Tapestry of the Ages

Artifact

, : Draw a card. Activate this ability only if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn.

"Abzan, Jeskai, Sultai, Mardu, Temur-names lost to history, yet worthy of further study."
-Narset

Aligned Hedron Network

Artifact

When Aligned Hedron Network enters the battlefield, exile all creatures with power 5 or greater until Aligned Hedron Network leaves the battlefield. (Those creatures return under their owners' control.)

The last hedron slotted into place, locking Ulamog in an infinite loop of binding energy.

Hedron Archive

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned.""And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Angel's Tomb

Artifact

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Angel's Tomb become a 3/3 white Angel artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"Faith can quicken the stones themselves with life."
-Writings of Mikaeus

Angelic Armaments

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and is a white Angel in addition to its other colors and types.

Equip

Forged in dark hours from the flame that would not die.

Gallows at Willow Hill

Artifact

, , Tap three untapped Humans you control: Destroy target creature. Its controller puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Vessel of Endless Rest

Artifact

When Vessel of Endless Rest enters the battlefield, put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

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

Gem of Becoming

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Gem of Becoming: Search your library for an Island card, a Swamp card, and a Mountain card. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Sands of Delirium

Artifact

, : Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

It counts down your last few moments of sanity.

Adaptive Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

As Adaptive Automaton enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Adaptive Automaton is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Such loyalty can only be made.

Druidic Satchel

Artifact

, : Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield. If it's a land card, put that card onto the battlefield under your control. If it's a noncreature, nonland card, you gain 2 life.

Greatsword

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0.

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

The only blow that matters is the killing blow.

Manalith

Artifact

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

Planeswalkers seek out great monuments throughout the Multiverse, knowing that their builders were unknowingly drawn by the convergence of mana in the area.

Scepter of Empires

Artifact

: Scepter of Empires deals 1 damage to target player. It deals 3 damage to that player instead if you control artifacts named Crown of Empires and Throne of Empires.

"With this scepter, smite your enemies."
-Scepter inscription

Altar of the Lost

Artifact

Altar of the Lost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast spells with flashback from a graveyard.

Chalice of Life

Artifact

: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform Chalice of Life.

The sweet taste of hope's promise.

Heavy Mattock

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

As long as equipped creature is a Human, it gets an additional +1/+1.

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

Helvault

Legendary Artifact

, : Exile target creature you control.

, : Exile target creature you don't control.

When Helvault is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Jar of Eyeballs

Artifact

Whenever a creature you control dies, put two eyeball counters on Jar of Eyeballs.

, , Remove all eyeball counters from Jar of Eyeballs: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of eyeball counters removed this way. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Warden of the Wall

Artifact

Warden of the Wall enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

As long as it's not your turn, Warden of the Wall is a 2/3 Gargoyle artifact creature with flying.

Butcher's Cleaver

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0.

As long as equipped creature is a Human, it has lifelink.

Equip

Outside the safety of Thraben, there is little distinction between tool and weapon.

One-Eyed Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Defender

Creatures with flying your opponents control get -1/-0.

Farmhands and priests mutter curses at the ragged thing; it unnerves more than just the crows.

Trepanation Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card. The creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each card revealed this way. That player puts the revealed cards into his or her graveyard.

Equip

Azorius Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"The higher the mind soars, the greater its understanding of the law."
-Isperia

Chromatic Lantern

Artifact

Lands you control have ": Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

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

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Golgari Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Golgari Keyrune becomes a 2/2 black and green Insect artifact creature with deathtouch until end of turn.

Like a single ant, it only hints at the colony below.

Izzet Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Until end of turn, Izzet Keyrune becomes a 2/1 blue and red Elemental artifact creature.

Whenever Izzet Keyrune deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Rakdos Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Rakdos Keyrune becomes a 3/1 black and red Devil artifact creature with first strike until end of turn.

The Rakdos use it for everything you can think of and plenty more than that.

Selesnya Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Selesnya Keyrune becomes a 3/3 green and white Wolf artifact creature until end of turn.

A mark of unity when you want one; a fierce guardian when you need one.

Marble Chalice

Artifact

: You gain 1 life.

The cup was a gift from the sphinx Tameron, who hoped that those who drank from it would live long enough to decrypt the sphinxes' wisdom.

Esper Battlemage

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

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

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

She can heal the flesh, or exploit its many weaknesses.

Etherium Astrolabe

Artifact

Flash

, , Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

"Speculation is foolish when the tools of certainty are available."
-Cinna, vedalken consul

Master of Etherium

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

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

Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

"Only a mind unfettered with the concerns of the flesh can see the world as it truly is."

Protomatter Powder

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Protomatter Powder: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"There is no such thing as scrap metal. All such material can be repaired with the proper bonding agent."
-Quennus, metallurgeon

Skill Borrower

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, Skill Borrower has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)

Vectis Silencers

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Silencers gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Even on Esper, there are those who eschew the use of magic in favor of simpler methods.

Onyx Goblet

Artifact

: Target player loses 1 life.

The goblet was a gift from the sphinx Gorael, who hoped humans and vedalken would eventually destroy each other to acquire it, leaving all of Esper to her own kind.

Windwright Mage

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Windwright Mage has flying as long as an artifact card is in your graveyard.

She knows the names and secrets of each of Esper's twenty-three winds.

Obelisk of Bant

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Whether incorporated into the structure of castles or admired as lone symbols, the obelisks stand for Bant's values of loyalty, honor, and truth.

Obelisk of Esper

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

It is a monument as austere, unyielding, and inscrutable as Esper itself.