Appetite for Brains

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.

Just as with a peach, the first bite is always the juiciest.

Bone Splinters

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Bone Splinters, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy target creature.

"Which do you deserve, the heft of a femur or the graceful sharpness of a forearm? Decisions, decisions . . ."
-Gisa the Mad

Killing Wave

Sorcery

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless he or she pays X life.

"I come looking for demons and I find a plane full of angels. I hate angels."
-Liliana Vess

Bonfire of the Damned

Sorcery

Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

Miracle (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Pillar of Flame

Sorcery

Pillar of Flame deals 2 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

"May the worthy spend an eternity in Blessed Sleep. May the wicked find the peace of oblivion."

Index

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"What good is having all the right answers if you have them at all the wrong times?"

Disentomb

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I deal so often in rotting corpses that when I come across the freshly dead . . . why, it's like my birthday come early."
-Nevinyrral, necromancer

Duress

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
-Liliana Vess

Prey Upon

Sorcery

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters."
-Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Ponder

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle your library.

Draw a card.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Deathmark

Sorcery

Destroy target green or white creature.

"Let the final vision of doom be etched upon their unblinking eyes."
-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Taste of Blood

Sorcery

Taste of Blood deals 1 damage to target player and you gain 1 life.

"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."
-Bram Stoker, Dracula

Fireball

Sorcery

Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of target creatures and/or players.

Fireball costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Goblin Grenade

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Goblin Grenade, sacrifice a Goblin.

Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

Don't underestimate the aerodynamic qualities of the common goblin.

Artful Dodge

Sorcery

Target creature is unblockable this turn.

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

Those who know the alleys and sewers of the Erdwal can disappear like smoke.

Increasing Confusion

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If Increasing Confusion was cast from a graveyard, that player puts twice that many cards into his or her graveyard instead.

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

Deadly Allure

Sorcery

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn and must be blocked this turn if able.

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

What could be more irresistible than death?

Faithless Looting

Sorcery

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

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

"Avacyn has abandoned us! We have nothing left except what we can take!"

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.

Bump in the Night

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 3 life.

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

It's not just the wind. It's not all in your head. And it's definitely something to worry about.

Ghoulcaller's Chant

Sorcery

Choose one - Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand; or return two target Zombie cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"The living are born small and weak. The dead rise ready to serve. The choice is obvious."
-Gisa, ghoulcaller of Gavony

Devil's Play

Sorcery

Devil's Play deals X damage to target creature or player.

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

A devil's hands are never idle.

Infernal Plunge

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Infernal Plunge, sacrifice a creature.

Add to your mana pool.

"Oh mighty Griselbrand, Scourge of the Heedless World, gladly I consume myself for thee!"

Caravan Vigil

Sorcery

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

Morbid - You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.

Vandalblast

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Beauty is in the eye of the exploder.

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

Alliance of Arms

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Minds Aglow

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player draws X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Gitaxian Probe

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Look at target player's hand.

Draw a card.

"My flesh holds no secrets, monster. The spirit of Mirrodin will fight on."
-Vy Covalt, Mirran resistance

Despise

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

"Truth is always a weapon in your enemies' hands."
-Geth, Lord of the Vault

Postmortem Lunge

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Return target creature card with converted mana cost X from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Corrosive Gale

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Corrosive Gale deals X damage to each creature with flying.

"Wipe Sheoldred's spies from the sky. She'll see the result of our vision soon enough."
-Glissa

Horrifying Revelation

Sorcery

Target player discards a card, then puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Ours is a glorious transmission! Behold a future where all bow to the Father of Machines."
-Isila, Priest of Sheoldred

Red Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

Red Sun's Zenith deals X damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead. Shuffle Red Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Green Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

Search your library for a green creature card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

As the green sun crowned, Phyrexian prophecies glowed on the Tree of Tales.

Assault Strobe

Sorcery

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

When breaking someone's face once just isn't enough.

Kuldotha Rebirth

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Kuldotha Rebirth, sacrifice an artifact.

Put three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

All goblin rituals serve a dual purpose as fertility rites, even the destructive ones. Especially the destructive ones.

Oust

Sorcery

Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top. Its controller gains 3 life.

"‘Invincible' is just a word."
-Gideon Jura

Distortion Strike

Sorcery

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

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.)

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.

Inquisition of Kozilek

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.

You will scream out your innermost secrets just to make it stop.

Nighthaze

Sorcery

Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"To evade the brood lineages, one must be made dark to all the senses."
-Traga, Zulaport runner

Devastating Summons

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Devastating Summons, sacrifice X lands.

Put two X/X red Elemental creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Things born in magma are always angry.

Flame Slash

Sorcery

Flame Slash deals 4 damage to target creature.

After millennia asleep, the Eldrazi had forgotten about Zendikar's fiery temper and dislike of strangers.

Forked Bolt

Sorcery

Forked Bolt deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two target creatures and/or players.

"Play no favorites. Everybody dies."
-Sparkmage saying

Ancient Stirrings

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a colorless card from among them and put it into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (Cards with no colored mana in their mana costs are colorless. Lands are also colorless.)

Gelatinous Genesis

Sorcery

Put X X/X green Ooze creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Even as the world was left cracked and gory by the marauding Eldrazi, new life began to drip from its wounds.

Irresistible Prey

Sorcery

Target creature must be blocked this turn if able.

Draw a card.

The baloth's instincts boiled, its muscles pulled taut, and its razor-spines bristled, as it turned to face-a runt meepling.

Mire's Toll

Sorcery

Target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to the number of Swamps you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

As the bridge snapped, Berko was sure he heard the swamp laughing at him.

Preordain

Sorcery

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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.)

