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.

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.

Patchwork Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

Discard a card: Regenerate Patchwork Gnomes.

When building gnomes, dwarves adhere to the highest standards. The gnomes themselves aren't as particular.

Porcelain Legionnaire

Artifact Creature - Soldier

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

First strike

"My new design has lightweight plating specially cultivated from heretics' spare tissues."
-Izathel, priest of the Annex

Spined Thopter

Artifact Creature - Thopter

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

"I appreciate the depravity of noble designs turned to devious ends."
-Tezzeret

Alloy Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

With or without witnesses, the suns continued their prismatic dance.

Blinding Souleater

Artifact Creature - Cleric

, : Tap target creature. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for inscribing our souls with subservience, to reinforce the sacred order."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Kiln Walker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Kiln Walker attacks, it gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

If it possesses an ability to understand and appreciate life, it has never shown it.

Trespassing Souleater

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Trespassing Souleater is unblockable this turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for surveilling our lives that we may be preserved from our own ignorance."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Brass Squire

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

"I admire it. Few pull off pluck and subservience at the same time."
-Ezuri, renegade leader

Myr Welder

Artifact Creature - Myr

Imprint - : Exile target artifact card from a graveyard.

Myr Welder has all activated abilities of all cards exiled with it.

Memnarch designed some myr to follow the levelers and reaffix lost parts. Mirran partisans put that instinct to good use.

Phyrexian Digester

Artifact Creature - Construct

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"Our cause will ripen in the fertile flesh of the unworthy."
-Sheoldred, Whispering One

Shimmer Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Flash

You may cast artifact cards as though they had flash.

It evades Phyrexians by hiding in the spaces between seconds.

Spin Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Target creature can't block Spin Engine this turn.

"It will be battle-ready before our strike at Oxid Ridge, and it will guarantee our victory."
-Ketuc of the Helm

Training Drone

Artifact Creature - Drone

Training Drone can't attack or block unless it's equipped.

"Vulshok flail, Viridian shield, loxodon blade . . . Tazzir, bring the Moriok hook and assemble the rookies."
-Vy Covalt, Neurok agent

Auriok Replica

Artifact Creature - Cleric

, Sacrifice Auriok Replica: Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal to you this turn.

All the loyalty of the Auriok with only a trace of their self-righteousness.

Darksteel Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Darksteel Myr is indestructible. (Lethal damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Etched Champion

Artifact Creature - Soldier

Metalcraft - Etched Champion has protection from all colors as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Its predecessors were etched with the wisdom of ancients; its own etchings bear warnings of a future fraught with war.

Moriok Replica

Artifact Creature - Warrior

, Sacrifice Moriok Replica: You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

All the secrets of the Moriok with only a trace of their corruption.

Myr Galvanizer

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

, : Untap each other Myr you control.

"We can't quite determine what they're doing, but they seem to be doing it quite well."
-Vedalken research notes

Myr Propagator

Artifact Creature - Myr

, : Put a token that's a copy of Myr Propagator onto the battlefield.

"We will ingest and remake this world in our image, not unlike some admirable designs I have seen here."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Neurok Replica

Artifact Creature - Wizard

, Sacrifice Neurok Replica: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

All the curiosity of the Neurok with only a trace of their duplicity.

Palladium Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations.

Rust Tick

Artifact Creature - Insect

You may choose not to untap Rust Tick during your untap step.

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

Snapsail Glider

Artifact Creature - Construct

Metalcraft - Snapsail Glider has flying as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Built from a reconfigured thresher, it charges with light reflected off the golden plain, ready to take to the air in case of danger.

Sylvok Replica

Artifact Creature - Shaman

, Sacrifice Sylvok Replica: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

All the zeal of the Sylvok with only a trace of their conservancy.

Vulshok Replica

Artifact Creature - Berserker

, Sacrifice Vulshok Replica: Vulshok Replica deals 3 damage to target player.

All the fury of the Vulshok with only a trace of their recklessness.

Reinforced Bulwark

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Built of wood and iron. Held together by hope and prayer.

Stonework Puma

Artifact Creature - Cat Ally

"We suffer uneasy ground, unstable alliances, and unpredictable magic. Something you can truly trust is worth more than a chest of gold."
-Nikou, Joraga bard

Ethersworn Shieldmage

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Flash

When Ethersworn Shieldmage enters the battlefield, prevent all damage that would be dealt to artifact creatures this turn.

"See, children of metal? Already your bodies are rejecting harm. Continue on our path, and perfection will be yours."

Vectis Dominator

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

: Tap target creature unless its controller pays 2 life.

"I appreciate the artistry of the telemins, but the creatures of the other worlds provide a much more dramatic performance."
-Ennor, mentalist

Esper Sojourners

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

When you cycle Esper Sojourners or it dies, you may tap or untap target permanent.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The wilder the frontier, the greater the need for a controlling hand.

