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.)

Juju Bubble

Artifact

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.)

When you play a card, sacrifice Juju Bubble.

: You gain 1 life.

"If my heart had a lid, I would lift it and show you my joy."
-From Suq'Ata wedding ceremony

Lead-Belly Chimera

Artifact Creature - Chimera

Trample

Sacrifice Lead-Belly Chimera: Put a +2/+2 counter on target Chimera creature. It gains trample. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Magma Mine

Artifact

: Put a pressure counter on Magma Mine.

, Sacrifice Magma Mine: Magma Mine deals damage equal to the number of pressure counters on it to target creature or player.

BOOM!

Matopi Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Regenerate Matopi Golem. When it regenerates this way, put a -1/-1 counter on it.

Some potmakers claim to use the mud of such creatures to make their finest bowls-and that the bowls scream when fired.

Phyrexian Marauder

Artifact Creature - Construct

Phyrexian Marauder enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Phyrexian Marauder can't block.

Phyrexian Marauder can't attack unless you pay for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Phyrexian Walker

Artifact Creature - Construct

"I have heard terrible tales of black rains, ashen fields, and metal that screams. I have consoled myself that the tales were a myth of some fevered mind. But today I saw a walker-and now I fear the truth."
-Kasib Ibn Naji, Letters

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"

Tin-Wing Chimera

Artifact Creature - Chimera

Flying

Sacrifice Tin-Wing Chimera: Put a +2/+2 counter on target Chimera creature. It gains flying. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

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.

Acidic Dagger

Artifact

, : Whenever target creature deals combat damage to a non-Wall creature this turn, destroy that non-Wall creature. When the targeted creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice Acidic Dagger. Activate this ability only before blockers are declared.

Amulet of Unmaking

Artifact

, , Exile Amulet of Unmaking: Exile target artifact, creature, or land. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Trade to trade, not to keep.
-Suq'Ata motto

Basalt Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Basalt Golem can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Whenever Basalt Golem becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat. If the player does, he or she puts a 0/2 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender onto the battlefield.

Bone Mask

Artifact

, : The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. Exile cards from the top of your library equal to the damage prevented this way.

"The protection offered comes at a price. How numerous are your kin?"
-Purraj of Urborg

Chariot of the Sun

Artifact

, : Until end of turn, target creature you control gains flying and its toughness becomes 1.

"Sun follows Moon until she tires, then carries her until she's strong / and runs ahead of him again."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

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"

Elixir of Vitality

Artifact

Elixir of Vitality enters the battlefield tapped.

, Sacrifice Elixir of Vitality: You gain 4 life.

, , Sacrifice Elixir of Vitality: You gain 8 life.

"Eternal life or your money back."
-Unnamed Suq'Ata merchant, deceased

Ersatz Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

: Target spell becomes colorless.

: Target permanent becomes colorless until end of turn.

From jungle to sea, from sea to stone, from stone to field, from field to bone. What am I? -Zhalfirin riddle

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.

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

Lion's Eye Diamond

Artifact

Sacrifice Lion's Eye Diamond, Discard your hand: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only any time you could cast an instant.

Held in the lion's eye
-Zhalfirin saying meaning "caught in the moment of crisis"

Mangara's Tome

Artifact

When Mangara's Tome enters the battlefield, search your library for five cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library.

: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead put the top card of the exiled pile into its owner's hand.

Misers' Cage

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has five or more cards in hand, Misers' Cage deals 2 damage to him or her.

"Let him be imprisoned while his possessions wander free."
-Suq'Ata legal decree

Paupers' Cage

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, Paupers' Cage deals 2 damage to him or her.

A cage may keep you in, but it does not keep the stones out.

Phyrexian Dreadnought

Artifact Creature - Dreadnought

Trample

When Phyrexian Dreadnought enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice any number of creatures with total power 12 or greater.

Razor Pendulum

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's end step, if that player has 5 or less life, Razor Pendulum deals 2 damage to him or her.

"Amazing thing, gravity. It seems to work every time."
-Telim'Tor

Sand Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Sand Golem, return Sand Golem from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Teeka's Dragon

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Flying; trample; rampage 4 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +4/+4 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Telim'Tor's Darts

Artifact

, : Telim'Tor's Darts deals 1 damage to target player.

"People laughed at my darts-once."
-Telim'Tor

Unerring Sling

Artifact

, , Tap an untapped creature you control: Unerring Sling deals damage equal to the tapped creature's power to target attacking or blocking creature with flying.

