Barrin's Codex

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on Barrin's Codex.

, , Sacrifice Barrin's Codex: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on Barrin's Codex.

Basalt Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Basalt Golem can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Whenever Basalt Golem becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat. If the player does, he or she puts a 0/2 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender onto the battlefield.

Basalt Monolith

Artifact

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add to your mana pool.

: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Basilisk Collar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.

Equip

During their endless travels, the mages of the Goma Fada caravan have learned ways to harness both life and death.

Baton of Courage

Artifact

Flash

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

Remove a charge counter from Baton of Courage: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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

Battered Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Battered Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may untap Battered Golem.

A dent marks every year of service, and it has as much rust as glory.

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.

Batterskull

Artifact - Equipment

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink.

: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand.

Equip

Bösium Strip

Artifact

, : Until end of turn, if the top card of your graveyard is an instant or sorcery card, you may cast that card. If a card cast this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Beast of Burden

Artifact Creature - Golem

Beast of Burden's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Though it was built as an instrument of labor, it wasn't long before it became an instrument of war.

Behemoth Sledge

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has lifelink and trample.

Equip

Those who worship the great gargantuans could hardly be expected to fight with a subtle weapon.

Belbe's Armor

Artifact

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

It protects her from the ravages of Phyrexia and the savages of Rath.

Belbe's Portal

Artifact

As Belbe's Portal enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

, : You may put a creature card of the chosen type from your hand onto the battlefield.

The fight will continue on a new battlefield.

Birthing Pod

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

, , Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Black Lotus

Artifact

, Sacrifice Black Lotus: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.

Black Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Black Mana Battery.

, Remove any number of charge counters from Black Mana Battery: Add to your mana pool, then add an additional to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Black Vise

Artifact

As Black Vise enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand minus 4.

Blade of the Bloodchief

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.

Equip

Bladed Bracers

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

As long as equipped creature is a Human or an Angel, it has vigilance.

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

Forged from the rubble of the Helvault.

Bladed Pinions

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying and first strike.

Equip

Lacking trained pterons, the Auriok had to rely on other measures to gain the upper hand in the skies.

Bladed Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Bladed Sentinel gains vigilance until end of turn.

The Mirran partisans created hundreds of patrol sentinels to divert Phyrexian assaults from the Tangle.

Blasting Station

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Blasting Station deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may untap Blasting Station.

Blazethorn Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Blazethorn Scarecrow has haste as long as you control a red creature.

Blazethorn Scarecrow has wither as long as you control a green creature. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Blazing Torch

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can't be blocked by Vampires or Zombies.

Equipped creature has ", Sacrifice Blazing Torch: Blazing Torch deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

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

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.

Blightsteel Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample, infect

Blightsteel Colossus is indestructible.

If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Blinding Powder

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has "Unattach Blinding Powder: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn."

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

Blinding Souleater

Artifact Creature - Cleric

, : Tap target creature. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for inscribing our souls with subservience, to reinforce the sacred order."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Blinkmoth Urn

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's precombat main phase, if Blinkmoth Urn is untapped, that player adds to his or her mana pool for each artifact he or she controls.

Blood Clock

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns a permanent he or she controls to its owner's hand unless he or she pays 2 life.

In an age of war, time is measured not by sand but by blood.

Bloodletter Quill

Artifact

, , Put a blood counter on Bloodletter Quill: Draw a card, then lose 1 life for each blood counter on Bloodletter Quill.

: Remove a blood counter from Bloodletter Quill.

Bloodstone Cameo

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

"The stone whispers to me of dragon's fire and darkness. I wish I'd never pried it from the figurehead of that sunken Keldon longship."
-Isel, master carver

Blue Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Blue Mana Battery.

, Remove any number of charge counters from Blue Mana Battery: Add to your mana pool, then add an additional to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Bone Flute

Artifact

, : All creatures get -1/-0 until end of turn.

After the Battle of Pitdown, Lady Ursnell fashioned the first such instrument out of Lord Ursnell's left leg.

Bone Mask

Artifact

, : The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. Exile cards from the top of your library equal to the damage prevented this way.

"The protection offered comes at a price. How numerous are your kin?"
-Purraj of Urborg

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.

Bonehoard

Artifact - Equipment

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Equip

Bonesplitter

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

Equip

Booby Trap

Artifact

As Booby Trap enters the battlefield, name a card other than a basic land card and choose an opponent.

The chosen player reveals each card he or she draws.

