Whispergear Sneak

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Whispergear Sneak face up.

During the draft, you may turn Whispergear Sneak face down. If you do, look at any unopened booster pack in the draft or any booster pack not being looked at by another player.

Spy for today. Plan for tomorrow.

Hot Soup

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can't be blocked.

Whenever equipped creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

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

"Comin' through!"
Designed by James Ernest

Profane Memento

Artifact

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.

"An angel's skull is left too plain by death. I made a few aesthetic modifications."
-Dommique, blood artist

Shield of the Avatar

Artifact - Equipment

If a source would deal damage to equipped creature, prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of creatures you control.

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

We are made stronger by those we fight for.
Designed by Richard Garriott

Altar of the Brood

Artifact

Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Supplicants offer flesh and silver, flowers and blood. The altar takes what it will, eyes gleaming with unspoken promises.

Ghostfire Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

Equip

Ghostfire Blade's equip ability costs less to activate if it targets a colorless creature.

If you fear the dragon's fire, you are unworthy to wield it.

Lens of Clarity

Artifact

You may look at the top card of your library and at face-down creatures you don't control. (You may do this at any time.)

"Water shifts and confuses, but as ice it holds the stillness of truth."
-Arel the Whisperer

Masterwork of Ingenuity

Artifact - Equipment

You may have Masterwork of Ingenuity enter the battlefield as a copy of any Equipment on the battlefield.

"The crucible yields what you have forged in your mind. You need only reach in and draw the masterwork forth."
-Wahara, Keeper of the Crucible

Keeper of the Lens

Artifact Creature - Golem

You may look at face-down creatures you don't control. (You may do this at any time.)

"It sees all, but it reveals what it sees only to a chosen few."
-Taigam, Ojutai master

Hedron Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by one or more colorless creatures, it gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

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

Pathway Arrows

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. If a colorless creature is dealt damage this way, tap it."

Equip

Also called "pathway stones," hedron shards can immobilize Eldrazi on contact.

Stoneforge Masterwork

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

Equip

The nomadic kor carry only necessities on their long treks. The coming of the Eldrazi redefined "necessities."

Haunted Guardian

Artifact Creature - Construct

Defender, first strike

"Drain the victim's blood, sell the corpse, and use the soul on guard duty. No muss, no fuss, no problems."
-Olivia Voldaren

Tormentor's Trident

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and attacks each turn if able.

Equip

To a demon there is no such thing as restraint.

Vanguard's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and can block an additional creature.

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

Wars are not fought on a single front.

Kitesail

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has flying.

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

Kitesailing is a way of life-and without practice, the end of it.

Ring of Evos Isle

Artifact - Equipment

: Equipped creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's blue.

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

Ring of Kalonia

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has trample. (If it would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's green.

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

Ring of Thune

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's white.

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

Ring of Valkas

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has haste. (It can attack and no matter when it came under your control.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's red.

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

Ring of Xathrid

Artifact - Equipment

: Regenerate equipped creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's black.

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

Angel's Feather

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

The angel represents divine perfection; even the smallest feather is imbued with beauty and benevolence.

Crown of Empires

Artifact

, : Tap target creature. Gain control of that creature instead if you control artifacts named Scepter of Empires and Throne of Empires.

"With this crown, assert your authority."
-Crown inscription

Demon's Horn

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Dragon's Claw

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

"If there is a fire that never ceases to burn, it surely lies in the maw of a dragon."
-Sarkhan Vol

Kraken's Eye

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.

It's seen the wonders of entire worlds trapped in the depths of a bottomless ocean.

Sundial of the Infinite

Artifact

, : End the turn. Activate this ability only during your turn. (Exile all spells and abilities on the stack. Discard down to your maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Swiftfoot Boots

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste.

Equip

Wurm's Tooth

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

Jevna Nor lugged it around, bragging of his triumph over the wurm. Luckily, the tavern regulars didn't notice it was only a baby tooth.

Executioner's Hood

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has intimidate. (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

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

Cellar Door

Artifact

, : Target player puts the bottom card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If it's a creature card, you put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

As if anyone needed another reason to avoid dark, dank cellars.

Cobbled Wings

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying.

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

For the necro-alchemist, any puzzle can be solved with intelligence and harvested body parts.

Graveyard Shovel

Artifact

, : Target player exiles a card from his or her graveyard. If it's a creature card, you gain 2 life.

Thanks to Havengul's thriving illegal market for corpses, the shovel that interred a body during the day is usually the same one digging it out at night.

