Armory of Iroas

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Equip

From a distance the weapons look pristine, but in fact they are tarnished and dented, each as unique as the champion who carried it to battle.

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.

Agent of Acquisitions

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Agent of Acquisitions face up.

Instead of drafting a card from a booster pack, you may draft each card in that booster pack, one at a time. If you do, turn Agent of Acquisitions face down and you can't draft cards for the rest of this draft round. (You may look at booster packs passed to you.)

Lore Seeker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reveal Lore Seeker as you draft it. After you draft Lore Seeker, you may add a booster pack to the draft. (Your next pick is from that booster pack. Pass it to the next player and it's drafted this draft round.)

Each volume contains wonders.

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.

Tyrant's Machine

Artifact

, : Tap target creature.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Hedron Crawler

Artifact Creature - Construct

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

"It's endearing, in a mystical, pointy sort of way."
-General Tazri, allied commander

Bladed Bracers

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

As long as equipped creature is a Human or an Angel, it has vigilance.

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

Forged from the rubble of the Helvault.

Scroll of Avacyn

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scroll of Avacyn: Draw a card. If you control an Angel, you gain 5 life.

Words to bless the eye that reads them, telling of a future beyond the reach of fear.

Scroll of Griselbrand

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scroll of Griselbrand: Target opponent discards a card. If you control a Demon, that player loses 3 life.

Words no eyes should see, telling of things no sane mind could fathom.

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.

Elixir of Immortality

Artifact

, : You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

"Bottled life. Not as tasty as I'm used to, rather stale, but it has the same effect."
-Baron Sengir

Avacyn's Collar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has vigilance.

Whenever equipped creature dies, if it was a Human, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Equip

Grafdigger's Cage

Artifact

Creature cards can't enter the battlefield from graveyards or libraries.

Players can't cast cards in graveyards or libraries.

"If you wind up in one of mine, you can be sure as silver it will be your last."
-Grafdigger Wulmer

Wolfhunter's Quiver

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player" and ": This creature deals 3 damage to target Werewolf creature."

Equip

"Steel in the heart, silver in the bow."
-Wolfhunter's creed

Blazing Torch

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can't be blocked by Vampires or Zombies.

Equipped creature has ", Sacrifice Blazing Torch: Blazing Torch deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

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

Ghoulcaller's Bell

Artifact

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

The bell's chime heralds the rise of the unhallowed from the grave and the fall of their victims into the earth.

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.

Traveler's Amulet

Artifact

, Sacrifice Traveler's Amulet: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The rider set off into the eerie mist, swaddled in armor and laden with amulets.

Civic Saber

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each of its colors.

Equip

Those without a guild signet often display a different form of protection.

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.

Pithing Needle

Artifact

As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, name a card.

Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

The fearful want the procedure before a blood festival. The guilty seek it afterward.

Dispeller's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Dispeller's Capsule: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I find its symmetry pleasing. It rids our world of offensive refuse while disposing of itself."
-Dolomarus, Proctor of the Clean

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.

Executioner's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Executioner's Capsule: Destroy target nonblack creature.

There is always a moment of trepidation before opening a message capsule, for fear of the judgment that might be contained within.

Relic of Progenitus

Artifact

: Target player exiles a card from his or her graveyard.

, Exile Relic of Progenitus: Exile all cards from all graveyards. Draw a card.

Elves believe the hydra-god Progenitus sleeps beneath Naya, feeding on forgotten magics.

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

Mossfire Egg

Artifact

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

"Can you feel your instincts overwhelm your reason?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

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

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

Sungrass Egg

Artifact

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

"Has your peaceful nature led you on a crusade?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Gremlin Mine

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Gremlin Mine: Gremlin Mine deals 4 damage to target artifact creature.

, , Sacrifice Gremlin Mine: Remove up to four charge counters from target noncreature artifact.

Hex Parasite

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, Hex Parasite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Drawn by power, fueled by conquest.

Surge Node

Artifact

Surge Node enters the battlefield with six charge counters on it.

, , Remove a charge counter from Surge Node: Put a charge counter on target artifact.

Without a foe to focus on, the machine priests had time to indulge in new sciences.

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

Flayer Husk

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 +1/+1.

Equip

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.

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.

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.

Flight Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Flight Spellbomb: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

When Flight Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Golden Urn

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Golden Urn.

, Sacrifice Golden Urn: You gain life equal to the number of charge counters on Golden Urn.

Horizon Spellbomb

Artifact

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

When Horizon Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Infiltration Lens

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards.

