Argentum Armor

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +6/+6.

Whenever equipped creature attacks, destroy target permanent.

Equip

Mirrodin's creator still lives, still shapes metal, and still commands world-shaking power.

Contagion Engine

Artifact

When Contagion Engine enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls.

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

Darksteel Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Golem

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Vigilance

Darksteel Sentinel is indestructible. (Lethal damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Mindslaver

Legendary Artifact

, , Sacrifice Mindslaver: You control target player during that player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

It's a helm that leaves the head at its most vulnerable.

Steel Hellkite

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Steel Hellkite gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost X whose controller was dealt combat damage by Steel Hellkite this turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Wurmcoil Engine

Artifact Creature - Wurm

Deathtouch, lifelink

When Wurmcoil Engine dies, put a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink onto the battlefield.

Dreamstone Hedron

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Dreamstone Hedron: Draw three cards.

Only the Eldrazi mind thinks in the warped paths required to open the hedrons and tap the power within.

Enatu Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Enatu Golem dies, you gain 4 life.

Golems conjured from the debris of Enatu Temple provided a sturdy but expendable first line of defense against the Eldrazi.

Keening Stone

Artifact

, : Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of cards in that player's graveyard.

As it spins, dead voices shriek in an ever-increasing cacophony, rending the mind asunder.

Eternity Vessel

Artifact

Eternity Vessel enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it, where X is your life total.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have your life total become the number of charge counters on Eternity Vessel.

Sanctum Plowbeast

Artifact Creature - Beast

Defender

Plainscycling , islandcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Triskelion

Artifact Creature - Construct

Triskelion enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelion: Triskelion deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"Why do bad things always come in threes?"
-Gisulf, expedition survivor

Obelisk of Alara

Artifact

, : You gain 5 life.

, : Draw a card, then discard a card.

, : Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

, : Obelisk of Alara deals 3 damage to target player.

, : Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Ward of Bones

Artifact

Each opponent who controls more creatures than you can't play creature cards. The same is true for artifacts, enchantments, and lands.

Mages dare not attempt magic in its grotesque presence.

Rattleblaze Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Rattleblaze Scarecrow has persist as long as you control a black creature. (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Rattleblaze Scarecrow has haste as long as you control a red creature.

Thornwatch Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Thornwatch Scarecrow has wither as long as you control a green creature. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Thornwatch Scarecrow has vigilance as long as you control a white creature.

Composite Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Sacrifice Composite Golem: Add to your mana pool.

An artificer's experiment in cross-material engineering found its own purpose as an interpreter between cultures.

Beast of Burden

Artifact Creature - Golem

Beast of Burden's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Though it was built as an instrument of labor, it wasn't long before it became an instrument of war.

Booby Trap

Artifact

As Booby Trap enters the battlefield, name a card other than a basic land card and choose an opponent.

The chosen player reveals each card he or she draws.

When the chosen player draws the named card, sacrifice Booby Trap. If you do, Booby Trap deals 10 damage to that player.

Clockwork Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

Clockwork Beast enters the battlefield with seven +1/+0 counters on it.

At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.

, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Obsianus Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

"The foot stone is connected to the ankle stone, the ankle stone is connected to the leg stone . . ."
-Song of the Artificer

Armageddon Clock

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on Armageddon Clock.

At the beginning of your draw step, Armageddon Clock deals damage equal to the number of doom counters on it to each player.

: Remove a doom counter from Armageddon Clock. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.

Jandor's Ring

Artifact

, , Discard the last card you drew this turn: Draw a card.

Bronze Tablet

Artifact

Remove Bronze Tablet from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

Bronze Tablet enters the battlefield tapped.

, : Exile Bronze Tablet and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If he or she does, put Bronze Tablet into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns Bronze Tablet and you own the other exiled card.

Shapeshifter

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

As Shapeshifter enters the battlefield, choose a number between 0 and 7.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7.

Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.

Tetravus

Artifact Creature - Construct

Flying

Tetravus enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from Tetravus. If you do, put that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield. They each have flying and "This creature can't be enchanted."

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens put onto the battlefield with Tetravus. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on Tetravus.

Urza's Avenger

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

: Urza's Avenger gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of banding, flying, first strike, or trample 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 you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one versatile being.

Feroz's Ban

Artifact

Creature spells cost more to cast.

"Without the protection of Feroz's Ban, I fear the Homelands are lost."
-Daria

Joven's Tools

Artifact

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

"If that thief Joven ever shows his head around here again, make sure he leaves without it."
-Eron the Relentless

Serpent Generator

Artifact

, : Put a 1/1 colorless Snake artifact creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter." (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Brass Herald

Artifact Creature - Golem

As Brass Herald enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

When Brass Herald enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all creature cards of the chosen type revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Creatures of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Planar Portal

Artifact

, : Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

These devices have been known to pull entire worlds through the Æther.

Urza's Armor

Artifact

If a source would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Urza protected his body well, but neglected his soul.

Pyramids

Artifact

: Choose one - Destroy target Aura attached to a land; or the next time target land would be destroyed this turn, remove all damage marked on it instead.

Rakalite

Artifact

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. Return Rakalite to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Urza was the first to understand that the war would not be lost for lack of power, but for lack of troops.

Mana Matrix

Artifact

Instant and enchantment spells you cast cost up to less to cast.

Mirror Universe

Artifact

, Sacrifice Mirror Universe: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Planar Gate

Artifact

Creature spells you cast cost up to less to cast.

Nireya reached through the Gate, sensing the energies trapped beyond.

Sword of the Ages

Artifact

Sword of the Ages enters the battlefield tapped.

, Sacrifice Sword of the Ages and any number of creatures you control: Sword of the Ages deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the total power of the creatures sacrificed this way, then exile Sword of the Ages and those creature cards.

Voodoo Doll

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pin counter on Voodoo Doll.

At the beginning of your end step, if Voodoo Doll is untapped, destroy Voodoo Doll and it deals damage to you equal to the number of pin counters on it.

, : Voodoo Doll deals damage equal to the number of pin counters on it to target creature or player. X is the number of pin counters on Voodoo Doll.