Veinfire Borderpost

Artifact

You may pay and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay Veinfire Borderpost's mana cost.

Veinfire Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Wildfield Borderpost

Artifact

You may pay and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay Wildfield Borderpost's mana cost.

Wildfield Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Armillary Sphere

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The mysterious purpose of two of the rings had eluded Esper mages-until now.

Bone Saw

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

In a world where death is always violent, cruel weapons are as common as rocks.

Court Homunculus

Artifact Creature - Homunculus

Court Homunculus gets +1/+1 as long as you control another artifact.

Mages of Esper measure their wealth and status by the number of servants in their retinues.

Cumber Stone

Artifact

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.

"The stone is more potent than ever. The flesh that creeps into our land will become even more slovenly and weak."
-Niclavs, archmage of Esper

Darklit Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

: Darklit Gargoyle gets +2/-1 until end of turn.

It shines in the darkness of its master's ambitions.

Esper Cormorants

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

"The smiths of this land must be mad to reach so far and so high for another creature to decorate."
-Cagen Vargan, Jhessian sea scout

Esperzoa

Artifact Creature - Jellyfish

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

The more metal it digests, the more its jelly will fetch on the alchemists' market.

Ethersworn Adjudicator

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Knight

Flying

, : Destroy target creature or enchantment.

: Untap Ethersworn Adjudicator.

Esper mages devised their weapons to be so devastating that war seemed unnecessary.

Faerie Mechanist

Artifact Creature - Faerie Artificer

Flying

When Faerie Mechanist enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Font of Mythos

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws two additional cards.

Those who drink from Malfegor's cup are tainted with hunger and stained with lies.

Inkwell Leviathan

Artifact Creature - Leviathan

Islandwalk, trample, shroud

"Into its maw went the seventh sea, never to be seen again while the world remains."
-Esper fable

Kaleidostone

Artifact

When Kaleidostone enters the battlefield, draw a card.

, , Sacrifice Kaleidostone: Add to your mana pool.

Once broken, who knows what worlds might grow from its shards?

Magister Sphinx

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Magister Sphinx enters the battlefield, target player's life total becomes 10.

"These benighted worlds are thick with ignorance. I will educate them. They will listen, or they will die."

Mana Cylix

Artifact

, : Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Those who dismiss the cylix as an ordinary wooden bowl are blind to the true measure of its worth.

Manaforce Mace

Artifact - Equipment

Domain - Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each basic land type among lands you control.

Equip

As the shards merged, relics once thought mundane regained forgotten powers.

Master Transmuter

Artifact Creature - Human Artificer

, , Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Wasted potential surrounds us. Lend me that bauble, and let me see what it can be made to be."

Obelisk of Alara

Artifact

, : You gain 5 life.

, : Draw a card, then discard a card.

, : Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

, : Obelisk of Alara deals 3 damage to target player.

, : Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Parasitic Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

When Parasitic Strix enters the battlefield, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

After finding no sustenance on the edges of Grixis, it turned to the skies of Bant.

Salvage Slasher

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

Salvage Slasher gets +1/+0 for each artifact card in your graveyard.

Esper artificers never imagined that one day their scraps would be pressed against their soft and fragile throats.

Scepter of Dominance

Artifact

, : Tap target permanent.

"Whether or not you will bow to me is not open to debate. The question is, will I ever let you rise?"
-Fridius, telemin master

Scepter of Fugue

Artifact

, : Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only during your turn.

One goes to Tidehollow either to forget or to be forgotten. Either way, the scullers will oblige.

Scepter of Insight

Artifact

, : Draw a card.

"The road to truth has many branches, and so must the cane with which I walk it."
-Voln the Elder

Scornful Æther-Lich

Artifact Creature - Zombie Wizard

: Scornful Æther-Lich gains fear and vigilance until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap, and it can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"With no flesh, there is no pain, no hesitation, no emotion of any kind. He is crafted perfection."
-Tezzeret

Sludge Strider

Artifact Creature - Insect

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control or another artifact you control leaves the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Underneath the cities of Esper are cycles of life unseen by those who feed them.

Sphinx Summoner

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sphinx Summoner enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Vectis Agents

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Agents gets -2/-0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

With their life energy suppressed under their etherium enhancements, thieves from Esper found it surprisingly easy to explore the ruins of Grixis.

Vedalken Outlander

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Scout

Protection from red

The Seekers of Carmot searched across the unknown lands for the mystical red stone that could reforge Esper in ethereal perfection.

Cloudheath Drake

Artifact Creature - Drake

Flying

: Cloudheath Drake gains vigilance until end of turn.

A permanent storm rages over the plain of Cloudheath, and drakes ride its currents-two reminders that some elements of Esper will not be controlled.

Courier's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Courier's Capsule: Draw two cards.

In ages past, Esper couriers bore messages written on ornate scrolls. The medium has grown more sophisticated, but the principle remains the same.

Dispeller's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Dispeller's Capsule: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I find its symmetry pleasing. It rids our world of offensive refuse while disposing of itself."
-Dolomarus, Proctor of the Clean

Esper Battlemage

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

, : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

, : Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

She can heal the flesh, or exploit its many weaknesses.

Etherium Astrolabe

Artifact

Flash

, , Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

"Speculation is foolish when the tools of certainty are available."
-Cinna, vedalken consul

Etherium Sculptor

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Artificer

Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Ethersworn Canonist

Artifact Creature - Human Cleric

Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.

"The noble work of our order is to infuse all life on Esper with etherium. Our goal will be reached more rapidly if new life is . . . suppressed."

Executioner's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Executioner's Capsule: Destroy target nonblack creature.

