Chariot of Victory

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste.

Equip

The greatest heroes are the first to stand, the first to take up arms, and the first to meet the enemy.

Deserter's Quarters

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Deserter's Quarters during your untap step.

, : Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Deserter's Quarters remains tapped.

In Akros, the penalty for running from battle is one night's stay in the Deserter's Quarters.

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.

Coercive Portal

Artifact

Will of the council - At the beginning of your upkeep, starting with you, each player votes for carnage or homage. If carnage gets more votes, sacrifice Coercive Portal and destroy all nonland permanents. If homage gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw a card.

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

Brawler's Plate

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to defending player or planeswalker while attacking.)

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

The Chain Veil

Legendary Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't activate a loyalty ability of a planeswalker this turn, you lose 2 life.

, : For each planeswalker you control, you may activate one of its loyalty abilities once this turn as though none of its loyalty abilities have been activated this turn.

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

Meteorite

Artifact

When Meteorite enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

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

"And if I'm lying," he began . . .

Obelisk of Urd

Artifact

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.)

As Obelisk of Urd enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2.

Perilous Vault

Artifact

, , Exile Perilous Vault: Exile all nonland permanents.

The spirit dragon Ugin arranged the hedrons of Zendikar to direct leylines of energy. To disrupt one is to unleash devastation and chaos.

Profane Memento

Artifact

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.

"An angel's skull is left too plain by death. I made a few aesthetic modifications."
-Dommique, blood artist

Rogue's Gloves

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

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

Professional pilferers prefer proper preparation.

Sacred Armory

Artifact

: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Arrive for worship. Leave for war.

Shield of the Avatar

Artifact - Equipment

If a source would deal damage to equipped creature, prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of creatures you control.

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

We are made stronger by those we fight for.
Designed by Richard Garriott

Tyrant's Machine

Artifact

, : Tap target creature.

"Though tempered differently, all wills can be broken."
-Inquisitor Kyrik

Abzan Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Abzan Banner: Draw a card.

Stone to endure, roots to remember.

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.

Briber's Purse

Artifact

Briber's Purse enters the battlefield with X gem counters on it.

, , Remove a gem counter from Briber's Purse: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.

Victory is certain. The price, negotiable.

Cranial Archive

Artifact

, Exile Cranial Archive: Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library. Draw a card.

The greatest idea the zombie ever had in its head wasn't even its own.

Dragon Throne of Tarkir

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has defender and ", : Other creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power."

Equip

What once soared high above Tarkir is now reduced to a seat.

Ghostfire Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

Equip

Ghostfire Blade's equip ability costs less to activate if it targets a colorless creature.

If you fear the dragon's fire, you are unworthy to wield it.

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.

Jeskai Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Jeskai Banner: Draw a card.

Discipline to persevere, insight to discover.

Lens of Clarity

Artifact

You may look at the top card of your library and at face-down creatures you don't control. (You may do this at any time.)

"Water shifts and confuses, but as ice it holds the stillness of truth."
-Arel the Whisperer

Mardu Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Mardu Banner: Draw a card.

Speed to strike, fury to smash.

Sultai Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Sultai Banner: Draw a card.

Power to dominate, cruelty to rule.

Temur Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Temur Banner: Draw a card.

Savagery to survive, courage to triumph.

Ugin's Nexus

Legendary Artifact

If a player would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.

If Ugin's Nexus would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, instead exile it and take an extra turn after this one.

All at once Sarkhan's mind fell silent.

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

Commander's Sphere

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Crown of Doom

Artifact

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

: Target player other than Crown of Doom's owner gains control of it. Activate this ability only during your turn.

Every head it rests upon winds up severed.

Loreseeker's Stone

Artifact

, : Draw three cards. This ability costs more to activate for each card in your hand.

Mages come from far and wide to bathe in its wisdom.

Masterwork of Ingenuity

Artifact - Equipment

You may have Masterwork of Ingenuity enter the battlefield as a copy of any Equipment on the battlefield.

"The crucible yields what you have forged in your mind. You need only reach in and draw the masterwork forth."
-Wahara, Keeper of the Crucible

Unstable Obelisk

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

Its collapse is like the lashing out of a long-dead civilization that resents being forgotten.

