Synod Sanctum

Artifact

, : Exile target permanent you control.

, Sacrifice Synod Sanctum: Return all cards exiled with Synod Sanctum to the battlefield under your control.

Tel-Jilad Stylus

Artifact

: Put target permanent you own on the bottom of your library.

Viridian Longbow

Artifact - Equipment

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

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Æther Vial

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Æther Vial.

: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Æther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

Arcbound Worker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

The parts are as strong as the whole.

Leonin Bola

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", Unattach Leonin Bola: Tap target creature."

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Myr Moonvessel

Artifact Creature - Myr

When Myr Moonvessel dies, add to your mana pool.

Memnarch created the myr with three qualities in mind: dependability, controllability, and disposability.

Skullclamp

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.

Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.

Equip

Avarice Totem

Artifact

: Exchange control of Avarice Totem and target nonland permanent.

Souls and steel, the essence of Mirrodin. Memnarch lacks one but has an abundance of the other.

Chimeric Coils

Artifact

: Chimeric Coils becomes an X/X Construct artifact creature. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

The energy that infuses the rings with life also melts them away, leaving only useless puddles of slag.

Conjurer's Bauble

Artifact

, Sacrifice Conjurer's Bauble: Put up to one target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Draw a card.

It is the moment of discovery, the triumph of the mind, the reimagining of past glory.

Lantern of Insight

Artifact

Each player plays with the top card of his or her library revealed.

, Sacrifice Lantern of Insight: Target player shuffles his or her library.

Each eye sees a different possibility for tomorrow.

Myr Servitor

Artifact Creature - Myr

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Myr Servitor is on the battlefield, each player returns all cards named Myr Servitor from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

The Krark Clan enjoys pulling them apart just to watch them reassemble one another.

Razorgrass Screen

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Razorgrass Screen blocks each turn if able.

Hand-stitched, and marked by the blood of the Auriok.

Wayfarer's Bauble

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

It is the forest beyond the horizon, the mountain waiting to be climbed, the new land across the endless sea.

Hankyu

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": Put an aim counter on Hankyu" and ", Remove all aim counters from Hankyu: This creature deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of aim counters removed this way."

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

Sensei's Divining Top

Artifact

: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Blinding Powder

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has "Unattach Blinding Powder: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn."

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

Shuko

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

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

"One scratch on a wall meant safe passage, two that the target had already been raided, and three warned of a trap."
-Weaponry of Kamigawa

Shuriken

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", Unattach Shuriken: Shuriken deals 2 damage to target creature. That creature's controller gains control of Shuriken unless it was unattached from a Ninja."

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

O-Naginata

Artifact - Equipment

O-Naginata can be attached only to a creature with 3 or more power.

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample.

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

Peregrine Mask

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has defender, flying, and first strike.

Equip

The mask confers both the prowess of a falcon and its loyalty.

Terrarion

Artifact

Terrarion enters the battlefield tapped.

, , Sacrifice Terrarion: Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool.

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

Voyager Staff

Artifact

, Sacrifice Voyager Staff: Exile target creature. Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Voyager staffs are sought by those hoping to find an escape from the sprawling glut of Ravnica.

Moratorium Stone

Artifact

, : Exile target card from a graveyard.

, , Sacrifice Moratorium Stone: Exile target nonland card from a graveyard, all other cards from graveyards with the same name as that card, and all permanents with that name.

Brass Gnat

Artifact Creature - Insect

Flying

Brass Gnat doesn't untap during your untap step.

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

Its buzzing is the sound of its inner mechanisms, ever winding down.

Locket of Yesterdays

Artifact

Spells you cast cost less to cast for each card with the same name as that spell in your graveyard.

Every hour, at the turning of the glass, its owner had whispered to the locket, seeding it with secrets. This would be her legacy, her memory, if the rifts should take her.

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.

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.

Sol Ring

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Amulet of Vigor

Artifact

Whenever a permanent enters the battlefield tapped and under your control, untap it.

"After years of study, I've learned an important lesson: the relics we watch may be watching us back."
-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Basilisk Collar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.

Equip

During their endless travels, the mages of the Goma Fada caravan have learned ways to harness both life and death.

Glaring Spotlight

Artifact

Creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

, Sacrifice Glaring Spotlight: Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn and are unblockable this turn.

Skyblinder Staff

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.

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

"If bats are the only thing between me and a mountain of Orzhov coins, then I'm about to be a very rich thief."

Vial of Poison

Artifact

, Sacrifice Vial of Poison: Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

There are worse ways to die, but not many.

Flamecast Wheel

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Flamecast Wheel: Flamecast Wheel deals 3 damage to target creature.

