Zuran Orb

Artifact

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

"I will go to any length to achieve my goal. Eternal life is worth any sacrifice."
-Zur the Enchanter

Zelyon Sword

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Zelyon Sword during your untap step.

, : Target creature gets +2/+0 for as long as Zelyon Sword remains tapped.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Yotian Soldier

Artifact Creature - Soldier

Vigilance

After Kroog was destroyed while most of its defenders were at his side, Urza vowed that none of his allies would ever need to fear for their own defense again, even while laying siege to a city far from their homes.

Xanthic Statue

Artifact

: Until end of turn, Xanthic Statue becomes an 8/8 Golem artifact creature with trample.

"Until you have lived as a statue, do not talk to me of pigeons."
-Karn, silver golem

Wurmcoil Engine

Artifact Creature - Wurm

Deathtouch, lifelink

When Wurmcoil Engine dies, put a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink onto the battlefield.

Wurm's Tooth

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

Jevna Nor lugged it around, bragging of his triumph over the wurm. Luckily, the tavern regulars didn't notice it was only a baby tooth.

Worry Beads

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Worn Powerstone

Artifact

Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Worldslayer

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy all permanents other than Worldslayer.

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

"If that is what you seek, try looking in craters."
-Fodrus, mastersmith

Workhorse

Artifact Creature - Horse

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

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Workhorse: Add to your mana pool.

Wooden Stake

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a Vampire, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

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

Wooden Sphere

Artifact

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

Wolfhunter's Quiver

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player" and ": This creature deals 3 damage to target Werewolf creature."

Equip

"Steel in the heart, silver in the bow."
-Wolfhunter's creed

Wizard Replica

Artifact Creature - Wizard

Flying

, Sacrifice Wizard Replica: Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Witness of the Ages

Artifact Creature - Golem

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

It strode through the clash of dragons, the fall of Ugin, and the rise of the khans.

Witches' Eye

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : Scry 1." (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Equip

The price of prophecy is a vacant eye socket.

Witchbane Orb

Artifact

When Witchbane Orb enters the battlefield, destroy all Curses attached to you.

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control, including Aura spells.)

Wirefly Hive

Artifact

, : Flip a coin. If you win the flip, put a 2/2 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wirefly onto the battlefield. If you lose the flip, destroy all permanents named Wirefly.

"The lifespan of a wirefly can be precisely described as ‘short.'"
-Bruenna, Neurok leader

Wirecat

Artifact Creature - Cat

Wirecat can't attack or block if an enchantment is on the battlefield.

Its purr is the sound of iron filings sliding down satin.

Winter Orb

Artifact

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

Wingrattle Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Wingrattle Scarecrow has flying as long as you control a blue creature.

Wingrattle Scarecrow has persist as long as you control a black creature. (When this creature 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.)

Wine of Blood and Iron

Artifact

: Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. Sacrifice Wine of Blood and Iron at the beginning of the next end step.

Godo never revealed what went into his special brew, but he always had more of it after great victories.

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.

Will-Forged Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

The modular nature of the automaton's design makes assembly perfectly intuitive.

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.

Wicker Warcrawler

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Whenever Wicker Warcrawler attacks or blocks, put a -1/-1 counter on it at end of combat.

It's the twisted creation of a kithkin diviner who dreamed of very large crows.

White Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on White Mana Battery.

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

Whispersilk Cloak

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature is unblockable and has shroud.

Equip

Whispergear Sneak

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Whispergear Sneak face up.

During the draft, you may turn Whispergear Sneak face down. If you do, look at any unopened booster pack in the draft or any booster pack not being looked at by another player.

Spy for today. Plan for tomorrow.

Whirling Catapult

Artifact

, Exile the top two cards of your library: Whirling Catapult deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"Direct confrontation never was to the Orcs' taste."
-General Varchild

Whetwheel

Artifact

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

Morph (You may cast this face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Whetstone

Artifact

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

To hone swords and dull minds.
-Whetstone inscription

Wheel of Torture

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Wheel of Torture deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

"I'd like to buy a bowel."

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

Well of Lost Dreams

Artifact

Whenever you gain life, you may pay , where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Some say the knowledge lost during the Ritual of Rebuking is returned through the well's waters.

Well of Life

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, you gain 2 life.

When you have given everything, then you have everything to gain.
-Well inscription

Well of Knowledge

Artifact

: Draw a card. Any player may activate this ability but only during his or her draw step.

