Sorcery Cards in Magic: The Gathering

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Mike Lopez with Expert Village. Today we're going to be discussing Magic: the Gathering the card game. And now we're going to go over sorcery cards. Sorceries are a type of card spell where the card itself is doing an action or allows you to do an action. Here we have 3 of your basic, common sorceries. Sorceries can only be played in the main and second main phases. What you have here is a blue. This is Ponder. What you do here is you pay blue mana by tapping it. Then you get to look at the top 3 cards of your library or deck. Then put them back in any order or you may shuffle your library, it says you may shuffle your library and you draw a card. Again, you look at the top 3, put them back in any order and if you wish you can draw one of those cards or you can just shuffle your entire library. The next common spell you'll see, especially from the red group, is Blaze. Which is the same thing, roughly, as a lot of direct damage spells from the red group. But as you've noticed here, there is an X in the colorless and a 1 mountain. Now if you come down here it tells you all about that X. Blaze deals X damage to target creature or player. Which means you can play as many mana cards in mana pool and use all of those for X plus a red to do equal damage to target creature or player. Over here we have another one of blacks dominating common cards. This is called Distress. It costs you two specific swamps. This card allows you to make target player reveal his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player has to discards that card. Which means it has to go into the person's graveyard."