Ashes of the Fallen

Artifact

As Ashes of the Fallen enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Each creature card in your graveyard has the chosen creature type in addition to its other types.

The ashes of the dead mingle with the soil, and both become as one.

Blood Clock

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns a permanent he or she controls to its owner's hand unless he or she pays 2 life.

In an age of war, time is measured not by sand but by blood.

Ebony Owl Netsuke

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has seven or more cards in hand, Ebony Owl Netsuke deals 4 damage to him or her.

"Owls filled the skies during the Kami War, harbingers of darker times to come."
-The History of Kamigawa

Ivory Crane Netsuke

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have seven or more cards in hand, you gain 4 life.

It is said that the feathers of a crane are clouds, plucked and sewn together by the hands of the kami.

Manriki-Gusari

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has ": Destroy target Equipment."

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.)

Scroll of Origins

Artifact

, : Draw a card if you have seven or more cards in hand.

The words from which language sprang, the knowledge from which thought was born, the story from which history was woven.

Soratami Cloud Chariot

Artifact

: Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

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

Wine of Blood and Iron

Artifact

: Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. Sacrifice Wine of Blood and Iron at the beginning of the next end step.

Godo never revealed what went into his special brew, but he always had more of it after great victories.

Bloodletter Quill

Artifact

, , Put a blood counter on Bloodletter Quill: Draw a card, then lose 1 life for each blood counter on Bloodletter Quill.

: Remove a blood counter from Bloodletter Quill.

Boros Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

"Have you ever held a Boros signet? There's a weight to it that belies its size-a weight of strength and of pride."
-Agrus Kos

Bottled Cloister

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, exile all cards from your hand face down.

At the beginning of your upkeep, return all cards you own exiled with Bottled Cloister to your hand, then draw a card.

Cloudstone Curio

Artifact

Whenever a nonartifact permanent enters the battlefield under your control, you may return another permanent you control that shares a card type with it to its owner's hand.

It wants to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Crown of Convergence

Artifact

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is a creature card, creatures you control that share a color with that card get +1/+1.

: Put the top card of your library on the bottom of your library.

Cyclopean Snare

Artifact

, : Tap target creature, then return Cyclopean Snare to its owner's hand.

The spoiled, gluttonous halls of the Orzhov teem with gaudy, needless wealth. Even their security measures are made for beauty first, efficiency second.

Dimir Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members-and the doomed.

Golgari Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Depending on your point of view, the seal represents a proud guardian of the natural cycle or one who has sold her soul to darkness for eternal life.

Grifter's Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Flash

As Grifter's Blade enters the battlefield, choose a creature you control it could be attached to. If you do, it enters the battlefield attached to that creature.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

Equip

Pariah's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to equipped creature instead.

Equip

To bear the shield of the pariah is the highest honor a Boros can receive-and the last.

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.

Plague Boiler

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a plague counter on Plague Boiler.

: Put a plague counter on Plague Boiler or remove a plague counter from it.

When Plague Boiler has three or more plague counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, destroy all nonland permanents.

Selesnya Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

The symbol of the Conclave is one of unity, with tree supporting sun and sun feeding tree.

Spectral Searchlight

Artifact

: Choose a player. That player adds one mana of any color he or she chooses to his or her mana pool.

The first searchlights were given as gifts, symbols of cooperation, to the emissaries present at the signing of the Guildpact.

Sunforger

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+0.

, Unattach Sunforger: Search your library for a red or white instant card with converted mana cost 4 or less and cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then shuffle your library.

Equip

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.

Gruul Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Gruul War Plow

Artifact

Creatures you control have trample.

: Gruul War Plow becomes a 4/4 Juggernaut artifact creature until end of turn.

Izzet Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Mizzium Transreliquat

Artifact

: Mizzium Transreliquat becomes a copy of target artifact until end of turn.

: Mizzium Transreliquat becomes a copy of target artifact and gains this ability.

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.

Orzhov Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Sword of the Paruns

Artifact - Equipment

As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0.

As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

: You may tap or untap equipped creature.

Equip

Azorius Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law-strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Evolution Vat

Artifact

, : Tap target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Until end of turn, that creature gains ": Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature."

The vats are self-contained worlds, bubbling and churning with unnatural speed, boiling down eons of change into moments.

Magewright's Stone

Artifact

, : Untap target creature that has an activated ability with in its cost.

The stones hark back to an age before civilization, when the living earth blessed all who trod its untamed wilds.

Muse Vessel

Artifact

, : Target player exiles a card from his or her hand. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

: Choose a card exiled with Muse Vessel. You may play that card this turn.

Rakdos Riteknife

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each blood counter on Rakdos Riteknife and has ", Sacrifice a creature: Put a blood counter on Rakdos Riteknife."

, Sacrifice Rakdos Riteknife: Target player sacrifices a permanent for each blood counter on Rakdos Riteknife.

Equip

Rakdos Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Made of bone and boiled in blood, a Rakdos signet is not considered finished until it has been used as a murder weapon.

Simic Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

For the Simic Combine, its sigil serves not as an emblem of honor but as a trademark. Its familiar image on any biological commodity attests to superb craftsmanship, ingenious innovation, and higher cost.