Despotic Scepter

Artifact

: Destroy target permanent you own. It can't be regenerated.

"We were not meant to have such terrible things. They should be left where we found them, if not destroyed!"
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Deserter's Quarters

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Deserter's Quarters during your untap step.

, : Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Deserter's Quarters remains tapped.

In Akros, the penalty for running from battle is one night's stay in the Deserter's Quarters.

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.

Demonmail Hauberk

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+2.

Equip-Sacrifice a creature.

It comes off as easily as your own skin.

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.

Delif's Cube

Artifact

, : This turn, when target creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, it assigns no combat damage this turn and you put a cube counter on Delif's Cube.

, Remove a cube counter from Delif's Cube: Regenerate target creature.

Delif's Cone

Artifact

, Sacrifice Delif's Cone: This turn, when target creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may gain life equal to its power. If you do, it assigns no combat damage this turn.

"Where is it written that beasts must cause pain?" -Delif, Ponderings

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.

Decimator Web

Artifact

, : Target opponent loses 2 life, gets a poison counter, then puts the top six cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Mycosynth grew unfettered beneath the black lacuna, metastasizing into a matrix of noxious energy.

Deathrender

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

Whenever equipped creature dies, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield and attach Deathrender to it.

Equip

Death-Mask Duplicant

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

Imprint - : Exile target creature card from your graveyard.

As long as a card exiled with Death-Mask Duplicant has flying, Death-Mask Duplicant has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, haste, landwalk, protection, and trample.

Deal Broker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Deal Broker face up.

Immediately after the draft, you may reveal a card in your card pool. Each other player may offer you one card in his or her card pool in exchange. You may accept any one offer.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Dead-Iron Sledge

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy both creatures.

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.)

Darkwater Egg

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Darkwater Egg: Add to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"Do you thirst for knowledge no matter the cost?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

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.)

Darksteel Relic

Artifact

Darksteel Relic is indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"It's the last thing we can call our own."
-Minhu, Mirran resistance

Darksteel Reactor

Artifact

Darksteel Reactor is indestructible. ("Destroy" effects and lethal damage don't destroy it.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Darksteel Reactor.

When Darksteel Reactor has twenty or more charge counters on it, you win the game.

Darksteel Plate

Artifact - Equipment

Darksteel Plate is indestructible.

Equipped creature is indestructible.

Equip

"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever."
-Koth of the Hammer

Darksteel Pendant

Artifact

Darksteel Pendant is indestructible. ("Destroy" effects and lethal damage don't destroy it.)

, : Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.

Darksteel Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Darksteel Myr 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.)

Darksteel Juggernaut

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Darksteel Juggernaut's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Darksteel Juggernaut is indestructible and attacks each turn if able.

One part unstoppable force, one part immovable object.

Darksteel Ingot

Artifact

Indestructible

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

Darksteel Garrison

Artifact - Fortification

Fortified land is indestructible.

Whenever fortified land becomes tapped, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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

Darksteel Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

Darksteel Gargoyle is indestructible. ("Destroy" effects and lethal damage don't destroy it.)

The ultimate treasure is one that guards itself.

Darksteel Forge

Artifact

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

"Did it have this shape upon Mirrodin's creation, or did some inconceivable force shape the unshapable?"
-Pontifex, elder researcher

Darksteel Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample

Darksteel Colossus is indestructible.

If Darksteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Darksteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Darksteel Brute

Artifact

Darksteel Brute is indestructible. ("Destroy" effects and lethal damage don't destroy it.)

: Darksteel Brute becomes a 2/2 Beast artifact creature until end of turn.

Darksteel Axe

Artifact - Equipment

Darksteel Axe is indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

Equip

Heavier than it looks, tricky to wield, guaranteed to last.

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.

Dark Sphere

Artifact

, Sacrifice Dark Sphere: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent half that damage, rounded down.

"I was struck senseless for a moment, but revived when the strange curiosity I carried fell to the ground, screaming like a dying animal." -Barl, Lord Ith

Darigaaz's Attendant

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Darigaaz's Attendant: Add to your mana pool.

"Darigaaz is the breath of the ur-dragon, burning away the burdens of mortality."

Dancing Scimitar

Artifact Creature - Spirit

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

A blade that has never known sheath, a hilt that has never known hand.

Damping Matrix

Artifact

Activated abilities of artifacts and creatures can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Damping Engine

Artifact

A player who controls more permanents than each other player can't play lands or cast artifact, creature, or enchantment spells. That player may sacrifice a permanent for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

Cyclopean Tomb

Artifact

, : Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

When Cyclopean Tomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with Cyclopean Tomb but that a mire counter has not been removed from with Cyclopean Tomb.

Cyclopean Snare

Artifact

, : Tap target creature, then return Cyclopean Snare to its owner's hand.

The spoiled, gluttonous halls of the Orzhov teem with gaudy, needless wealth. Even their security measures are made for beauty first, efficiency second.

Custodian of the Trove

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender

Custodian of the Trove enters the battlefield tapped.

Silumgar delights in repurposing the treasures of other clans to serve his own ravenous greed.

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)

Cursed Scroll

Artifact

, : Name a card. Reveal a card at random from your hand. If it's the named card, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Cursed Rack

Artifact

As Cursed Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.

Ashnod invented several torture techniques that could make victims even miles away beg for mercy as if the End had come.