Well of Discovery

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, draw a card.

When you have given everything, then you are capable of anything.
-Well inscription

Welding Jar

Artifact

Sacrifice Welding Jar: Regenerate target artifact.

Weatherseed Totem

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

: Weatherseed Totem becomes a 5/3 green Treefolk artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

When Weatherseed Totem is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it was a creature, return this card to its owner's hand.

Weakstone

Artifact

Attacking creatures get -1/-0.

During the brothers' childhood, Tocasia took them to explore the sacred cave of Koilos. There, in the Hall of Tagsin, Mishra discovered the mysterious weakstone.

Wayfarer's Bauble

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

It is the forest beyond the horizon, the mountain waiting to be climbed, the new land across the endless sea.

Watchwing Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Watchwing Scarecrow has vigilance as long as you control a white creature.

Watchwing Scarecrow has flying as long as you control a blue creature.

The wings are held in place by wicker rods. The rods are held in place by pure faith.

Watchdog

Artifact Creature - Hound

Watchdog blocks each turn if able.

As long as Watchdog is untapped, all creatures attacking you get -1/-0.

Its growl is a long, rumbling grind of gears and clockwork, its bark a blast of hissing steam.

Warmonger's Chariot

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

As long as equipped creature has defender, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

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

The best defense is a good offense.

Warlord's Axe

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.

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

To split wood with it would be sacrilege. This tool has but one purpose, and that is war.

Warden of the Wall

Artifact

Warden of the Wall enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

As long as it's not your turn, Warden of the Wall is a 2/3 Gargoyle artifact creature with flying.

Ward of Bones

Artifact

Each opponent who controls more creatures than you can't play creature cards. The same is true for artifacts, enchantments, and lands.

Mages dare not attempt magic in its grotesque presence.

War Chariot

Artifact

, : Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

"I wouldn't advise using it with a Woolly Mammoth, but it's quite appropriate for many other beasts."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

War Barge

Artifact

: Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn. When War Barge leaves the battlefield this turn, destroy that creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Wanderer's Twig

Artifact

, Sacrifice Wanderer's Twig: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

For every tree who falls, there are countless sprouts waiting to rise.

Wand of the Elements

Artifact

, Sacrifice an Island: Put a 2/2 blue Elemental creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a Mountain: Put a 3/3 red Elemental creature token onto the battlefield.

It gives legs to the earth and wings to the sky.

Wand of Ith

Artifact

, : Target player reveals a card at random from his or her hand. If it's a land card, that player discards it unless he or she pays 1 life. If it isn't a land card, the player discards it unless he or she pays life equal to its converted mana cost. Activate this ability only during your turn.

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.

Wall of Tanglecord

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

: Wall of Tanglecord gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Rootlike fibers travel far from Mirrodin's metallic forests, emerging from the crust to drink in the mana-infused sunlight.

Wall of Spears

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

First strike

Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging Craw Wurms.

Wall of Shields

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Banding (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)

"It's the pokey bits that hurt the most."
-Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician

Wall of Junk

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Junk blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Urza saw the wall and realized that even if he tore every Phyrexian to pieces, they would still resist him.

Walking Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

: Walking Wall gets +3/-1 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"The fortress is not what it seems."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Walking Atlas

Artifact Creature - Construct

: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Crafted by lullmages and bound to the land, it alters itself to match the tumultuous terrain.

Walking Archive

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Walking Archive enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player draws a card for each +1/+1 counter on Walking Archive.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Archive.

Vulshok Replica

Artifact Creature - Berserker

, Sacrifice Vulshok Replica: Vulshok Replica deals 3 damage to target player.

All the fury of the Vulshok with only a trace of their recklessness.

Vulshok Morningstar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

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

Vulshok Gauntlets

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+2 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Vulshok Battlegear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+3.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Voyager Staff

Artifact

, Sacrifice Voyager Staff: Exile target creature. Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Voyager staffs are sought by those hoping to find an escape from the sprawling glut of Ravnica.

Vorrac Battlehorns

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has trample and can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Voodoo Doll

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pin counter on Voodoo Doll.

At the beginning of your end step, if Voodoo Doll is untapped, destroy Voodoo Doll and it deals damage to you equal to the number of pin counters on it.

