Chromatic Star

Artifact

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

When Chromatic Star is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Chrome Mox

Artifact

Imprint - When Chrome Mox enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.

: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors to your mana pool.

Chrome Steed

Artifact Creature - Horse

Metalcraft - Chrome Steed gets +2/+2 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

According to Auriok myth, it collects scrap in order to reassemble its lost rider.

Chronatog Totem

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

: Chronatog Totem becomes a 1/2 blue Atog artifact creature until end of turn.

: Chronatog Totem gets +3/+3 until end of turn. You skip your next turn. Activate this ability only once each turn and only if Chronatog Totem is a creature.

Chronomaton

Artifact Creature - Golem

, : Put a +1/+1 counter on Chronomaton.

On the third night, the villagers destroyed their clocks. The sounds of whirring gears and chiming metal held only dread for them.

Citanul Flute

Artifact

, : Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost X or less, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Each note of the flute mimics the call of a different beast.

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.

Civic Saber

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each of its colors.

Equip

Those without a guild signet often display a different form of protection.

Claws of Gix

Artifact

, Sacrifice a permanent: You gain 1 life.

When the Brotherhood of Gix dug out the cave of Koilos they found their master's severed hand. They enshrined it, hoping that one day it would point the way to Phyrexia.

Clay Statue

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Regenerate Clay Statue.

Tawnos won fame as Urza's greatest assistant. After he created these warriors, Urza ended his apprenticeship, promoting him directly to the rank of master.

Clearwater Goblet

Artifact

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain life equal to the number of charge counters on Clearwater Goblet.

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

Clock of Omens

Artifact

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Untap target artifact.

Most clocks measure time, but a few measure everything.

Clockwork Avian

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Clockwork Avian enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.

At end of combat, if Clockwork Avian attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.

, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian to be greater than four. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Clockwork Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

Clockwork Beast enters the battlefield with seven +1/+0 counters on it.

At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.

, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Clockwork Beetle

Artifact Creature - Insect

Clockwork Beetle enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever Clockwork Beetle attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

Clockwork Condor

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Clockwork Condor enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever Clockwork Condor attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

Clockwork Dragon

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Flying

Clockwork Dragon enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever Clockwork Dragon attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Dragon.

Clockwork Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

, : Regenerate target artifact creature.

"Until I came to the Floating Isle, I never had to oil the servants."
-Baki, Wizard Attendant

Clockwork Hydra

Artifact Creature - Hydra

Clockwork Hydra enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever Clockwork Hydra attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it. If you do, Clockwork Hydra deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Hydra.

Clockwork Steed

Artifact Creature - Horse

Clockwork Steed enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.

Clockwork Steed can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

At end of combat, if Clockwork Steed attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.

, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Steed. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Steed to be greater than four. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Clockwork Swarm

Artifact Creature - Insect

Clockwork Swarm enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.

Clockwork Swarm can't be blocked by Walls.

At end of combat, if Clockwork Swarm attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.

, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Swarm. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Swarm to be greater than four. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Clockwork Vorrac

Artifact Creature - Boar Beast

Trample

Clockwork Vorrac enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever Clockwork Vorrac attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Vorrac.

Clone Shell

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

Imprint - When Clone Shell enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

When Clone Shell dies, turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield under your control.

Cloud Key

Artifact

As Cloud Key enters the battlefield, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery.

Spells you cast of the chosen type cost less to cast.

The musical sound of its turning triggers the tumblers of revelation.

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.

Cloudstone Curio

Artifact

Whenever a nonartifact permanent enters the battlefield under your control, you may return another permanent you control that shares a card type with it to its owner's hand.

It wants to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Coal Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Coal Golem: Add to your mana pool.

"Three such creatures stood burning at the crest of the hill. Only seconds later, the Fireball struck our front line." -Lydia, Countess Brellis

Coalition Relic

Artifact

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

: Put a charge counter on Coalition Relic.

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Coat of Arms

Artifact

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

A banner for bonds of blood or belief.

Cobalt Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Cobalt Golem gains flying until end of turn.

Cobbled Wings

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying.

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

For the necro-alchemist, any puzzle can be solved with intelligence and harvested body parts.

Codex Shredder

Artifact

: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

, , Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Coercive Portal

Artifact

Will of the council - At the beginning of your upkeep, starting with you, each player votes for carnage or homage. If carnage gets more votes, sacrifice Coercive Portal and destroy all nonland permanents. If homage gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw a card.