Beware the gifts of an ill-tempered forge god.

Pyxis of Pandemonium

Artifact

: Each player exiles the top card of his or her library face down.

, , Sacrifice Pyxis of Pandemonium: Each player turns face up all cards he or she owns exiled with Pyxis of Pandemonium, then puts all permanent cards among them onto the battlefield.

Witches' Eye

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : Scry 1." (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Equip

The price of prophecy is a vacant eye socket.

Gorgon's Head

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch.

Equip

"You slew the gorgon? Show me."
-King Igalus, last words

Whispergear Sneak

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Whispergear Sneak face up.

During the draft, you may turn Whispergear Sneak face down. If you do, look at any unopened booster pack in the draft or any booster pack not being looked at by another player.

Spy for today. Plan for tomorrow.

Hot Soup

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can't be blocked.

Whenever equipped creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

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

"Comin' through!"
Designed by James Ernest

Profane Memento

Artifact

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.

"An angel's skull is left too plain by death. I made a few aesthetic modifications."
-Dommique, blood artist

Shield of the Avatar

Artifact - Equipment

If a source would deal damage to equipped creature, prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of creatures you control.

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

We are made stronger by those we fight for.
Designed by Richard Garriott

Altar of the Brood

Artifact

Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Supplicants offer flesh and silver, flowers and blood. The altar takes what it will, eyes gleaming with unspoken promises.

Ghostfire Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

Equip

Ghostfire Blade's equip ability costs less to activate if it targets a colorless creature.

If you fear the dragon's fire, you are unworthy to wield it.

Lens of Clarity

Artifact

You may look at the top card of your library and at face-down creatures you don't control. (You may do this at any time.)

"Water shifts and confuses, but as ice it holds the stillness of truth."
-Arel the Whisperer

Masterwork of Ingenuity

Artifact - Equipment

You may have Masterwork of Ingenuity enter the battlefield as a copy of any Equipment on the battlefield.

"The crucible yields what you have forged in your mind. You need only reach in and draw the masterwork forth."
-Wahara, Keeper of the Crucible

Keeper of the Lens

Artifact Creature - Golem

You may look at face-down creatures you don't control. (You may do this at any time.)

"It sees all, but it reveals what it sees only to a chosen few."
-Taigam, Ojutai master

Hedron Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by one or more colorless creatures, it gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

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

Pathway Arrows

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. If a colorless creature is dealt damage this way, tap it."

Equip

Also called "pathway stones," hedron shards can immobilize Eldrazi on contact.

Stoneforge Masterwork

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

Equip

The nomadic kor carry only necessities on their long treks. The coming of the Eldrazi redefined "necessities."

Haunted Guardian

Artifact Creature - Construct

Defender, first strike

"Drain the victim's blood, sell the corpse, and use the soul on guard duty. No muss, no fuss, no problems."
-Olivia Voldaren

Tormentor's Trident

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and attacks each turn if able.

Equip

To a demon there is no such thing as restraint.

Vanguard's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and can block an additional creature.

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

Wars are not fought on a single front.

Kitesail

Artifact - Equipment

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

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

Kitesailing is a way of life-and without practice, the end of it.

Ring of Evos Isle

Artifact - Equipment

: Equipped creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's blue.

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

Ring of Kalonia

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has trample. (If it would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's green.

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

Ring of Thune

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's white.

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

Ring of Valkas

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has haste. (It can attack and no matter when it came under your control.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's red.

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

Ring of Xathrid

Artifact - Equipment

: Regenerate equipped creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's black.

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

Angel's Feather

Artifact

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

The angel represents divine perfection; even the smallest feather is imbued with beauty and benevolence.

Crown of Empires

Artifact

, : Tap target creature. Gain control of that creature instead if you control artifacts named Scepter of Empires and Throne of Empires.

"With this crown, assert your authority."
-Crown inscription

Demon's Horn

Artifact

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

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Dragon's Claw

Artifact

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

"If there is a fire that never ceases to burn, it surely lies in the maw of a dragon."
-Sarkhan Vol

Kraken's Eye

Artifact

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

It's seen the wonders of entire worlds trapped in the depths of a bottomless ocean.

Sundial of the Infinite

Artifact

, : End the turn. Activate this ability only during your turn. (Exile all spells and abilities on the stack. Discard down to your maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Swiftfoot Boots

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste.

Equip

Wurm's Tooth

Artifact

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

Jevna Nor lugged it around, bragging of his triumph over the wurm. Luckily, the tavern regulars didn't notice it was only a baby tooth.

Executioner's Hood

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has intimidate. (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

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

Cellar Door

Artifact

, : Target player puts the bottom card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If it's a creature card, you put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

As if anyone needed another reason to avoid dark, dank cellars.

