Staff of Domination

Artifact

: Untap Staff of Domination.

, : You gain 1 life.

, : Untap target creature.

, : Tap target creature.

, : Draw a card.

Stabilizer

Artifact

Players can't cycle cards.

"Hold that thought."
-Pemmin, Riptide survivor

Squee's Toy

Artifact

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

As the horrors closed in on Gerrard, Squee trembled and clutched his toy for comfort. He didn't know where it came from or why it was so warm, but he was glad he'd kept it near.

Springleaf Drum

Artifact

, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

After trying mudskippers for an afternoon, Scratch decided that crickcarp made the best noise.

Spirit Shield

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Spirit Shield during your untap step.

, : Target creature gets +0/+2 for as long as Spirit Shield remains tapped.

At times, survival must outweigh all other considerations.

Spire Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Affinity for Islands (This spell costs less to cast for each Island you control.)

Flying

The longer it soars above the shimmering swirls of the Quicksilver Sea, the more it adopts their unpredictability.

Spined Thopter

Artifact Creature - Thopter

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

"I appreciate the depravity of noble designs turned to devious ends."
-Tezzeret

Spine of Ish Sah

Artifact

When Spine of Ish Sah enters the battlefield, destroy target permanent.

When Spine of Ish Sah is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Spine of Ish Sah to its owner's hand.

Spincrusher

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Spincrusher blocks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spincrusher: Spincrusher is unblockable this turn.

It rolls with the punches.

Spinal Parasite

Artifact Creature - Insect

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

Remove two +1/+1 counters from Spinal Parasite: Remove a counter from target permanent.

Spin Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Target creature can't block Spin Engine this turn.

"It will be battle-ready before our strike at Oxid Ridge, and it will guarantee our victory."
-Ketuc of the Helm

Spidersilk Net

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

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

Sphinx-Bone Wand

Artifact

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on Sphinx-Bone Wand. If you do, Sphinx-Bone Wand deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to target creature or player.

Its host's final curse lies captured within.

Sphinx's Herald

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, , Sacrifice a white creature, a blue creature, and a black creature: Search your library for a card named Sphinx Sovereign and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

He calls a riddle through the gaps of cloven clouds, hoping for an answer.

Sphinx Summoner

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sphinx Summoner enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Sphinx Sovereign

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.

"What rises without legs, whispers without a voice, bites without teeth, and dies without having life?"

Sphinx of the Steel Wind

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green

No one has properly answered her favorite riddle: "Why should I spare your life?"

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.

Sphere of Resistance

Artifact

Spells cost more to cast.

A sphere pushes equally in all directions.

Spellweaver Helix

Artifact

Imprint - When Spellweaver Helix enters the battlefield, you may exile two target sorcery cards from a single graveyard.

Whenever a player casts a card, if it has the same name as one of the cards exiled with Spellweaver Helix, you may copy the other. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

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

Spellbook

Artifact

You have no maximum hand size.

"Everything the wise woman learned she wrote in a book, and when the pages were black with ink, she took white ink and began again."
-Karn, silver golem

Spellbinder

Artifact - Equipment

Imprint - When Spellbinder enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card from your hand.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Equip

Spectral Searchlight

Artifact

: Choose a player. That player adds one mana of any color he or she chooses to his or her mana pool.

The first searchlights were given as gifts, symbols of cooperation, to the emissaries present at the signing of the Guildpact.

Specter's Shroud

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

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.)

Spawning Pit

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Spawning Pit.

, Remove two charge counters from Spawning Pit: Put a 2/2 colorless Spawn artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Spatula of the Ages

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Spatula of the Ages: Put into play from your hand any card from an Unglued supplement.

At last Urza's powers were focused through the incredible artifact.
"Who wants pancakes?" he asked.

Sparring Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Whenever Sparring Golem becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"Part drill sergeant, part training dummy," thought Gerrard. "I hope it can stand up to a real war."

Sparring Collar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike.

: Attach Sparring Collar to target creature you control.

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

Soultether Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Vanishing 1 (This permanent enters the battlefield with a time counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a time counter on Soultether Golem.

Soul of New Phyrexia

Artifact Creature - Avatar

Trample

: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

, Exile Soul of New Phyrexia from your graveyard: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Soul Net

Artifact

Whenever a creature dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.

Soul Foundry

Artifact

Imprint - When Soul Foundry enters the battlefield, you may exile a creature card from your hand.