, : Voodoo Doll deals damage equal to the number of pin counters on it to target creature or player. X is the number of pin counters on Voodoo Doll.

Voltaic Key

Artifact

, : Untap target artifact.

The missing piece to every puzzle.

Voltaic Construct

Artifact Creature - Golem Construct

: Untap target artifact creature.

The undead may outlast the living, but those who have never lived outlast them both.

Volrath's Laboratory

Artifact

As Volrath's Laboratory enters the battlefield, choose a color and a creature type.

, : Put a 2/2 creature token of the chosen color and type onto the battlefield.

Volatile Rig

Artifact Creature - Construct

Trample

Volatile Rig attacks each turn if able.

Whenever Volatile Rig is dealt damage, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, sacrifice Volatile Rig.

When Volatile Rig dies, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, it deals 4 damage to each creature and each player.

Viseling

Artifact Creature - Construct

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

"This may hurt a lot."

Viridian Longbow

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Viridian Claw

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

Equip

"Phyrexians can't corrupt what they can't get close enough to touch."

Vibrating Sphere

Artifact

As long as it's your turn, creatures you control get +2/+0.

As long as it's not your turn, creatures you control get -0/-2.

"Unearthly and invisible fibers emanate from this sphere, entangling all who draw near."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Vial of Poison

Artifact

, Sacrifice Vial of Poison: Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

There are worse ways to die, but not many.

Vial of Dragonfire

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Vial of Dragonfire: Vial of Dragonfire deals 2 damage to target creature.

Designed by an ancient artificer, the vials are strong enough to hold the very breath of a dragon-until it's needed.

Vexing Arcanix

Artifact

, : Target player names a card, then reveals the top card of his or her library. If it's the named card, the player puts it into his or her hand. Otherwise, the player puts it into his or her graveyard and Vexing Arcanix deals 2 damage to him or her.

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

Vessel of Endless Rest

Artifact

When Vessel of Endless Rest enters the battlefield, put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

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

Ventifact Bottle

Artifact

, : Put X charge counters on Ventifact Bottle. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, if Ventifact Bottle has a charge counter on it, tap it and remove all charge counters from it. Add to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Venser's Sliver

Artifact Creature - Sliver

Venser admired his handiwork and smiled. His first prototype had joined with the hive mind all too well, running with the brood and becoming a predator itself. This one, he thought, would be accepted into the hive but still obey his commands.

Venser's Journal

Artifact

You have no maximum hand size.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

A Planeswalker's chronicle spans worlds and civilizations, each page a lifetime.

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.

Veilstone Amulet

Artifact

Whenever you cast a spell, creatures you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn.

Sometimes it's ostentatious to go unseen.

Vedalken Shackles

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Vedalken Shackles during your untap step.

, : Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped.

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.

Vedalken Orrery

Artifact

You may cast nonland cards as though they had flash.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

Vector Asp

Artifact Creature - Snake

: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexia's machines take inspiration from nature. Twisted, disturbing inspiration.

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.

Vectis Dominator

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

: Tap target creature unless its controller pays 2 life.

"I appreciate the artistry of the telemins, but the creatures of the other worlds provide a much more dramatic performance."
-Ennor, mentalist

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.

Vault Skirge

Artifact Creature - Imp

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

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

From the remnants of the dead, Geth forged a swarm to safeguard his throne.

Vanguard's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and can block an additional creature.

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

Wars are not fought on a single front.

Urza's Science Fair Project

Artifact Creature

: Roll a six-sided die for Urza's Science Fair Project.

1 It gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

2 It deals no combat damage this turn.

3 Attacking does not cause it to tap this turn.

4 It gains first strike until end of turn.

5 It gains flying until end of turn.

6 It gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Urza's Miter

Artifact

Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it wasn't sacrificed, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Urza's Incubator

Artifact

As Urza's Incubator enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Creature spells of the chosen type cost less to cast.

"Stop thinking like an artificer, Urza, and start thinking like a father!"
-Rayne, Academy Chancellor

Urza's Filter

Artifact

Multicolored spells cost up to less to cast.

"It's a tool for aiding my other tools," explained Urza. "Now they'll work in harmony."

Urza's Engine

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Trample

: Urza's Engine 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 you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

: Attacking creatures banded with Urza's Engine gain trample until end of turn.

"Humans and machines working together can be fearsome indeed!" -Arcum Dagsson