouting Vines

Instant

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

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

Mana:
Cardset: Commander 2013 #173 (Common)
Scourge #128 (Common)
Type: Instant

Sprout Swarm

Instant

Convoke (Each creature you tap while casting this spell reduces its total cost by or by one mana of that creature's color.)

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

Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Mana:
Cardset: Future Sight #138 (Common)
Type: Instant

Sprout

Instant

Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Centuries of temporal strife had stripped Dominaria of its natural defenses, but nature fought back with armies constructed of little more than grime and sunlight.

Mana:
Cardset: Time Spiral #221 (Common)
Type: Instant

Spring Cleaning

Instant

Destroy target enchantment. Clash with an opponent. If you win, destroy all enchantments your opponents control. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Mana:
Cardset: Lorwyn #236 (Common)
Type: Instant

Spore Cloud

Instant

Tap all blocking creatures. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Each attacking creature and each blocking creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Mana:
Cardset: Fallen Empires #83 (Common)
Fallen Empires #84 (Common)
Fallen Empires #85 (Common)
Type: Instant

Spontaneous Combustion

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Spontaneous Combustion, sacrifice a creature.

Spontaneous Combustion deals 3 damage to each creature.

"Heat of battle" is usually a metaphor.

Mana:
Cardset: Conspiracy #194 (Uncommon)
Tempest #348 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Spoils of the Vault

Instant

Name a card. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal the named card, then put that card into your hand. Exile all other cards revealed this way, and you lose 1 life for each of the exiled cards.

Mana:
Cardset: Mirrodin #78 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Spoils of Evil

Instant

For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add to your mana pool and you gain 1 life.

"Virtue has its rewards, as does its opposite."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Mana:
Cardset: Ice Age #51 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Spoils of Blood

Instant

Put an X/X black Horror creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn.

"There are always leftovers."
-Derecht, flesh carver

Mana:
Cardset: Commander 2014 #30 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Split Decision

Instant

Will of the council - Choose target instant or sorcery spell. Starting with you, each player votes for denial or duplication. If denial gets more votes, counter the spell. If duplication gets more votes or the vote is tied, copy the spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Mana:
Cardset: Conspiracy #25 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Spite (Spite/Malice)

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

Mana:
Cardset: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas #71 (Uncommon)
Invasion #293 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Spiritualize

Instant

Until end of turn, whenever target creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Draw a card.

"There is purity in all things. Even hatred."
-Lieutenant Kirtar

Mana:
Cardset: Odyssey #53 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Spiritual Visit

Instant - Arcane

Put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

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.)

Mana:
Cardset: Saviors of Kamigawa #29 (Common)
Type: Instant