, : Put a token that's a copy of the exiled card onto the battlefield. X is the converted mana cost of that card.

Soul Conduit

Artifact

, : Two target players exchange life totals.

"You have an unhealthy attachment to your selfhood. I can help you with that."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Sorcerer's Strongbox

Artifact

, : Flip a coin. If you win the flip, sacrifice Sorcerer's Strongbox and draw three cards.

Simun the Quiet filled the chest with his most precious thoughts. But in a fit of paranoia, he locked up the memory of where he hid the key.

Soratami Cloud Chariot

Artifact

: Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target creature you control this turn.

Soliton

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Untap Soliton.

The gemini engines had lost connection with each other and wandered apart, developing an independent awareness of their surroundings.

Solemn Simulacrum

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Soldier Replica

Artifact Creature - Soldier

, Sacrifice Soldier Replica: Soldier Replica deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Soldevi Steam Beast

Artifact Creature - Beast

Whenever Soldevi Steam Beast becomes tapped, target opponent gains 2 life.

: Regenerate Soldevi Steam Beast.

"Dagsson saw the steam as life-giving-until his followers felt its scalding touch."
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Soldevi Simulacrum

Artifact Creature - Soldier

Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

: Soldevi Simulacrum gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

They look human-
until they bleed.

Soldevi Sentry

Artifact Creature - Soldier

: Choose target opponent. Regenerate Soldevi Sentry. When it regenerates this way, that player may draw a card.

"A dreadful invention. What ease is there under the watchful eye of cold steel?"
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Soldevi Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Soldevi Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may untap target tapped creature an opponent controls. If you do, untap Soldevi Golem.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Soldevi Digger

Artifact

: Put the top card of your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

"This ceaseless device has helped uncover marvels unreachable by mere flesh."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Solarion

Artifact Creature - Construct

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on Solarion.

Sol Ring

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sol Grail

Artifact

As Sol Grail enters the battlefield, choose a color.

: Add one mana of the chosen color to your mana pool.

"Look deep into the Grail, and see there what you desire most." -Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Snow Fortress

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Snow Fortress gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Snow Fortress gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

: Snow Fortress deals 1 damage to target creature without flying that's attacking you.

Snapsail Glider

Artifact Creature - Construct

Metalcraft - Snapsail Glider has flying as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Built from a reconfigured thresher, it charges with light reflected off the golden plain, ready to take to the air in case of danger.

Snake Basket

Artifact

, Sacrifice Snake Basket: Put X 1/1 green Snake creature tokens onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"Uh, does anyone have a flute?"
-Rana, Suq'Ata market fool

Smokestack

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on Smokestack.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent for each soot counter on Smokestack.

Slumbering Tora

Artifact

, Discard a Spirit or Arcane card: Slumbering Tora becomes an X/X Cat artifact creature until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's converted mana cost.

Sludge Strider

Artifact Creature - Insect

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control or another artifact you control leaves the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Underneath the cities of Esper are cycles of life unseen by those who feed them.

Sliversmith

Artifact Creature - Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Put a 1/1 colorless Sliver artifact creature token named Metallic Sliver onto the battlefield.

After centuries of labor, its creations outnumber those they were to mimic.

Sliver Construct

Artifact Creature - Sliver Construct

Slivers destroy those who come close to the Skep, the central hive. Shards of torn metal litter the ground as a warning to any artificers inquisitive about the hive's inner workings.

Slate of Ancestry

Artifact

, , Discard your hand: Draw a card for each creature you control.

The pattern of life can be studied like a book, if you know how to read it.

Slash Panther

Artifact Creature - Cat

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Haste

It runs an endless circuit along the ruined roads of the soon-to-be-forgotten Mirran civilization.

Slagwurm Armor

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+6.

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.)

Slab Hammer

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may return a land you control to its owner's hand. If you do, the creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Equip

Neither subtle nor pretty.

Skyship Weatherlight

Legendary Artifact

When Skyship Weatherlight enters the battlefield, search your library for any number of artifact and/or creature cards and exile them. Then shuffle your library.

, : Choose a card at random that was exiled with Skyship Weatherlight. Put that card into its owner's hand.

Skyshaper

Artifact

Sacrifice Skyshaper: Creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

"It'll get us to the portal, but I can't guarantee what it'll do to the ship."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Skyreach Manta

Artifact Creature - Fish

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

Flying

As the dawns break, the manta soars.

