Demonspine Whip

Artifact - Equipment

: Equipped creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Equip

Using a spine to break a slave's back appeals to the Grixis sense of irony.

Esper Stormblade

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

As long as you control another multicolored permanent, Esper Stormblade gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Stormcallers came to appreciate the novelty of Jund's volcanic updrafts.

Thopter Foundry

Artifact

, Sacrifice a nontoken artifact: Put a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield. You gain 1 life.

"Etherium is limited. Innovation is not."
-Tezzeret

Jinxed Idol

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, Jinxed Idol deals 2 damage to you.

Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of Jinxed Idol.

"Please, honored friend, take it with my compliments. I insist."

Steel Overseer

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact."
-Sargis Haz, artificer

Gorgon Flail

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

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

Howling Mine

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

The mine's riches never end, nor do the moans of the spirits doomed to haunt them.

Darklit Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

: Darklit Gargoyle gets +2/-1 until end of turn.

It shines in the darkness of its master's ambitions.

Salvage Slasher

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

Salvage Slasher gets +1/+0 for each artifact card in your graveyard.

Esper artificers never imagined that one day their scraps would be pressed against their soft and fragile throats.

Scepter of Fugue

Artifact

, : Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only during your turn.

One goes to Tidehollow either to forget or to be forgotten. Either way, the scullers will oblige.

Vedalken Outlander

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Scout

Protection from red

The Seekers of Carmot searched across the unknown lands for the mystical red stone that could reforge Esper in ethereal perfection.

Armillary Sphere

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The mysterious purpose of two of the rings had eluded Esper mages-until now.

Kaleidostone

Artifact

When Kaleidostone enters the battlefield, draw a card.

, , Sacrifice Kaleidostone: Add to your mana pool.

Once broken, who knows what worlds might grow from its shards?

Fang Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

: Target black creature gains wither until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

"Everything falls apart. But living things fall apart in the most fascinating ways."
-Mowagh the Gwyllion

Leering Emblem

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever you cast a spell, equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Equip

The banner was not a symbol of victory, but a herald of the carnage to come.

Blight Sickle

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has wither. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Equip

Its scars cut deeper than its blade.

Chainbreaker

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Chainbreaker enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it.

, : Remove a -1/-1 counter from target creature.

Scarecrows deemed too malevolent to roam free are shackled to boulders or dolmen stones. Their animosity usually outlives the chains.

Elsewhere Flask

Artifact

When Elsewhere Flask enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Sacrifice Elsewhere Flask: Choose a basic land type. Each land you control becomes that type until end of turn.

One night Oona bottled the sky. The next night she aligned the stars and released it.

Painter's Servant

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

As Painter's Servant enters the battlefield, choose a color.

All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.

It gathers hues from the twilight mist so that its master can paint a better world.

Pili-Pala

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Flying

, {Q}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

It wasn't really expected to fly. Then again, it wasn't expected to move, either.

Revelsong Horn

Artifact

, , Tap an untapped creature you control: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

A deflated sigh breathed into the horn emerges as an inspiring melody.

Trip Noose

Artifact

, : Tap target creature.

A taut slipknot trigger is the only thing standing between you and standing.

Cloak and Dagger

Tribal Artifact - Rogue Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Whenever a Rogue creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Cloak and Dagger to it.

Equip

Thornbite Staff

Tribal Artifact - Shaman Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player" and "Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature."

Whenever a Shaman creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Thornbite Staff to it.

Equip

Veteran's Armaments

Tribal Artifact - Soldier Equipment

Equipped creature has "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each attacking creature."

Whenever a Soldier creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Veteran's Armaments to it.

Equip

Dolmen Gate

Artifact

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to attacking creatures you control.

Lorwyn's stones resonate with the place from which they were hewed. Though taken far, still they call to their home when silence is upon the land.

Thorn of Amethyst

Artifact

Noncreature spells cost more to cast.

Mined from a cave in the Dark Meanders, it shines brightest when no one is looking.

Doubling Cube

Artifact

, : Double the amount of each type of mana in your mana pool.

The cube's surface is pockmarked with jagged runes that seem to shift when unobserved.

Millstone

Artifact

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

More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.

Mind Stone

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom gained."
-Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus

Defense Grid

Artifact

Each spell costs more to cast except during its controller's turn.

It lights up the sky, beckoning enemies only to repel them.

Fellwar Stone

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
-Mairsil, the Pretender

Vulshok Morningstar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

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

Ankh of Mishra

Artifact

Whenever a land enters the battlefield, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Chaos Orb

Artifact

, : If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all permanents it touches. Then destroy Chaos Orb.

Copper Tablet

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Copper Tablet deals 1 damage to that player.

Illusionary Mask

Artifact

: You may choose a creature card in your hand whose mana cost could be paid by some amount of, or all of, the mana you spent on . If you do, you may cast that card face down as a 2/2 creature spell without paying its mana cost. If the creature that spell becomes as it resolves has not been turned face up and would assign or deal damage, be dealt damage, or become tapped, instead it's turned face up and assigns or deals damage, is dealt damage, or becomes tapped. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Time Vault

Artifact

Time Vault enters the battlefield tapped.

Time Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.

If you would begin your turn while Time Vault is tapped, you may skip that turn instead. If you do, untap Time Vault.

: Take an extra turn after this one.

Winter Orb

Artifact

Players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Jandor's Saddlebags

Artifact

, : Untap target creature.

Each day of their journey, Jandor opened the saddlebags and found them full of mutton, quinces, cheese, date rolls, wine, and all manner of delicious and satisfying foods.