Shell Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

: Target blue creature gains shroud until end of turn.

Skulkins confer strange benefits on unsuspecting patrons.

Shell of the Last Kappa

Legendary Artifact

, : Exile target instant or sorcery spell that targets you. (The spell has no effect.)

, , Sacrifice Shell of the Last Kappa: You may cast a card exiled with Shell of the Last Kappa without paying its mana cost.

Sharuum the Hegemon

Legendary Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sharuum the Hegemon enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

To gain audience with the hegemon, one must bring a riddle she has not heard.

Sharpened Pitchfork

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike.

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

Equip

Not everyone can have a sword of blessed silver. Not everyone needs one, either.

Shardless Agent

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

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.)

Sharding Sphinx

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may put a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Whether mechanical or biological, life finds a way to propagate itself.

Shapeshifter

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

As Shapeshifter enters the battlefield, choose a number between 0 and 7.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7.

Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.

Shadowblood Egg

Artifact

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

"Does your passion for power consume your soul?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Serum Tank

Artifact

Whenever Serum Tank or another artifact enters the battlefield, put a charge counter on Serum Tank.

, , Remove a charge counter from Serum Tank: Draw a card.

Serum Powder

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Any time you could mulligan and Serum Powder is in your hand, you may exile all the cards from your hand, then draw that many cards. (You can do this in addition to taking mulligans.)

Serrated Biskelion

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Put a -1/-1 counter on Serrated Biskelion and a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Whereas I was created to protect, the biskelion was created to destroy."
-Karn, silver golem

Serrated Arrows

Artifact

Serrated Arrows enters the battlefield with three arrowhead counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no arrowhead counters on Serrated Arrows, sacrifice it.

, Remove an arrowhead counter from Serrated Arrows: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Serpent Generator

Artifact

, : Put a 1/1 colorless Snake artifact creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter." (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

: Sentinel's toughness becomes 1 plus the power of target creature blocking or blocked by Sentinel. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Sensei's Divining Top

Artifact

: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Sen Triplets

Legendary Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target opponent. This turn, that player can't cast spells or activate abilities and plays with his or her hand revealed. You may play cards from that player's hand this turn.

They are the masters of your mind.

Semblance Anvil

Artifact

Imprint - When Semblance Anvil enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonland card from your hand.

Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost less to cast.

Forged from what it forges.

Selesnya Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

The symbol of the Conclave is one of unity, with tree supporting sun and sun feeding tree.

Selesnya Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Selesnya Keyrune becomes a 3/3 green and white Wolf artifact creature until end of turn.

A mark of unity when you want one; a fierce guardian when you need one.

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

Seer's Sundial

Artifact

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

"The shadow travels toward the apex. I predict we will soon see the true measure of darkness."

Seer's Lantern

Artifact

: Add {C} to your mana pool. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

, : Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

A light to bring hope in dark times.

Seashell Cameo

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

"Today a seashell fell from the empty sky here in Kinymu, a hundred leagues from the sea. I'm torn-shall I carve a woman or a bird?"
-Isel, master carver

Scythe of the Wretched

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control. Attach Scythe of the Wretched to that creature.

Equip

Scuttling Doom Engine

Artifact Creature - Construct

Scuttling Doom Engine can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

When Scuttling Doom Engine dies, it deals 6 damage to target opponent.

A masterwork of spite, inspired by madness.

Scuttlemutt

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

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

: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Built to shuttle goods from the river, it took off one day carrying a cauldron of dyes.

Sculpting Steel

Artifact

You may have Sculpting Steel enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Scrying Glass

Artifact

, : Choose a number greater than 0 and a color. Target opponent reveals his or her hand. If that opponent reveals exactly the chosen number of cards of the chosen color, you draw a card.

Scroll Rack

Artifact

, : Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Scroll of the Masters

Artifact

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a lore counter on Scroll of the Masters.

, : Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each lore counter on Scroll of the Masters.

Scroll of Origins

Artifact

, : Draw a card if you have seven or more cards in hand.

The words from which language sprang, the knowledge from which thought was born, the story from which history was woven.

Scroll of Griselbrand

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scroll of Griselbrand: Target opponent discards a card. If you control a Demon, that player loses 3 life.

Words no eyes should see, telling of things no sane mind could fathom.

Scroll of Avacyn

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scroll of Avacyn: Draw a card. If you control an Angel, you gain 5 life.

Words to bless the eye that reads them, telling of a future beyond the reach of fear.

Scrapheap

Artifact

Whenever an artifact or enchantment is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Junk heaps have rats, but scrapheaps have goblins.

Scrapbasket

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

: Scrapbasket becomes all colors until end of turn.

