Sands of Time

Artifact

Each player skips his or her untap step.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player simultaneously untaps each tapped artifact, creature, and land he or she controls and taps each untapped artifact, creature, and land he or she controls.

"But once, with a magician's help, Time was stopped and Day stood still."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Triangle of War

Artifact

, Sacrifice Triangle of War: Choose target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls. Those creatures fight each other. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The Zhalfirin war triangle represents a trinity of might, faith, and guile.

Bösium Strip

Artifact

, : Until end of turn, if the top card of your graveyard is an instant or sorcery card, you may cast that card. If a card cast this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Bubble Matrix

Artifact

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures.

"This device was commisioned by a king who desired peace. Unfortunately, the royal artificer was also the king's jester."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Chimeric Sphere

Artifact

: Until end of turn, Chimeric Sphere becomes a 2/1 Construct artifact creature with flying.

: Until end of turn, Chimeric Sphere becomes a 3/2 Construct artifact creature without flying.

Dingus Staff

Artifact

Whenever a creature dies, Dingus Staff deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.

"A sharp conscience is the weapon of the soul."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

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.)

Mana Web

Artifact

Whenever a land an opponent controls is tapped for mana, tap all lands that player controls that could produce any type of mana that land could produce.

Null Rod

Artifact

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Gerrard: "But it doesn't do anything!"
Hanna: "No-it does nothing."

Phyrexian Furnace

Artifact

: Exile the bottom card of target player's graveyard.

, Sacrifice Phyrexian Furnace: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Thran Forge

Artifact

: Until end of turn, target nonartifact creature gets +1/+0 and becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

"This will work," Gerrard called to the elves as he used the forge to strengthen the aboroth, "but if it doesn't, we won't survive to care."

Thran Tome

Artifact

, : Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent chooses one of those cards. Put that card into your graveyard, then draw two cards.

Every line holds a tale, and between lie a thousand more.

Touchstone

Artifact

: Tap target artifact you don't control.

"One touch to the stone and the sidar's son turned me from stalwart to statue."
-Karn, silver golem

Well of Knowledge

Artifact

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

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

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

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.

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.

Echo Chamber

Artifact

, : An opponent chooses target creature he or she controls. Put a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. That token gains haste until end of turn. Exile the token at the beginning of the next end step. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Emerald Medallion

Artifact

Green spells you cast cost less to cast.

Emmessi Tome

Artifact

, : Draw two cards, then discard a card.

It is like life and destiny: we think we know the story, but we have read only half the tale.

Essence Bottle

Artifact

, : Put an elixir counter on Essence Bottle.

, Remove all elixir counters from Essence Bottle: You gain 2 life for each elixir counter removed this way.

Excavator

Artifact

, Sacrifice a basic land: Target creature gains landwalk of each of the land types of the sacrificed land until end of turn.

Fool's Tome

Artifact

, : Draw a card. Activate this ability only if you have no cards in hand.

Squee: "What's that?"
Ertai: "It's a magical book."
Squee: "Am I smart enough ta use it?"
Ertai: "You could say that."

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

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.

Jet Medallion

Artifact

Black spells you cast cost less to cast.

Lotus Petal

Artifact

, Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"Hard to imagine," mused Hanna, stroking the petal, "such a lovely flower inspiring such greed."

Magnetic Web

Artifact

If a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them attack if able.

Whenever a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them block that creature this turn if able.

, : Put a magnet counter on target creature.

Mogg Cannon

Artifact

: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains flying until end of turn. Destroy that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Moggs never volunteer for anything twice.

Pearl Medallion

Artifact

White spells you cast cost less to cast.

Phyrexian Grimoire

Artifact

, : Target opponent chooses one of the top two cards of your graveyard. Exile that card and put the other one into your hand.

Every page cost a life; every secret cost a thousand more.

Phyrexian Splicer

Artifact

, : Choose one - flying; first strike; shadow; or trample. Target creature with that ability loses it until end of turn and another target creature gains it until end of turn.

Puppet Strings

Artifact

, : You may tap or untap target creature.

"Have no illusions," Volrath warned Greven, "about free will."

Ruby Medallion

Artifact

Red spells you cast cost less to cast.

Sapphire Medallion

Artifact

Blue spells you cast cost less to cast.

Scalding Tongs

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have three or fewer cards in hand, Scalding Tongs deals 1 damage to target opponent.

"This has nothing to do with what you know and everything to do with what I wish."
-Volrath

Scroll Rack

Artifact

, : Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Squee's Toy

Artifact

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

As the horrors closed in on Gerrard, Squee trembled and clutched his toy for comfort. He didn't know where it came from or why it was so warm, but he was glad he'd kept it near.

Thumbscrews

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have five or more cards in hand, Thumbscrews deals 1 damage to target opponent.

"We will start small, I think."
-Volrath

Torture Chamber

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pain counter on Torture Chamber.

At the beginning of your end step, Torture Chamber deals damage to you equal to the number of pain counters on it.

, , Remove all pain counters from Torture Chamber: Torture Chamber deals damage to target creature equal to the number of pain counters removed this way.

Bullwhip

Artifact

, : Bullwhip deals 1 damage to target creature. That creature attacks this turn if able.