Ventifact Bottle

Artifact

, : Put X charge counters on Ventifact Bottle. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, if Ventifact Bottle has a charge counter on it, tap it and remove all charge counters from it. Add to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Apocalypse Chime

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Apocalypse Chime: Destroy all nontoken permanents from the Homelands expansion. They can't be regenerated.

"One day, or another, perhaps I shall ring my pretty chime . . . loudly, so that all may hear."
-Grandmother Sengir

Clockwork Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

, : Regenerate target artifact creature.

"Until I came to the Floating Isle, I never had to oil the servants."
-Baki, Wizard Attendant

Clockwork Swarm

Artifact Creature - Insect

Clockwork Swarm enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.

Clockwork Swarm can't be blocked by Walls.

At end of combat, if Clockwork Swarm attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.

, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Swarm. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Swarm to be greater than four. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Didgeridoo

Artifact

: You may put a Minotaur permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Play the song of he who delivered us. Play the song of Feroz."
-Onatah, Anaba Shaman

Ebony Rhino

Artifact Creature - Rhino

Trample

"That Rhino would fetch us a tidy sum, Joven. Perhaps it's time to make it ours."
-Chandler

Roterothopter

Artifact Creature - Thopter

Flying

: Roterothopter gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than twice each turn.

"The Roterothopter is as insidious as it is ingenious. It is one of the few creations of our school that I take no pride in."
-Baki, Wizard Attendant

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.

Adarkar Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Soldier

: Adarkar Sentinel gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"We encountered the Sentinels in the wastes, near no living thing. Their purpose was inscrutable."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Aegis of the Meek

Artifact

, : Target 1/1 creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

"With this marvel, even the weak have a fighting chance!"
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Aesthir Glider

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Aesthir Glider can't block.

"Sacrilege A noble ally in life, made nothing more than a glorified kite in death"
-Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Amulet of Quoz

Artifact

Remove Amulet of Quoz from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

, Sacrifice Amulet of Quoz: Target opponent may add the top card of his or her library to the ante. If he or she doesn't, you flip a coin. If you win the flip, that player loses the game. If you lose the flip, you lose the game. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Arcum's Sleigh

Artifact

, : Target creature gains vigilance until end of turn. Activate this ability only during combat and only if defending player controls a snow land.

"With the proper equipment and caution, one can travel anywhere."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Arcum's Weathervane

Artifact

, : Target snow land is no longer snow.

, : Target nonsnow basic land becomes snow.

Arcum's Whistle

Artifact

, : Choose target non-Wall creature the active player has controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn. That player may pay , where X is that creature's converted mana cost. If he or she doesn't, the creature attacks this turn if able, and at the beginning of the next end step, destroy it if it didn't attack. Activate this ability only before attackers are declared.

Ashnod's Cylix

Artifact

, : Target player looks at the top three cards of his or her library, puts one of them back on top of his or her library, then exiles the rest.

Few remember that Ashnod's defilement of Terisiare's resources outstripped even that of her peers.

Astrolabe

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Astrolabe: Add two mana of any one color to your mana pool. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Baton of Morale

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.)

"The Goblins would kill to get ahold of this one."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Celestial Sword

Artifact

, : Target creature you control gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Its controller sacrifices it at the beginning of the next end step.

"So great is its power, only the chosen can wield it and live."
-Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

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

Floodwater Dam

Artifact

, : Tap X target lands.

Viscerid dams may be of living creatures as well as bones and mud.

Fyndhorn Bow

Artifact

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

"With a bow like this, the hunting is always good."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko,
Elvish Hunter

Goblin Lyre

Artifact

Sacrifice Goblin Lyre: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, Goblin Lyre deals damage to target opponent equal to the number of creatures you control. If you lose the flip, Goblin Lyre deals damage to you equal to the number of creatures that opponent controls.

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.

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.

Hematite Talisman

Artifact

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

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.

Jester's Mask

Artifact

Jester's Mask enters the battlefield tapped.

, , Sacrifice Jester's Mask: Target opponent puts the cards from his or her hand on top of his or her library. Search that player's library for that many cards. That player puts those cards into his or her hand, then shuffles his or her library.

Jeweled Amulet

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Jeweled Amulet. Note the type of mana spent to pay this activation cost. Activate this ability only if there are no charge counters on Jeweled Amulet.

, Remove a charge counter from Jeweled Amulet: Add one mana of Jeweled Amulet's last noted type to your mana pool.