Once a tool of kithkin farmers, scarecrows of all shapes now skitter and lurch across Shadowmoor, animated by residual rustic magics.

Scrabbling Claws

Artifact

: Target player exiles a card from his or her graveyard.

, Sacrifice Scrabbling Claws: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Scourglass

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scourglass: Destroy all permanents except for artifacts and lands. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

"Soon I will sleep, eyes closing to a world tarnished with flesh, and then wake to a polished vision."
-Sharuum

Scornful Æther-Lich

Artifact Creature - Zombie Wizard

: Scornful Æther-Lich gains fear and vigilance until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap, and it can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"With no flesh, there is no pain, no hesitation, no emotion of any kind. He is crafted perfection."
-Tezzeret

Scepter of Insight

Artifact

, : Draw a card.

"The road to truth has many branches, and so must the cane with which I walk it."
-Voln the Elder

Scepter of Fugue

Artifact

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

One goes to Tidehollow either to forget or to be forgotten. Either way, the scullers will oblige.

Scepter of Empires

Artifact

: Scepter of Empires deals 1 damage to target player. It deals 3 damage to that player instead if you control artifacts named Crown of Empires and Throne of Empires.

"With this scepter, smite your enemies."
-Scepter inscription

Scepter of Dominance

Artifact

, : Tap target permanent.

"Whether or not you will bow to me is not open to debate. The question is, will I ever let you rise?"
-Fridius, telemin master

Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

, : Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by creatures with flying.

There was more malice in its button eyes than should have been possible in something that had never known life.

Scarecrone

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

, Sacrifice a Scarecrow: Draw a card.

, : Return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Her poppets bring joy to the truly depraved.

Scarab of the Unseen

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scarab of the Unseen: Return all Auras attached to target permanent you own to their owners' hands. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Scale of Chiss-Goria

Artifact

Flash

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

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

Scalding Tongs

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have three or fewer cards in hand, Scalding Tongs deals 1 damage to target opponent.

"This has nothing to do with what you know and everything to do with what I wish."
-Volrath

Sawtooth Thresher

Artifact Creature - Construct

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 Sawtooth Thresher: Sawtooth Thresher gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII

Artifact

As Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII enters the battlefield, choose white Citizen, blue Camarid, black Thrull, red Goblin, or green Saproling.

, : Put a 1/1 creature token of the chosen color and type onto the battlefield.

The past still lives within its pages, waiting for its time to come again.

Sarcomite Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Sarcomite Myr gains flying until end of turn.

, Sacrifice Sarcomite Myr: Draw a card.

"A horrible sight, yes, but the sounds . . . Its twanging tendons and grinding gears are almost musical."
-Brudiclad, Telchor engineer

Sapphire Medallion

Artifact

Blue spells you cast cost less to cast.

Sandstone Deadfall

Artifact

, Sacrifice two lands and Sandstone Deadfall: Destroy target attacking creature.

"Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there."
-Kamahl, pit fighter

Sands of Time

Artifact

Each player skips his or her untap step.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player simultaneously untaps each tapped artifact, creature, and land he or she controls and taps each untapped artifact, creature, and land he or she controls.

"But once, with a magician's help, Time was stopped and Day stood still."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Sands of Delirium

Artifact

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

It counts down your last few moments of sanity.

Sandals of Abdallah

Artifact

, : Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn. When that creature dies this turn, destroy Sandals of Abdallah.

Sand Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Sand Golem, return Sand Golem from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Sanctum Plowbeast

Artifact Creature - Beast

Defender

Plainscycling , islandcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Sanctum Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

When Sanctum Gargoyle enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

As their supplies of etherium dwindled, mechanists sent gargoyles farther and farther afield in search of salvage.

Salvaging Station

Artifact

: Return target noncreature artifact card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Whenever a creature dies, you may untap Salvaging Station.

Salvage Titan

Artifact Creature - Golem

You may sacrifice three artifacts rather than pay Salvage Titan's mana cost.

Exile three artifact cards from your graveyard: Return Salvage Titan from your graveyard to your hand.

Salvage Slasher

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

Salvage Slasher gets +1/+0 for each artifact card in your graveyard.

Esper artificers never imagined that one day their scraps would be pressed against their soft and fragile throats.

Sai of the Shinobi

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may attach Sai of the Shinobi to it.

Equip

The passing of the sai presages the end of the old clan and the ascent of the new.

Sacred Armory

Artifact

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

Arrive for worship. Leave for war.

Saberclaw Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Saberclaw Golem gains first strike until end of turn.

The warriors of the Blade Tribe charged the golem, twenty strong. They returned numbering ten . . . and a half.

