Dimir Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Dimir Cluestone: Draw a card.

It waits in the chill of the undercity, holding nameless secrets for those who dare to touch it.

Golgari Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Golgari Cluestone: Draw a card.

Golgari mold collects whispers, intelligence that is later harvested by Jarad and his high chancellors.

Gruul Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Gruul Cluestone: Draw a card.

Forgotten under rocks and vines, Gruul symbols mark the sites of primitive rituals where shamans once chanted to the wild.

Izzet Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Izzet Cluestone: Draw a card.

It holds within it an unsolvable riddle. A creative answer yields an invitation to the guild.

Orzhov Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Orzhov Cluestone: Draw a card.

A symbol of power and wealth, the only commodities that matter to the Orzhov.

Rakdos Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Rakdos Cluestone: Draw a card.

"Burn. Bleed. Enjoy."
-Cluestone inscription

Selesnya Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Selesnya Cluestone: Draw a card.

"Break it if you must. The loss of one relic is nothing next to the value of enriching us all."
-Suniel the Woodwise

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.

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.

Bonesplitter

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

Equip

Chalice of the Void

Artifact

Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.

Engineered Explosives

Artifact

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

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

Lotus Bloom

Artifact

Illus. Mark Zug

Paradise Mantle

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

Equip

Pyrite Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Pyrite Spellbomb: Pyrite Spellbomb deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

, Sacrifice Pyrite Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Runed Stalactite

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and is every creature type.

Equip

When a changeling adopts a form no other changeling has taken, a rune appears in the caverns of Velis Vel to mark the event.

Sword of Fire and Ice

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to target creature or player and you draw a card.

Equip

Sword of Light and Shadow

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Equip

Vedalken Shackles

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Vedalken Shackles during your untap step.

, : Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped.

Bubbling Cauldron

Artifact

, , Sacrifice a creature: You gain 4 life.

, , Sacrifice a creature named Festering Newt: Each opponent loses 4 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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

Door of Destinies

Artifact

As Door of Destinies enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Fireshrieker

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

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

Haunted Plate Mail

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+4.

: Until end of turn, Haunted Plate Mail becomes a 4/4 Spirit artifact creature that's no longer an Equipment. Activate this ability only if you control no creatures.

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

Millstone

Artifact

, : Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.

Pyromancer's Gauntlet

Artifact

If a red instant or sorcery spell you control or a red planeswalker you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 2 to that permanent or player instead.

An inferno is just a gesture away.

Ring of Three Wishes

Artifact

Ring of Three Wishes enters the battlefield with three wish counters on it.

, , Remove a wish counter from Ring of Three Wishes: Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Staff of the Death Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of ambition in ruthless times.

Staff of the Flame Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a red spell or a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of passion in indifferent times.

Staff of the Mind Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a blue spell or an Island enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of sagacity in bewildering times.

Staff of the Sun Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a white spell or a Plains enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of conviction in uncertain times.

Staff of the Wild Magus

Artifact

Whenever you cast a green spell or a Forest enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

A symbol of ferocity in oppressive times.

Strionic Resonator

Artifact

, : Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Its tines cannot be rung by mere physical force. Only magic of great power can start its eldritch resonance.

Vial of Poison

Artifact

, Sacrifice Vial of Poison: Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

There are worse ways to die, but not many.

Thran Dynamo

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Tangle Wire

Artifact

Fading 4 (This artifact enters the battlefield with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land he or she controls for each fade counter on Tangle Wire.

Flamecast Wheel

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Flamecast Wheel: Flamecast Wheel deals 3 damage to target creature.

Beware the gifts of an ill-tempered forge god.

Fleetfeather Sandals

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying and haste.

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

"The gods gave us no wings to fly, but they gave us an even greater gift: imagination."
-Daxos of Meletis

Prowler's Helm

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Equip

"The youths prattle on about heroic deeds, but avoiding the noose is a feat more daring than their entire careers."
-Basarios the Blade

Pyxis of Pandemonium

Artifact

: Each player exiles the top card of his or her library face down.

, , Sacrifice Pyxis of Pandemonium: Each player turns face up all cards he or she owns exiled with Pyxis of Pandemonium, then puts all permanent cards among them onto the battlefield.

Witches' Eye

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : Scry 1." (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Equip

The price of prophecy is a vacant eye socket.

Basalt Monolith

Artifact

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add to your mana pool.

: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Crawlspace

Artifact

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

The goblins did not understand their attraction to the mana rig. They simply knew it was where they belonged.

Eye of Doom

Artifact

When Eye of Doom enters the battlefield, each player chooses a nonland permanent and puts a doom counter on it., , Sacrifice Eye of Doom: Destroy each permanent with a doom counter on it.

Leonin Bladetrap

Artifact

Flash

, Sacrifice Leonin Bladetrap: Leonin Bladetrap deals 2 damage to each attacking creature without flying.

Mirari

Legendary Artifact

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay . If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"It offers you what you want, not what you need."
-Braids, dementia summoner

Nevinyrral's Disk

Artifact

Nevinyrral's Disk enters the battlefield tapped.

, : Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Plague Boiler

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a plague counter on Plague Boiler.