When the chosen player draws the named card, sacrifice Booby Trap. If you do, Booby Trap deals 10 damage to that player.

Book of Rass

Artifact

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Boros Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Boros Cluestone: Draw a card.

"In case of fire, treachery, citywide riot, political upheaval, or worldwide societal collapse, break glass."
-Cluestone inscription

Boros Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Boros Keyrune becomes a 1/1 red and white Soldier artifact creature with double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Boros Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

"Have you ever held a Boros signet? There's a weight to it that belies its size-a weight of strength and of pride."
-Agrus Kos

Bosh, Iron Golem

Legendary Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample

, Sacrifice an artifact: Bosh, Iron Golem deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

Bottle Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

Sacrifice Bottle Gnomes: You gain 3 life.

Reinforcements . . . or refreshments?

Bottle of Suleiman

Artifact

, Sacrifice Bottle of Suleiman: Flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Bottle of Suleiman deals 5 damage to you. If you win the flip, put a 5/5 colorless Djinn artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Bottled Cloister

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, exile all cards from your hand face down.

At the beginning of your upkeep, return all cards you own exiled with Bottled Cloister to your hand, then draw a card.

Braidwood Cup

Artifact

: You gain 1 life.

"I think it no accident that every civilized people has discovered the art of distillation."
-Rofellos of Llanowar

Braidwood Sextant

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Braidwood Sextant: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Brass Gnat

Artifact Creature - Insect

Flying

Brass Gnat doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Brass Gnat.

Its buzzing is the sound of its inner mechanisms, ever winding down.

Brass Herald

Artifact Creature - Golem

As Brass Herald enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

When Brass Herald enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all creature cards of the chosen type revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Creatures of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Brass Man

Artifact Creature - Construct

Brass Man doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Brass Man.

Brass Secretary

Artifact Creature - Construct

, Sacrifice Brass Secretary: Draw a card.

The students disliked the secretary for its unfailing memory-until they discovered it couldn't dodge thrown objects.

Brass Squire

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

"I admire it. Few pull off pluck and subservience at the same time."
-Ezuri, renegade leader

Brass-Talon Chimera

Artifact Creature - Chimera

First strike

Sacrifice Brass-Talon Chimera: Put a +2/+2 counter on target Chimera creature. It gains first strike. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Brawler's Plate

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to defending player or planeswalker while attacking.)

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

Briber's Purse

Artifact

Briber's Purse enters the battlefield with X gem counters on it.

, , Remove a gem counter from Briber's Purse: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.

Victory is certain. The price, negotiable.

Brittle Effigy

Artifact

, , Exile Brittle Effigy: Exile target creature.

"In my early experiments in phylactery, I found that fragile forms have their uses."
-Rocati, Duke of Martyne

Bronze Bombshell

Artifact Creature - Construct

When a player other than Bronze Bombshell's owner controls it, that player sacrifices it. If the player does, Bronze Bombshell deals 7 damage to him or her.

"Ooh, shiny! Let's pull off the chain and take her with us."
-Ukl, Gruul raider, last words

Bronze Horse

Artifact Creature - Horse

Trample

As long as you control another creature, prevent all damage that would be dealt to Bronze Horse by spells that target it.

Bronze Sable

Artifact Creature - Sable

The Champion stood alone between the horde of the Returned and the shrine to Karametra, cutting down scores among hundreds. She would have been overcome if not for the aid of the temple guardians whom Karametra awakened.
-The Theriad

Bronze Tablet

Artifact

Remove Bronze Tablet from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

Bronze Tablet enters the battlefield tapped.

, : Exile Bronze Tablet and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If he or she does, put Bronze Tablet into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns Bronze Tablet and you own the other exiled card.

Bubble Matrix

Artifact

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures.

"This device was commisioned by a king who desired peace. Unfortunately, the royal artificer was also the king's jester."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Bubbling Cauldron

Artifact

, , Sacrifice a creature: You gain 4 life.

, , Sacrifice a creature named Festering Newt: Each opponent loses 4 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Bullwhip

Artifact

, : Bullwhip deals 1 damage to target creature. That creature attacks this turn if able.

"Pain is a crude way to enforce obedience, but it is cheap and plentiful."
-Volrath

Burnished Hart

Artifact Creature - Elk

, Sacrifice Burnished Hart: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Forged by divine hands to wander mortal realms.

Butcher's Cleaver

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0.

As long as equipped creature is a Human, it has lifelink.

