Jade Statue

Artifact

: Jade Statue becomes a 3/6 Golem artifact creature until end of combat. Activate this ability only during combat.

"The paradox of jade statues is that their victims never really expect attack, but they are never completely surprised either."
-Kabel, Tolarian archivist

Jade Monolith

Artifact

: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Jade Idol

Artifact

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, Jade Idol becomes a 4/4 Spirit artifact creature until end of turn.

Before the Kami War, the shishi were symbolic guardians, protecting the shrines where they stood. But after the kami turned on the material world, shishi began pouncing from their perches to attack would-be supplicants.

Jabari's Banner

Artifact

, : Target creature gains flanking until end of turn. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

Izzet Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Izzet Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Until end of turn, Izzet Keyrune becomes a 2/1 blue and red Elemental artifact creature.

Whenever Izzet Keyrune deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Izzet Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Izzet Cluestone: Draw a card.

It holds within it an unsolvable riddle. A creative answer yields an invitation to the guild.

Ivory Tower

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge.

Ivory Cup

Artifact

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

Ivory Crane Netsuke

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have seven or more cards in hand, you gain 4 life.

It is said that the feathers of a crane are clouds, plucked and sewn together by the hands of the kami.

Isolation Cell

Artifact

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, that player loses 2 life unless he or she pays .

"Attrition is the answer. Starve them, and let their despair be their undoing."
-Sheoldred, Whispering One

Isochron Scepter

Artifact

Imprint - When Isochron Scepter enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your hand.

, : You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

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.)

Iron Star

Artifact

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

Iron Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like rusted metal: gleaming purpose hidden by a thin disguise of debris.

Iron Maiden

Artifact

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

The maiden is a jealous lover.

Iron Lance

Artifact

, : Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"The only way to get Mercadians to fight on the front lines is to give them really long weapons."
-Gerrard

Insatiable Souleater

Artifact Creature - Beast

: Insatiable Souleater gains trample until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for culling our sick so that the strong may earn their triumphs."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Inquisitor's Flail

Artifact - Equipment

If equipped creature would deal combat damage, it deals double that damage instead.

If another creature would deal combat damage to equipped creature, it deals double that damage to equipped creature instead.

Equip

Inkwell Leviathan

Artifact Creature - Leviathan

Islandwalk, trample, shroud

"Into its maw went the seventh sea, never to be seen again while the world remains."
-Esper fable

Infused Arrows

Artifact

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

, Remove X charge counters from Infused Arrows: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Infinite Hourglass

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on Infinite Hourglass.

All creatures get +1/+0 for each time counter on Infinite Hourglass.

: Remove a time counter from Infinite Hourglass. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.

Infiltration Lens

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards.

Equip

Neurok spies carry devices that let them look a few moments into the future, giving them an almost insurmountable edge.

Implements of Sacrifice

Artifact

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

Relics of the Order of the Ebon Hand, the bowl and dagger bespeak the hideous cruelty of its rituals.

Immortal Coil

Artifact

, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draw a card.

If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. Exile a card from your graveyard for each 1 damage prevented this way.

When there are no cards in your graveyard, you lose the game.

Immolating Souleater

Artifact Creature - Hound

: Immolating Souleater gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for melting the sinful that we may be reminded of our own insignificance."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Imi Statue

Artifact

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

"Just looking at it fills me with dread . . . . Yet since it arrived, I've done little else. My blades have dulled and my business has failed, and still I cannot look away."
-Keisaku, master swordmaker

Illusionist's Bracers

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Equip

It's easy to believe you're a god when you're twice as powerful as everyone else.

Illusionary Mask

Artifact

: You may choose a creature card in your hand whose mana cost could be paid by some amount of, or all of, the mana you spent on . If you do, you may cast that card face down as a 2/2 creature spell without paying its mana cost. If the creature that spell becomes as it resolves has not been turned face up and would assign or deal damage, be dealt damage, or become tapped, instead it's turned face up and assigns or deals damage, is dealt damage, or becomes tapped. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Illuminated Folio

Artifact

, , Reveal two cards from your hand that share a color: Draw a card.

Most such relics remain clasped shut for fear of what ominous truths might be carved into the diptych inside.

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

Icy Manipulator

Artifact

, : Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

In fire there is the spark of chaos and destruction, the seed of life. In ice there is perfect tranquility, perfect order, and the silence of death.

Ichorclaw Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

Whenever Ichorclaw Myr becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Ichor Wellspring

Artifact

When Ichor Wellspring enters the battlefield or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Our glorious infection has taken hold."
-Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Ice Cauldron

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Ice Cauldron and exile a nonland card from your hand. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled. Note the type and amount of mana spent to pay this activation cost. Activate this ability only if there are no charge counters on Ice Cauldron.