"Pain is a crude way to enforce obedience, but it is cheap and plentiful."
-Volrath

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

Horn of Greed

Artifact

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

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

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.

Jinxed Ring

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, Jinxed Ring deals 1 damage to you.

Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of Jinxed Ring. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Mox Diamond

Artifact

If Mox Diamond would enter the battlefield, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put Mox Diamond onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

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

Portcullis

Artifact

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if there are two or more other creatures on the battlefield, exile that creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control when Portcullis leaves the battlefield.

Sword of the Chosen

Legendary Artifact

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

One shard of Selenia yet remained.

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.

Erratic Portal

Artifact

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

"In Barrin's name!" cried Lyna as Hanna's sword passed through her, "Ertai sends word that the portal is open-but not for long!"

Medicine Bag

Artifact

, , Discard a card: Regenerate target creature.

"My medicine bag and I have treated countless wounds and illnesses. But never have I seen so many made so sick for so long. We will never eat Squee's cooking again."
-Orim, journal

Memory Crystal

Artifact

Buyback costs cost less.

Hues of recollection flicker like facets of a gem.

Null Brooch

Artifact

, , Discard your hand: Counter target noncreature spell.

Give away everything so others have nothing.
-Brooch inscription

Skyshaper

Artifact

Sacrifice Skyshaper: Creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

"It'll get us to the portal, but I can't guarantee what it'll do to the ship."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Sphere of Resistance

Artifact

Spells cost more to cast.

A sphere pushes equally in all directions.

Barrin's Codex

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on Barrin's Codex.

, , Sacrifice Barrin's Codex: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on Barrin's Codex.

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.

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.

Dragon Blood

Artifact

, : Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Fire in the blood, fire in the belly.

Endoskeleton

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Endoskeleton during your untap step.

, : Target creature gets +0/+3 for as long as Endoskeleton remains tapped.

Fluctuator

Artifact

Cycling abilities you activate cost you up to less to activate.

Fiko summoned only atogs for three straight sessions. The tutor couldn't decide whether to punish his failure or praise his consistency.

Lifeline

Artifact

Whenever a creature dies, if another creature is on the battlefield, return the first card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Lotus Blossom

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on Lotus Blossom.

, Sacrifice Lotus Blossom: Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is the number of petal counters on Lotus Blossom.

Metrognome

Artifact

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Metrognome, put four 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield.

, : Put a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Mishra's Helix

Artifact

, : Tap X target lands.

The helix was the finest example of Mishra's campaign strategy: if he couldn't have Argoth, no one could.

Noetic Scales

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, return to its owner's hand each creature that player controls with power greater than the number of cards in his or her hand.

Phyrexian Processor

Artifact

As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life.

, : Put an X/X black Minion creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.

Purging Scythe

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, Purging Scythe deals 2 damage to the creature with the least toughness. If two or more creatures are tied for least toughness, you choose one of them.

Smokestack

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on Smokestack.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent for each soot counter on Smokestack.

Temporal Aperture

Artifact

, : Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. Until end of turn, for as long as that card remains on top of your library, play with the top card of your library revealed and you may play that card without paying its mana cost. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)

Thran Turbine

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may add or to your mana pool. You can't spend this mana to cast spells.

When Urza asked the viashino what it did, they answered: "It hums."

Umbilicus

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns a permanent he or she controls to its owner's hand unless he or she pays 2 life.

It was the explorers' only tether to reality.

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

Worn Powerstone

Artifact

Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

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.

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.

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.

Grim Monolith

Artifact

Grim Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add to your mana pool.

: Untap Grim Monolith.

Part prison, part home.

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.

Memory Jar

Artifact

, Sacrifice Memory Jar: Each player exiles all cards from his or her hand face down and draws seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, each player discards his or her hand and returns to his or her hand each card he or she exiled this way.

Ring of Gix

Artifact

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

, : Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Not every cage is made of bars.

Scrapheap

Artifact

Whenever an artifact or enchantment is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Junk heaps have rats, but scrapheaps have goblins.

Thran Lens

Artifact

All permanents are colorless.

"Every device in the rig is evidence of Thran enlightenment. All mana was the same to them, whether from rock or water, growth or decay. Can you imagine such unity of vision?"
-Urza, journal

Thran Weaponry

Artifact

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

You may choose not to untap Thran Weaponry during your untap step.

, : All creatures get +2/+2 for as long as Thran Weaponry remains tapped.

Urza's Blueprints

Artifact

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

: Draw a card.

From concept to paper to reality.

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."

Braidwood Cup

Artifact

: You gain 1 life.

"I think it no accident that every civilized people has discovered the art of distillation."
-Rofellos of Llanowar

Braidwood Sextant

Artifact

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

Powder Keg

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Powder Keg.

, Sacrifice Powder Keg: Destroy each artifact and creature with converted mana cost equal to the number of fuse counters on Powder Keg.

Scrying Glass

Artifact

, : Choose a number greater than 0 and a color. Target opponent reveals his or her hand. If that opponent reveals exactly the chosen number of cards of the chosen color, you draw a card.

Thran Dynamo

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Thran Foundry

Artifact

, , Exile Thran Foundry: Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.

"What we do not use up, we use again."
-Urza

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

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.

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.

Credit Voucher

Artifact

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

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.

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.