: Put a plague counter on Plague Boiler or remove a plague counter from it.

When Plague Boiler has three or more plague counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, destroy all nonland permanents.

Sun Droplet

Artifact

Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many charge counters on Sun Droplet.

At the beginning of each upkeep, you may remove a charge counter from Sun Droplet. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Surveyor's Scope

Artifact

, Exile Surveyor's Scope: Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of players who control at least two more lands than you. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Sword of the Paruns

Artifact - Equipment

As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0.

As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

: You may tap or untap equipped creature.

Equip

Thousand-Year Elixir

Artifact

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.

, : Untap target creature.

Paradoxically, to tilt the massive jug for a sip, you'd need the energy of the giant's tonic.

Thunderstaff

Artifact

As long as Thunderstaff is untapped, if a creature would deal combat damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

, : Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Tower of Fortunes

Artifact

, : Draw four cards.

Wayfarer's Bauble

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

It is the forest beyond the horizon, the mountain waiting to be climbed, the new land across the endless sea.

Well of Lost Dreams

Artifact

Whenever you gain life, you may pay , where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Some say the knowledge lost during the Ritual of Rebuking is returned through the well's waters.

Astral Cornucopia

Artifact

Astral Cornucopia enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color to your mana pool for each charge counter on Astral Cornucopia.

Gorgon's Head

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch.

Equip

"You slew the gorgon? Show me."
-King Igalus, last words

Heroes' Podium

Legendary Artifact

Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other legendary creature you control.

, : Look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal a legendary creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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.

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.

Godsend

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+3.

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by one or more creatures, you may exile one of those creatures.

Opponents can't cast cards with the same name as cards exiled with Godsend.

Equip

Armory of Iroas

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Equip

From a distance the weapons look pristine, but in fact they are tarnished and dented, each as unique as the champion who carried it to battle.

Chariot of Victory

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste.

Equip

The greatest heroes are the first to stand, the first to take up arms, and the first to meet the enemy.

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.

Hall of Triumph

Legendary Artifact

As Hall of Triumph enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

Heroes act without thought of glory or reward. Accolades are a consequence, not a goal.

Coercive Portal

Artifact

Will of the council - At the beginning of your upkeep, starting with you, each player votes for carnage or homage. If carnage gets more votes, sacrifice Coercive Portal and destroy all nonland permanents. If homage gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw a card.

Altar of Dementia

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Target player puts a number of cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
-Volrath

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

Reito Lantern

Artifact

: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Lanterns carved from the mystic stones of the Reito Mines were said to light the way of lost souls.

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.

Vedalken Orrery

Artifact

You may cast nonland cards as though they had flash.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

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

Brawler's Plate

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to defending player or planeswalker while attacking.)

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

The Chain Veil

Legendary Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't activate a loyalty ability of a planeswalker this turn, you lose 2 life.

, : For each planeswalker you control, you may activate one of its loyalty abilities once this turn as though none of its loyalty abilities have been activated this turn.

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

Meteorite

Artifact

When Meteorite enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

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

"And if I'm lying," he began . . .

Obelisk of Urd

Artifact

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

As Obelisk of Urd enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2.

Perilous Vault

Artifact

, , Exile Perilous Vault: Exile all nonland permanents.

The spirit dragon Ugin arranged the hedrons of Zendikar to direct leylines of energy. To disrupt one is to unleash devastation and chaos.

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

Rogue's Gloves

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

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

Professional pilferers prefer proper preparation.

Sacred Armory

Artifact

: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Arrive for worship. Leave for war.

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

Tyrant's Machine

Artifact

, : Tap target creature.

"Though tempered differently, all wills can be broken."
-Inquisitor Kyrik

Abzan Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Abzan Banner: Draw a card.

Stone to endure, roots to remember.

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.

Briber's Purse

Artifact

Briber's Purse enters the battlefield with X gem counters on it.

, , Remove a gem counter from Briber's Purse: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.

Victory is certain. The price, negotiable.

Cranial Archive

Artifact

, Exile Cranial Archive: Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library. Draw a card.

The greatest idea the zombie ever had in its head wasn't even its own.

Dragon Throne of Tarkir

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has defender and ", : Other creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power."

Equip

What once soared high above Tarkir is now reduced to a seat.

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.

Heart-Piercer Bow

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, Heart-Piercer Bow deals 1 damage to target creature defending player controls.

Equip

Designed by an ancient artificer, the finest Mardu bows are carved from dragon bone and strung with the wind itself.

Jeskai Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Jeskai Banner: Draw a card.

Discipline to persevere, insight to discover.

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

Mardu Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Mardu Banner: Draw a card.

Speed to strike, fury to smash.

Sultai Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Sultai Banner: Draw a card.

Power to dominate, cruelty to rule.

Temur Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Temur Banner: Draw a card.

Savagery to survive, courage to triumph.

Ugin's Nexus

Legendary Artifact

If a player would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.

If Ugin's Nexus would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, instead exile it and take an extra turn after this one.

All at once Sarkhan's mind fell silent.

Assault Suit

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or a planeswalker you control, and can't be sacrificed.

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it.

Equip

Commander's Sphere

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.