Inquisitor's Flail

Artifact - Equipment

If equipped creature would deal combat damage, it deals double that damage instead.

If another creature would deal combat damage to equipped creature, it deals double that damage to equipped creature instead.

Equip

Mask of Avacyn

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Equip

It hides the face and protects the soul.

Runechanter's Pike

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.

Equip

As sharp as its bearer's words of faith.

Sharpened Pitchfork

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike.

As long as equipped creature is a Human, it gets +1/+1.

Equip

Not everyone can have a sword of blessed silver. Not everyone needs one, either.

Wooden Stake

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a Vampire, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

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

Tablet of the Guilds

Artifact

As Tablet of the Guilds enters the battlefield, choose two colors.

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.

It is rumored the Azorius paid an exorbitant sum to ensure its symbol would appear at the top.

Ethersworn Canonist

Artifact Creature - Human Cleric

Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.

"The noble work of our order is to infuse all life on Esper with etherium. Our goal will be reached more rapidly if new life is . . . suppressed."

Metallurgeon

Artifact Creature - Human Artificer

, : Regenerate target artifact.

"By the time I got there, the heart had stopped. Fortunately, I was able to replace it with something better."

Courier's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Courier's Capsule: Draw two cards.

In ages past, Esper couriers bore messages written on ornate scrolls. The medium has grown more sophisticated, but the principle remains the same.

Etherium Sculptor

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Artificer

Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Glaze Fiend

Artifact Creature - Illusion

Flying

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Glaze Fiend gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Before the zealots of the Ethersworn came to power, Esper illusionists dreamed up creations to mimic a variety of substances.

Puppet Conjurer

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

, : Put a 0/1 blue Homunculus artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Homunculus.

He scowls at his imperfect creation, then crushes it to scrap. He salvages the etherium and begins anew.

Thoughtcutter Agent

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

, : Target player loses 1 life and reveals his or her hand.

Agents of the Architects of Will mark their victims as a reminder that their secrets are secret no longer.

Tidehollow Sculler

Artifact Creature - Zombie

When Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.

When Tidehollow Sculler leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Tidehollow Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

The scullers beneath Esper keep strixes as trained pets, and set them loose when a fare refuses to pay.

Catalyst Stone

Artifact

Flashback costs you pay cost up to less.

Flashback costs your opponents pay cost more.

The gems' incandescence invades the dreams of all who see them.

Millikin

Artifact Creature - Construct

, Put the top card of your library into your graveyard: Add to your mana pool.

The toymaker frowned in bewilderment. None of his creations had ever sneezed before.

Steamclaw

Artifact

, : Exile target card from a graveyard.

, Sacrifice Steamclaw: Exile target card from a graveyard.

"There's dead, and then there's dead dead."
-Steamclaw driver

Cathedral Membrane

Artifact Creature - Wall

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Defender

When Cathedral Membrane dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.

Vault Skirge

Artifact Creature - Imp

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

From the remnants of the dead, Geth forged a swarm to safeguard his throne.

Hovermyr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Flying, vigilance

Originally created to harvest blinkmoths, the hovermyr are now the silent observers of a dying world.

Immolating Souleater

Artifact Creature - Hound

: Immolating Souleater gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for melting the sinful that we may be reminded of our own insignificance."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Mindcrank

Artifact

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard. (Damage dealt by sources without infect causes loss of life.)

"Let go of your memories and be reborn."
-Argent Etchings, plate 106, passage 27

Mycosynth Wellspring

Artifact

When Mycosynth Wellspring enters the battlefield or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

The oil created the mycosynth. The mycosynth created New Phyrexia.

Myr Superion

Artifact Creature - Myr

Spend only mana produced by creatures to cast Myr Superion.

Two kinds of myr survive: the powerful and those that stay close by them.

Shrine of Burning Rage

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a red spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Burning Rage.

, , Sacrifice Shrine of Burning Rage: Shrine of Burning Rage deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to target creature or player.

Shrine of Loyal Legions

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a white spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Loyal Legions.

, , Sacrifice Shrine of Loyal Legions: Put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield for each charge counter on Shrine of Loyal Legions.

Shrine of Piercing Vision

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a blue spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Piercing Vision.

, Sacrifice Shrine of Piercing Vision: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of charge counters on Shrine of Piercing Vision. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Spellskite

Artifact Creature - Horror

: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"Let's show Vorinclex that progress doesn't always need teeth or claws."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Torpor Orb

Artifact

Creatures entering the battlefield don't cause abilities to trigger.

