Damping Matrix

Artifact

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

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 Ingot

Artifact

Indestructible

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.)

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

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.)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Demonmail Hauberk

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+2.

Equip-Sacrifice a creature.

It comes off as easily as your own skin.

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.

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.

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

Diabolic Machine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Regenerate Diabolic Machine.

"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning."
-Sevti Mukul, The Fall of Alsoor

Diamond Kaleidoscope

Artifact

, : Put a 0/1 colorless Prism artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Sacrifice a Prism token: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"A pretty toy. Now show me its tactical applications."
-Telim'Tor

Didgeridoo

Artifact

: You may put a Minotaur permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Play the song of he who delivered us. Play the song of Feroz."
-Onatah, Anaba Shaman

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.

Dimir Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Dimir Keyrune becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

A key that slips through every lock.

Dimir Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members-and the doomed.

Dingus Egg

Artifact

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Dingus Egg deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Dingus Staff

Artifact

Whenever a creature dies, Dingus Staff deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.

"A sharp conscience is the weapon of the soul."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Dispeller's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Dispeller's Capsule: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I find its symmetry pleasing. It rids our world of offensive refuse while disposing of itself."
-Dolomarus, Proctor of the Clean

Disrupting Scepter

Artifact

, : Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only during your turn.

"True power is controlling not only the hearts of your subjects, but their minds as well."

Distorting Lens

Artifact

: Target permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

"The Eye altering alters all."
-William Blake, "The Mental Traveller"

Diviner's Wand

Tribal Artifact - Wizard Equipment

Equipped creature has "Whenever you draw a card, this creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn" and ": Draw a card."

Whenever a Wizard creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Diviner's Wand to it.

Equip

Dodecapod

Artifact Creature - Golem

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Dodecapod, put it onto the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it instead of putting it into your graveyard.

Dolmen Gate

Artifact

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to attacking creatures you control.

Lorwyn's stones resonate with the place from which they were hewed. Though taken far, still they call to their home when silence is upon the land.

Doom Cannon

Artifact

As Doom Cannon enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

, , Sacrifice a creature of the chosen type: Doom Cannon deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

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.

Door to Nothingness

Artifact

Door to Nothingness enters the battlefield tapped.

, , Sacrifice Door to Nothingness: Target player loses the game.

Only a madman could create such a door. Only an imbecile would open it.

Doubling Cube

Artifact

, : Double the amount of each type of mana in your mana pool.

The cube's surface is pockmarked with jagged runes that seem to shift when unobserved.

Draco

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Domain - Draco costs less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control.

Flying

Domain - At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Draco unless you pay . This cost is reduced by for each basic land type among lands you control.

Draconian Cylix

Artifact

, , Discard a card at random: Regenerate target creature.

"There is no gain without sacrifice."
-Icatian proverb

Dragon Arch

Artifact

, : You may put a multicolored creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

In their hunger for the arch's power, mages often forget that it only makes dragons easier to summon. It doesn't make them easier to control.

Dragon Blood

Artifact

, : Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Fire in the blood, fire in the belly.

Dragon Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Dragon Engine gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Dragon Mask

Artifact

, : Target creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

"With no further options, I was forced to don the mask."
-Rashida Scalebane

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.

Dragon's Claw

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

"If there is a fire that never ceases to burn, it surely lies in the maw of a dragon."
-Sarkhan Vol

Dragonloft Idol

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

As long as you control a Dragon, Dragonloft Idol gets +1/+1 and has flying and trample.

The idols were forged during the time of the Khanfall, when the dragons came to rule Tarkir and its people aligned themselves with the five dragonlords.

Drake-Skull Cameo

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

"A strange skull was turned up by an Ephran farmer's plow. I traded a copper ring for the ‘ox skull.' It resonates of the sea and danger."
-Isel, master carver

Dream Chisel

Artifact

Face-down creature spells you cast cost less to cast.

Itself a product of Ixidor's tortured psyche, the chisel brings his darkest dreams to life.

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.

Drill-Skimmer

Artifact Creature - Thopter

Flying

Drill-Skimmer has shroud as long as you control another artifact creature. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

In close proximity, their magnetic energies merge and form a field of protection.

Dromar's Attendant

Artifact Creature - Golem

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

"Dromar is the wings of the ur-dragon, sweeping away all opposition."

Dromoka Monument

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

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

Dromoka rules her clan from the Great Aerie atop Arashin, the central city of the Shifting Wastes.

Dross Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Affinity for Swamps (This spell costs less to cast for each Swamp you control.)

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

The longer it skulks through the corrosive gases of Mephidross, the more it adopts their thirst for death.

