Abzan Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Abzan Banner: Draw a card.

Stone to endure, roots to remember.

Accorder's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

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

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Acidic Dagger

Artifact

, : Whenever target creature deals combat damage to a non-Wall creature this turn, destroy that non-Wall creature. When the targeted creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice Acidic Dagger. Activate this ability only before blockers are declared.

Acorn Catapult

Artifact

, : Acorn Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature or player. That creature's controller or that player puts a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token onto the battlefield.

The Kalonian word for "ammunition" is the same as the word for "bait."

Adaptive Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

As Adaptive Automaton enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Adaptive Automaton is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Such loyalty can only be made.

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

Adventuring Gear

Artifact - Equipment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

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

An explorer's essentials in a wild world.

Aegis of the Meek

Artifact

, : Target 1/1 creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

"With this marvel, even the weak have a fighting chance!"
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Aeolipile

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Aeolipile: Aeolipile deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Although fragile, the Aeolipile could be quite destructive."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. I

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

Agent of Acquisitions

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Agent of Acquisitions face up.

Instead of drafting a card from a booster pack, you may draft each card in that booster pack, one at a time. If you do, turn Agent of Acquisitions face down and you can't draft cards for the rest of this draft round. (You may look at booster packs passed to you.)

Akroan Horse

Artifact Creature - Horse

Defender

When Akroan Horse enters the battlefield, an opponent gains control of it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent puts a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

Akroma's Memorial

Legendary Artifact

Creatures you control have flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red.

"No rest. No mercy. No matter what."
-Memorial inscription

Al-abara's Carpet

Artifact

, : Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by attacking creatures without flying.

Al-abara simply laughed and lifted one finger, and the carpet carried her high out of our reach.

Aladdin's Lamp

Artifact

, : The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead look at the top X cards of your library, put all but one of them on the bottom of your library in a random order, then draw a card. X can't be 0.

Aladdin's Ring

Artifact

, : Aladdin's Ring deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

"A good lamp will light your way. A good ring will clear it."
-Nervan, royal jeweler

Alchor's Tomb

Artifact

, : Target permanent you control becomes the color of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Aligned Hedron Network

Artifact

When Aligned Hedron Network enters the battlefield, exile all creatures with power 5 or greater until Aligned Hedron Network leaves the battlefield. (Those creatures return under their owners' control.)

The last hedron slotted into place, locking Ulamog in an infinite loop of binding energy.

Alloy Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

As Alloy Golem enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Alloy Golem is the chosen color. (It's still an artifact.)

"We turned old weapons into new warriors."
-Jhoira, master artificer

Alloy Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

With or without witnesses, the suns continued their prismatic dance.

Alpha Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Altar Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample

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

Altar Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

Tap five untapped creatures you control: Untap Altar 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

Altar of Shadows

Artifact

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add to your mana pool for each charge counter on Altar of Shadows.

, : Destroy target creature. Then put a charge counter on Altar of Shadows.

Altar of the Brood

Artifact

Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Supplicants offer flesh and silver, flowers and blood. The altar takes what it will, eyes gleaming with unspoken promises.

Altar of the Lost

Artifact

Altar of the Lost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast spells with flashback from a graveyard.

Amber Prison

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Amber Prison during your untap step.

, : Tap target artifact, creature, or land. That permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Amber Prison remains tapped.

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.

Amulet of Quoz

Artifact

Remove Amulet of Quoz from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

, Sacrifice Amulet of Quoz: Target opponent may add the top card of his or her library to the ante. If he or she doesn't, you flip a coin. If you win the flip, that player loses the game. If you lose the flip, you lose the game. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Amulet of Unmaking

Artifact

, , Exile Amulet of Unmaking: Exile target artifact, creature, or land. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Trade to trade, not to keep.
-Suq'Ata motto

Amulet of Vigor

Artifact

Whenever a permanent enters the battlefield tapped and under your control, untap it.

"After years of study, I've learned an important lesson: the relics we watch may be watching us back."
-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Ancestral Statue

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.

The mage awakened the statue in hopes of learning the lost lore of her clan, but the statue was interested only in war.

Angel's Feather

Artifact

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

The angel represents divine perfection; even the smallest feather is imbued with beauty and benevolence.