Equip

Outside the safety of Thraben, there is little distinction between tool and weapon.

Caged Sun

Artifact

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

Whenever a land's ability adds one or more mana of the chosen color to your mana pool, add one additional mana of that color to your mana pool.

Caltrops

Artifact

Whenever a creature attacks, Caltrops deals 1 damage to it.

The Eastern Paladin knew how highly his southern rival valued horses, so he gleefully prepared a suitable welcome.

Canal Dredger

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Canal Dredger face up.

Each player passes the last card from each booster pack to a player who drafted a card named Canal Dredger.

: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

Candelabra of Tawnos

Artifact

, : Untap X target lands.

Tawnos learned quickly from Urza that utter simplicity often led to wondrous, yet subtle utility.

Candles of Leng

Artifact

, : Reveal the top card of your library. If it has the same name as a card in your graveyard, put it into your graveyard. Otherwise, draw a card.

"A tome stored in its light is as crisp as the day it was written."
-Ettovard, Tolarian archivist

Captain's Claws

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature attacks, put a 1/1 white Kor Ally creature token onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Equip

Forged for victory in a time of despair.

Carnage Altar

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

"In these bloodstains I will find the fingerprints of our oppressors."
-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Catalyst Stone

Artifact

Flashback costs you pay cost up to less.

Flashback costs your opponents pay cost more.

The gems' incandescence invades the dreams of all who see them.

Cathedral Membrane

Artifact Creature - Wall

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Defender

When Cathedral Membrane dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.

Cathodion

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Cathodion dies, add to your mana pool.

Instead of creating a tool that would be damaged by heat, the Thran built one that was charged by it.

Cauldron of Souls

Artifact

: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Celestial Prism

Artifact

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

Celestial Sword

Artifact

, : Target creature you control gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Its controller sacrifices it at the beginning of the next end step.

"So great is its power, only the chosen can wield it and live."
-Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Cellar Door

Artifact

, : Target player puts the bottom card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If it's a creature card, you put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

As if anyone needed another reason to avoid dark, dank cellars.

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.

Chalice of Life

Artifact

: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform Chalice of Life.

The sweet taste of hope's promise.

Chalice of the Void

Artifact

Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.

Champion's Helm

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Equip

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.

Charcoal Diamond

Artifact

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Chariot of the Sun

Artifact

, : Until end of turn, target creature you control gains flying and its toughness becomes 1.

"Sun follows Moon until she tires, then carries her until she's strong / and runs ahead of him again."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Chariot of Victory

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste.

Equip

The greatest heroes are the first to stand, the first to take up arms, and the first to meet the enemy.

Charmed Pendant

Artifact

, Put the top card of your library into your graveyard: For each colored mana symbol in that card's mana cost, add one mana of that color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only any time you could cast an instant. (For example, if the card's mana cost is , you add to your mana pool.)

Chimeric Coils

Artifact

: Chimeric Coils becomes an X/X Construct artifact creature. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

The energy that infuses the rings with life also melts them away, leaving only useless puddles of slag.

Chimeric Egg

Artifact

Whenever an opponent casts a nonartifact spell, put a charge counter on Chimeric Egg.

Remove three charge counters from Chimeric Egg: Chimeric Egg becomes a 6/6 Construct artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

Chimeric Idol

Artifact

: Tap all lands you control. Chimeric Idol becomes a 3/3 Turtle artifact creature until end of turn.

After a chimeric idol attacked them, the Keldons smashed all unfamiliar statues.

Chimeric Mass

Artifact

Chimeric Mass enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

: Until end of turn, Chimeric Mass becomes a Construct artifact creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of charge counters on it."

Chimeric Sphere

Artifact

: Until end of turn, Chimeric Sphere becomes a 2/1 Construct artifact creature with flying.

: Until end of turn, Chimeric Sphere becomes a 3/2 Construct artifact creature without flying.

Chimeric Staff

Artifact

: Chimeric Staff becomes an X/X Construct artifact creature until end of turn.

The staff unraveled in a chaotic chorus of clanging, becoming an improbable beast of hissing blades.

Chitinous Cloak

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Equip

"If we're going to survive, we have to use every tool at our disposal. Especially the disgusting ones."
-Ryza, Oran-Rief scout

Chromatic Lantern

Artifact

Lands you control have ": Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

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

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Chromatic Sphere

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Chromatic Sphere: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"Let insight and energy be your guides."
-The Blind Seer, to Gerrard