, Remove a charge counter from Ice Cauldron: Add Ice Cauldron's last noted type and amount of mana to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast the last card exiled with Ice Cauldron.

Howling Mine

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

The mine's riches never end, nor do the moans of the spirits doomed to haunt them.

Hovermyr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Flying, vigilance

Originally created to harvest blinkmoths, the hovermyr are now the silent observers of a dying world.

Hot Soup

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can't be blocked.

Whenever equipped creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

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

"Comin' through!"
Designed by James Ernest

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.

Hornet Cannon

Artifact

, : Put a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying and haste named Hornet onto the battlefield. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

Horned Helm

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.

: Attach Horned Helm to target creature you control.

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

Horn of Ramos

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sacrifice Horn of Ramos: Add to your mana pool.

Ramos touched, and there was life.

Horn of Plenty

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a spell, he or she may pay . If that player does, he or she draws a card at the beginning of the next end step.

"This horn is an exact replica of the fabled Horn of Ramos, except mine is more lavish."
-Mercadian magistrate

Horn of Greed

Artifact

Whenever a player plays a land, that player draws a card.

"Rath grows, and I am nourished."
-Volrath

Horn of Deafening

Artifact

, : Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn.

"A blast, an echo . . . then silence."

Horizon Spellbomb

Artifact

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

When Horizon Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Hopping Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Hopping Automaton gets -1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Designed to carry equipment across rivers, the hopping automaton was soon pressed into service in the infantry.

Hoof Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

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

It hunts with the memory of a long lost herd.

Honor-Worn Shaku

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Tap an untapped legendary permanent you control: Untap Honor-Worn Shaku.

Before being presented to its lord, each shaku is blessed by every hero of every region within that lord's domain.

Hollow Warrior

Artifact Creature - Golem Warrior

Hollow Warrior can't attack or block unless you tap an untapped creature you control not declared as an attacking or blocking creature this combat.

Though it moves like a living thing, anyone can tell it lacks a soul-not to mention mercy.

Hivestone

Artifact

Creatures you control are Slivers in addition to their other creature types.

Rath's evincars used hivestones to control the slivers, but the overlay put their power into unwitting hands. Now the stones make not masters, but slaves.

Hexplate Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

"Use everything. Iron, rust, scrap . . . even the ground must join our cause."
-Ezuri, renegade leader

Hex Parasite

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, Hex Parasite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Drawn by power, fueled by conquest.

Hewed Stone Retainers

Artifact Creature - Golem

Cast Hewed Stone Retainers only if you've cast another spell this turn.

"Their origins are shrouded in mystery. I believe they are the protectors of the lost secrets of our world."
-Jilaya, Temur whisperer

Heroes' Podium

Legendary Artifact

Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other legendary creature you control.

, : Look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal a legendary creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Hero's Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+2.

Whenever a legendary creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may attach Hero's Blade to it.

Equip

The best swords are forged with dragonfire.

Herbal Poultice

Artifact

, Sacrifice Herbal Poultice: Regenerate target creature.

"Apply orange leaf to a wound at dawn to clean it, at dusk to prevent the same injury from happening again."
-Kithkin superstition

Henge Guardian

Artifact Creature - Dragon Wurm

: Henge Guardian gains trample until end of turn.

Like so many Thran relics, the wurm engine kept operating long after its creators were gone.

Hematite Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Hematite Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Hematite Golem gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Helvault

Legendary Artifact

, : Exile target creature you control.

, : Exile target creature you don't control.

When Helvault is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Helm of Possession

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Helm of Possession during your untap step.

, , Sacrifice a creature: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Helm of Possession and Helm of Possession remains tapped.

Helm of Obedience

Artifact

, : Target opponent puts cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard until a creature card or X cards are put into that graveyard this way, whichever comes first. If a creature card is put into that graveyard this way, sacrifice Helm of Obedience and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. X can't be 0.

Helm of Kaldra

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste.

: If you control Equipment named Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, and Shield of Kaldra, put a legendary 4/4 colorless Avatar creature token named Kaldra onto the battlefield and attach those Equipment to it.

Equip

Helm of Chatzuk

Artifact

, : Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Helm of Awakening

Artifact

Spells cost less to cast.

"This little prize will cover your head, your spells, your bets, and your behind!"
-Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader

Heliophial

Artifact

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

, Sacrifice Heliophial: Heliophial deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to target creature or player.

