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Theros: Beyond Death Instant-Speed Tricks

by Sameer Merchant // Jan 15, 2020

This is a list of all the instant-speed tricks in Theros: Beyond Death. Each color is sorted by converted mana cost.

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Color	Mana Cost	Card	Type	Oracle Text	Notes
White		Karametra's Blessing	Instant	Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If it's an enchanted creature or enchantment creature, it also gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
		Flicker of Fate	Instant	Exile target creature or enchantment, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
		Indomitable Will	Enchantment	Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.
		Phalanx Tactics	Instant	Target creature you control gets +2/+1 until end of turn. Each other creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
		Heliod's Intervention	Instant	Choose one — • Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments. • Target player gains twice X life.
		Omen of the Sun	Enchantment	Flash When Omen of the Sun enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens and you gain 2 life. {2}{W}, Sacrifice Omen of the Sun: Scry 2.
		Triumphant Surge	Instant	Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. You gain 3 life.
Blue		Chain to Memory	Instant	Target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn. Scry 2.
		Stern Dismissal	Instant	Return target creature or enchantment an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
		Omen of the Sea	Enchantment	Flash When Omen of the Sea enters the battlefield, scry 2, then draw a card. {2}{U}, Sacrifice Omen of the Sea: Scry 2.
		Riptide Turtle	Creature	Flash Defender	0/5
		Starlit Mantle	Enchantment	Flash Enchant creature you control When Starlit Mantle enters the battlefield, enchanted creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
		Glimpse of Freedom	Instant	Draw a card. Escape—{2}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
		Threnody Singer	Creature	Flash Flying When Threnody Singer enters the battlefield, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts towards your devotion to blue.)	1/3
		Thassa's Intervention	Instant	Choose one- • Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice {X}.
		Deny the Divine	Instant	Counter target creature or enchantment spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
		Thirst for Meaning	Instant	Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an enchantment card.
		Vexing Gull	Creature	Flash Flying	2/2
		Whirlwind Denial	Instant	For each spell and ability your opponents control, counter it unless its controller pays {4}.
		Memory Drain	Instant	Counter target spell. Scry 2.
		Ashiok's Erasure	Enchantment	Flash When Ashiok's Erasure enters the battlefield, exile target spell. Your opponents can't cast spells with the same name as the exiled card. When Ashiok's Erasure leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.
		Thryx, the Sudden Storm	Creature	Flash Flying Spells you cast with converted mana cost 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.	4/5
Black		Omen of the Dead	Enchantment	Flash When Omen of the Dead enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. {2}{B}, Sacrifice Omen of the Dead: Scry 2.
		Cling to Dust	Instant	Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card. Escape—{3}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
		Erebos's Intervention	Instant	Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.
	-	Drag to the Underworld	Instant	This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) Destroy target creature.
		Pharika's Libation	Instant	Choose one — • Target opponent sacrifices a creature. • Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment.
		Minion's Return	Enchantment	Flash Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.
		Eat to Extinction	Instant	Exile target creature or planeswalker. Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.
		Final Death	Instant	Exile target creature.
Red		Infuriate	Instant	Target creature gets +3/+2 until end of turn.
		Omen of the Forge	Enchantment	Flash When Omen of the Forge enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to any target. {2}{R}, Sacrifice Omen of the Forge: Scry 2.
		Thrill of Possibility	Instant	As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.
		Aspect of Manticore	Enchantment	Flash Enchant creature When Aspect of Manticore enters the battlefield, enchanted creature gains first strike until end of turn. Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.
		Final Flare	Instant	As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Final Flare deals 5 damage to target creature.
		Fateful End	Instant	Fateful End deals 3 damage to any target. Scry 1.
Green		Mystic Repeal	Instant	Put target enchantment on the bottom of its owner's library.
		Gift of Strength	Instant	Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains reach until end of turn.
		Plummet	Instant	Destroy target creature with flying.
		Return to Nature	Instant	Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.
		Omen of the Hunt	Enchantment	Flash When Omen of the Hunt enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. {2}{G}, Sacrifice Omen of the Hunt: Scry 2.
		Inspire Awe	Instant	Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn except by enchanted creatures and enchantment creatures. Scry 2.