Gargoyle Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Until end of turn, Gargoyle Sentinel loses defender and gains flying.

"Do not mistake a quiet rampart for one that is unguarded. Some things stir only when they need to."
-Bonovar, siege commander

Esperzoa

Artifact Creature - Jellyfish

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

The more metal it digests, the more its jelly will fetch on the alchemists' market.

Parasitic Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

When Parasitic Strix enters the battlefield, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

After finding no sustenance on the edges of Grixis, it turned to the skies of Bant.

Hoof Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

: Target green creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

It hunts with the memory of a long lost herd.

Scarecrone

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

, Sacrifice a Scarecrow: Draw a card.

, : Return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Her poppets bring joy to the truly depraved.

Lurebound Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

As Lurebound Scarecrow enters the battlefield, choose a color.

When you control no permanents of the chosen color, sacrifice Lurebound Scarecrow.

It's a fool's race to run if all is lost if it be won.

Scuttlemutt

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

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

: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Built to shuttle goods from the river, it took off one day carrying a cauldron of dyes.

Tatterkite

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Flying

Tatterkite can't have counters placed on it.

"I rigged it together from wicker and scrap, yet somehow I find it unalterably perfect."
-Braenna, cobblesmith

Wingrattle Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Wingrattle Scarecrow has flying as long as you control a blue creature.

Wingrattle Scarecrow has persist as long as you control a black creature. (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Bottle Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

Sacrifice Bottle Gnomes: You gain 3 life.

Reinforcements . . . or refreshments?

Steel Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

You can't cast creature spells.

"Once you create perfection, what else is there to make?"
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wall of Shields

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Banding (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.)

"It's the pokey bits that hurt the most."
-Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician

Ersatz Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

: Target spell becomes colorless.

: Target permanent becomes colorless until end of turn.

From jungle to sea, from sea to stone, from stone to field, from field to bone. What am I? -Zhalfirin riddle

Horrible Hordes

Artifact Creature - Spirit

Rampage 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Few are able to underestimate the hordes.

Jangling Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Jangling Automaton attacks, untap all creatures defending player controls.

"We always look upon our first creations as masterpieces, no matter how awful they are."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Serrated Biskelion

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Put a -1/-1 counter on Serrated Biskelion and a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Whereas I was created to protect, the biskelion was created to destroy."
-Karn, silver golem

Coiled Tinviper

Artifact Creature - Snake

First strike

The bite of the tinviper feels most like a razor drawn across the tongue.

Watchdog

Artifact Creature - Hound

Watchdog blocks each turn if able.

As long as Watchdog is untapped, all creatures attacking you get -1/-0.

Its growl is a long, rumbling grind of gears and clockwork, its bark a blast of hissing steam.

Transmogrifying Licid

Artifact Creature - Licid

, : Transmogrifying Licid loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay to end this effect.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and is an artifact in addition to its other types.

Cathodion

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Cathodion dies, add to your mana pool.

Instead of creating a tool that would be damaged by heat, the Thran built one that was charged by it.

Hopping Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Hopping Automaton gets -1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Designed to carry equipment across rivers, the hopping automaton was soon pressed into service in the infantry.

Ticking Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Sacrifice Ticking Gnomes: Ticking Gnomes deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Brass Secretary

Artifact Creature - Construct

, Sacrifice Brass Secretary: Draw a card.

The students disliked the secretary for its unfailing memory-until they discovered it couldn't dodge thrown objects.

Junk Diver

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

When Junk Diver dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Garbage in, treasure out.

Metalworker

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Reveal any number of artifact cards in your hand. Add to your mana pool for each card revealed this way.

"At this rate I fully expect to be replaced by a clockwork golem by year's end."
-Barrin

Sparring Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Whenever Sparring Golem becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"Part drill sergeant, part training dummy," thought Gerrard. "I hope it can stand up to a real war."

Proteus Machine

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

Morph (You may cast this face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

When Proteus Machine is turned face up, it becomes the creature type of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Elf Replica

Artifact Creature - Elf

, Sacrifice Elf Replica: Destroy target enchantment.

Goblin Replica

Artifact Creature - Goblin

, Sacrifice Goblin Replica: Destroy target artifact.

Myr Adapter

Artifact Creature - Myr

Myr Adapter gets +1/+1 for each Equipment attached to it.

Nim Replica

Artifact Creature - Zombie

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

Soldier Replica

Artifact Creature - Soldier

, Sacrifice Soldier Replica: Soldier Replica deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Wizard Replica

Artifact Creature - Wizard

Flying

, Sacrifice Wizard Replica: Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Myr Landshaper

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Target land becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

One thing the myr can't do is enjoy the scenery.