Equip

Neurok spies carry devices that let them look a few moments into the future, giving them an almost insurmountable edge.

Nihil Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Origin Spellbomb

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Origin Spellbomb: Put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

When Origin Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Panic Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Panic Spellbomb: Target creature can't block this turn.

When Panic Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Sylvok Lifestaff

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature dies, you gain 3 life.

Equip

The druid's lifestaff connects her to generations of bygone Sylvok.

Vector Asp

Artifact Creature - Snake

: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexia's machines take inspiration from nature. Twisted, disturbing inspiration.

Adventuring Gear

Artifact - Equipment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

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

An explorer's essentials in a wild world.

Blade of the Bloodchief

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.

Equip

Expedition Map

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"I use maps to find out where explorers have already been. Then I go the other way."
-Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Explorer's Scope

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped.

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

Trusty Machete

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+1.

Equip

"Until this expedition is done, that blade is your guardian, your liberator, and your best friend all rolled into one."
-Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Brittle Effigy

Artifact

, , Exile Brittle Effigy: Exile target creature.

"In my early experiments in phylactery, I found that fragile forms have their uses."
-Rocati, Duke of Martyne

Voltaic Key

Artifact

, : Untap target artifact.

The missing piece to every puzzle.

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.

Mana Cylix

Artifact

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

Those who dismiss the cylix as an ordinary wooden bowl are blind to the true measure of its worth.

Jawbone Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

: Target red creature gains haste until end of turn.

"Ah, skull of shrew-a very potent substance. In powdered form, it gives thrice the zing of noggle hoof pulp."
-Boghald, Barrenton medic

Heap Doll

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Sacrifice Heap Doll: Exile target card from a graveyard.

"I know one night it won't come back. Then I'll know it's truly done its job."
-Braenna, cobblesmith

Runed Stalactite

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and is every creature type.

Equip

When a changeling adopts a form no other changeling has taken, a rune appears in the caverns of Velis Vel to mark the event.

Springleaf Drum

Artifact

, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

After trying mudskippers for an afternoon, Scratch decided that crickcarp made the best noise.

Wanderer's Twig

Artifact

, Sacrifice Wanderer's Twig: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

For every tree who falls, there are countless sprouts waiting to rise.

Chromatic Star

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Chromatic Star: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

When Chromatic Star is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Leonin Scimitar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

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

"Every scratch tells a story, and every notch has a name. Four generations have held this blade. You shall not disappoint them."
-Initiation of Laena, skyhunter

Tanglebloom

Artifact

, : You gain 1 life.

The bloom contains no seeds. It's meant only to nourish the forest's inhabitants.

Black Vise

Artifact

As Black Vise enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand minus 4.

Crystal Rod

Artifact

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

Glasses of Urza

Artifact

: Look at target player's hand.

Helm of Chatzuk

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.)

Iron Star

Artifact

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

Ivory Cup

Artifact

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

Library of Leng

Artifact

You have no maximum hand size.

If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Mana Vault

Artifact

Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Mana Vault.

At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

: Add to your mana pool.

Meekstone

Artifact

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Sol Ring

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Soul Net

Artifact

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

Throne of Bone

Artifact

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

Wooden Sphere

Artifact

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

Brass Man

Artifact Creature - Construct

Brass Man doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Brass Man.

Ivory Tower

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge.

The Rack

Artifact

As The Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, The Rack deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

Invented in Mishra's earlier days, the Rack was once his most feared creation.

Ashnod's Transmogrant

Artifact

, Sacrifice Ashnod's Transmogrant: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonartifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she offered.

Barbed Sextant

Artifact

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

Feldon's Cane

Artifact

, Exile Feldon's Cane: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.

Obelisk of Undoing

Artifact

, : Return target permanent you both own and control to your hand.

The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on fickle reinforcements.

Jeweled Bird

Artifact

Remove Jeweled Bird from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

: Put Jeweled Bird into the ante. If you do, put all other cards you own from the ante into your graveyard, then draw a card.

Candelabra of Tawnos

Artifact

, : Untap X target lands.

Tawnos learned quickly from Urza that utter simplicity often led to wondrous, yet subtle utility.

Tablet of Epityr

Artifact

Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.

Originally considered the work of Urza, this tablet was created by forgers seeking to imitate Urza's masterpieces.

Urza's Chalice

Artifact

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

When sorely wounded or tired, Urza would often retreat to the workshops of his apprentices. They were greatly amazed at how much better he looked each time he took a sip of water.

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

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