Angel's Tomb

Artifact

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Angel's Tomb become a 3/3 white Angel artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"Faith can quicken the stones themselves with life."
-Writings of Mikaeus

Angel's Trumpet

Artifact

All creatures have vigilance.

At the beginning of each player's end step, tap all untapped creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Angel's Trumpet deals damage to the player equal to the number of creatures tapped this way.

Angelheart Vial

Artifact

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many charge counters on Angelheart Vial.

, , Remove four charge counters from Angelheart Vial: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

It holds a whisper from Iona: "Persevere."

Angelic Armaments

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and is a white Angel in addition to its other colors and types.

Equip

Forged in dark hours from the flame that would not die.

Ankh of Mishra

Artifact

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

Anodet Lurker

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Anodet Lurker dies, you gain 3 life.

These machines build fearsome visages out of scrap metal to scare off predators who would otherwise be eager to consume them.

Antler Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

: Target white creature 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.)

Every skull has a tale to tell, and a skulkin is many dire tales cobbled together.

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.

Anvilwrought Raptor

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

"I know its lightness, for I have seen it fly. I know its weight, for I have seen it strike."
-Brigone, soldier of Meletis

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

Arachnoid

Artifact Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It follows the green sun over Mirrodin's surface, spinning massive webs of whispersilk as it goes.

Arcane Spyglass

Artifact

, , Sacrifice a land: Draw a card and put a charge counter on Arcane Spyglass.

Remove three charge counters from Arcane Spyglass: Draw a card.

It breaches not physical distances but temporal ones.

Arcbound Bruiser

Artifact Creature - Golem

Modular 3 (This enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Break in case of emergency.

Arcbound Crusher

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Trample

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Crusher.

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Fiend

Artifact Creature - Horror

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto Arcbound Fiend.

Modular 3 (This enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Hybrid

Artifact Creature - Beast

Haste

Modular 2 (This enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Lancer

Artifact Creature - Beast

First strike

Modular 4 (This enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Overseer

Artifact Creature - Golem

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature with modular you control.

Modular 6 (This enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Ravager

Artifact Creature - Beast

Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager.

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Reclaimer

Artifact Creature - Golem

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Arcbound Reclaimer: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Modular 2 (This enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Slith

Artifact Creature - Slith

Whenever Arcbound Slith deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Stinger

Artifact Creature - Insect

Flying

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Wanderer

Artifact Creature - Golem

Modular-Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Worker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

The parts are as strong as the whole.

Architects of Will

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

When Architects of Will enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

This secret society of mages manipulates the beliefs and opinions of others.

Arcum's Sleigh

Artifact

, : Target creature gains vigilance until end of turn. Activate this ability only during combat and only if defending player controls a snow land.

"With the proper equipment and caution, one can travel anywhere."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Arcum's Weathervane

Artifact

, : Target snow land is no longer snow.

, : Target nonsnow basic land becomes snow.

Arcum's Whistle

Artifact

, : Choose target non-Wall creature the active player has controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn. That player may pay , where X is that creature's converted mana cost. If he or she doesn't, the creature attacks this turn if able, and at the beginning of the next end step, destroy it if it didn't attack. Activate this ability only before attackers are declared.

Arena of the Ancients

Artifact

Legendary creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

When Arena of the Ancients enters the battlefield, tap all legendary creatures.

Argentum Armor

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +6/+6.

Whenever equipped creature attacks, destroy target permanent.

Equip

Mirrodin's creator still lives, still shapes metal, and still commands world-shaking power.

Ark of Blight

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Ark of Blight: Destroy target land.

When opened, it erases entire landscapes from minds and maps.

Armageddon Clock

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on Armageddon Clock.

At the beginning of your draw step, Armageddon Clock deals damage equal to the number of doom counters on it to each player.

: Remove a doom counter from Armageddon Clock. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.

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.

Armored Transport

Artifact Creature - Construct

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Armored Transport by creatures blocking it.

"If only our jails were as secure."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Armory of Iroas

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Equip

From a distance the weapons look pristine, but in fact they are tarnished and dented, each as unique as the champion who carried it to battle.

Arsenal Thresher

Artifact Creature - Construct

As Arsenal Thresher enters the battlefield, you may reveal any number of other artifact cards from your hand. Arsenal Thresher enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each card revealed this way.

