Hedron Scrabbler

Artifact Creature - Construct

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Hedron Scrabbler gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"I don't care when the hedrons awoke. Why is the question that really matters."
-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Trailblazer's Boots

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It's unblockable as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.)

Equip

It's much easier to list the places they haven't been.

Ethercaste Knight

Artifact Creature - Human Knight

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"We coat ourselves in steel every day. What is etherium but the next logical step?"

Shield of the Righteous

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has vigilance.

Whenever equipped creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Equip

Mask of Riddles

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Equip

Time Sieve

Artifact

, Sacrifice five artifacts: Take an extra turn after this one.

"I pray that I am never considered useless or old."
-Sharuum the Hegemon

Demonspine Whip

Artifact - Equipment

: Equipped creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Equip

Using a spine to break a slave's back appeals to the Grixis sense of irony.

Esper Stormblade

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

As long as you control another multicolored permanent, Esper Stormblade gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Stormcallers came to appreciate the novelty of Jund's volcanic updrafts.

Thopter Foundry

Artifact

, Sacrifice a nontoken artifact: Put a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield. You gain 1 life.

"Etherium is limited. Innovation is not."
-Tezzeret

Jinxed Idol

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, Jinxed Idol deals 2 damage to you.

Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of Jinxed Idol.

"Please, honored friend, take it with my compliments. I insist."

Steel Overseer

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact."
-Sargis Haz, artificer

Gorgon Flail

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

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

Howling Mine

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

The mine's riches never end, nor do the moans of the spirits doomed to haunt them.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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?

Fang Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

: Target black creature gains wither until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

"Everything falls apart. But living things fall apart in the most fascinating ways."
-Mowagh the Gwyllion

Leering Emblem

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever you cast a spell, equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Equip

The banner was not a symbol of victory, but a herald of the carnage to come.

Blight Sickle

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has wither. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Equip

Its scars cut deeper than its blade.

Chainbreaker

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Chainbreaker enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it.

, : Remove a -1/-1 counter from target creature.

Scarecrows deemed too malevolent to roam free are shackled to boulders or dolmen stones. Their animosity usually outlives the chains.

Elsewhere Flask

Artifact

When Elsewhere Flask enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Sacrifice Elsewhere Flask: Choose a basic land type. Each land you control becomes that type until end of turn.

One night Oona bottled the sky. The next night she aligned the stars and released it.

Painter's Servant

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

As Painter's Servant enters the battlefield, choose a color.

All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.

It gathers hues from the twilight mist so that its master can paint a better world.

Pili-Pala

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Flying

, {Q}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

It wasn't really expected to fly. Then again, it wasn't expected to move, either.

Revelsong Horn

Artifact

, , Tap an untapped creature you control: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

A deflated sigh breathed into the horn emerges as an inspiring melody.

Trip Noose

Artifact

, : Tap target creature.

A taut slipknot trigger is the only thing standing between you and standing.

Cloak and Dagger

Tribal Artifact - Rogue Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Whenever a Rogue creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Cloak and Dagger to it.

Equip

Thornbite Staff

Tribal Artifact - Shaman Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player" and "Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature."

Whenever a Shaman creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Thornbite Staff to it.

Equip

Veteran's Armaments

Tribal Artifact - Soldier Equipment

Equipped creature has "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each attacking creature."

Whenever a Soldier creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Veteran's Armaments to it.

Equip

Dolmen Gate

Artifact

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to attacking creatures you control.

Lorwyn's stones resonate with the place from which they were hewed. Though taken far, still they call to their home when silence is upon the land.

Thorn of Amethyst

Artifact

Noncreature spells cost more to cast.

Mined from a cave in the Dark Meanders, it shines brightest when no one is looking.

Doubling Cube

Artifact

, : Double the amount of each type of mana in your mana pool.

The cube's surface is pockmarked with jagged runes that seem to shift when unobserved.

Millstone

Artifact

, : Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.

Mind Stone

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom gained."
-Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus

Defense Grid

Artifact

Each spell costs more to cast except during its controller's turn.

It lights up the sky, beckoning enemies only to repel them.

Fellwar Stone

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
-Mairsil, the Pretender

Vulshok Morningstar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

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

Ankh of Mishra

Artifact

Whenever a land enters the battlefield, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Chaos Orb

Artifact

, : If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all permanents it touches. Then destroy Chaos Orb.

Copper Tablet

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Copper Tablet deals 1 damage to that player.

Illusionary Mask

Artifact

: You may choose a creature card in your hand whose mana cost could be paid by some amount of, or all of, the mana you spent on . If you do, you may cast that card face down as a 2/2 creature spell without paying its mana cost. If the creature that spell becomes as it resolves has not been turned face up and would assign or deal damage, be dealt damage, or become tapped, instead it's turned face up and assigns or deals damage, is dealt damage, or becomes tapped. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Time Vault

Artifact

Time Vault enters the battlefield tapped.

Time Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.

If you would begin your turn while Time Vault is tapped, you may skip that turn instead. If you do, untap Time Vault.

: Take an extra turn after this one.

Winter Orb

Artifact

Players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Jandor's Saddlebags

Artifact

, : Untap target creature.

Each day of their journey, Jandor opened the saddlebags and found them full of mutton, quinces, cheese, date rolls, wine, and all manner of delicious and satisfying foods.

Amulet of Kroog

Artifact

, : Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Among the first allies Urza gained were the people of Kroog. As a sign of friendship, Urza gave the healers of the city potent amulets; afterwards, thousands journeyed to Kroog in hope of healing.