Dross Ripper

Artifact Creature - Hound

: Dross Ripper gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Such a creation serves no purpose other than exterminating every one of us."
-Sadra Alic, Neurok strategist

Dross Scorpion

Artifact Creature - Scorpion

Whenever Dross Scorpion or another artifact creature dies, you may untap target artifact.

Druidic Satchel

Artifact

, : Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield. If it's a land card, put that card onto the battlefield under your control. If it's a noncreature, nonland card, you gain 2 life.

Duplicant

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

Imprint - When Duplicant enters the battlefield, you may exile target nontoken creature.

As long as the exiled card is a creature card, Duplicant has that card's power, toughness, and creature types. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Duskworker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Duskworker becomes blocked, regenerate it.

: Duskworker gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Eater of Days

Artifact Creature - Leviathan

Flying, trample

When Eater of Days enters the battlefield, you skip your next two turns.

When Mirrodin's varied civilizations developed ways to fight the levelers, Memnarch upped the stakes.

Ebony Horse

Artifact

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

Ebony Owl Netsuke

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has seven or more cards in hand, Ebony Owl Netsuke deals 4 damage to him or her.

"Owls filled the skies during the Kami War, harbingers of darker times to come."
-The History of Kamigawa

Ebony Rhino

Artifact Creature - Rhino

Trample

"That Rhino would fetch us a tidy sum, Joven. Perhaps it's time to make it ours."
-Chandler

Echo Chamber

Artifact

, : An opponent chooses target creature he or she controls. Put a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. That token gains haste until end of turn. Exile the token at the beginning of the next end step. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Echo Circlet

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can block an additional creature.

Equip

After the vanishing of the elder generations, the Anvil Tribe developed creative solutions to their personnel shortages.

Elbrus, the Binding Blade

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

When equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, unattach Elbrus, the Binding Blade, then transform it.

Equip

Those who grasp its hilt soon hear the demon's call.

Eldrazi Monument

Artifact

Creatures you control get +1/+1, have flying, and are indestructible.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. If you can't, sacrifice Eldrazi Monument.

"Gods don't die. They merely slumber."
-Ayli, Kamsa cleric

Elf Replica

Artifact Creature - Elf

, Sacrifice Elf Replica: Destroy target enchantment.

Elixir of Immortality

Artifact

, : You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

"Bottled life. Not as tasty as I'm used to, rather stale, but it has the same effect."
-Baron Sengir

Elixir of Vitality

Artifact

Elixir of Vitality enters the battlefield tapped.

, Sacrifice Elixir of Vitality: You gain 4 life.

, , Sacrifice Elixir of Vitality: You gain 8 life.

"Eternal life or your money back."
-Unnamed Suq'Ata merchant, deceased

Elkin Bottle

Artifact

, : Exile the top card of your library. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card.

Elsewhere Flask

Artifact

When Elsewhere Flask enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Sacrifice Elsewhere Flask: Choose a basic land type. Each land you control becomes that type until end of turn.

One night Oona bottled the sky. The next night she aligned the stars and released it.

Elven Lyre

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Elven Lyre: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Scholars are uncertain whether it was the actual sound or some other magical property of the Elven Lyre that transformed its player.

Emblazoned Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Spend only colored mana on X. No more than one mana of each color may be spent this way.

If Emblazoned Golem was kicked, it enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Emerald Medallion

Artifact

Green spells you cast cost less to cast.

Emmessi Tome

Artifact

, : Draw two cards, then discard a card.

It is like life and destiny: we think we know the story, but we have read only half the tale.

Empyrial Plate

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.

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.)

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.

Endoskeleton

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Endoskeleton during your untap step.

, : Target creature gets +0/+3 for as long as Endoskeleton remains tapped.

Energizer

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

, : Put a +1/+1 counter on Energizer.

Like a kettle set to boil, it must eventually go off-on someone.

Energy Chamber

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one - Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact creature; or put a charge counter on target noncreature artifact.

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.

Enigma Sphinx

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Enigma Sphinx is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top.

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Ensnaring Bridge

Artifact

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Bridges usually get you from one place to another. This one just gets you.

Ensouled Scimitar

Artifact - Equipment

: Ensouled Scimitar becomes a 1/5 Spirit artifact creature with flying until end of turn. (Equipment that's a creature can't equip a creature.)

Equipped creature gets +1/+5.

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

Eon Hub

Artifact

Players skip their upkeep steps.

Its power source is time itself. It absorbs unused minutes and hours, bringing the end of existence always closer.

Epochrasite

Artifact Creature - Construct

Epochrasite enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it if you didn't cast it from your hand.

When Epochrasite dies, exile it with three time counters on it and it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast this card without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)