Unholy Citadel

Land

Black legendary creatures you control have "bands with other legendary creatures." (Any legendary creatures can attack in a band as long as at least one has "bands with other legendary creatures." Bands are blocked as a group. If at least two legendary creatures you control, one of which has "bands with other legendary creatures," are blocking or being blocked by the same creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Ur-Drago

Legendary Creature - Elemental

First strike

Creatures with swampwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have swampwalk.

Urborg

Legendary Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

"Resignedly beneath the sky/The melancholy waters lie./So blend the turrets and shadows there/That all seem pendulous in air,/While from a proud tower in town/Death looks gigantically down." -Edgar Allan Poe, "The City in the Sea"

Vaevictis Asmadi

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Vaevictis Asmadi unless you pay .

: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Venarian Gold

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Venarian Gold enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature and put X sleep counters on it.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if it has a sleep counter on it.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, remove a sleep counter from that creature.

Voodoo Doll

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pin counter on Voodoo Doll.

At the beginning of your end step, if Voodoo Doll is untapped, destroy Voodoo Doll and it deals damage to you equal to the number of pin counters on it.

, : Voodoo Doll deals damage equal to the number of pin counters on it to target creature or player. X is the number of pin counters on Voodoo Doll.

Walking Dead

Creature - Zombie

: Regenerate Walking Dead.

The Walking Dead are the remains of freakish experiments by the Necromantic Lords.

Wall of Caltrops

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Caltrops blocks a creature, if at least one other Wall creature is blocking that creature and no non-Wall creatures are blocking that creature, Wall of Caltrops gains banding until end of turn. (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.)

"Ow! Ow ow ow! Oooh, ow, OW!"

Wall of Earth

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The ground shuddered violently and the earth seemed to come to life. The elemental force contained in the vast wall of earth was trapped, bent to its controller's will.

Wall of Heat

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

At a distance, we mistook the sound for a waterfall . . .

Wall of Light

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Protection from black

As many attackers were dazzled by the wall's beauty as were halted by its force.

Wall of Opposition

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Wall of Opposition gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Like so many obstacles in life, the Wall of Opposition is but an illusion, held fast by the focus and belief of the one who creates it.

Wall of Putrid Flesh

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Protection from white

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Wall of Putrid Flesh by enchanted creatures.

Wall of Shadows

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Wall of Shadows by creatures it's blocking.

Wall of Shadows can't be the target of spells that can target only Walls or of abilities that can target only Walls.

Wall of Tombstones

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, Wall of Tombstones's toughness becomes 1 plus the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Wall of Vapor

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Wall of Vapor by creatures it's blocking.

"Walls of a castle are made out of stone,/ Walls of a house out of bricks or of wood./ My walls are made out of magic alone,/ Stronger than any that ever have stood." -Chrysoberyl Earthsdaughter, Incantations

Willow Satyr

Creature - Satyr

You may choose not to untap Willow Satyr during your untap step.

: Gain control of target legendary creature for as long as you control Willow Satyr and Willow Satyr remains tapped.

Wood Elemental

Creature - Elemental

As Wood Elemental enters the battlefield, sacrifice any number of untapped Forests.

Wood Elemental's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests sacrificed as it entered the battlefield.

Xira Arien

Legendary Creature - Insect Wizard

Flying

, : Target player draws a card.

A regular guest at the Royal Masquerade, Arien is the envy of the Court. She appears in a new costume every hour.

Aladdin's Lamp

Artifact

, : The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead look at the top X cards of your library, put all but one of them on the bottom of your library in a random order, then draw a card. X can't be 0.

Armageddon Clock

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on Armageddon Clock.

At the beginning of your draw step, Armageddon Clock deals damage equal to the number of doom counters on it to each player.

: Remove a doom counter from Armageddon Clock. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.

Atog

Creature - Atog

Sacrifice an artifact: Atog gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The bane of all artificers, the legendary Atogs devoured intricate tools to further their own twisted growth.

Bottle of Suleiman

Artifact

, Sacrifice Bottle of Suleiman: Flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Bottle of Suleiman deals 5 damage to you. If you win the flip, put a 5/5 colorless Djinn artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

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.

Crumble

Instant

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. That artifact's controller gains life equal to its converted mana cost.

The spirits of Argoth grant new life to those who repent the folly of enslaving their labors to devices.

Desert Twister

Sorcery

Destroy target permanent.

Dragon Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Dragon Engine gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Dwarven Weaponsmith

Creature - Dwarf Artificer

, Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

"Work with zeal as hammers peal! Melt, anneal, and pound the steel!"
-Old Dwarvish forge-chant

Ebony Horse

Artifact

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

El-Hajjâj

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever El-Hajjâj deals damage, you gain that much life.

Energy Flux

Enchantment

All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay ."

Erg Raiders

Creature - Human Warrior

At the beginning of your end step, if Erg Raiders didn't attack this turn, Erg Raiders deals 2 damage to you unless it came under your control this turn.

