Defy Death

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If it's an Angel, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Gisela cornered the murderous demon among the graves of the dead villagers. "A fitting end," she murmured as she raised her sword.

Entreat the Angels

Sorcery

Put X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

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

Terminus

Sorcery

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.

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

Amass the Components

Sorcery

Draw three cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.

"I knew I'd find a use for all that newt spittle!"

Devastation Tide

Sorcery

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

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

It's hard to argue with a force made of divine will.

Dreadwaters

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of lands you control.

Stray into the Morkrut and it may rise to claim you.

Ghostform

Sorcery

Up to two target creatures are unblockable this turn.

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

Into the Void

Sorcery

Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.

"The cathars have their swords, the inquisitors their axes. I prefer the ‘diplomatic' approach."
-Terhold, archmage of Drunau

Mass Appeal

Sorcery

Draw a card for each Human you control.

"We have emerged triumphant from the darkness. Let our hard-won wisdom guide us to prosperity."

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.

Temporal Mastery

Sorcery

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery.

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

Time is a marvelous plaything.

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.

Barter in Blood

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices two creatures.

"We must all make sacrifices for the good of Innistrad."
-Sorin Markov

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

Essence Harvest

Sorcery

Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Captain Lewenheart uncovered evidence of a demon cult among the clergy. The Skirsdag never gave him a chance to prove his case.

Grave Exchange

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Target player sacrifices a creature.

"It's a cold, dark journey either way."
-Eruth of Lambholt

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

Mental Agony

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards and loses 2 life.

"His mind is feeble. Feed him to the bats."

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.)

Burn at the Stake

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Burn at the Stake, tap any number of untapped creatures you control.

Burn at the Stake deals damage to target creature or player equal to three times the number of creatures tapped this way.

Demolish

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

"To truly defeat a skaberen, you must destroy not the monster but the lab."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

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."

Reforge the Soul

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

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

In a wave of spells called the Cursemute, Avacyn cleansed the world with divine fire.

Rite of Ruin

Sorcery

Choose an order for artifacts, creatures, and lands. Each player sacrifices one permanent of the first type, sacrifices two of the second type, then sacrifices three of the third type.

Skirsdag cultists refused to quietly accept Avacyn's ascendancy.

Thatcher Revolt

Sorcery

Put three 1/1 red Human creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield. Sacrifice those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.

The dark times left the peasantry ready to fight with whatever weapons were at hand.

Blessings of Nature

Sorcery

Distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures.

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

Lair Delve

Sorcery

Reveal the top two cards of your library. Put all creature and land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The fiends have fled. Well, good riddance. Nothing I like more than an empty lair."

Primal Surge

Sorcery

Exile the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you do, repeat this process.

With Avacyn's return, the flow of life became a tidal wave.

Rain of Thorns

Sorcery

Choose one or more - Destroy target artifact; destroy target enchantment; and/or destroy target land.

When the forests became havens for evil, the archmages devised new ways to cleanse the wilds.

Revenge of the Hunted

Sorcery

Until end of turn, target creature gets +6/+6 and gains trample, and all creatures able to block it this turn do so.

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

Captain's Call

Sorcery

Put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"Who among you has the courage to face certain death? Who will heed my call?"
-Rayel Vanger, Firstblade of Thune

Planar Cleansing

Sorcery

Destroy all nonland permanents.

Divination

Sorcery

Draw two cards.

"The key to unlocking this puzzle is within you."
-Doriel, mentor of Mistral Isle

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?"

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

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

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.

Switcheroo

Sorcery

Exchange control of two target creatures.

Say hello to your new friend.

Talrand's Invocation

Sorcery

Put two 2/2 blue Drake creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

After Talrand conquered the depths of Shandalar, his ambitions drove him skyward, joined by servants whose drive and curiosity equaled his own.

Diabolic Revelation

Sorcery

Search your library for up to X cards and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"There are some secrets so dark no human mind should ever contain them. Interested?"
-Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis

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

Essence Drain

Sorcery

Essence Drain deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.

"Life's essence is a nectar unlike any I tasted when I lived as a mortal."
-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Mind Rot

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

"What a pity. You should have written it down."
-Liliana Vess

Mutilate

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

"It's only torture if you're strong enough to survive. Otherwise, it's a simple, gruesome death. I'm happy with either outcome."
-Liliana Vess

Rise from the Grave

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

"For my enemies, one death. For my allies, many."
-Liliana Vess

Sign in Blood

Sorcery

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Wit's End

Sorcery

Target player discards his or her hand.

