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.

Sculpting Steel

Artifact

You may have Sculpting Steel enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Scuttlemutt

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

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

: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Built to shuttle goods from the river, it took off one day carrying a cauldron of dyes.

Scuttling Doom Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

Scuttling Doom Engine can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

When Scuttling Doom Engine dies, it deals 6 damage to target opponent.

A masterwork of spite, inspired by madness.

Scythe of the Wretched

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control. Attach Scythe of the Wretched to that creature.

Equip

Seashell Cameo

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

"Today a seashell fell from the empty sky here in Kinymu, a hundred leagues from the sea. I'm torn-shall I carve a woman or a bird?"
-Isel, master carver

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.

Seer's Sundial

Artifact

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

"The shadow travels toward the apex. I predict we will soon see the true measure of darkness."

Selesnya Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Selesnya Cluestone: Draw a card.

"Break it if you must. The loss of one relic is nothing next to the value of enriching us all."
-Suniel the Woodwise

Selesnya Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Selesnya Keyrune becomes a 3/3 green and white Wolf artifact creature until end of turn.

A mark of unity when you want one; a fierce guardian when you need one.

Selesnya Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

The symbol of the Conclave is one of unity, with tree supporting sun and sun feeding tree.

Semblance Anvil

Artifact

Imprint - When Semblance Anvil enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonland card from your hand.

Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost less to cast.

Forged from what it forges.

Sen Triplets

Legendary Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target opponent. This turn, that player can't cast spells or activate abilities and plays with his or her hand revealed. You may play cards from that player's hand this turn.

They are the masters of your mind.

Sensei's Divining Top

Artifact

: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

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

Serpent Generator

Artifact

, : Put a 1/1 colorless Snake artifact creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter." (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Serrated Arrows

Artifact

Serrated Arrows enters the battlefield with three arrowhead counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no arrowhead counters on Serrated Arrows, sacrifice it.

, Remove an arrowhead counter from Serrated Arrows: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Serrated Biskelion

Artifact Creature - Construct

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

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

Serum Powder

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Any time you could mulligan and Serum Powder is in your hand, you may exile all the cards from your hand, then draw that many cards. (You can do this in addition to taking mulligans.)

Serum Tank

Artifact

Whenever Serum Tank or another artifact enters the battlefield, put a charge counter on Serum Tank.

, , Remove a charge counter from Serum Tank: Draw a card.

Shadowblood Egg

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Shadowblood Egg: Add to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"Does your passion for power consume your soul?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Shapeshifter

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

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

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

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

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.

Shardless Agent

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Sharpened Pitchfork

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike.

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

Equip

Not everyone can have a sword of blessed silver. Not everyone needs one, either.

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.

Shell of the Last Kappa

Legendary Artifact

, : Exile target instant or sorcery spell that targets you. (The spell has no effect.)

, , Sacrifice Shell of the Last Kappa: You may cast a card exiled with Shell of the Last Kappa without paying its mana cost.

Shell Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

: Target blue creature gains shroud until end of turn.

Skulkins confer strange benefits on unsuspecting patrons.

Shield of Kaldra

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipment named Sword of Kaldra, Shield of Kaldra, and Helm of Kaldra are indestructible.

Equipped creature is indestructible. ("Destroy" effects and lethal damage don't destroy it.)

Equip

Shield of the Ages

Artifact

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

"This shield is a true rarity: an artifact whose purpose is obvious."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

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

Shield of the Righteous

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has vigilance.

Whenever equipped creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Equip

Shield Sphere

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

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

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

Shifting Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

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

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

Shimmer Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Flash

You may cast artifact cards as though they had flash.

It evades Phyrexians by hiding in the spaces between seconds.

Shriekhorn

Artifact

Shriekhorn enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, Remove a charge counter from Shriekhorn: Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Shrine of Boundless Growth

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a green spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Boundless Growth.

