Torture Chamber

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pain counter on Torture Chamber.

At the beginning of your end step, Torture Chamber deals damage to you equal to the number of pain counters on it.

, , Remove all pain counters from Torture Chamber: Torture Chamber deals damage to target creature equal to the number of pain counters removed this way.

Bullwhip

Artifact

, : Bullwhip deals 1 damage to target creature. That creature attacks this turn if able.

"Pain is a crude way to enforce obedience, but it is cheap and plentiful."
-Volrath

Heartstone

Artifact

Activated abilities of creatures cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the amount of mana an ability costs to activate to less than one mana.

"Finding a true heartstone is even harder than finding a true heart."
-Hanna

Horn of Greed

Artifact

Whenever a player plays a land, that player draws a card.

"Rath grows, and I am nourished."
-Volrath

Hornet Cannon

Artifact

, : Put a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying and haste named Hornet onto the battlefield. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

Jinxed Ring

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, Jinxed Ring deals 1 damage to you.

Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of Jinxed Ring. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Mox Diamond

Artifact

If Mox Diamond would enter the battlefield, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put Mox Diamond onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

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

Portcullis

Artifact

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if there are two or more other creatures on the battlefield, exile that creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control when Portcullis leaves the battlefield.

Sword of the Chosen

Legendary Artifact

: Target legendary creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

One shard of Selenia yet remained.

Volrath's Laboratory

Artifact

As Volrath's Laboratory enters the battlefield, choose a color and a creature type.

, : Put a 2/2 creature token of the chosen color and type onto the battlefield.

Erratic Portal

Artifact

, : Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays .

"In Barrin's name!" cried Lyna as Hanna's sword passed through her, "Ertai sends word that the portal is open-but not for long!"

Medicine Bag

Artifact

, , Discard a card: Regenerate target creature.

"My medicine bag and I have treated countless wounds and illnesses. But never have I seen so many made so sick for so long. We will never eat Squee's cooking again."
-Orim, journal

Memory Crystal

Artifact

Buyback costs cost less.

Hues of recollection flicker like facets of a gem.

Null Brooch

Artifact

, , Discard your hand: Counter target noncreature spell.

Give away everything so others have nothing.
-Brooch inscription

Skyshaper

Artifact

Sacrifice Skyshaper: Creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

"It'll get us to the portal, but I can't guarantee what it'll do to the ship."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Sphere of Resistance

Artifact

Spells cost more to cast.

A sphere pushes equally in all directions.

Barrin's Codex

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on Barrin's Codex.

, , Sacrifice Barrin's Codex: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on Barrin's Codex.

Claws of Gix

Artifact

, Sacrifice a permanent: You gain 1 life.

When the Brotherhood of Gix dug out the cave of Koilos they found their master's severed hand. They enshrined it, hoping that one day it would point the way to Phyrexia.

Crystal Chimes

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Crystal Chimes: Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand.

As Serra was to learn, the peace and sanctity of her realm were as fragile as glass.

Dragon Blood

Artifact

, : Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Fire in the blood, fire in the belly.

Endoskeleton

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Endoskeleton during your untap step.

, : Target creature gets +0/+3 for as long as Endoskeleton remains tapped.

Fluctuator

Artifact

Cycling abilities you activate cost you up to less to activate.

Fiko summoned only atogs for three straight sessions. The tutor couldn't decide whether to punish his failure or praise his consistency.

Lifeline

Artifact

Whenever a creature dies, if another creature is on the battlefield, return the first card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Lotus Blossom

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on Lotus Blossom.

, Sacrifice Lotus Blossom: Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is the number of petal counters on Lotus Blossom.

Metrognome

Artifact

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Metrognome, put four 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield.

, : Put a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Mishra's Helix

Artifact

, : Tap X target lands.

The helix was the finest example of Mishra's campaign strategy: if he couldn't have Argoth, no one could.

Noetic Scales

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, return to its owner's hand each creature that player controls with power greater than the number of cards in his or her hand.

Phyrexian Processor

Artifact

As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life.

, : Put an X/X black Minion creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.

Purging Scythe

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, Purging Scythe deals 2 damage to the creature with the least toughness. If two or more creatures are tied for least toughness, you choose one of them.

Smokestack

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on Smokestack.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent for each soot counter on Smokestack.

Temporal Aperture

Artifact

, : Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. Until end of turn, for as long as that card remains on top of your library, play with the top card of your library revealed and you may play that card without paying its mana cost. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)

Thran Turbine

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may add or to your mana pool. You can't spend this mana to cast spells.

When Urza asked the viashino what it did, they answered: "It hums."

Umbilicus

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.

It was the explorers' only tether to reality.

Whetstone

Artifact

: Each player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

To hone swords and dull minds.
-Whetstone inscription

Worn Powerstone

Artifact

Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Angel's Trumpet

Artifact

All creatures have vigilance.

At the beginning of each player's end step, tap all untapped creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Angel's Trumpet deals damage to the player equal to the number of creatures tapped this way.

Crawlspace

Artifact

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

The goblins did not understand their attraction to the mana rig. They simply knew it was where they belonged.

Damping Engine

Artifact

A player who controls more permanents than each other player can't play lands or cast artifact, creature, or enchantment spells. That player may sacrifice a permanent for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

Grim Monolith

Artifact

Grim Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add to your mana pool.

: Untap Grim Monolith.

Part prison, part home.

Iron Maiden

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Iron Maiden deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand minus 4.

The maiden is a jealous lover.