There is always a moment of trepidation before opening a message capsule, for fear of the judgment that might be contained within.

Filigree Sages

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

: Untap target artifact.

"We of the Sanctum Arcanum have pondered every word on every page of the Filigree Texts. If you can't say the same, don't bother speaking."

Glaze Fiend

Artifact Creature - Illusion

Flying

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Glaze Fiend gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Before the zealots of the Ethersworn came to power, Esper illusionists dreamed up creations to mimic a variety of substances.

Immortal Coil

Artifact

, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draw a card.

If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. Exile a card from your graveyard for each 1 damage prevented this way.

When there are no cards in your graveyard, you lose the game.

Lich's Mirror

Artifact

If you would lose the game, instead shuffle your hand, your graveyard, and all permanents you own into your library, then draw seven cards and your life total becomes 20.

It shows not what you are but what you were.

Marble Chalice

Artifact

: You gain 1 life.

The cup was a gift from the sphinx Tameron, who hoped that those who drank from it would live long enough to decrypt the sphinxes' wisdom.

Master of Etherium

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Master of Etherium's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

"Only a mind unfettered with the concerns of the flesh can see the world as it truly is."

Metallurgeon

Artifact Creature - Human Artificer

, : Regenerate target artifact.

"By the time I got there, the heart had stopped. Fortunately, I was able to replace it with something better."

Mindlock Orb

Artifact

Players can't search libraries.

Rogue mechanists once rummaged through the wastes of the Tidehollow, constructing unauthorized golems to threaten the hegemony of the sphinxes. The orbs put a stop to that.

Minion Reflector

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. That token has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this permanent."

To crack a mirror is to provide an opening for the reflection to escape.

Obelisk of Bant

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Whether incorporated into the structure of castles or admired as lone symbols, the obelisks stand for Bant's values of loyalty, honor, and truth.

Obelisk of Esper

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

It is a monument as austere, unyielding, and inscrutable as Esper itself.

Obelisk of Grixis

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation.

Obelisk of Jund

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Volcanic ash-winds batter it, climbing vines overwhelm it, dragonfire roasts it, and yet it still stands as a testament to a forgotten world.

Obelisk of Naya

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Centuries have passed since the plane shattered, yet the obelisks of each shard faithfully serve their long-forgotten purpose.

Onyx Goblet

Artifact

: Target player loses 1 life.

The goblet was a gift from the sphinx Gorael, who hoped humans and vedalken would eventually destroy each other to acquire it, leaving all of Esper to her own kind.

Protomatter Powder

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Protomatter Powder: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"There is no such thing as scrap metal. All such material can be repaired with the proper bonding agent."
-Quennus, metallurgeon

Puppet Conjurer

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

, : Put a 0/1 blue Homunculus artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Homunculus.

He scowls at his imperfect creation, then crushes it to scrap. He salvages the etherium and begins anew.

Quietus Spike

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half his or her life, rounded up.

Equip

Relic of Progenitus

Artifact

: Target player exiles a card from his or her graveyard.

, Exile Relic of Progenitus: Exile all cards from all graveyards. Draw a card.

Elves believe the hydra-god Progenitus sleeps beneath Naya, feeding on forgotten magics.

Salvage Titan

Artifact Creature - Golem

You may sacrifice three artifacts rather than pay Salvage Titan's mana cost.

Exile three artifact cards from your graveyard: Return Salvage Titan from your graveyard to your hand.

Sanctum Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

When Sanctum Gargoyle enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

As their supplies of etherium dwindled, mechanists sent gargoyles farther and farther afield in search of salvage.

Scourglass

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scourglass: Destroy all permanents except for artifacts and lands. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

"Soon I will sleep, eyes closing to a world tarnished with flesh, and then wake to a polished vision."
-Sharuum

Sharding Sphinx

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may put a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Whether mechanical or biological, life finds a way to propagate itself.

Sharuum the Hegemon

Legendary Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sharuum the Hegemon enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

To gain audience with the hegemon, one must bring a riddle she has not heard.

Sigil of Distinction

Artifact - Equipment

Sigil of Distinction enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Sigil of Distinction.

Equip-Remove a charge counter from Sigil of Distinction.

Skill Borrower

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, Skill Borrower has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)

Sphinx Sovereign

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.

"What rises without legs, whispers without a voice, bites without teeth, and dies without having life?"

Sphinx's Herald

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, , Sacrifice a white creature, a blue creature, and a black creature: Search your library for a card named Sphinx Sovereign and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

He calls a riddle through the gaps of cloven clouds, hoping for an answer.

Steelclad Serpent

Artifact Creature - Serpent

Steelclad Serpent can't attack unless you control another artifact.

"From the highest towers to the deepest sea, all life must be touched by etherium."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

Thoughtcutter Agent

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

, : Target player loses 1 life and reveals his or her hand.

Agents of the Architects of Will mark their victims as a reminder that their secrets are secret no longer.

Tidehollow Sculler

Artifact Creature - Zombie

When Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.

When Tidehollow Sculler leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Tidehollow Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

The scullers beneath Esper keep strixes as trained pets, and set them loose when a fare refuses to pay.

Tower Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

"Esper, like any work of art, can be truly appreciated only from a distance."
-Tezzeret

Vectis Silencers

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Silencers gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Even on Esper, there are those who eschew the use of magic in favor of simpler methods.

Windwright Mage

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Windwright Mage has flying as long as an artifact card is in your graveyard.

She knows the names and secrets of each of Esper's twenty-three winds.

Draco

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Domain - Draco costs less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control.

Flying

Domain - At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Draco unless you pay . This cost is reduced by for each basic land type among lands you control.