Ashnod's Battle Gear

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Ashnod's Battle Gear during your untap step.

, : Target creature you control gets +2/-2 for as long as Ashnod's Battle Gear remains tapped.

This invention shows why Ashnod was feared by her troops as well as her foes.

Battering Ram

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)

Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Tawnos's Weaponry

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Tawnos's Weaponry during your untap step.

, : Target creature gets +1/+1 for as long as Tawnos's Weaponry remains tapped.

When war machines became too costly, Tawnos's Weaponry replaced them.

Crown of the Ages

Artifact

, : Attach target Aura attached to a creature to another creature.

Charcoal Diamond

Artifact

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Cursed Totem

Artifact

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Pass me from soul to soul, / soldier to herder, herder to beast, beast to soil / until I am everywhere. / Then pass me those souls.
-Totem inscription (translated)

Fire Diamond

Artifact

Fire Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Marble Diamond

Artifact

Marble Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Moss Diamond

Artifact

Moss Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Mystic Compass

Artifact

, : Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

Sky Diamond

Artifact

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Wand of Denial

Artifact

: Look at the top card of target player's library. If it's a nonland card, you may pay 2 life. If you do, put it into that player's graveyard.

You'll never miss what you never had.

Pit Trap

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Pit Trap: Destroy target attacking creature without flying. It can't be regenerated.

Never forget your feet
-Elvish expression meaning
"watch your step"

Distorting Lens

Artifact

: Target permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

"The Eye altering alters all."
-William Blake, "The Mental Traveller"

Star Compass

Artifact

Star Compass enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

It doesn't point north. It points home.

City in a Bottle

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken permanent from the Arabian Nights expansion other than City in a Bottle is on the battlefield, its controller sacrifices it.

Players can't play cards from the Arabian Nights expansion.

Kry Shield

Artifact

, : Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by target creature you control. That creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is its converted mana cost.

Relic Barrier

Artifact

: Tap target artifact.

Tower of Coireall

Artifact

: Target creature can't be blocked by Walls this turn.

Arcum's Weathervane

Artifact

, : Target snow land is no longer snow.

, : Target nonsnow basic land becomes snow.

Baton of Morale

Artifact

: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"The Goblins would kill to get ahold of this one."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Fyndhorn Bow

Artifact

, : Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"With a bow like this, the hunting is always good."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko,
Elvish Hunter

Hematite Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Lapis Lazuli Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Malachite Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Nacre Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Onyx Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Shield of the Ages

Artifact

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

"This shield is a true rarity: an artifact whose purpose is obvious."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Whalebone Glider

Artifact

, : Target creature with power 3 or less gains flying until end of turn.

"It's no Ornithopter, but then I'm no Urza."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Apocalypse Chime

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Apocalypse Chime: Destroy all nontoken permanents from the Homelands expansion. They can't be regenerated.

"One day, or another, perhaps I shall ring my pretty chime . . . loudly, so that all may hear."
-Grandmother Sengir

Telim'Tor's Darts

Artifact

, : Telim'Tor's Darts deals 1 damage to target player.

"People laughed at my darts-once."
-Telim'Tor

Anvil of Bogardan

Artifact

Players have no maximum hand size.

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card, then discards a card.

Helm of Awakening

Artifact

Spells cost less to cast.

"This little prize will cover your head, your spells, your bets, and your behind!"
-Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader

Jabari's Banner

Artifact

, : Target creature gains flanking until end of turn. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

Null Rod

Artifact

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Gerrard: "But it doesn't do anything!"
Hanna: "No-it does nothing."

Touchstone

Artifact

: Tap target artifact you don't control.

"One touch to the stone and the sidar's son turned me from stalwart to statue."
-Karn, silver golem

Altar of Dementia

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Target player puts a number of cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
-Volrath

Emerald Medallion

Artifact

Green spells you cast cost less to cast.

Essence Bottle

Artifact

, : Put an elixir counter on Essence Bottle.

, Remove all elixir counters from Essence Bottle: You gain 2 life for each elixir counter removed this way.

Excavator

Artifact

, Sacrifice a basic land: Target creature gains landwalk of each of the land types of the sacrificed land until end of turn.

Jet Medallion

Artifact

Black spells you cast cost less to cast.

Magnetic Web

Artifact

If a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them attack if able.

Whenever a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them block that creature this turn if able.

, : Put a magnet counter on target creature.

Manakin

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Add to your mana pool.

Hanna regarded Squee sternly. "Because it's not a toy, no matter how much it may look like one," she said, taking the manakin from him.

Mogg Cannon

Artifact

: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains flying until end of turn. Destroy that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Moggs never volunteer for anything twice.

Pearl Medallion

Artifact

White spells you cast cost less to cast.

Phyrexian Splicer

Artifact

, : Choose one - flying; first strike; shadow; or trample. Target creature with that ability loses it until end of turn and another target creature gains it until end of turn.

Ruby Medallion

Artifact

Red spells you cast cost less to cast.

Sapphire Medallion

Artifact

Blue spells you cast cost less to cast.

Scalding Tongs

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have three or fewer cards in hand, Scalding Tongs deals 1 damage to target opponent.

"This has nothing to do with what you know and everything to do with what I wish."
-Volrath

Scroll Rack

Artifact

, : Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Thumbscrews

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have five or more cards in hand, Thumbscrews deals 1 damage to target opponent.

"We will start small, I think."
-Volrath

Jinxed Ring

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, Jinxed Ring deals 1 damage to you.

Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of Jinxed Ring. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Sword of the Chosen

Legendary Artifact

: Target legendary creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

One shard of Selenia yet remained.