Atarka Monument

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Atarka Monument becomes a 4/4 red and green Dragon artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Atarka is worshipped and fed by her subjects at Ayagor, the Dragon's Bowl.

Auriok Replica

Artifact Creature - Cleric

, Sacrifice Auriok Replica: Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal to you this turn.

All the loyalty of the Auriok with only a trace of their self-righteousness.

Auriok Siege Sled

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

: Target artifact creature blocks Auriok Siege Sled this turn if able.

: Target artifact creature can't block Auriok Siege Sled this turn.

Everything in its path is either pushed aside or ground under.

Avacyn's Collar

Artifact - Equipment

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

Whenever equipped creature dies, if it was a Human, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Equip

Avarice Amulet

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has vigilance and "At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card."

When equipped creature dies, target opponent gains control of Avarice Amulet.

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

Designed by Penny Arcade

Avarice Totem

Artifact

: Exchange control of Avarice Totem and target nonland permanent.

Souls and steel, the essence of Mirrodin. Memnarch lacks one but has an abundance of the other.

Azorius Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Azorius Cluestone: Draw a card.

Its three sides represent the Sova, judges and arbitrators; the Jelenn, scribes and elocutors; and the Lyev, lawmages and enforcers.

Azorius Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"The higher the mind soars, the greater its understanding of the law."
-Isperia

Azorius Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law-strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Æther Searcher

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reveal Æther Searcher as you draft it. Reveal the next card you draft and note its name.

When Æther Searcher enters the battlefield, you may search your hand and/or library for a card with a name noted as you drafted cards named Æther Searcher. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you searched your library this way, shuffle it.

Æther Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Æther Vial

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Æther Vial.

: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Æther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

Baku Altar

Artifact

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Baku Altar.

, , Remove a ki counter from Baku Altar: Put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

Baleful Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, deathtouch

When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Balm of Restoration

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Balm of Restoration: Choose one - You gain 2 life; or prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"Not all armies enjoyed the services of a medic. For them, Balm of Restoration was that much more valuable."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. I

Banshee's Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Banshee's Blade.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put a charge counter on Banshee's Blade.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Barbed Battlegear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/-1.

Equip

"One need only look at the inhabitants of this world to see that they are forged halfway to perfection. All they need is a whisper of the Glorious Word."
-Urabrask the Hidden

Barbed Sextant

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Barbed Sextant: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Barbed Wire

Artifact

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

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt by Barbed Wire this turn.

A steel snake with ten thousand teeth.

Bargaining Table

Artifact

, : Draw a card. X is the number of cards in an opponent's hand.

Although it looks like a game, business around the table is deadly serious.

Barl's Cage

Artifact

: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

For a dozen years the cage had held Lord Ith, but as the Pretender Mairsil's power weakened, so did the bars.

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.

Basalt Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Basalt Golem can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Whenever Basalt Golem becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat. If the player does, he or she puts a 0/2 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender onto the battlefield.

Basalt Monolith

Artifact

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add to your mana pool.

: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Basilisk Collar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.

Equip

During their endless travels, the mages of the Goma Fada caravan have learned ways to harness both life and death.

Baton of Courage

Artifact

Flash

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

Remove a charge counter from Baton of Courage: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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

Battered Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Battered Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may untap Battered Golem.

A dent marks every year of service, and it has as much rust as glory.

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.

Batterskull

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 +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink.

: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand.

Equip

Bösium Strip

Artifact

, : Until end of turn, if the top card of your graveyard is an instant or sorcery card, you may cast that card. If a card cast this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

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.

Behemoth Sledge

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has lifelink and trample.

Equip

Those who worship the great gargantuans could hardly be expected to fight with a subtle weapon.

Belbe's Armor

Artifact

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

It protects her from the ravages of Phyrexia and the savages of Rath.

Belbe's Portal

Artifact

As Belbe's Portal enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

, : You may put a creature card of the chosen type from your hand onto the battlefield.

The fight will continue on a new battlefield.

Birthing Pod

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

, , Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Black Lotus

Artifact

, Sacrifice Black Lotus: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.

Black Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Black Mana Battery.

, Remove any number of charge counters from Black Mana Battery: Add to your mana pool, then add an additional to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Black Vise

Artifact

As Black Vise enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand minus 4.

Blacker Lotus

Artifact

: Tear Blacker Lotus into pieces. Add four mana of any one color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source. Remove the pieces from the game afterwards.