Eye for an Eye

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, instead that source deals that much damage to you and Eye for an Eye deals that much damage to that source's controller.

Flying Carpet

Artifact

, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Island Fish Jasconius

Creature - Fish

Island Fish Jasconius doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Island Fish Jasconius.

Island Fish Jasconius can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Island Fish Jasconius.

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.

Jandor's Ring

Artifact

, , Discard the last card you drew this turn: Draw a card.

Jandor's Saddlebags

Artifact

, : Untap target creature.

Each day of their journey, Jandor opened the saddlebags and found them full of mutton, quinces, cheese, date rolls, wine, and all manner of delicious and satisfying foods.

Magnetic Mountain

Enchantment

Blue creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may choose any number of tapped blue creatures he or she controls and pay for each creature chosen this way. If the player does, untap those creatures.

Mijae Djinn

Creature - Djinn

Whenever Mijae Djinn attacks, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, remove Mijae Djinn from combat and tap it.

Mishra's War Machine

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Banding (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.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, Mishra's War Machine deals 3 damage to you unless you discard a card. If Mishra's War Machine deals damage to you this way, tap it.

Onulet

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Onulet dies, you gain 2 life.

An early inspiration for Urza, Tocasia's Onulets contained magical essences that could be cannibalized after they stopped functioning.

Reconstruction

Sorcery

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tedious research made the Sages of the College of Lat-Nam adept in repairing broken artifacts.

Reverse Polarity

Instant

You gain X life, where X is twice the damage dealt to you so far this turn by artifacts.

Rocket Launcher

Artifact

: Rocket Launcher deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Destroy Rocket Launcher at the beginning of the next end step. Activate this ability only if you've controlled Rocket Launcher continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

What these devices lacked in subtlety, they made up in strength.

Serendib Efreet

Creature - Efreet

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, Serendib Efreet deals 1 damage to you.

Sorceress Queen

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature other than Sorceress Queen becomes 0/2 until end of turn.

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.

Titania's Song

Enchantment

Each noncreature artifact loses all abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost. If Titania's Song leaves the battlefield, this effect continues until end of turn.

Unstable Mutation

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Argivian Archaeologist

Creature - Human Artificer

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

Fascinated by the lore of ancient struggles, the Archaeologist searches incessantly for remnants of an earlier, more powerful era.

Argivian Blacksmith

Creature - Human Artificer

: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target artifact creature this turn.

Through years of study and training, the Blacksmiths of Argive became adept at reassembling the mangled remains of the strange, mechanical creatures abounding in their native land.

Argothian Pixies

Creature - Faerie

Argothian Pixies can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Pixies by artifact creatures.

After the rape of Argoth Forest during the rule of the artificers, the Pixies of Argoth bent their magic to more practical ends.

Argothian Treefolk

Creature - Treefolk

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Treefolk by artifact sources.

Haunting cries we hear in our dreams
As the forest dies, a death from
machines.

Artifact Blast

Instant

Counter target artifact spell.

The first line of defense against Urza and Mishra, the Artifact Blast achieved widespread fame until an unlucky mage discovered it was useless on the devices the brothers had already created.

Artifact Possession

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an ability of enchanted artifact without in its activation cost, Artifact Possession deals 2 damage to that artifact's controller.

Any black mage could coax a Thraxodemon to inhabit a magical device.

Artifact Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by artifact sources.

Enchanted creature can't be the target of abilities from artifact sources.

Candelabra of Tawnos

Artifact

, : Untap X target lands.

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

Citanul Druid

Creature - Human Druid

Whenever an opponent casts an artifact spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Citanul Druid.

Driven mad by the fall of Argoth, the Citanul Druids found peace only in battle.

Damping Field

Enchantment

Players can't untap more than one artifact during their untap steps.

Eventually, mages learned to harness the power of natural damping fields and use it for their own ends.

Drafna's Restoration

Sorcery

Return any number of target artifact cards from target player's graveyard to the top of his or her library in any order.

Drafna, founder of the College of Lat-Nam, could create a working model from even the smallest remnants of a newly unearthed artifact.

Gaea's Avenger

Creature - Treefolk

Gaea's Avenger's power and toughness are each equal to 1 plus the number of artifacts your opponents control.

After the destruction of Argoth, Gaea was willing to instill a portion of her own powers into some of her more vengeful followers.

Gate to Phyrexia

Enchantment

Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

"The warm rain of grease on my face immediately made it clear I had entered Phyrexia." -Jarsyl, Diary

Goblin Artisans

Creature - Goblin Artificer

: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, draw a card. If you lose the flip, counter target artifact spell you control that isn't the target of an ability from another creature named Goblin Artisans.

Golgothian Sylex

Artifact

, : Each nontoken permanent from the Antiquities expansion is sacrificed by its controller.

From their earliest educations, the brothers had known that no human contrivance could stand against the true masters of Dominia.