, Sacrifice Shrine of Boundless Growth: Add to your mana pool for each charge counter on Shrine of Boundless Growth.

Shrine of Burning Rage

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a red spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Burning Rage.

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

Shrine of Limitless Power

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a black spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Limitless Power.

, , Sacrifice Shrine of Limitless Power: Target player discards a card for each charge counter on Shrine of Limitless Power.

Shrine of Loyal Legions

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a white spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Loyal Legions.

, , Sacrifice Shrine of Loyal Legions: Put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield for each charge counter on Shrine of Loyal Legions.

Shrine of Piercing Vision

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a blue spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Piercing Vision.

, Sacrifice Shrine of Piercing Vision: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of charge counters on Shrine of Piercing Vision. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Shuko

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

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

"One scratch on a wall meant safe passage, two that the target had already been raided, and three warned of a trap."
-Weaponry of Kamigawa

Shuriken

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", Unattach Shuriken: Shuriken deals 2 damage to target creature. That creature's controller gains control of Shuriken unless it was unattached from a Ninja."

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

Sickleslicer

Artifact - Equipment

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

Equip

Sigil of Distinction

Artifact - Equipment

Sigil of Distinction enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Sigil of Distinction.

Equip-Remove a charge counter from Sigil of Distinction.

Signal Pest

Artifact Creature - Pest

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)

Signal Pest can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

It leaps from tree to tree, revealing the enemy's positions.

Silent Arbiter

Artifact Creature - Construct

No more than one creature can attack each combat.

No more than one creature can block each combat.

Scholars say that arbiters exist on every world, created by an unknown hand to enforce justice.

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.

Silver Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like quicksilver: malleable in function and adaptable in form.

Silver-Inlaid Dagger

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

As long as equipped creature is a Human, it gets an additional +1/+0.

Equip

Magical etchings turned a whittler's tool into a wolfhunter's weapon.

Silverskin Armor

Artifact - Equipment

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

Equip

Partisan spies warned that no armor would protect the body from Phyrexian infection. Neurok strategists took that as a challenge.

Simic Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Simic Cluestone: Draw a card.

Simic symbols are among the most intricate and fragile, yet few vandalize them for fear of the strange lifeforms that might be released.

Simic Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Simic Keyrune becomes a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Simic Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

For the Simic Combine, its sigil serves not as an emblem of honor but as a trademark. Its familiar image on any biological commodity attests to superb craftsmanship, ingenious innovation, and higher cost.

Siren Song Lyre

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : Tap target creature."

Equip

A siren once tried to steal it out of jealousy but was caught by the song of its strings.

Sisay's Ring

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

"I'm not one for pretty things," said Sisay. "Unless they're pretty useful as well."

Skeleton Shard

Artifact

, or , : Return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.)

Skinwing

Artifact - Equipment

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.

Equip

Skull Catapult

Artifact

, , Sacrifice a creature: Skull Catapult deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Let any who doubt the evil of using the ancient devices look at this infernal machine. What manner of fiend would design such a sadistic device?"
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi heretic

Skull of Orm

Artifact

, : Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Though lifeless, the skull still possessed a strange power over the flow of magic.

Skull of Ramos

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sacrifice Skull of Ramos: Add to your mana pool.

Ramos fell, and there was night.

Skullcage

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Skullcage deals 2 damage to that player unless he or she has exactly three or exactly four cards in hand.

Only a focused mind can survive it.

Skullclamp

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.

Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.

Equip

Skullmead Cauldron

Artifact

: You gain 1 life.

, Discard a card: You gain 3 life.

Once tasted, the flavor of skullmead lingers in the throat, a secret brand of guilt for those who partake in forbidden pleasures.

Sky Diamond

Artifact

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Skyblinder Staff

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.

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

"If bats are the only thing between me and a mountain of Orzhov coins, then I'm about to be a very rich thief."

