Despotic Scepter

Artifact

: Destroy target permanent you own. It can't be regenerated.

"We were not meant to have such terrible things. They should be left where we found them, if not destroyed!"
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

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.

Demonspine Whip

Artifact - Equipment

: Equipped creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Equip

Using a spine to break a slave's back appeals to the Grixis sense of irony.

Demonmail Hauberk

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+2.

Equip-Sacrifice a creature.

It comes off as easily as your own skin.

Demon's Horn

Artifact

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

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Delif's Cube

Artifact

, : This turn, when target creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, it assigns no combat damage this turn and you put a cube counter on Delif's Cube.

, Remove a cube counter from Delif's Cube: Regenerate target creature.

Delif's Cone

Artifact

, Sacrifice Delif's Cone: This turn, when target creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may gain life equal to its power. If you do, it assigns no combat damage this turn.

"Where is it written that beasts must cause pain?" -Delif, Ponderings

Defense Grid

Artifact

Each spell costs more to cast except during its controller's turn.

It lights up the sky, beckoning enemies only to repel them.

Decimator Web

Artifact

, : Target opponent loses 2 life, gets a poison counter, then puts the top six cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Mycosynth grew unfettered beneath the black lacuna, metastasizing into a matrix of noxious energy.

Deathrender

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

Whenever equipped creature dies, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield and attach Deathrender to it.

Equip

Death-Mask Duplicant

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

Imprint - : Exile target creature card from your graveyard.

As long as a card exiled with Death-Mask Duplicant has flying, Death-Mask Duplicant has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, haste, landwalk, protection, and trample.

Deal Broker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Deal Broker face up.

Immediately after the draft, you may reveal a card in your card pool. Each other player may offer you one card in his or her card pool in exchange. You may accept any one offer.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Dead-Iron Sledge

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy both creatures.

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.)

Darkwater Egg

Artifact

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

"Do you thirst for knowledge no matter the cost?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Darksteel Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Golem

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Vigilance

Darksteel Sentinel is indestructible. (Lethal damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Darksteel Relic

Artifact

Darksteel Relic is indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"It's the last thing we can call our own."
-Minhu, Mirran resistance

Darksteel Reactor

Artifact

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Darksteel Reactor.

When Darksteel Reactor has twenty or more charge counters on it, you win the game.

Darksteel Plate

Artifact - Equipment

Darksteel Plate is indestructible.

Equipped creature is indestructible.

Equip

"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever."
-Koth of the Hammer

Darksteel Pendant

Artifact

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

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

Darksteel Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Darksteel Myr is indestructible. (Lethal damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Darksteel Juggernaut

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

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

Darksteel Juggernaut is indestructible and attacks each turn if able.

One part unstoppable force, one part immovable object.

Darksteel Ingot

Artifact

Indestructible

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

Darksteel Garrison

Artifact - Fortification

Fortified land is indestructible.

Whenever fortified land becomes tapped, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Fortify (: Attach to target land you control. Fortify only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the land leaves.)

Darksteel Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

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

The ultimate treasure is one that guards itself.

Darksteel Forge

Artifact

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

"Did it have this shape upon Mirrodin's creation, or did some inconceivable force shape the unshapable?"
-Pontifex, elder researcher

Darksteel Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample

Darksteel Colossus is indestructible.

If Darksteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Darksteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Darksteel Brute

Artifact

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

: Darksteel Brute becomes a 2/2 Beast artifact creature until end of turn.

Darksteel Axe

Artifact - Equipment

Darksteel Axe is indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

Equip

Heavier than it looks, tricky to wield, guaranteed to last.

Darklit Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

: Darklit Gargoyle gets +2/-1 until end of turn.

It shines in the darkness of its master's ambitions.

Dark Sphere

Artifact

, Sacrifice Dark Sphere: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent half that damage, rounded down.

"I was struck senseless for a moment, but revived when the strange curiosity I carried fell to the ground, screaming like a dying animal." -Barl, Lord Ith

Darigaaz's Attendant

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Darigaaz's Attendant: Add to your mana pool.

