Theros: Beyond Death Instant-Speed Tricks
This is a list of all the instant-speed tricks in Theros: Beyond Death. Each color is sorted by converted mana cost.
| Color | Mana Cost | Card | Rarity | Type | Oracle Text | Notes |
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| 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.) | |
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Flicker of Fate | |
Instant | Exile target creature or enchantment, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. | ||
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Indomitable Will | |
Enchantment | Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2. | ||
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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. | ||
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Heliod's Intervention |  |
Instant | Choose one — • Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments. • Target player gains twice X life. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | |
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Stern Dismissal | |
Instant | Return target creature or enchantment an opponent controls to its owner's hand. | ||
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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. | ||
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Riptide Turtle | |
Creature | Flash Defender | 0/5 | |
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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. | ||
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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.) | ||
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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 | |
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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}. | ||
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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. | ||
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Thirst for Meaning | |
Instant | Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an enchantment card. | ||
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Vexing Gull | |
Creature | Flash Flying | 2/2 | |
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Whirlwind Denial | |
Instant | For each spell and ability your opponents control, counter it unless its controller pays {4}. | ||
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Memory Drain | |
Instant | Counter target spell. Scry 2. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | |
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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.) | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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Pharika's Libation | |
Instant | Choose one — • Target opponent sacrifices a creature. • Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment. | ||
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Minion's Return | |
Enchantment | Flash Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control. | ||
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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. | ||
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Final Death | |
Instant | Exile target creature. | ||
| Red |  |
Infuriate | |
Instant | Target creature gets +3/+2 until end of turn. | |
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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. | ||
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Thrill of Possibility | |
Instant | As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. | ||
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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. | ||
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Final Flare | |
Instant | As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Final Flare deals 5 damage to target creature. | ||
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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. | |
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Gift of Strength | |
Instant | Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains reach until end of turn. | ||
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Plummet | |
Instant | Destroy target creature with flying. | ||
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Return to Nature | |
Instant | Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard. | ||
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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. | ||
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Inspire Awe | |
Instant | Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn except by enchanted creatures and enchantment creatures. Scry 2. |