Lapis Lazuli Talisman

Artifact

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

Lodestone Bauble

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Lodestone Bauble: Put up to four target basic land cards from a player's graveyard on top of his or her library in any order. That player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Malachite Talisman

Artifact

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

Mishra's Groundbreaker

Artifact

, Sacrifice Mishra's Groundbreaker: Target land becomes a 3/3 artifact creature that's still a land. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

The very ground yielded to Mishra's wishes.

Nacre Talisman

Artifact

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

Naked Singularity

Artifact

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.)

If tapped for mana, Plains produce , Islands produce , Swamps produce , Mountains produce , and Forests produce instead of any other type.

Onyx Talisman

Artifact

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

Phyrexian Devourer

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Phyrexian Devourer's power is 7 or greater, sacrifice it.

Exile the top card of your library: Put X +1/+1 counters on Phyrexian Devourer, where X is the exiled card's converted mana cost.

Phyrexian Portal

Artifact

: If your library has ten or more cards in it, target opponent looks at the top ten cards of your library and separates them into two face-down piles. Exile one of those piles. Search the other pile for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle the rest of that pile into your library.

Phyrexian War Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

When Phyrexian War Beast leaves the battlefield, sacrifice a land and Phyrexian War Beast deals 1 damage to you.

"Deal with the spawn of Phyrexia cautiously; only with time may we control them."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Runed Arch

Artifact

Runed Arch enters the battlefield tapped.

, , Sacrifice Runed Arch: X target creatures with power 2 or less are unblockable this turn.

Scarab of the Unseen

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scarab of the Unseen: Return all Auras attached to target permanent you own to their owners' hands. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

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 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

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

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

Staff of the Ages

Artifact

Creatures with landwalk abilities can be blocked as though they didn't have those abilities.

"We found this staff useful on our visit to this very commission. Would Relicbane prefer we had been slain by Lim-Dûl's horrors?"
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Sunstone

Artifact

, Sacrifice a snow land: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"I dispute Relicbane's hysterical allegations, Commissioner, but it is true that these artifacts can be dangerous."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Urza's Engine

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Trample

: Urza's Engine 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 you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

: Attacking creatures banded with Urza's Engine gain trample until end of turn.

"Humans and machines working together can be fearsome indeed!" -Arcum Dagsson

Vibrating Sphere

Artifact

As long as it's your turn, creatures you control get +2/+0.

As long as it's not your turn, creatures you control get -0/-2.

"Unearthly and invisible fibers emanate from this sphere, entangling all who draw near."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Walking Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

: Walking Wall gets +3/-1 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"The fortress is not what it seems."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Wall of Shields

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Banding (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)

"It's the pokey bits that hurt the most."
-Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician

War Chariot

Artifact

, : Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

"I wouldn't advise using it with a Woolly Mammoth, but it's quite appropriate for many other beasts."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Whalebone Glider

Artifact

, : Target creature with power 3 or less gains flying until end of turn.

"It's no Ornithopter, but then I'm no Urza."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Whirling Catapult

Artifact

, Exile the top two cards of your library: Whirling Catapult deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"Direct confrontation never was to the Orcs' taste."
-General Varchild

Zuran Orb

Artifact

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

"I will go to any length to achieve my goal. Eternal life is worth any sacrifice."
-Zur the Enchanter

Amulet of Kroog

Artifact

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

Among the first allies Urza gained were the people of Kroog. As a sign of friendship, Urza gave the healers of the city potent amulets; afterwards, thousands journeyed to Kroog in hope of healing.

Ashnod's Battle Gear

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Ashnod's Battle Gear during your untap step.

, : Target creature you control gets +2/-2 for as long as Ashnod's Battle Gear remains tapped.

This invention shows why Ashnod was feared by her troops as well as her foes.

Battering Ram

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (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 you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)

Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Black Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Black Mana Battery.

, Remove any number of charge counters from Black Mana Battery: Add to your mana pool, then add an additional to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Blue Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Blue Mana Battery.

, Remove any number of charge counters from Blue Mana Battery: Add to your mana pool, then add an additional to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Bronze Tablet

Artifact

Remove Bronze Tablet from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

Bronze Tablet enters the battlefield tapped.

, : Exile Bronze Tablet and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If he or she does, put Bronze Tablet into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns Bronze Tablet and you own the other exiled card.

Clay Statue

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Regenerate Clay Statue.

Tawnos won fame as Urza's greatest assistant. After he created these warriors, Urza ended his apprenticeship, promoting him directly to the rank of master.

Clockwork Avian

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Clockwork Avian enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.

At end of combat, if Clockwork Avian attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.

, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian to be greater than four. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Coral Helm

Artifact

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

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.