Battered Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Battered Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may untap Battered Golem.

A dent marks every year of service, and it has as much rust as glory.

Ferropede

Artifact Creature - Insect

Ferropede is unblockable.

Whenever Ferropede deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from target permanent.

Suntouched Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

As the fifth sun joins the other four, new abilities awaken in the creatures of Mirrodin.

Thermal Navigator

Artifact Creature - Construct

Sacrifice an artifact: Thermal Navigator gains flying until end of turn.

It takes off with a roar of superheated wind, startling wild pterons as they survey the ground below.

Walking Archive

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Walking Archive enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player draws a card for each +1/+1 counter on Walking Archive.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Archive.

Assembly-Worker

Artifact Creature - Assembly-Worker

: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

With their factories long destroyed, some of Mishra's creations still toil in remote areas, endlessly performing and reperforming their last orders.

Sarcomite Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Sarcomite Myr gains flying until end of turn.

, Sacrifice Sarcomite Myr: Draw a card.

"A horrible sight, yes, but the sounds . . . Its twanging tendons and grinding gears are almost musical."
-Brudiclad, Telchor engineer

Pilgrim's Eye

Artifact Creature - Thopter

Flying

When Pilgrim's Eye enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

The kor send their thopter kites to see if the land is in a welcoming mood.

Shardless Agent

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Clay Pigeon

Artifact Creature

Flying

, Throw Clay Pigeon into the air at least two feet above your head while seated, Attempt to catch it with one hand: If you catch Clay Pigeon, prevent all damage to you from any one source and return Clay Pigeon to play, tapped. Otherwise, sacrifice it.

Aesthir Glider

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Aesthir Glider can't block.

"Sacrilege A noble ally in life, made nothing more than a glorified kite in death"
-Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Phyrexian War Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

When Phyrexian War Beast leaves the battlefield, sacrifice a land and Phyrexian War Beast deals 1 damage to you.

"Deal with the spawn of Phyrexia cautiously; only with time may we control them."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Armored Transport

Artifact Creature - Construct

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Armored Transport by creatures blocking it.

"If only our jails were as secure."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Sliver Construct

Artifact Creature - Sliver Construct

Slivers destroy those who come close to the Skep, the central hive. Shards of torn metal litter the ground as a warning to any artificers inquisitive about the hive's inner workings.

Burnished Hart

Artifact Creature - Elk

, Sacrifice Burnished Hart: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Forged by divine hands to wander mortal realms.

Guardians of Meletis

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender

The histories speak of two feuding rulers whose deaths were celebrated and whose monuments symbolized the end of their wars. In truth they were peaceful lovers, their story lost to the ages.

Opaline Unicorn

Artifact Creature - Unicorn

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

Purphoros once loved Nylea, the god of the hunt. His passion inspired his most astounding works of art.

Pillar of War

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender

As long as Pillar of War is enchanted, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Just because a temple has no guards doesn't mean it's undefended.

Cogwork Spy

Artifact Creature - Bird Construct

Reveal Cogwork Spy as you draft it. You may look at the next card drafted from this booster pack.

Flying

Paliano's creations provide ample opportunities to plot the downfall of a neighbor.

Deal Broker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Deal Broker face up.

Immediately after the draft, you may reveal a card in your card pool. Each other player may offer you one card in his or her card pool in exchange. You may accept any one offer.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Hewed Stone Retainers

Artifact Creature - Golem

Cast Hewed Stone Retainers only if you've cast another spell this turn.

"Their origins are shrouded in mystery. I believe they are the protectors of the lost secrets of our world."
-Jilaya, Temur whisperer

Custodian of the Trove

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender

Custodian of the Trove enters the battlefield tapped.

Silumgar delights in repurposing the treasures of other clans to serve his own ravenous greed.

Primal Clay

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

As Primal Clay enters the battlefield, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)

Rusted Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Golem

Rusted Sentinel enters the battlefield tapped.

It has to deliberate a moment on the best way to break your face.

Solemn Simulacrum

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Galvanic Juggernaut

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Galvanic Juggernaut attacks each turn if able.

Galvanic Juggernaut doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever another creature dies, untap Galvanic Juggernaut.

Volatile Rig

Artifact Creature - Construct

Trample

Volatile Rig attacks each turn if able.

Whenever Volatile Rig is dealt damage, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, sacrifice Volatile Rig.

When Volatile Rig dies, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, it deals 4 damage to each creature and each player.

Sanctum Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

When Sanctum Gargoyle enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

As their supplies of etherium dwindled, mechanists sent gargoyles farther and farther afield in search of salvage.

Filigree Sages

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

: Untap target artifact.

"We of the Sanctum Arcanum have pondered every word on every page of the Filigree Texts. If you can't say the same, don't bother speaking."