Amulet of Kroog

Artifact

, : Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Among the first allies Urza gained were the people of Kroog. As a sign of friendship, Urza gave the healers of the city potent amulets; afterwards, thousands journeyed to Kroog in hope of healing.

Ashnod's Battle Gear

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Ashnod's Battle Gear during your untap step.

, : Target creature you control gets +2/-2 for as long as Ashnod's Battle Gear remains tapped.

This invention shows why Ashnod was feared by her troops as well as her foes.

Battering Ram

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)

Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Tawnos's Weaponry

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Tawnos's Weaponry during your untap step.

, : Target creature gets +1/+1 for as long as Tawnos's Weaponry remains tapped.

When war machines became too costly, Tawnos's Weaponry replaced them.

Crown of the Ages

Artifact

, : Attach target Aura attached to a creature to another creature.

Charcoal Diamond

Artifact

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Cursed Totem

Artifact

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Pass me from soul to soul, / soldier to herder, herder to beast, beast to soil / until I am everywhere. / Then pass me those souls.
-Totem inscription (translated)

Fire Diamond

Artifact

Fire Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Marble Diamond

Artifact

Marble Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Moss Diamond

Artifact

Moss Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Mystic Compass

Artifact

, : Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

Sky Diamond

Artifact

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Wand of Denial

Artifact

: Look at the top card of target player's library. If it's a nonland card, you may pay 2 life. If you do, put it into that player's graveyard.

You'll never miss what you never had.

Pit Trap

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Pit Trap: Destroy target attacking creature without flying. It can't be regenerated.

Never forget your feet
-Elvish expression meaning
"watch your step"

Distorting Lens

Artifact

: Target permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

"The Eye altering alters all."
-William Blake, "The Mental Traveller"

Star Compass

Artifact

Star Compass enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

It doesn't point north. It points home.

City in a Bottle

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken permanent from the Arabian Nights expansion other than City in a Bottle is on the battlefield, its controller sacrifices it.

Players can't play cards from the Arabian Nights expansion.

Kry Shield

Artifact

, : Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by target creature you control. That creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is its converted mana cost.

Relic Barrier

Artifact

: Tap target artifact.

Tower of Coireall

Artifact

: Target creature can't be blocked by Walls this turn.

Arcum's Weathervane

Artifact

, : Target snow land is no longer snow.

, : Target nonsnow basic land becomes snow.

Baton of Morale

Artifact

: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"The Goblins would kill to get ahold of this one."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Fyndhorn Bow

Artifact

, : Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"With a bow like this, the hunting is always good."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko,
Elvish Hunter

Hematite Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Lapis Lazuli Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Malachite Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Nacre Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Onyx Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Shield of the Ages

Artifact

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

"This shield is a true rarity: an artifact whose purpose is obvious."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Whalebone Glider

Artifact

, : Target creature with power 3 or less gains flying until end of turn.

"It's no Ornithopter, but then I'm no Urza."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Apocalypse Chime

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Apocalypse Chime: Destroy all nontoken permanents from the Homelands expansion. They can't be regenerated.

"One day, or another, perhaps I shall ring my pretty chime . . . loudly, so that all may hear."
-Grandmother Sengir

Telim'Tor's Darts

Artifact

, : Telim'Tor's Darts deals 1 damage to target player.

"People laughed at my darts-once."
-Telim'Tor

Anvil of Bogardan

Artifact

Players have no maximum hand size.

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card, then discards a card.

Helm of Awakening

Artifact

Spells cost less to cast.

"This little prize will cover your head, your spells, your bets, and your behind!"
-Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader

Jabari's Banner

Artifact

, : Target creature gains flanking until end of turn. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

Null Rod

Artifact

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Gerrard: "But it doesn't do anything!"
Hanna: "No-it does nothing."

Touchstone

Artifact

: Tap target artifact you don't control.

"One touch to the stone and the sidar's son turned me from stalwart to statue."
-Karn, silver golem

Altar of Dementia

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Target player puts a number of cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
-Volrath

Emerald Medallion

Artifact

Green spells you cast cost less to cast.

Essence Bottle

Artifact

, : Put an elixir counter on Essence Bottle.

, Remove all elixir counters from Essence Bottle: You gain 2 life for each elixir counter removed this way.