Hedron Scrabbler

Artifact Creature - Construct

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Hedron Scrabbler gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"I don't care when the hedrons awoke. Why is the question that really matters."
-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Hedron Rover

Artifact Creature - Construct

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

"Now that it has woken up and wandered off, we should go see what it was guarding."
-Gotzen, Bulwark explorer

Hedron Matrix

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is its converted mana cost.

Equip

The hedrons awoke along with the Eldrazi, forming superstructures that radiated overwhelming magic.

Hedron Crawler

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Add {C} to your mana pool. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

"It's endearing, in a mystical, pointy sort of way."
-General Tazri, allied commander

Hedron Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by one or more colorless creatures, it gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

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

Hedron Archive

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned.""And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Heavy Mattock

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

As long as equipped creature is a Human, it gets an additional +1/+1.

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

Heavy Arbalest

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Equipped creature has ": This creature deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

Equip

Heartwood Shard

Artifact

, or , : Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Heartstone

Artifact

Activated abilities of creatures cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the amount of mana an ability costs to activate to less than one mana.

"Finding a true heartstone is even harder than finding a true heart."
-Hanna

Heartseeker

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+1 and has ", Unattach Heartseeker: Destroy target 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.)

Heart-Piercer Bow

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, Heart-Piercer Bow deals 1 damage to target creature defending player controls.

Equip

Designed by an ancient artificer, the finest Mardu bows are carved from dragon bone and strung with the wind itself.

Heart of Ramos

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sacrifice Heart of Ramos: Add to your mana pool.

Ramos bled, and there was fire.

Heap Doll

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Sacrifice Heap Doll: Exile target card from a graveyard.

"I know one night it won't come back. Then I'll know it's truly done its job."
-Braenna, cobblesmith

Healer's Headdress

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has ": Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn."

: Attach Healer's Headdress to target creature you control.

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

Haunted Plate Mail

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+4.

: Until end of turn, Haunted Plate Mail becomes a 4/4 Spirit artifact creature that's no longer an Equipment. Activate this ability only if you control no creatures.

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

Haunted Guardian

Artifact Creature - Construct

Defender, first strike

"Drain the victim's blood, sell the corpse, and use the soul on guard duty. No muss, no fuss, no problems."
-Olivia Voldaren

Hankyu

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": Put an aim counter on Hankyu" and ", Remove all aim counters from Hankyu: This creature deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of aim counters removed this way."

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

Hammer of Ruin

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target Equipment that player controls.

Equip

By hammer forged, and by hammer undone.

Hall of Triumph

Legendary Artifact

As Hall of Triumph enters the battlefield, choose a color.

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

Heroes act without thought of glory or reward. Accolades are a consequence, not a goal.

Hair-Strung Koto

Artifact

Tap an untapped creature you control: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"The Kami War drove many members of Konda's court insane. As their spiritual world turned against them, so too did their minds turn from reality."
-The History of Kamigawa

Gustha's Scepter

Artifact

: Exile a card from your hand face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled.

: Return a card you own exiled with Gustha's Scepter to your hand.

When you lose control of Gustha's Scepter, put all cards exiled with Gustha's Scepter into their owner's graveyard.

Gust-Skimmer

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Gust-Skimmer gains flying until end of turn.

Phyrexian smog clouds choked the skies, threatening creatures who couldn't comprehend the menace below.

Guardians of Meletis

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender

The histories speak of two feuding rulers whose deaths were celebrated and whose monuments symbolized the end of their wars. In truth they were peaceful lovers, their story lost to the ages.

Guardian of the Ages

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, if Guardian of the Ages has defender, it loses defender and gains trample.

"At my feet, invasions end."-Statue inscription

Guardian Idol

Artifact

Guardian Idol enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

: Guardian Idol becomes a 2/2 Golem artifact creature until end of turn.

Gruul War Plow

Artifact

Creatures you control have trample.

: Gruul War Plow becomes a 4/4 Juggernaut artifact creature until end of turn.

Gruul Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Gruul Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Gruul Keyrune becomes a 3/2 red and green Beast artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

As perilous and unpredictable as the wilds themselves.

Gruul Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Gruul Cluestone: Draw a card.

Forgotten under rocks and vines, Gruul symbols mark the sites of primitive rituals where shamans once chanted to the wild.

Grinning Totem

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Grinning Totem: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles his or her library. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you haven't played it, put it into its owner's graveyard.

Grindstone

Artifact

, : Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If both cards share a color, repeat this process.

"Memory is a burden that wears at the soul as weather wears at stone."
-Crovax

Grinding Station

Artifact

, Sacrifice an artifact: Target player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may untap Grinding Station.