Ashes of the Fallen

Artifact

As Ashes of the Fallen enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Each creature card in your graveyard has the chosen creature type in addition to its other types.

The ashes of the dead mingle with the soil, and both become as one.

Ashnod's Altar

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add to your mana pool.

The Brothers' War scarred the land, but Ashnod left her mark in the bloodlines of those she tortured.

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.

Ashnod's Coupon

Artifact

, Sacrifice Ashnod's Coupon: Target player gets you target drink.

Errata: You pay any costs for the drink.

Limited time offer. Void where prohibited. Limit one per purchase. Valid only in participating duels. This coupon is nontransferable and invalid if shattered, crumbled, detonated, pillaged, or otherwise disenchanted. Cash value less than 1/20 of a cent. Offer not valid in Quebec, Rhode Island, or where prohibited by law or the DCI.

Ashnod's Cylix

Artifact

, : Target player looks at the top three cards of his or her library, puts one of them back on top of his or her library, then exiles the rest.

Few remember that Ashnod's defilement of Terisiare's resources outstripped even that of her peers.

Ashnod's Transmogrant

Artifact

, Sacrifice Ashnod's Transmogrant: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonartifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she offered.

Assault Suit

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or a planeswalker you control, and can't be sacrificed.

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it.

Equip

Assembly Hall

Artifact

, : Reveal a creature card in your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Assembly-Worker

Artifact Creature - Assembly-Worker

: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

With their factories long destroyed, some of Mishra's creations still toil in remote areas, endlessly performing and reperforming their last orders.

Astral Cornucopia

Artifact

Astral Cornucopia enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color to your mana pool for each charge counter on Astral Cornucopia.

Astrolabe

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Astrolabe: Add two mana of any one color to your mana pool. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Atarka Monument

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Atarka Monument becomes a 4/4 red and green Dragon artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Atarka is worshipped and fed by her subjects at Ayagor, the Dragon's Bowl.

Auriok Replica

Artifact Creature - Cleric

, Sacrifice Auriok Replica: Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal to you this turn.

All the loyalty of the Auriok with only a trace of their self-righteousness.

Auriok Siege Sled

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

: Target artifact creature blocks Auriok Siege Sled this turn if able.

: Target artifact creature can't block Auriok Siege Sled this turn.

Everything in its path is either pushed aside or ground under.

Avacyn's Collar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has vigilance.

Whenever equipped creature dies, if it was a Human, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Equip

Avarice Amulet

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has vigilance and "At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card."

When equipped creature dies, target opponent gains control of Avarice Amulet.

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

Designed by Penny Arcade

Avarice Totem

Artifact

: Exchange control of Avarice Totem and target nonland permanent.

Souls and steel, the essence of Mirrodin. Memnarch lacks one but has an abundance of the other.

Azorius Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Azorius Cluestone: Draw a card.

Its three sides represent the Sova, judges and arbitrators; the Jelenn, scribes and elocutors; and the Lyev, lawmages and enforcers.

Azorius Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"The higher the mind soars, the greater its understanding of the law."
-Isperia

Azorius Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law-strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Æther Searcher

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reveal Æther Searcher as you draft it. Reveal the next card you draft and note its name.

When Æther Searcher enters the battlefield, you may search your hand and/or library for a card with a name noted as you drafted cards named Æther Searcher. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you searched your library this way, shuffle it.

Æther Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Æther Vial

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Æther Vial.

: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Æther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

Baku Altar

Artifact

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Baku Altar.

, , Remove a ki counter from Baku Altar: Put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

Baleful Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, deathtouch

When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Balm of Restoration

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Balm of Restoration: Choose one - You gain 2 life; or prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"Not all armies enjoyed the services of a medic. For them, Balm of Restoration was that much more valuable."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. I

Banshee's Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Banshee's Blade.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put a charge counter on Banshee's Blade.

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.)

Barbed Battlegear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/-1.

Equip

"One need only look at the inhabitants of this world to see that they are forged halfway to perfection. All they need is a whisper of the Glorious Word."
-Urabrask the Hidden

Barbed Sextant

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Barbed Sextant: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Barbed Wire

Artifact

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

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt by Barbed Wire this turn.

A steel snake with ten thousand teeth.

Bargaining Table

Artifact

, : Draw a card. X is the number of cards in an opponent's hand.

Although it looks like a game, business around the table is deadly serious.