"Darigaaz is the breath of the ur-dragon, burning away the burdens of mortality."

Dancing Scimitar

Artifact Creature - Spirit

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

A blade that has never known sheath, a hilt that has never known hand.

Damping Matrix

Artifact

Activated abilities of artifacts and creatures can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

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.

Cyclopean Tomb

Artifact

, : Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

When Cyclopean Tomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with Cyclopean Tomb but that a mire counter has not been removed from with Cyclopean Tomb.

Cyclopean Snare

Artifact

, : Tap target creature, then return Cyclopean Snare to its owner's hand.

The spoiled, gluttonous halls of the Orzhov teem with gaudy, needless wealth. Even their security measures are made for beauty first, efficiency second.

Custodian of the Trove

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender

Custodian of the Trove enters the battlefield tapped.

Silumgar delights in repurposing the treasures of other clans to serve his own ravenous greed.

Cursed Totem

Artifact

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Pass me from soul to soul, / soldier to herder, herder to beast, beast to soil / until I am everywhere. / Then pass me those souls.
-Totem inscription (translated)

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.

Cursed Rack

Artifact

As Cursed Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.

Ashnod invented several torture techniques that could make victims even miles away beg for mercy as if the End had come.

Cumber Stone

Artifact

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.

"The stone is more potent than ever. The flesh that creeps into our land will become even more slovenly and weak."
-Niclavs, archmage of Esper

Culling Scales

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target nonland permanent with the lowest converted mana cost. (If two or more permanents are tied for lowest cost, target any one of them.)

Culling Dais

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Culling Dais.

, Sacrifice Culling Dais: Draw a card for each charge counter on Culling Dais.

"Forswear the flesh and you will truly see."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Crystal Shard

Artifact

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

Crystal Rod

Artifact

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

Crystal Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

At the beginning of your end step, Crystal Golem phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

"Once, a wealthy king commissioned an artificial creature to be crafted from the royal treasury, thinking it a clever ploy to have the jewels guard themselves."
-Azeworai, "The Golem's Wish"

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.

Crystal Ball

Artifact

, : Scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

It glints with arcane truths to those who know how to glimpse them.

Cryptic Gateway

Artifact

Tap two untapped creatures you control: You may put a creature card from your hand that shares a creature type with each creature tapped this way onto the battlefield.

Its lock changes to fit each key.

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.

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.

Crucible of Worlds

Artifact

You may play land cards from your graveyard.

Amidst the darkest ashes grow the strongest seeds.

Crown of the Ages

Artifact

, : Attach target Aura attached to a creature to another creature.

Crown of Empires

Artifact

, : Tap target creature. Gain control of that creature instead if you control artifacts named Scepter of Empires and Throne of Empires.

"With this crown, assert your authority."
-Crown inscription

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.

Crown of Convergence

Artifact

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is a creature card, creatures you control that share a color with that card get +1/+1.

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

Crosis's Attendant

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Crosis's Attendant: Add to your mana pool.

"Crosis is the eye of the ur-dragon, piercing illusion and darkness."

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.

Crenellated Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

Mercadian soldiers excel at finding things to stand behind.

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.

Credit Voucher

Artifact

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

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.

Cranial Plating

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.

: Attach Cranial Plating to target creature you control.

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

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.

Court Homunculus

Artifact Creature - Homunculus

Court Homunculus gets +1/+1 as long as you control another artifact.

Mages of Esper measure their wealth and status by the number of servants in their retinues.

Courier's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Courier's Capsule: Draw two cards.

In ages past, Esper couriers bore messages written on ornate scrolls. The medium has grown more sophisticated, but the principle remains the same.

Corpse Cur

Artifact Creature - Hound

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

When Corpse Cur enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card with infect from your graveyard to your hand.

Coretapper

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Put a charge counter on target artifact.

Sacrifice Coretapper: Put two charge counters on target artifact.

It converts the faintest surges of power from Mirrodin's core into usable energy, providing endless power for Memnarch's creations on the surface.