Haunting Wind

Enchantment

Whenever an artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an artifact's ability without in its activation cost, Haunting Wind deals 1 damage to that artifact's controller.

These devices lured so many spirits that sometimes entire battlefields would become haunted at once.

Martyrs of Korlis

Creature - Human

As long as Martyrs of Korlis is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by artifacts is dealt to Martyrs of Korlis instead.

Mightstone

Artifact

Attacking creatures get +1/+0.

While exploring the sacred cave of Koilos with his brother Mishra and their master Tocasia, Urza fell behind in the Hall of Tagsin, where he discovered the remarkable Mightstone.

Mishra's Workshop

Land

: Add to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells.

Though he eventually came to despise Tocasia, Mishra listened well to her lessons on clarity of purpose. Unlike his brother, he focused his mind on a single goal.

Orcish Mechanics

Creature - Orc

, Sacrifice an artifact: Orcish Mechanics deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Phyrexian Gremlins

Creature - Gremlin

You may choose not to untap Phyrexian Gremlins during your untap step.

: Tap target artifact. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Phyrexian Gremlins remains tapped.

Power Artifact

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact

Enchanted artifact's activated abilities cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the amount of mana an ability costs to activate to less than one mana.

Powerleech

Enchantment

Whenever an artifact an opponent controls becomes tapped or an opponent activates an artifact's ability without in its activation cost, you gain 1 life.

The Forest of Argoth has developed a resistance to mechanical intrusion.

Priest of Yawgmoth

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice an artifact: Add to your mana pool an amount of equal to the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost.

Rakalite

Artifact

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. Return Rakalite to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Urza was the first to understand that the war would not be lost for lack of power, but for lack of troops.

Staff of Zegon

Artifact

, : Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

Though Mishra was impressed by the staves Ashnod had created for Zegon's defense, he understood they only hinted at her full potential.

Su-Chi

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Su-Chi dies, add to your mana pool.

Flawed copies of relics from the Thran Empire, the Su-Chi were inherently unstable but provided useful knowledge for Tocasia's students.

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.

Tawnos's Coffin

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Tawnos's Coffin during your untap step.

, : Exile target creature and all Auras attached to it. Note the number and kind of counters that were on that creature. When Tawnos's Coffin leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control tapped with the noted number and kind of counters on it, and if you do, return the exiled Aura cards to the battlefield under their owner's control attached to that permanent.

Transmute Artifact

Sorcery

Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card's converted mana cost is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost, put it onto the battlefield. If it's greater, you may pay , where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

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.

Urza's Miter

Artifact

Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it wasn't sacrificed, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Weakstone

Artifact

Attacking creatures get -1/-0.

During the brothers' childhood, Tocasia took them to explore the sacred cave of Koilos. There, in the Hall of Tagsin, Mishra discovered the mysterious weakstone.

Abu Ja'far

Creature - Human

When Abu Ja'far dies, destroy all creatures blocking or blocked by it. They can't be regenerated.

Aladdin

Creature - Human Rogue

, : Gain control of target artifact for as long as you control Aladdin.

Ali from Cairo

Creature - Human

Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Army of Allah

Instant

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

On the day of victory no one is tired. -Arab proverb

Bazaar of Baghdad

Land

: Draw two cards, then discard three cards.

Camel

Creature - Camel

Banding (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.)

As long as Camel is attacking, prevent all damage Deserts would deal to Camel and to creatures banded with Camel.

Everyone knew Walid was a pious man, for he had been blessed with many sons, many jewels, and a great many Camels.

City in a Bottle

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken permanent from the Arabian Nights expansion other than City in a Bottle is on the battlefield, its controller sacrifices it.

Players can't play cards from the Arabian Nights expansion.

Cuombajj Witches

Creature - Human Wizard

: Cuombajj Witches deals 1 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to target creature or player of an opponent's choice.

Cyclone

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a wind counter on Cyclone, then sacrifice Cyclone unless you pay for each wind counter on it. If you pay, Cyclone deals damage equal to the number of wind counters on it to each creature and each player.

Desert

Land - Desert

: Add to your mana pool.

: Desert deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate this ability only during the end of combat step.

Desert Nomads

Creature - Human Nomad

Desertwalk

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Desert Nomads by Deserts.

Diamond Valley

Land

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Drop of Honey

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can't be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them.

When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Drop of Honey.

Elephant Graveyard

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Regenerate target Elephant.

Erhnam Djinn

Creature - Djinn

At the beginning of your upkeep, target non-Wall creature an opponent controls gains forestwalk until your next upkeep.

Flying Men

Creature - Human

Flying

Saffiyah clapped her hands and twenty flying men appeared at her side, each well trained in the art of combat.

Guardian Beast

Creature - Beast

As long as Guardian Beast is untapped, noncreature artifacts you control can't be enchanted, they're indestructible, and other players can't gain control of them. This effect doesn't remove Auras already attached to those artifacts.