Vigor Mortis

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If was spent to cast Vigor Mortis, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

After fear and weakness rot away, that which remains is stronger than its living form.

Victorious Destruction

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land. Its controller loses 1 life.

"The refugees look at these structures with hope. We must relieve them of this burden."
-Juex, tormentor exarch

Victimize

Sorcery

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective. We must scrap it."

Vicious Hunger

Sorcery

Vicious Hunger deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Only the most ravenous soul feeds on the health of the weak.

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.

Verdant Touch

Sorcery

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

Target land becomes a 2/2 creature that's still a land. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Venomous Vines

Sorcery

Destroy target enchanted permanent.

"True strength comes from within. The false promise of unnatural power only incurs Krosa's wrath."
-Seton, centaur druid

Vengeful Rebirth

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. If you return a nonland card to your hand this way, Vengeful Rebirth deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

Exile Vengeful Rebirth.

Vengeance

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

"It is the duty of the strong to oppose any who threaten the weak."
-The Southern Paladin

Vanquish the Foul

Sorcery

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

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

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.

Vacuumelt

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.)

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Urza's Guilt

Sorcery

Each player draws two cards, then discards three cards, then loses 4 life.

Deep in Yawgmoth's realm, Urza stopped dead in his tracks and rubbed his soot-filled eyes. "Mishra?"

Urborg Uprising

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Draw a card.

In Urborg, few things are less permanent than death.

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.

Uproot

Sorcery - Arcane

Put target land on top of its owner's library.

"We arrived at the battlefield too late. Again. Another error on your part, and you will have to answer to me personally."
-General Takeno, letter to the imperial mapmaker

Upheaval

Sorcery

Return all permanents to their owners' hands.

The calm comes after the storm.

Unyaro Bee Sting

Sorcery

Unyaro Bee Sting deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Much can be learned from the bees about dying for a cause."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Unwilling Recruit

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +X/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

Frorn didn't want to be kept, but he didn't want to be thrown back either.

Untamed Wilds

Sorcery

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

Unnerve

Sorcery

Each opponent discards two cards.

"If fear is the only tool you have left, then you'll never control me."
-Xantcha, to Gix

Unmask

Sorcery

You may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay Unmask's mana cost.

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

Unified Front

Sorcery

Converge - Put a 1/1 white Kor Ally creature token onto the battlefield for each color of mana spent to cast Unified Front.

The kor's pride in their independence has given way to a strong sense of community that embraces all of Zendikar.

Unhinge

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Draw a card.

"Don't let your mind wander-it might not come back."
-Braids, dementia summoner

Unexpected Results

Sorcery

Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield and return Unexpected Results to its owner's hand.

Unearthly Blizzard

Sorcery - Arcane

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

"We are trapped. The mountains and blinding kami storms have made us hopelessly lost. We are starving. In the name of all things sacred, please, send help . . . ."
-Lost Battalion, final message to General Takeno

Unearth

Sorcery

Return target creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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

Undying Flames

Sorcery

Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. Undying Flames deals damage to target creature or player equal to that card's converted mana cost.

Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

Undo

Sorcery

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.

"Oft have I wished to undo past deeds, but never did I imagine they would be undone for me."
-Naimah, Femeref philosopher

Undercity Plague

Sorcery

Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent.

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.)

Uncovered Clues

Sorcery

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

The Implicit Maze winds through Ravnica, connecting arcane landmarks of all ten guilds.

Unburial Rites

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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

All crave the Blessed Sleep. Few receive it.

Unburden

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

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

Cabal initiates enter training full of hopes and fears. They graduate with neither.

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

Tyrant's Choice

Sorcery

Will of the council - Starting with you, each player votes for death or torture. If death gets more votes, each opponent sacrifices a creature. If torture gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent loses 4 life.

Tyrannize

Sorcery

Target player discards his or her hand unless he or she pays 7 life.

"I can stab you where it hurts, or where you will feel absolutely nothing."
-Illulia of Nighthearth

Typhoon

Sorcery

Typhoon deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of Islands that player controls.

Fierce winds ripped across the tropical landscape. What they did not destroy with their fiery breath was washed away by torrential rain.

Twisted Justice

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power.

In Otiev's mind, he ruled in favor of the accused. But in his courtroom he was only a spectator, watching his hand deliver the sign of death.

Twist Allegiance

Sorcery

You and target opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.