Clay Pigeon

Artifact Creature

Flying

, Throw Clay Pigeon into the air at least two feet above your head while seated, Attempt to catch it with one hand: If you catch Clay Pigeon, prevent all damage to you from any one source and return Clay Pigeon to play, tapped. Otherwise, sacrifice it.

Paper Tiger

Artifact Creature

Rock Lobsters cannot attack or block.

The tiger is always quick to fold.

Rock Lobster

Artifact Creature

Scissors Lizards cannot attack or block.

Many take the lobster for granite.

Scissors Lizard

Artifact Creature

Paper Tigers cannot attack or block.

Nothing beats the lizard's shear power.

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.

Mindless Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

Mindless Automaton enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

, Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mindless Automaton.

Remove two +1/+1 counters from Mindless Automaton: Draw a card.

Thopter Squadron

Artifact Creature - Thopter

Flying

Thopter Squadron enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Thopter Squadron: Put a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

, Sacrifice another Thopter: Put a +1/+1 counter on Thopter Squadron. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Transmogrifying Licid

Artifact Creature - Licid

, : Transmogrifying Licid loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay to end this effect.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and is an artifact in addition to its other types.

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.

Shifting Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Shifting Wall enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

"You'd almost think Volrath doesn't want me here."
-Gerrard

Coiled Tinviper

Artifact Creature - Snake

First strike

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

Energizer

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

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

Like a kettle set to boil, it must eventually go off-on someone.

Flowstone Sculpture

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

, Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on Flowstone Sculpture or Flowstone Sculpture gains flying, first strike, or trample. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

The sculptor, weary of his work, created art that would finish itself.

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.

Metallic Sliver

Artifact Creature - Sliver

When the clever counterfeit was accepted by the hive, Volrath's influence upon the slivers grew even stronger.

Telethopter

Artifact Creature - Thopter

Tap an untapped creature you control: Telethopter gains flying until end of turn.

After losing several of the devices to midair collisions, Greven forbade moggs from operating telethopters.

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.

Jangling Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Jangling Automaton attacks, untap all creatures defending player controls.

"We always look upon our first creations as masterpieces, no matter how awful they are."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Serrated Biskelion

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Put a -1/-1 counter on Serrated Biskelion and a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Whereas I was created to protect, the biskelion was created to destroy."
-Karn, silver golem

Straw Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

When an opponent casts a creature spell, sacrifice Straw Golem.

"Don't look at me. I didn't build it."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

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.

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.)

Iron-Heart Chimera

Artifact Creature - Chimera

Vigilance

Sacrifice Iron-Heart Chimera: Put a +2/+2 counter on target Chimera creature. It gains vigilance. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Lead-Belly Chimera

Artifact Creature - Chimera

Trample

Sacrifice Lead-Belly Chimera: Put a +2/+2 counter on target Chimera creature. It gains trample. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Matopi Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Regenerate Matopi Golem. When it regenerates this way, put a -1/-1 counter on it.

Some potmakers claim to use the mud of such creatures to make their finest bowls-and that the bowls scream when fired.

Phyrexian Marauder

Artifact Creature - Construct

Phyrexian Marauder enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Phyrexian Marauder can't block.

Phyrexian Marauder can't attack unless you pay for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Phyrexian Walker

Artifact Creature - Construct

"I have heard terrible tales of black rains, ashen fields, and metal that screams. I have consoled myself that the tales were a myth of some fevered mind. But today I saw a walker-and now I fear the truth."
-Kasib Ibn Naji, Letters

Tin-Wing Chimera

Artifact Creature - Chimera

Flying

Sacrifice Tin-Wing Chimera: Put a +2/+2 counter on target Chimera creature. It gains flying. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

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.

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"

Ersatz Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

: Target spell becomes colorless.

: Target permanent becomes colorless until end of turn.

From jungle to sea, from sea to stone, from stone to field, from field to bone. What am I? -Zhalfirin riddle

Horrible Hordes

Artifact Creature - Spirit

Rampage 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Few are able to underestimate the hordes.

Igneous Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Igneous Golem gains trample until end of turn.

"The creature rose from the mountain, its body weeping fire."
-Afari, Tales

Phyrexian Dreadnought

Artifact Creature - Dreadnought

Trample

When Phyrexian Dreadnought enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice any number of creatures with total power 12 or greater.