"Your pathetic ideas lie in shambles, Planeswalker. Where is your arrogant pride now?"
-Nicol Bolas

Cleaver Riot

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Measure once, cut twice.

Craterize

Sorcery

Destroy target land.

"‘Utterly' is my favorite way to destroy something."
-Chandra Nalaar

Flames of the Firebrand

Sorcery

Flames of the Firebrand deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

"You're in luck. I brought enough to share."
-Chandra Nalaar

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.

Mark of Mutiny

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it and untap it. That creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

The flame of anger is hard to douse once lit.

Turn to Slag

Sorcery

Turn to Slag deals 5 damage to target creature. Destroy all Equipment attached to that creature.

"If it wasn't a blackened, stinking, melted abomination before, it certainly is now."
-Koth of the Hammer

Wild Guess

Sorcery

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

Draw two cards.

No guts, no glory.

Worldfire

Sorcery

Exile all permanents. Exile all cards from all hands and graveyards. Each player's life total becomes 1.

Even the smallest spark may set a world ablaze.

Boundless Realms

Sorcery

Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of lands you control, and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

"Planeswalking cannot be taught. Either you see the doors or you do not."
-Nissa Revane

Bountiful Harvest

Sorcery

You gain 1 life for each land you control.

"When we fail to see the beauty in every tree, we are no better than humans."
-Saelia, elvish scout

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."

Fungal Sprouting

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"Saprolings need only a host to feed upon. Numbers will take care of the rest."
-Ghave, Guru of Spores

Predatory Rampage

Sorcery

Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn. Each creature your opponents control blocks this turn if able.

"It is the fate of the weak to fall."
-Garruk Wildspeaker

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

Ranger's Path

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two Forest cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

The forest can seem like a dense maze. Those who travel the canopy know otherwise.

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.

Day of Judgment

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures.

Timely Reinforcements

Sorcery

If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

The gods are not always kind, but they do have a soft spot for plucky underdogs.

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.

Time Reversal

Sorcery

Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library, then draws seven cards. Exile Time Reversal.

"Any oaf can conquer a kingdom. It takes true power to conquer time."
-Shai Fusan, archmage

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

Deathmark

Sorcery

Destroy target green or white creature.

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

Diabolic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

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."

Hideous Visage

Sorcery

Creatures you control gain intimidate until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

"Seeing you cower before me is its own reward."

Monomania

Sorcery

Target player chooses a card in his or her hand and discards the rest.

"What do vermin cling to when all hope is lost?"
-Sorin Markov

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.

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."

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

Act of Treason

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

"Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison."
-Sarkhan Vol

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.

Lava Axe

Sorcery

Lava Axe deals 5 damage to target player.

It can chop down a redwood in a single stroke. Your sternum isn't going to fare any better.

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.

Tectonic Rift

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

"You will kneel before me, even if I have to split the earth under your feet!"
-Ash Kronor, Keldon warlord

Doubling Chant

Sorcery

For each creature you control, you may search your library for a creature card with the same name as that creature. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

What's scarier than one of every beast in the forest?

Overrun

Sorcery

Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

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.

Archangel's Light

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each card in your graveyard, then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

"This is the light of Avacyn. Even in her absence she offers us hope."
-Radulf, priest of Avacyn

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.

Increasing Devotion

Sorcery

Put five 1/1 white Human creature tokens onto the battlefield. If Increasing Devotion was cast from a graveyard, put ten of those tokens onto the battlefield instead.

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

Lingering Souls

Sorcery

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

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

The murdered inhabitants of Hollowhenge impart to the living the terror they felt in death.

Sudden Disappearance

Sorcery

Exile all nonland permanents target player controls. Return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

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.

Chill of Foreboding

Sorcery

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

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

"Wait . . . did you fellows hear something?"

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.)

Mystic Retrieval

Sorcery

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

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?

Death's Caress

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. If that creature was a Human, you gain life equal to its toughness.

The faint smell of cloves, the rustling of the wind, and a paralyzing descent into an airless, fathomless tomb.

Gruesome Discovery

Sorcery

Target player discards two cards.

Morbid - If a creature died this turn, instead that player reveals his or her hand, you choose two cards from it, then that player discards those cards.

Harrowing Journey

Sorcery

Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

"There are always fools who attempt to traverse Kruin Pass before sundown and every time they wind up in a race for their lives."
-Old Rutstein

Increasing Ambition

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. If Increasing Ambition was cast from a graveyard, instead search your library for two cards and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

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