Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive

Bitter Triumph

Bitter Triumph {1}{B}

Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
"Ambition can bring you great power or great sorrow, but few prepare for when it brings you both."
—Leadership and Its Consequences
Culling the Weak

Culling the Weak {B}

Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.
"Great power awaits those who can stomach its cost."
—The Season of Loss, chapter one
Dismember

Dismember {1}{B/P}{B/P}

Instant
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
"Strip away pain, struggle, impurity, fear, flesh. Surrender the pieces and be blessed as one."
—Phyrexian Scriptures
Feed the Swarm

Feed the Swarm {1}{B}

Sorcery
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
"You cannot fight the Hunger Tide. You can only run, hide—and pray."
—Entry in a tattered journal
Living End

Living End

Sorcery
(Color indicator: Living End is black)
Suspend 3—{2}{B}{B}
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
"Mortality is a gift. There is a comfort in knowing that the end is coming."
—Vess's Cautions in Necromancy
Locust Spray

Locust Spray {B}

Instant
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Cycling {B}
"A suit of armor is only as good as its seams."
—Vanity Lost: A Knight's Folly
Sheoldred's Edict

Sheoldred's Edict {1}{B}

Instant
Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.
Related card: The Mystical Archive
Smallpox

Smallpox {B}{B}

Sorcery
Each player loses 1 life, discards a card, sacrifices a creature of their choice, then sacrifices a land of their choice.
"One plane's poison is another's miracle cure. One plane's deadly plague is another's common cold. An interplanar medical body could save an unfathomable number of lives."
—Lisette, Witherbloom dean
Related card: The Mystical Archive
Stargaze

Stargaze {X}{B}{B}

Sorcery
Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.
"I stay away from poems about the night. It's beautiful, yes, but somehow it always feels just a little bit hungry."
—Abigale
Related card: The Mystical Archive
Vampiric Tutor

Vampiric Tutor {B}

Instant
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
"The only true immortality comes in the passage of knowledge. Mold one mind and you can live in thousands more."
—The Sanguine Influence
Zombify

Zombify {3}{B}

Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
"Calling the dead isn't difficult. Commanding them once they answer, however, is a different story."
—Professor Vess
Related card: The Mystical Archive
Abrade

Abrade {1}{R}

Instant
Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.
"We learn so much from the relics we find. What might we have learned from the relics we lost?"
—Kirol
Related cards: Kayla's Kindling The Mystical Archive
Big Score

Big Score {3}{R}

Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens.
Related card: The Mystical Archive
Brotherhood's End

Brotherhood's End {1}{R}{R}

Sorcery
Choose one —
• Brotherhood's End deals 3 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.
• Destroy all artifacts with mana value 3 or less.
"Two strong wills, one wake of destruction."
—The Antiquities War
Bulk Up

Bulk Up {1}{R}

Instant
Double target creature's power until end of turn.
Flashback {4}{R}{R}
"My teeth to bite and break, my claws to rip and rend, my heart with fury quakes, to madness I ascend."
—Kathorran War Chants, vol. 1
Related card: The Mystical Archive
Burst Lightning

Burst Lightning {R}

Instant
Kicker {4}
Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage instead.
"May the storm yield only when your last enemy has fallen."
—Otarian Battle Cries
Crackle with Power

Crackle with Power {X}{X}{X}{R}{R}

Sorcery
Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.
"Lift up the very land and unleash its fury upon your enemies."
—Secrets of the Feradorn Sorcerers
Related cards: Kayla's Kindling The Mystical Archive
Empty the Warrens

Empty the Warrens {3}{R}

Sorcery
Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.
Storm
"When engaging goblins in combat, assume that the number underground is at least double that of those you can see."
—Terrain Tactics and Environmental Magics
Related cards: Charged Conjuration The Mystical Archive
Jeska's Will

Jeska's Will {2}{R}

Sorcery
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand.
• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.
"Even in death, her legend burns bright."
—Quintorius Kand
Monstrous Rage

Monstrous Rage {R}

Instant
Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Create a Monster Role token attached to it.
"There is no limit to the ways that anger can twist and break us."
—Revenge and Its Manifestations
Pyretic Ritual

Pyretic Ritual {1}{R}

Instant
Add {R}{R}{R}.
"Alone, we are but the heat, the air, and the kindling. Together, we are the ever-spreading flame."
—The Sisters of Flame
Return the Favor

Return the Favor {R}{R}

Instant
Spree
+ {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
+ {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Subterranean Tremors

Subterranean Tremors {X}{R}

Sorcery
Subterranean Tremors deals X damage to each creature without flying. If X is 4 or more, destroy all artifacts. If X is 8 or more, create an 8/8 red Lizard creature token.
"There is one beast that makes even titans quail and quake in fear. We shall not name it here, for to name it is to call it."
—A History of Ruinations
Awaken the Woods

Awaken the Woods {X}{G}{G}

Sorcery
Create X 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature tokens.
"We woke the forest against the Phyrexian threat, and it's refused to go back to sleep."
—Willowdusk
Berserk

Berserk {G}

Instant
Cast this spell only before the combat damage step.
Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.
Related card: The Mystical Archive