Rustspore Ram

Artifact Creature - Sheep

When Rustspore Ram enters the battlefield, destroy target Equipment.

Rusting Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Fading 5 (This creature enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Rusting Golem's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on it.

Rusted Slasher

Artifact Creature - Horror

Sacrifice an artifact: Regenerate Rusted Slasher.

"It's a beautiful vision. Discarded debris is reborn as a singular entity."
-Urabrask the Hidden

Rusted Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Golem

Rusted Sentinel enters the battlefield tapped.

It has to deliberate a moment on the best way to break your face.

Rusted Relic

Artifact

Metalcraft - Rusted Relic is a 5/5 Golem artifact creature as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"We consider rust a curable disease."
-Tarrin, Hammer-Tribe shaman

Rust Tick

Artifact Creature - Insect

You may choose not to untap Rust Tick during your untap step.

, : Tap target artifact. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Rust Tick remains tapped.

Rust Elemental

Artifact Creature - Elemental

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice an artifact other than Rust Elemental. If you can't, tap Rust Elemental and you lose 4 life.

Runesword

Artifact

, : Target attacking creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. When that creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice Runesword. If the creature deals damage to a creature this turn, the creature dealt damage can't be regenerated this turn. If a creature dealt damage by the targeted creature would die this turn, exile that creature instead.

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.

Runed Servitor

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Runed Servitor dies, each player draws a card.

Scholars had puzzled for centuries over the ruins at Tal Terig. Its secrets had always lived within one rune-carved head.

Runed Arch

Artifact

Runed Arch enters the battlefield tapped.

, , Sacrifice Runed Arch: X target creatures with power 2 or less are unblockable this turn.

Runechanter's Pike

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.

Equip

As sharp as its bearer's words of faith.

Ruby Medallion

Artifact

Red spells you cast cost less to cast.

Roterothopter

Artifact Creature - Thopter

Flying

: Roterothopter gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than twice each turn.

"The Roterothopter is as insidious as it is ingenious. It is one of the few creations of our school that I take no pride in."
-Baki, Wizard Attendant

Ronin Warclub

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+1.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, attach Ronin Warclub to that creature.

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

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.

Rod of Ruin

Artifact

, : Rod of Ruin deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"My masterpiece is complete-and so shall be my triumph."
-Saldrath, master artificer

Rocket Launcher

Artifact

: Rocket Launcher deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Destroy Rocket Launcher at the beginning of the next end step. Activate this ability only if you've controlled Rocket Launcher continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

What these devices lacked in subtlety, they made up in strength.

Rith's Attendant

Artifact Creature - Golem

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

"Rith is the claw of the ur-dragon, scattering seeds of devastation."

Rishadan Pawnshop

Artifact

, : Shuffle target nontoken permanent you control into its owner's library.

Everything comes to the waterfront eventually, on the tide or on credit.

Riptide Replicator

Artifact

As Riptide Replicator enters the battlefield, choose a color and a creature type.

Riptide Replicator enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

, : Put an X/X creature token of the chosen color and type onto the battlefield, where X is the number of charge counters on Riptide Replicator.

Riot Gear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2.

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

Any meeting between guilds requires proper equipment.

Rings of Brighthearth

Artifact

Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay . If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"Without flame, there would be no iron tools, no cooked meals, no purge of old growth to make room for new."
-Brighthearth creed

Ring of Xathrid

Artifact - Equipment

: Regenerate equipped creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's black.

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

Ring of Valkas

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has haste. (It can attack and no matter when it came under your control.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's red.

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

Ring of Thune

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's white.

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

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.

Ring of Renewal

Artifact

, : Discard a card at random, then draw two cards.

To the uninitiated, the Ring of Renewal is merely an oddity. For those fluent in the wielding of magic, however, it is a source of great knowledge.

Ring of Ma'rûf

Artifact

, , Exile Ring of Ma'rûf: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead choose a card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand.

Ring of Kalonia

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has trample. (If it would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's green.

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

Ring of Immortals

Artifact

, : Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.

Ring of Gix

Artifact

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

, : Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Not every cage is made of bars.

Ring of Evos Isle

Artifact - Equipment

: Equipped creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's blue.

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

Revelsong Horn

Artifact

, , Tap an untapped creature you control: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

A deflated sigh breathed into the horn emerges as an inspiring melody.

Relic of Progenitus

Artifact

: Target player exiles a card from his or her graveyard.

, Exile Relic of Progenitus: Exile all cards from all graveyards. Draw a card.

Elves believe the hydra-god Progenitus sleeps beneath Naya, feeding on forgotten magics.

Relic Barrier

Artifact

: Tap target artifact.