"Phyrexia is certainly dangerous, but I have to admire some of its innovations."
-Tezzeret

Gust-Skimmer

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Gust-Skimmer gains flying until end of turn.

Phyrexian smog clouds choked the skies, threatening creatures who couldn't comprehend the menace below.

Ichor Wellspring

Artifact

When Ichor Wellspring enters the battlefield or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Our glorious infection has taken hold."
-Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Mortarpod

Artifact - Equipment

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has "Sacrifice this creature: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

Equip

Myr Sire

Artifact Creature - Myr

When Myr Sire dies, put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

For the Phyrexians, death is not an end, nor a one-time occurrence.

Phyrexian Revoker

Artifact Creature - Horror

As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, name a nonland card.

Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

Basic senses like sight and taste are reserved for those in power.

Plague Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

: Add to your mana pool.

They watch for a new master, one more sinister than the last.

Silverskin Armor

Artifact - Equipment

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

Equip

Partisan spies warned that no armor would protect the body from Phyrexian infection. Neurok strategists took that as a challenge.

Sphere of the Suns

Artifact

Sphere of the Suns enters the battlefield tapped and with three charge counters on it.

, Remove a charge counter from Sphere of the Suns: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Viridian Claw

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

Equip

"Phyrexians can't corrupt what they can't get close enough to touch."

Bladed Pinions

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying and first strike.

Equip

Lacking trained pterons, the Auriok had to rely on other measures to gain the upper hand in the skies.

Contagion Clasp

Artifact

When Contagion Clasp enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

, : Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Copper Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like verdigris: an ever-present patina on the surface of a metal world.

Culling Dais

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Culling Dais.

, Sacrifice Culling Dais: Draw a card for each charge counter on Culling Dais.

"Forswear the flesh and you will truly see."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Echo Circlet

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can block an additional creature.

Equip

After the vanishing of the elder generations, the Anvil Tribe developed creative solutions to their personnel shortages.

Glint Hawk Idol

Artifact

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Glint Hawk Idol become a 2/2 Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

: Glint Hawk Idol becomes a 2/2 Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Gold Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like razorgrass: numberless metal figures, reflecting each other's light.

Golem's Heart

Artifact

Whenever a player casts an artifact spell, you may gain 1 life.

The heart of a golem gives life to more than just the iron husk around it.

Grindclock

Artifact

: Put a charge counter on Grindclock.

: Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of charge counters on Grindclock.

Pray you never hear it chime.

Ichorclaw Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

Whenever Ichorclaw Myr becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Iron Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like rusted metal: gleaming purpose hidden by a thin disguise of debris.

Leaden Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like necrogen: a transformative force unconcerned with the changes they wreak.

Liquimetal Coating

Artifact

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

"They'll soon become accustomed to wearing skin that is not their own."
-Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Livewire Lash

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell, this creature deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

Equip

Necropede

Artifact Creature - Insect

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

When Necropede dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Nim Deathmantle

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie.

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach Nim Deathmantle to it.

Equip

Perilous Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

When Perilous Myr dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

To Mirrodin, an explosive. To Phyrexia, a missionary.

Ratchet Bomb

Artifact

: Put a charge counter on Ratchet Bomb.

, Sacrifice Ratchet Bomb: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Ratchet Bomb.

Silver Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like quicksilver: malleable in function and adaptable in form.

Throne of Geth

Artifact

, Sacrifice an artifact: Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

At the heart of Ish Sah, Geth stokes the dark fires of Phyrexia.

Trigon of Mending

Artifact

Trigon of Mending enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Mending.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Mending: Target player gains 3 life.

Trigon of Rage

Artifact

Trigon of Rage enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Rage.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Rage: Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Wall of Tanglecord

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

: Wall of Tanglecord gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Rootlike fibers travel far from Mirrodin's metallic forests, emerging from the crust to drink in the mana-infused sunlight.

Ogre's Cleaver

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +5/+0.

Equip

She adopted the weapon of the slave-lord Kazuul, and with it, all his cruelty.

Prophetic Prism

Artifact

When Prophetic Prism enters the battlefield, draw a card.

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

"The explorer who found it got a bad deal when he sold it. He merely got rich."

Runed Servitor

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Runed Servitor dies, each player draws a card.

Scholars had puzzled for centuries over the ruins at Tal Terig. Its secrets had always lived within one rune-carved head.

Warmonger's Chariot

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

As long as equipped creature has defender, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

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

The best defense is a good offense.

Carnage Altar

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

"In these bloodstains I will find the fingerprints of our oppressors."
-Anowon, the Ruin Sage