Sand Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Sand Golem, return Sand Golem from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Teeka's Dragon

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Flying; trample; rampage 4 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +4/+4 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

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 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.

Ebony Rhino

Artifact Creature - Rhino

Trample

"That Rhino would fetch us a tidy sum, Joven. Perhaps it's time to make it ours."
-Chandler

Roterothopter

Artifact Creature - Thopter

Flying

: Roterothopter gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than twice each turn.

"The Roterothopter is as insidious as it is ingenious. It is one of the few creations of our school that I take no pride in."
-Baki, Wizard Attendant

Adarkar Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Soldier

: Adarkar Sentinel gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"We encountered the Sentinels in the wastes, near no living thing. Their purpose was inscrutable."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Aesthir Glider

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Aesthir Glider can't block.

"Sacrilege A noble ally in life, made nothing more than a glorified kite in death"
-Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Phyrexian Devourer

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Phyrexian Devourer's power is 7 or greater, sacrifice it.

Exile the top card of your library: Put X +1/+1 counters on Phyrexian Devourer, where X is the exiled card's converted mana cost.

Phyrexian War Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

When Phyrexian War Beast leaves the battlefield, sacrifice a land and Phyrexian War Beast deals 1 damage to you.

"Deal with the spawn of Phyrexia cautiously; only with time may we control them."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Shield Sphere

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

"My Soldiers know that they need never fear for their protection."
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Snow Fortress

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Snow Fortress gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Snow Fortress gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

: Snow Fortress deals 1 damage to target creature without flying that's attacking you.

Soldevi Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Soldevi Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may untap target tapped creature an opponent controls. If you do, untap Soldevi Golem.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Soldevi Sentry

Artifact Creature - Soldier

: Choose target opponent. Regenerate Soldevi Sentry. When it regenerates this way, that player may draw a card.

"A dreadful invention. What ease is there under the watchful eye of cold steel?"
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Soldevi Simulacrum

Artifact Creature - Soldier

Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

: Soldevi Simulacrum gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

They look human-
until they bleed.

Soldevi Steam Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

Whenever Soldevi Steam Beast becomes tapped, target opponent gains 2 life.

: Regenerate Soldevi Steam Beast.

"Dagsson saw the steam as life-giving-until his followers felt its scalding touch."
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Diabolic Machine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Regenerate Diabolic Machine.

"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning."
-Sevti Mukul, The Fall of Alsoor

Grapeshot Catapult

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Grapeshot Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

Recent research suggests these creatures were invented by Urza's and Mishra's original master, Tocasia, and that both brothers used them.

Shapeshifter

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

As Shapeshifter enters the battlefield, choose a number between 0 and 7.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7.

Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.

Tetravus

Artifact Creature - Construct

Flying

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from Tetravus. If you do, put that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield. They each have flying and "This creature can't be enchanted."

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens put onto the battlefield with Tetravus. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on Tetravus.

Urza's Avenger

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

: Urza's Avenger gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of banding, flying, first strike, or trample 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.)

Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one versatile being.

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.

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.

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

Necropolis

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put X +0/+1 counters on Necropolis, where X is the exiled card's converted mana cost.

Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

, : Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by creatures with flying.

There was more malice in its button eyes than should have been possible in something that had never known life.

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.

Marble Priest

Artifact Creature - Cleric

All Walls able to block Marble Priest do so.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Marble Priest by Walls.

Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

: Sentinel's toughness becomes 1 plus the power of target creature blocking or blocked by Sentinel. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

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.

Dragon Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Dragon Engine gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Mishra's War Machine

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Banding (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.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, Mishra's War Machine deals 3 damage to you unless you discard a card. If Mishra's War Machine deals damage to you this way, tap it.

Onulet

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Onulet dies, you gain 2 life.

An early inspiration for Urza, Tocasia's Onulets contained magical essences that could be cannibalized after they stopped functioning.

Su-Chi

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Su-Chi dies, add to your mana pool.

Flawed copies of relics from the Thran Empire, the Su-Chi were inherently unstable but provided useful knowledge for Tocasia's students.

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.

Living Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Obsianus Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

"The foot stone is connected to the ankle stone, the ankle stone is connected to the leg stone . . ."
-Song of the Artificer