Cogwork Grinder

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Cogwork Grinder face up.

As you draft a card, you may remove it from the draft face down. (Those cards aren't in your card pool.)

Cogwork Grinder enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of cards you removed from the draft with cards named Cogwork Grinder.

Cogwork Librarian

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Cogwork Librarian face up.

As you draft a card, you may draft an additional card from that booster pack. If you do, put Cogwork Librarian into that booster pack.

Why wait for answers?

Cogwork Spy

Artifact Creature - Bird Construct

Reveal Cogwork Spy as you draft it. You may look at the next card drafted from this booster pack.

Flying

Paliano's creations provide ample opportunities to plot the downfall of a neighbor.

Cogwork Tracker

Artifact Creature - Hound Construct

Reveal Cogwork Tracker as you draft it and note the player who passed it to you.

Cogwork Tracker attacks each turn if able.

Cogwork Tracker attacks a player you noted for cards named Cogwork Tracker each turn if able.

Coiled Tinviper

Artifact Creature - Snake

First strike

The bite of the tinviper feels most like a razor drawn across the tongue.

Cold Storage

Artifact

: Exile target creature you control.

Sacrifice Cold Storage: Return each creature card exiled with Cold Storage to the battlefield under your control.

Colfenor's Urn

Artifact

Whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it.

At the beginning of the end step, if three or more cards have been exiled with Colfenor's Urn, sacrifice it. If you do, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Colossus of Akros

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender, indestructible

: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

As long as Colossus of Akros is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Colossus of Sardia

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample (If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Colossus of Sardia doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Untap Colossus of Sardia. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Buried under a thin layer of dirt, it was known for centuries as Mount Sardia.

Commander's Sphere

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Complex Automaton

Artifact Creature - Golem

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more permanents, return Complex Automaton to its owner's hand.

"This wasteful design cannot possibly be Phyrexian."
-Belbe

Composite Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Sacrifice Composite Golem: Add to your mana pool.

An artificer's experiment in cross-material engineering found its own purpose as an interpreter between cultures.

Conch Horn

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Conch Horn: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.

Even the most skilled of modern mages only partially understand the Conch Horn's awesome powers.

Conjurer's Bauble

Artifact

, Sacrifice Conjurer's Bauble: Put up to one target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Draw a card.

It is the moment of discovery, the triumph of the mind, the reimagining of past glory.

Conjurer's Closet

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

"Tomorrow wears yesterday's face."
-Kordel the Cryptic

Conservator

Artifact

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

Contagion Clasp

Artifact

When Contagion Clasp enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

, : Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Contagion Engine

Artifact

When Contagion Engine enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls.

, : Proliferate, then proliferate again. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there. Then do it again.)

Conversion Chamber

Artifact

, : Exile target artifact card from a graveyard. Put a charge counter on Conversion Chamber.

, , Remove a charge counter from Conversion Chamber: Put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Copper Carapace

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and can't block.

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

"We will fight as they do: our flesh protected behind metal."
-Tae Aquil, Viridan weaponsmith

Copper Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

, Sacrifice Copper Gnomes: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Start with eleven gnomes and a room of parts, and come morning you'll have ten and a monster the likes of which you've never seen.

Copper Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like verdigris: an ever-present patina on the surface of a metal world.

Copper Tablet

Artifact

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

Copper-Leaf Angel

Artifact Creature - Angel

Flying

, Sacrifice X lands: Put X +1/+1 counters on Copper-Leaf Angel.

"When Serra made angels, people called her a goddess. My angels are far superior to hers."
-Latulla, Keldon overseer

Coral Helm

Artifact

, Discard a card at random: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Core Prowler

Artifact Creature - Horror

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

When Core Prowler dies, proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Coretapper

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Put a charge counter on target artifact.

Sacrifice Coretapper: Put two charge counters on target artifact.

It converts the faintest surges of power from Mirrodin's core into usable energy, providing endless power for Memnarch's creations on the surface.

Corpse Cur

Artifact Creature - Hound

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

When Corpse Cur enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card with infect from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

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.

Cranial Archive

Artifact

, Exile Cranial Archive: Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library. Draw a card.

The greatest idea the zombie ever had in its head wasn't even its own.

Cranial Plating

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.

: Attach Cranial Plating to target creature you control.