Core Prowler

Artifact Creature - Horror

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

When Core Prowler dies, proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Coral Helm

Artifact

, Discard a card at random: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Copper-Leaf Angel

Artifact Creature - Angel

Flying

, Sacrifice X lands: Put X +1/+1 counters on Copper-Leaf Angel.

"When Serra made angels, people called her a goddess. My angels are far superior to hers."
-Latulla, Keldon overseer

Copper Tablet

Artifact

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

Copper Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like verdigris: an ever-present patina on the surface of a metal world.

Copper Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

, Sacrifice Copper Gnomes: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Start with eleven gnomes and a room of parts, and come morning you'll have ten and a monster the likes of which you've never seen.

Copper Carapace

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and can't block.

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

"We will fight as they do: our flesh protected behind metal."
-Tae Aquil, Viridan weaponsmith

Conversion Chamber

Artifact

, : Exile target artifact card from a graveyard. Put a charge counter on Conversion Chamber.

, , Remove a charge counter from Conversion Chamber: Put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Contagion Engine

Artifact

When Contagion Engine enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls.

, : Proliferate, then proliferate again. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there. Then do it again.)

Contagion Clasp

Artifact

When Contagion Clasp enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

, : Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Conservator

Artifact

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

Conjurer's Closet

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

"Tomorrow wears yesterday's face."
-Kordel the Cryptic

Conjurer's Bauble

Artifact

, Sacrifice Conjurer's Bauble: Put up to one target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Draw a card.

It is the moment of discovery, the triumph of the mind, the reimagining of past glory.

Conch Horn

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Conch Horn: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.

Even the most skilled of modern mages only partially understand the Conch Horn's awesome powers.

Composite Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Sacrifice Composite Golem: Add to your mana pool.

An artificer's experiment in cross-material engineering found its own purpose as an interpreter between cultures.

Complex Automaton

Artifact Creature - Golem

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more permanents, return Complex Automaton to its owner's hand.

"This wasteful design cannot possibly be Phyrexian."
-Belbe

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.

Colossus of Sardia

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.)

Colossus of Sardia doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Untap Colossus of Sardia. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Buried under a thin layer of dirt, it was known for centuries as Mount Sardia.

Colossus of Akros

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender, indestructible

: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

As long as Colossus of Akros is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Colfenor's Urn

Artifact

Whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it.

At the beginning of the end step, if three or more cards have been exiled with Colfenor's Urn, sacrifice it. If you do, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

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.

Coiled Tinviper

Artifact Creature - Snake

First strike

The bite of the tinviper feels most like a razor drawn across the tongue.

Cogwork Tracker

Artifact Creature - Hound Construct

Reveal Cogwork Tracker as you draft it and note the player who passed it to you.

Cogwork Tracker attacks each turn if able.

Cogwork Tracker attacks a player you noted for cards named Cogwork Tracker each turn if able.

Cogwork Spy

Artifact Creature - Bird Construct

Reveal Cogwork Spy as you draft it. You may look at the next card drafted from this booster pack.

Flying

Paliano's creations provide ample opportunities to plot the downfall of a neighbor.

Cogwork Librarian

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Cogwork Librarian face up.

As you draft a card, you may draft an additional card from that booster pack. If you do, put Cogwork Librarian into that booster pack.

Why wait for answers?

Cogwork Grinder

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Cogwork Grinder face up.

As you draft a card, you may remove it from the draft face down. (Those cards aren't in your card pool.)

Cogwork Grinder enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of cards you removed from the draft with cards named Cogwork Grinder.

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.

Codex Shredder

Artifact

: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

, , Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cobbled Wings

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying.

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

For the necro-alchemist, any puzzle can be solved with intelligence and harvested body parts.

Cobalt Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Cobalt Golem gains flying until end of turn.

Coat of Arms

Artifact

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

A banner for bonds of blood or belief.

Coalition Relic

Artifact

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

: Put a charge counter on Coalition Relic.

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.