Skyclaw Thrash

Artifact Creature - Viashino Warrior

Whenever Skyclaw Thrash attacks, flip a coin. If you win the flip, Skyclaw Thrash gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Their newfound wings shined elegantly and functioned partially.

Skycloud Egg

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Skycloud Egg: Add to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"Have your dreams of a better society become an obsession?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Skyreach Manta

Artifact Creature - Fish

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

Flying

As the dawns break, the manta soars.

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

Skyship Weatherlight

Legendary Artifact

When Skyship Weatherlight enters the battlefield, search your library for any number of artifact and/or creature cards and exile them. Then shuffle your library.

, : Choose a card at random that was exiled with Skyship Weatherlight. Put that card into its owner's hand.

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.

Slagwurm Armor

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+6.

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.)

Slash Panther

Artifact Creature - Cat

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Haste

It runs an endless circuit along the ruined roads of the soon-to-be-forgotten Mirran civilization.

Slate of Ancestry

Artifact

, , Discard your hand: Draw a card for each creature you control.

The pattern of life can be studied like a book, if you know how to read it.

Sliver Construct

Artifact Creature - Sliver Construct

Slivers destroy those who come close to the Skep, the central hive. Shards of torn metal litter the ground as a warning to any artificers inquisitive about the hive's inner workings.

Sliversmith

Artifact Creature - Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Put a 1/1 colorless Sliver artifact creature token named Metallic Sliver onto the battlefield.

After centuries of labor, its creations outnumber those they were to mimic.

Sludge Strider

Artifact Creature - Insect

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control or another artifact you control leaves the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Underneath the cities of Esper are cycles of life unseen by those who feed them.

Slumbering Tora

Artifact

, Discard a Spirit or Arcane card: Slumbering Tora becomes an X/X Cat artifact creature until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's converted mana cost.

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.

Snake Basket

Artifact

, Sacrifice Snake Basket: Put X 1/1 green Snake creature tokens onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"Uh, does anyone have a flute?"
-Rana, Suq'Ata market fool

Snapsail Glider

Artifact Creature - Construct

Metalcraft - Snapsail Glider has flying as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Built from a reconfigured thresher, it charges with light reflected off the golden plain, ready to take to the air in case of danger.

Snow Fortress

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

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

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

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

Sol Grail

Artifact

As Sol Grail enters the battlefield, choose a color.

: Add one mana of the chosen color to your mana pool.

"Look deep into the Grail, and see there what you desire most." -Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Sol Ring

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Solarion

Artifact Creature - Construct

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on Solarion.

Soldevi Digger

Artifact

: Put the top card of your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

"This ceaseless device has helped uncover marvels unreachable by mere flesh."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Soldevi Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Soldevi Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

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

Slow and steady wins the race.

Soldevi Sentry

Artifact Creature - Soldier

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

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

Soldevi Simulacrum

Artifact Creature - Soldier

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

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

They look human-
until they bleed.

Soldevi Steam Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

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

: Regenerate Soldevi Steam Beast.

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

Soldier Replica

Artifact Creature - Soldier

, Sacrifice Soldier Replica: Soldier Replica deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

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.

Soliton

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Untap Soliton.

The gemini engines had lost connection with each other and wandered apart, developing an independent awareness of their surroundings.

Soratami Cloud Chariot

Artifact

: Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target creature you control this turn.

Sorcerer's Strongbox

Artifact

, : Flip a coin. If you win the flip, sacrifice Sorcerer's Strongbox and draw three cards.

Simun the Quiet filled the chest with his most precious thoughts. But in a fit of paranoia, he locked up the memory of where he hid the key.

Soul Conduit

Artifact

, : Two target players exchange life totals.

"You have an unhealthy attachment to your selfhood. I can help you with that."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Soul Foundry

Artifact

Imprint - When Soul Foundry enters the battlefield, you may exile a creature card from your hand.

, : Put a token that's a copy of the exiled card onto the battlefield. X is the converted mana cost of that card.

Soul Net

Artifact

Whenever a creature dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.