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

Crawlspace

Artifact

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

The goblins did not understand their attraction to the mana rig. They simply knew it was where they belonged.

Credit Voucher

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Credit Voucher: Shuffle any number of cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Creepy Doll

Artifact Creature - Construct

Indestructible

Whenever Creepy Doll deals combat damage to a creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy that creature.

A child's porcelain doll went missing one night, as did a pair of kitchen shears and the town magistrate.

Crenellated Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

Mercadian soldiers excel at finding things to stand behind.

Crooked Scales

Artifact

, : Flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy target creature an opponent controls. If you lose the flip, destroy target creature you control unless you pay and repeat this process.

Crosis's Attendant

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Crosis's Attendant: Add to your mana pool.

"Crosis is the eye of the ur-dragon, piercing illusion and darkness."

Crown of Convergence

Artifact

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is a creature card, creatures you control that share a color with that card get +1/+1.

: Put the top card of your library on the bottom of your library.

Crown of Doom

Artifact

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

: Target player other than Crown of Doom's owner gains control of it. Activate this ability only during your turn.

Every head it rests upon winds up severed.

Crown of Empires

Artifact

, : Tap target creature. Gain control of that creature instead if you control artifacts named Scepter of Empires and Throne of Empires.

"With this crown, assert your authority."
-Crown inscription

Crown of the Ages

Artifact

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

Crucible of Worlds

Artifact

You may play land cards from your graveyard.

Amidst the darkest ashes grow the strongest seeds.

Crumbling Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample (If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

When Crumbling Colossus attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

Crumbling Sanctuary

Artifact

If damage would be dealt to a player, that player exiles that many cards from the top of his or her library instead.

Cryptic Gateway

Artifact

Tap two untapped creatures you control: You may put a creature card from your hand that shares a creature type with each creature tapped this way onto the battlefield.

Its lock changes to fit each key.

Crystal Ball

Artifact

, : Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

It glints with arcane truths to those who know how to glimpse them.

Crystal Chimes

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Crystal Chimes: Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand.

As Serra was to learn, the peace and sanctity of her realm were as fragile as glass.

Crystal Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

At the beginning of your end step, Crystal Golem phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

"Once, a wealthy king commissioned an artificial creature to be crafted from the royal treasury, thinking it a clever ploy to have the jewels guard themselves."
-Azeworai, "The Golem's Wish"

Crystal Rod

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.

Crystal Shard

Artifact

, or , : Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays .

Culling Dais

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Culling Dais.

, Sacrifice Culling Dais: Draw a card for each charge counter on Culling Dais.

"Forswear the flesh and you will truly see."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Culling Scales

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target nonland permanent with the lowest converted mana cost. (If two or more permanents are tied for lowest cost, target any one of them.)

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

Cursed Rack

Artifact

As Cursed Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.

Ashnod invented several torture techniques that could make victims even miles away beg for mercy as if the End had come.

Cursed Scroll

Artifact

, : Name a card. Reveal a card at random from your hand. If it's the named card, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

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)

Custodian of the Trove

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender

Custodian of the Trove enters the battlefield tapped.

Silumgar delights in repurposing the treasures of other clans to serve his own ravenous greed.

Cyclopean Snare

Artifact

, : Tap target creature, then return Cyclopean Snare to its owner's hand.

The spoiled, gluttonous halls of the Orzhov teem with gaudy, needless wealth. Even their security measures are made for beauty first, efficiency second.

Cyclopean Tomb

Artifact

, : Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

When Cyclopean Tomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with Cyclopean Tomb but that a mire counter has not been removed from with Cyclopean Tomb.

Damping Engine

Artifact

A player who controls more permanents than each other player can't play lands or cast artifact, creature, or enchantment spells. That player may sacrifice a permanent for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

Damping Matrix

Artifact

Activated abilities of artifacts and creatures can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Dancing Scimitar

Artifact Creature - Spirit

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

A blade that has never known sheath, a hilt that has never known hand.

Darigaaz's Attendant

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Darigaaz's Attendant: Add to your mana pool.

"Darigaaz is the breath of the ur-dragon, burning away the burdens of mortality."

Dark Sphere

Artifact

, Sacrifice Dark Sphere: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent half that damage, rounded down.

"I was struck senseless for a moment, but revived when the strange curiosity I carried fell to the ground, screaming like a dying animal." -Barl, Lord Ith

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.