Cobbled Wings

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying.

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

For the necro-alchemist, any puzzle can be solved with intelligence and harvested body parts.

Graveyard Shovel

Artifact

, : Target player exiles a card from his or her graveyard. If it's a creature card, you gain 2 life.

Thanks to Havengul's thriving illegal market for corpses, the shovel that interred a body during the day is usually the same one digging it out at night.

Inquisitor's Flail

Artifact - Equipment

If equipped creature would deal combat damage, it deals double that damage instead.

If another creature would deal combat damage to equipped creature, it deals double that damage to equipped creature instead.

Equip

Mask of Avacyn

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Equip

It hides the face and protects the soul.

Runechanter's Pike

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.

Equip

As sharp as its bearer's words of faith.

Sharpened Pitchfork

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike.

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

Equip

Not everyone can have a sword of blessed silver. Not everyone needs one, either.

Wooden Stake

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a Vampire, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

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

Tablet of the Guilds

Artifact

As Tablet of the Guilds enters the battlefield, choose two colors.

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.

It is rumored the Azorius paid an exorbitant sum to ensure its symbol would appear at the top.

Ethersworn Canonist

Artifact Creature - Human Cleric

Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.

"The noble work of our order is to infuse all life on Esper with etherium. Our goal will be reached more rapidly if new life is . . . suppressed."

Metallurgeon

Artifact Creature - Human Artificer

, : Regenerate target artifact.

"By the time I got there, the heart had stopped. Fortunately, I was able to replace it with something better."

Courier's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Courier's Capsule: Draw two cards.

In ages past, Esper couriers bore messages written on ornate scrolls. The medium has grown more sophisticated, but the principle remains the same.

Etherium Sculptor

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Artificer

Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Glaze Fiend

Artifact Creature - Illusion

Flying

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Glaze Fiend gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Before the zealots of the Ethersworn came to power, Esper illusionists dreamed up creations to mimic a variety of substances.

Puppet Conjurer

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

, : Put a 0/1 blue Homunculus artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Homunculus.

He scowls at his imperfect creation, then crushes it to scrap. He salvages the etherium and begins anew.

Thoughtcutter Agent

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

, : Target player loses 1 life and reveals his or her hand.

Agents of the Architects of Will mark their victims as a reminder that their secrets are secret no longer.

Tidehollow Sculler

Artifact Creature - Zombie

When Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.

When Tidehollow Sculler leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Tidehollow Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

The scullers beneath Esper keep strixes as trained pets, and set them loose when a fare refuses to pay.

Cathedral Membrane

Artifact Creature - Wall

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Defender

When Cathedral Membrane dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.

Vault Skirge

Artifact Creature - Imp

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

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

From the remnants of the dead, Geth forged a swarm to safeguard his throne.

Hovermyr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Flying, vigilance

Originally created to harvest blinkmoths, the hovermyr are now the silent observers of a dying world.

Immolating Souleater

Artifact Creature - Hound

: Immolating Souleater gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for melting the sinful that we may be reminded of our own insignificance."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Mindcrank

Artifact

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard. (Damage dealt by sources without infect causes loss of life.)

"Let go of your memories and be reborn."
-Argent Etchings, plate 106, passage 27

Mycosynth Wellspring

Artifact

When Mycosynth Wellspring enters the battlefield or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

The oil created the mycosynth. The mycosynth created New Phyrexia.

Myr Superion

Artifact Creature - Myr

Spend only mana produced by creatures to cast Myr Superion.

Two kinds of myr survive: the powerful and those that stay close by them.

Shrine of Burning Rage

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a red spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Burning Rage.

, , Sacrifice Shrine of Burning Rage: Shrine of Burning Rage deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to target creature or player.

Shrine of Loyal Legions

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a white spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Loyal Legions.

, , Sacrifice Shrine of Loyal Legions: Put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield for each charge counter on Shrine of Loyal Legions.

Shrine of Piercing Vision

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a blue spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Piercing Vision.

, Sacrifice Shrine of Piercing Vision: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of charge counters on Shrine of Piercing Vision. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Spellskite

Artifact Creature - Horror

: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"Let's show Vorinclex that progress doesn't always need teeth or claws."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Torpor Orb

Artifact

Creatures entering the battlefield don't cause abilities to trigger.

"Phyrexia is certainly dangerous, but I have to admire some of its innovations."
-Tezzeret

Gust-Skimmer

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Gust-Skimmer gains flying until end of turn.

Phyrexian smog clouds choked the skies, threatening creatures who couldn't comprehend the menace below.