Goblin Boom Keg

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Goblin Boom Keg.

When Goblin Boom Keg is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Dragonfire spawned many imitations. Some were more dramatic than others.

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.

Scroll of the Masters

Artifact

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a lore counter on Scroll of the Masters.

, : Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each lore counter on Scroll of the Masters.

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.

Dromoka Monument

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

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

Dromoka rules her clan from the Great Aerie atop Arashin, the central city of the Shifting Wastes.

Gate Smasher

Artifact - Equipment

Gate Smasher can be attached only to a creature with toughness 4 or greater.

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample.

Equip

Kolaghan Monument

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

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

Kolaghan has no lasting home, but her disciples leave relics to mark her conquests.

Ojutai Monument

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Ojutai Monument becomes a 4/4 white and blue Dragon artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Ojutai spends time at all his strongholds, but he most favors Cori Stronghold for his meditation.

Silumgar Monument

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Silumgar Monument becomes a 4/4 blue and black Dragon artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Silumgar dominates his clan from a fortress on the Marang River, where he rests upon piles of treasure.

Stormrider Rig

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may attach Stormrider Rig to it.

Equip

Tapestry of the Ages

Artifact

, : Draw a card. Activate this ability only if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn.

"Abzan, Jeskai, Sultai, Mardu, Temur-names lost to history, yet worthy of further study."
-Narset

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Pathway Arrows

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. If a colorless creature is dealt damage this way, tap it."

Equip

Also called "pathway stones," hedron shards can immobilize Eldrazi on contact.

Slab Hammer

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may return a land you control to its owner's hand. If you do, the creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Equip

Neither subtle nor pretty.

Captain's Claws

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature attacks, put a 1/1 white Kor Ally creature token onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Equip

Forged for victory in a time of despair.

Chitinous Cloak

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Equip

"If we're going to survive, we have to use every tool at our disposal. Especially the disgusting ones."
-Ryza, Oran-Rief scout

Seer's Lantern

Artifact

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

, : Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

A light to bring hope in dark times.

Stoneforge Masterwork

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

Equip

The nomadic kor carry only necessities on their long treks. The coming of the Eldrazi redefined "necessities."

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

Narstad Scrapper

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Narstad Scrapper gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Finally, the principles of corpse animation applied to bloodless materials!"
-Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Chronomaton

Artifact Creature - Golem

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

On the third night, the villagers destroyed their clocks. The sounds of whirring gears and chiming metal held only dread for them.

Phyrexian Hulk

Artifact Creature - Golem

An invasion weapon of ages past, the glistening oil contained the blueprints of countless atrocities.

Primal Clay

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

As Primal Clay enters the battlefield, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)

Stuffy Doll

Artifact Creature - Construct

Indestructible

As Stuffy Doll enters the battlefield, choose a player.

Whenever Stuffy Doll is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to the chosen player.

: Stuffy Doll deals 1 damage to itself.

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.

Crumbling Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample (If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

When Crumbling Colossus attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

Pentavus

Artifact Creature - Construct

Pentavus enters the battlefield with five +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Pentavus: Put a 1/1 colorless Pentavite artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a Pentavite: Put a +1/+1 counter on Pentavus.

Rusted Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Golem

Rusted Sentinel enters the battlefield tapped.

It has to deliberate a moment on the best way to break your face.

Solemn Simulacrum

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Thran Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

As long as Thran Golem is enchanted, it gets +2/+2 and has flying, first strike, and trample.

The golems of the ancient Thran still draw power in ways that baffle the artificers of today.

Creepy Doll

Artifact Creature - Construct

Indestructible

Whenever Creepy Doll deals combat damage to a creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy that creature.

A child's porcelain doll went missing one night, as did a pair of kitchen shears and the town magistrate.

Galvanic Juggernaut

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Galvanic Juggernaut attacks each turn if able.

Galvanic Juggernaut doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever another creature dies, untap Galvanic Juggernaut.