Tome Scour

Sorcery

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

Genius is overrated, especially when it's someone else's.

Burning Inquiry

Sorcery

Each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

Jariad burned the midnight oil, burned through scroll after scroll, and then burned down his laboratory.

Burst of Speed

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn. (They can attack and even if they just came under your control.)

Great generals inspire by example. Goblin chieftains inspire by electrifying the barracks.

Earthquake

Sorcery

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

They fell screaming into the depths of the chasm like so many pebbles tossed down a well.

Wretched Banquet

Sorcery

Destroy target creature if it has the least power or is tied for least power among creatures on the battlefield.

"The meek inherit nothing."
-Sedris, the Traitor King

Banefire

Sorcery

Banefire deals X damage to target creature or player.

If X is 5 or more, Banefire can't be countered by spells or abilities and the damage can't be prevented.

For Sarkhan Vol, the dragon is the purest expression of life's savage splendor.

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.

Collective Voyage

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player searches his or her library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way, puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles his or her library.

Mugging

Sorcery

Mugging deals 2 damage to target creature. That creature can't block this turn.

Scream: muffled. Pockets: emptied. Neck function: never the same again.

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.

Wake the Reflections

Sorcery

Populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"You see a bird, an oak, a packbeast. I see the potential for an army."
-Lalia, Selesnya dryad

Trait Doctoring

Sorcery

Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn.

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.)

Clear a Path

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with defender.

"Why do guards always look surprised when we bash them?" asked Ruric.
"I think they expect a bribe," said Thar.

Raven's Crime

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

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

It plucks away memories like choice bits of carrion.

Lava Spike

Sorcery - Arcane

Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player.

Some kami attacks during the war were rife with trickery, subterfuge, and subtlety, draining hope and pride from the mortal world. Other attacks were a lot more straightforward.

Lay of the Land

Sorcery

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

Victory favors neither the righteous nor the wicked. It favors the prepared.

Thoughtseize

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Hunt the Hunter

Sorcery

Target green creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn. It fights target green creature an opponent controls.

"A grudge is a tattoo worn on the inside."
-Setessan warrior saying

Prosperity

Sorcery

Each player draws X cards.

"Wealth is a good thing, compared to poverty-your food is better, your robes are softer, and your companions have bathed more recently."
-Kukemssa pirate

Sudden Demise

Sorcery

Choose a color. Sudden Demise deals X damage to each creature of the chosen color.

In the Skyfang Mountains, one misstep can mean the end of an entire clan.

Tempt with Vengeance

Sorcery

Tempting offer - Put X 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield. Each opponent may put X 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield. For each player who does, put X 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield.

Launch the Fleet

Sorcery

Strive - Launch the Fleet costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Until end of turn, any number of target creatures each gain "Whenever this creature attacks, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield tapped and attacking."

Blinding Flare

Sorcery

Strive - Blinding Flare costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures can't block this turn.

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.)

Breakthrough

Sorcery

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

The ideas came flooding in so fast that they couldn't all be contained.

Well (Alive/Well)

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

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

Void Snare

Sorcery

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

"I've tried so many variations on how to get rid of annoying things that it's hard to decide which one I like best."
-Ashurel, voidmage

Crater's Claws

Sorcery

Crater's Claws deals X damage to target creature or player.

Ferocious - Crater's Claws deals X plus 2 damage to that creature or player instead if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Sylvan Offering

Sorcery

Choose an opponent. You and that player each put an X/X green Treefolk creature token onto the battlefield.

Choose an opponent. You and that player each put X 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Clutch of Currents

Sorcery

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

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.)

Rush of Ice

Sorcery

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

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.)

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.

Ghostform

Sorcery

Up to two target creatures are unblockable this turn.

"There's no such thing as ‘impenetrable.'"

Mind Sculpt

Sorcery

Target opponent puts the top seven cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Your mind was a curious mix of madness and genius. I just took away the genius."
-Jace Beleren

Sign in Blood

Sorcery

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Krenko's Command

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Goblins are eager to follow orders, especially when those orders involve stealing, hurting, annoying, eating, destroying, or swearing.

Wild Guess

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Wild Guess, discard a card.

Draw two cards.

No guts, no glory.

Farseek

Sorcery

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

"How truly vast this city must be, that I have traveled so far and seen so much, yet never once found the place where the buildings fail."

Revive

Sorcery

Return target green card from your graveyard to your hand.

Even what is lost beyond recall returns when coaxed by a dryad's hand.

Consume Spirit

Sorcery

Spend only black mana on X.

Consume Spirit deals X damage to target creature or player and you gain X life.

"You clerics brag about your strength of spirit, yet I take away the tiniest fragment, and you crumple like a rag doll."
-Sorin Markov

Distress

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"Of course I'm sure I've gone mad. The little man who crawled out of my eye was quite clear on this."

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.

Rampant Growth

Sorcery

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

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Gather the Townsfolk

Sorcery

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

Fateful hour - If you have 5 or less life, put five of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.

In the memories of those they lost lies the strength needed to defend their city.

Tracker's Instincts

Sorcery

Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put a creature card from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

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

Nightbird's Clutches

Sorcery

Up to two target creatures can't block this turn.

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

Shiny polished silver can ward off many creatures, but it attracts others.

Mulch

Sorcery

Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

The land knows no difference between the graves of commoners and nobles.

Travel Preparations

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.

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

Visiting a shrine at the start of a journey makes the traveler more likely to finish it.

Inaction Injunction

Sorcery

Detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Draw a card.

"To prevent action is to prevent transgression."
-Azorius Arrester motto

Mizzium Mortars

Sorcery

Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")