Diabolic Machine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Regenerate Diabolic Machine.

"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning."
-Sevti Mukul, The Fall of Alsoor

Grapeshot Catapult

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Grapeshot Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

Recent research suggests these creatures were invented by Urza's and Mishra's original master, Tocasia, and that both brothers used them.

Green Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Green Mana Battery.

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

Red Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Red Mana Battery.

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

Shapeshifter

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

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

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

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

Tawnos's Wand

Artifact

, : Target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn.

Tawnos's Weaponry

Artifact

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

, : Target creature gets +1/+1 for as long as Tawnos's Weaponry remains tapped.

When war machines became too costly, Tawnos's Weaponry replaced them.

Tetravus

Artifact Creature - Construct

Flying

Tetravus enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from Tetravus. If you do, put that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield. They each have flying and "This creature can't be enchanted."

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens put onto the battlefield with Tetravus. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on Tetravus.

Urza's Avenger

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

: Urza's Avenger gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of banding, flying, first strike, or trample 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.)

Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one versatile being.

Wall of Spears

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

First strike

Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging Craw Wurms.

White Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on White Mana Battery.

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

Yotian Soldier

Artifact Creature - Soldier

Vigilance

After Kroog was destroyed while most of its defenders were at his side, Urza vowed that none of his allies would ever need to fear for their own defense again, even while laying siege to a city far from their homes.

Aeolipile

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Aeolipile: Aeolipile deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Although fragile, the Aeolipile could be quite destructive."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. I

Balm of Restoration

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Balm of Restoration: Choose one - You gain 2 life; or prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"Not all armies enjoyed the services of a medic. For them, Balm of Restoration was that much more valuable."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. I

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.

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

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.

Draconian Cylix

Artifact

, , Discard a card at random: Regenerate target creature.

"There is no gain without sacrifice."
-Icatian proverb

Elven Lyre

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Elven Lyre: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Scholars are uncertain whether it was the actual sound or some other magical property of the Elven Lyre that transformed its player.

Implements of Sacrifice

Artifact

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

Relics of the Order of the Ebon Hand, the bowl and dagger bespeak the hideous cruelty of its rituals.

Ring of Renewal

Artifact

, : Discard a card at random, then draw two cards.

To the uninitiated, the Ring of Renewal is merely an oddity. For those fluent in the wielding of magic, however, it is a source of great knowledge.

Spirit Shield

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Spirit Shield during your untap step.

, : Target creature gets +0/+2 for as long as Spirit Shield remains tapped.

At times, survival must outweigh all other considerations.

Zelyon Sword

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Zelyon Sword during your untap step.

, : Target creature gets +2/+0 for as long as Zelyon Sword remains tapped.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Bone Flute

Artifact

, : All creatures get -1/-0 until end of turn.

After the Battle of Pitdown, Lady Ursnell fashioned the first such instrument out of Lord Ursnell's left leg.

Book of Rass

Artifact

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Coal Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Coal Golem: Add to your mana pool.

"Three such creatures stood burning at the crest of the hill. Only seconds later, the Fireball struck our front line." -Lydia, Countess Brellis

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

Living Armor

Artifact

, Sacrifice Living Armor: Put X +0/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Though it affords excellent protection, few don this armor. The process is uncomfortable and not easily reversed.

Necropolis

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put X +0/+1 counters on Necropolis, where X is the exiled card's converted mana cost.

Reflecting Mirror

Artifact

, : Change the target of target spell with a single target if that target is you. The new target must be a player. X is twice the converted mana cost of that spell.

Runesword

Artifact

, : Target attacking creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. When that creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice Runesword. If the creature deals damage to a creature this turn, the creature dealt damage can't be regenerated this turn. If a creature dealt damage by the targeted creature would die this turn, exile that creature instead.

Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

, : Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by creatures with flying.

There was more malice in its button eyes than should have been possible in something that had never known life.

Standing Stones

Artifact

, , Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Stone Calendar

Artifact

Spells you cast cost up to less to cast.

The Pretender Mairsil ordered a great Calendar drawn up to show when the paths to the Dark Lands were strongest.