Geistcatcher's Rig

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Geistcatcher's Rig enters the battlefield, you may have it deal 4 damage to target creature with flying.

The rigs were outlawed except in Nephalia, where malign spirits are as plentiful as crazed inventors.

Manor Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Defender

Manor Gargoyle has indestructible as long as it has defender.

: Until end of turn, Manor Gargoyle loses defender and gains flying.

Nothing could break it but the fall.

One-Eyed Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Defender

Creatures with flying your opponents control get -1/-0.

Farmhands and priests mutter curses at the ragged thing; it unnerves more than just the crows.

Street Sweeper

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Street Sweeper attacks, destroy all Auras attached to target land.

The sweepers roam endlessly, scrubbing away the refuse-and anything else too slow or too clumsy to get out of their way.

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.

Ethersworn Canonist

Artifact Creature - Human Cleric

Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.

"The noble work of our order is to infuse all life on Esper with etherium. Our goal will be reached more rapidly if new life is . . . suppressed."

Metallurgeon

Artifact Creature - Human Artificer

, : Regenerate target artifact.

"By the time I got there, the heart had stopped. Fortunately, I was able to replace it with something better."

Sanctum Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

When Sanctum Gargoyle enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

As their supplies of etherium dwindled, mechanists sent gargoyles farther and farther afield in search of salvage.

Cloudheath Drake

Artifact Creature - Drake

Flying

: Cloudheath Drake gains vigilance until end of turn.

A permanent storm rages over the plain of Cloudheath, and drakes ride its currents-two reminders that some elements of Esper will not be controlled.

Esper Battlemage

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

, : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

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

She can heal the flesh, or exploit its many weaknesses.

Etherium Sculptor

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Artificer

Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Filigree Sages

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

: Untap target artifact.

"We of the Sanctum Arcanum have pondered every word on every page of the Filigree Texts. If you can't say the same, don't bother speaking."

Master of Etherium

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Master of Etherium's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

"Only a mind unfettered with the concerns of the flesh can see the world as it truly is."

Sharding Sphinx

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may put a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Whether mechanical or biological, life finds a way to propagate itself.

Skill Borrower

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, Skill Borrower has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)

Sphinx's Herald

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, , Sacrifice a white creature, a blue creature, and a black creature: Search your library for a card named Sphinx Sovereign and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

He calls a riddle through the gaps of cloven clouds, hoping for an answer.

Steelclad Serpent

Artifact Creature - Serpent

Steelclad Serpent can't attack unless you control another artifact.

"From the highest towers to the deepest sea, all life must be touched by etherium."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

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.

Glaze Fiend

Artifact Creature - Illusion

Flying

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Glaze Fiend gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Before the zealots of the Ethersworn came to power, Esper illusionists dreamed up creations to mimic a variety of substances.

Puppet Conjurer

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

, : Put a 0/1 blue Homunculus artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Homunculus.

He scowls at his imperfect creation, then crushes it to scrap. He salvages the etherium and begins anew.

Salvage Titan

Artifact Creature - Golem

You may sacrifice three artifacts rather than pay Salvage Titan's mana cost.

Exile three artifact cards from your graveyard: Return Salvage Titan from your graveyard to your hand.

Sharuum the Hegemon

Legendary Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sharuum the Hegemon enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

To gain audience with the hegemon, one must bring a riddle she has not heard.

Sphinx Sovereign

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.

"What rises without legs, whispers without a voice, bites without teeth, and dies without having life?"

Thoughtcutter Agent

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

, : Target player loses 1 life and reveals his or her hand.

Agents of the Architects of Will mark their victims as a reminder that their secrets are secret no longer.

Tidehollow Sculler

Artifact Creature - Zombie

When Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.

When Tidehollow Sculler leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Tidehollow Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

The scullers beneath Esper keep strixes as trained pets, and set them loose when a fare refuses to pay.

Tower Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

"Esper, like any work of art, can be truly appreciated only from a distance."
-Tezzeret

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.

Junk Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Junk Golem unless you remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

, Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on Junk Golem.

Limestone Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Limestone Golem: Target player draws a card.

Dwarves have been known to take pickaxes to their own creations, hoping to discover treasures within.