Skycloud Egg

Artifact

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

"Have your dreams of a better society become an obsession?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Skyclaw Thrash

Artifact Creature - Viashino Warrior

Whenever Skyclaw Thrash attacks, flip a coin. If you win the flip, Skyclaw Thrash gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Their newfound wings shined elegantly and functioned partially.

Skyblinder Staff

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.

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

"If bats are the only thing between me and a mountain of Orzhov coins, then I'm about to be a very rich thief."

Sky Diamond

Artifact

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Skullmead Cauldron

Artifact

: You gain 1 life.

, Discard a card: You gain 3 life.

Once tasted, the flavor of skullmead lingers in the throat, a secret brand of guilt for those who partake in forbidden pleasures.

Skullclamp

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.

Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.

Equip

Skullcage

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Skullcage deals 2 damage to that player unless he or she has exactly three or exactly four cards in hand.

Only a focused mind can survive it.

Skull of Ramos

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sacrifice Skull of Ramos: Add to your mana pool.

Ramos fell, and there was night.

Skull of Orm

Artifact

, : Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Though lifeless, the skull still possessed a strange power over the flow of magic.

Skull Catapult

Artifact

, , Sacrifice a creature: Skull Catapult deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"Let any who doubt the evil of using the ancient devices look at this infernal machine. What manner of fiend would design such a sadistic device?"
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi heretic

Skinwing

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 +2/+2 and has flying.

Equip

Skill Borrower

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, Skill Borrower has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)

Skeleton Shard

Artifact

, or , : Return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sisay's Ring

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

"I'm not one for pretty things," said Sisay. "Unless they're pretty useful as well."

Siren Song Lyre

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : Tap target creature."

Equip

A siren once tried to steal it out of jealousy but was caught by the song of its strings.

Simic Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

For the Simic Combine, its sigil serves not as an emblem of honor but as a trademark. Its familiar image on any biological commodity attests to superb craftsmanship, ingenious innovation, and higher cost.

Simic Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Simic Keyrune becomes a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Simic Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Simic Cluestone: Draw a card.

Simic symbols are among the most intricate and fragile, yet few vandalize them for fear of the strange lifeforms that might be released.

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.

Silver-Inlaid Dagger

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

As long as equipped creature is a Human, it gets an additional +1/+0.

Equip

Magical etchings turned a whittler's tool into a wolfhunter's weapon.

Silver Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

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

Silumgar Monument

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Silumgar Monument becomes a 4/4 blue and black Dragon artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Silumgar dominates his clan from a fortress on the Marang River, where he rests upon piles of treasure.

Silent Arbiter

Artifact Creature - Construct

No more than one creature can attack each combat.

No more than one creature can block each combat.

Scholars say that arbiters exist on every world, created by an unknown hand to enforce justice.

Signal Pest

Artifact Creature - Pest

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)

Signal Pest can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

It leaps from tree to tree, revealing the enemy's positions.

Sigil of Distinction

Artifact - Equipment

Sigil of Distinction enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Sigil of Distinction.

Equip-Remove a charge counter from Sigil of Distinction.

Sickleslicer

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 +2/+2.

Equip

Shuriken

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", Unattach Shuriken: Shuriken deals 2 damage to target creature. That creature's controller gains control of Shuriken unless it was unattached from a Ninja."

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

Shuko

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

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

"One scratch on a wall meant safe passage, two that the target had already been raided, and three warned of a trap."
-Weaponry of Kamigawa

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.

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 Limitless Power

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a black spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Limitless Power.

, , Sacrifice Shrine of Limitless Power: Target player discards a card for each charge counter on Shrine of Limitless Power.

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 Boundless Growth

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a green spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Boundless Growth.

, Sacrifice Shrine of Boundless Growth: Add to your mana pool for each charge counter on Shrine of Boundless Growth.

Shriekhorn

Artifact

Shriekhorn enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, Remove a charge counter from Shriekhorn: Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Shimmer Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Flash

You may cast artifact cards as though they had flash.

It evades Phyrexians by hiding in the spaces between seconds.

Shifting Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Shifting Wall enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

"You'd almost think Volrath doesn't want me here."
-Gerrard

Shield Sphere

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

"My Soldiers know that they need never fear for their protection."
-King Darien of Kjeldor

Shield of the Righteous

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has vigilance.

Whenever equipped creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Equip