Tower of Coireall

Artifact

: Target creature can't be blocked by Walls this turn.

Wand of Ith

Artifact

, : Target player reveals a card at random from his or her hand. If it's a land card, that player discards it unless he or she pays 1 life. If it isn't a land card, the player discards it unless he or she pays life equal to its converted mana cost. Activate this ability only during your turn.

War Barge

Artifact

: Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn. When War Barge leaves the battlefield this turn, destroy that creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Al-abara's Carpet

Artifact

, : Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by attacking creatures without flying.

Al-abara simply laughed and lifted one finger, and the carpet carried her high out of our reach.

Alchor's Tomb

Artifact

, : Target permanent you control becomes the color of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Arena of the Ancients

Artifact

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

When Arena of the Ancients enters the battlefield, tap all legendary creatures.

Bronze Horse

Artifact Creature - Horse

Trample

As long as you control another creature, prevent all damage that would be dealt to Bronze Horse by spells that target it.

Forethought Amulet

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Forethought Amulet unless you pay .

If an instant or sorcery source would deal 3 or more damage to you, it deals 2 damage to you instead.

Horn of Deafening

Artifact

, : Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn.

"A blast, an echo . . . then silence."

Knowledge Vault

Artifact

, : Exile the top card of your library face down.

: Sacrifice Knowledge Vault. If you do, discard your hand, then put all cards exiled with Knowledge Vault into their owner's hand.

When Knowledge Vault leaves the battlefield, put all cards exiled with Knowledge Vault into their owner's graveyard.

Kry Shield

Artifact

, : Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by target creature you control. That creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is its converted mana cost.

Life Chisel

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Life Matrix

Artifact

, : Put a matrix counter on target creature and that creature gains "Remove a matrix counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature." Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Mana Matrix

Artifact

Instant and enchantment spells you cast cost up to less to cast.

Marble Priest

Artifact Creature - Cleric

All Walls able to block Marble Priest do so.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Marble Priest by Walls.

Mirror Universe

Artifact

, Sacrifice Mirror Universe: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

North Star

Artifact

, : For one spell this turn, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to pay that spell's mana cost. (Additional costs are still paid normally.)

Nova Pentacle

Artifact

, : The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, that damage is dealt to target creature of an opponent's choice instead.

Planar Gate

Artifact

Creature spells you cast cost up to less to cast.

Nireya reached through the Gate, sensing the energies trapped beyond.

Relic Barrier

Artifact

: Tap target artifact.

Ring of Immortals

Artifact

, : Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.

Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

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

Sword of the Ages

Artifact

Sword of the Ages enters the battlefield tapped.

, Sacrifice Sword of the Ages and any number of creatures you control: Sword of the Ages deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the total power of the creatures sacrificed this way, then exile Sword of the Ages and those creature cards.

Triassic Egg

Artifact

, : Put a hatchling counter on Triassic Egg.

Sacrifice Triassic Egg: Choose one - You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield; or return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only if two or more hatchling counters are on Triassic Egg.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Flying Carpet

Artifact

, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Candelabra of Tawnos

Artifact

, : Untap X target lands.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pyramids

Artifact

: Choose one - Destroy target Aura attached to a land; or the next time target land would be destroyed this turn, remove all damage marked on it instead.

Ring of Ma'rûf

Artifact

, , Exile Ring of Ma'rûf: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead choose a card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand.

Sandals of Abdallah

Artifact

, : Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn. When that creature dies this turn, destroy Sandals of Abdallah.

Ankh of Mishra

Artifact

Whenever a land enters the battlefield, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Basalt Monolith

Artifact

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add to your mana pool.

: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Black Lotus

Artifact

, Sacrifice Black Lotus: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.

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.

Celestial Prism

Artifact

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

Chaos Orb

Artifact

, : If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all permanents it touches. Then destroy Chaos Orb.

Clockwork Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

Clockwork Beast enters the battlefield with seven +1/+0 counters on it.

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

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

Conservator

Artifact

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

Copper Tablet

Artifact

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

Crystal Rod

Artifact

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

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.