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.)

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.

Steelclad Serpent

Artifact Creature - Serpent

Steelclad Serpent can't attack unless you control another artifact.

"From the highest towers to the deepest sea, all life must be touched by etherium."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

Vectis Silencers

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Silencers gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Even on Esper, there are those who eschew the use of magic in favor of simpler methods.

Glaze Fiend

Artifact Creature - Illusion

Flying

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Glaze Fiend gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Before the zealots of the Ethersworn came to power, Esper illusionists dreamed up creations to mimic a variety of substances.

Puppet Conjurer

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

, : Put a 0/1 blue Homunculus artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Homunculus.

He scowls at his imperfect creation, then crushes it to scrap. He salvages the etherium and begins anew.

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.

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.

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?"

Thoughtcutter Agent

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

, : Target player loses 1 life and reveals his or her hand.

Agents of the Architects of Will mark their victims as a reminder that their secrets are secret no longer.

Tidehollow Sculler

Artifact Creature - Zombie

When Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.

When Tidehollow Sculler leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Tidehollow Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

The scullers beneath Esper keep strixes as trained pets, and set them loose when a fare refuses to pay.

Tower Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

"Esper, like any work of art, can be truly appreciated only from a distance."
-Tezzeret

Windwright Mage

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Windwright Mage has flying as long as an artifact card is in your graveyard.

She knows the names and secrets of each of Esper's twenty-three winds.

Cathedral Membrane

Artifact Creature - Wall

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Defender

When Cathedral Membrane dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.

Porcelain Legionnaire

Artifact Creature - Soldier

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

First strike

"My new design has lightweight plating specially cultivated from heretics' spare tissues."
-Izathel, priest of the Annex

Phyrexian Metamorph

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

You may have Phyrexian Metamorph enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

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

Pith Driller

Artifact Creature - Horror

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

When Pith Driller enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

After boring up through the crust of Mirrodin, it turned its expertise upon the surface dwellers.

Vault Skirge

Artifact Creature - Imp

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

From the remnants of the dead, Geth forged a swarm to safeguard his throne.

Moltensteel Dragon

Artifact Creature - Dragon

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

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

An apocalypse in dragon form.

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.

Thundering Tanadon

Artifact Creature - Beast

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Trample

"We do not need beakers and vials to test our predators."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Alloy Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

With or without witnesses, the suns continued their prismatic dance.

Blinding Souleater

Artifact Creature - Cleric

, : Tap target creature. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for inscribing our souls with subservience, to reinforce the sacred order."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Etched Monstrosity

Artifact Creature - Golem

Etched Monstrosity enters the battlefield with five -1/-1 counters on it.

, Remove five -1/-1 counters from Etched Monstrosity: Target player draws three cards.

Now etched only with the scars of phyresis.

Hex Parasite

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, Hex Parasite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Drawn by power, fueled by conquest.

Hovermyr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Flying, vigilance

Originally created to harvest blinkmoths, the hovermyr are now the silent observers of a dying world.

Immolating Souleater

Artifact Creature - Hound

: Immolating Souleater gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for melting the sinful that we may be reminded of our own insignificance."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Insatiable Souleater

Artifact Creature - Beast

: Insatiable Souleater gains trample until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for culling our sick so that the strong may earn their triumphs."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Kiln Walker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Kiln Walker attacks, it gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

If it possesses an ability to understand and appreciate life, it has never shown it.

Myr Superion

Artifact Creature - Myr

Spend only mana produced by creatures to cast Myr Superion.

Two kinds of myr survive: the powerful and those that stay close by them.

Pestilent Souleater

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Pestilent Souleater gains infect until end of turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life. A creature with infect deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

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

Trespassing Souleater

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Trespassing Souleater is unblockable this turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for surveilling our lives that we may be preserved from our own ignorance."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Bladed Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Bladed Sentinel gains vigilance until end of turn.

The Mirran partisans created hundreds of patrol sentinels to divert Phyrexian assaults from the Tangle.

Blightsteel Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample, infect

Blightsteel Colossus is indestructible.

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

Brass Squire

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

"I admire it. Few pull off pluck and subservience at the same time."
-Ezuri, renegade leader

Core Prowler

Artifact Creature - Horror

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

When Core Prowler dies, proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

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

Gust-Skimmer

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Gust-Skimmer gains flying until end of turn.

Phyrexian smog clouds choked the skies, threatening creatures who couldn't comprehend the menace below.

Hexplate Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

"Use everything. Iron, rust, scrap . . . even the ground must join our cause."
-Ezuri, renegade leader

Lumengrid Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

"Anything that watches without sleep and fights without fear is a valuable ally against the Phyrexians."
-Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

Myr Sire

Artifact Creature - Myr

When Myr Sire dies, put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

For the Phyrexians, death is not an end, nor a one-time occurrence.

Myr Welder

Artifact Creature - Myr

Imprint - : Exile target artifact card from a graveyard.

Myr Welder has all activated abilities of all cards exiled with it.

Memnarch designed some myr to follow the levelers and reaffix lost parts. Mirran partisans put that instinct to good use.

Peace Strider

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Peace Strider enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

"The Vanished must have sent it from beyond to aid us in this struggle."
-Kessla, Sylvok shaman

Phyrexian Digester

Artifact Creature - Construct

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"Our cause will ripen in the fertile flesh of the unworthy."
-Sheoldred, Whispering One

Phyrexian Juggernaut

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexian Juggernaut attacks each turn if able.

Where nature impedes, Phyrexians overcome.

Phyrexian Revoker

Artifact Creature - Horror

As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, name a nonland card.

Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

Basic senses like sight and taste are reserved for those in power.

Pierce Strider

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Pierce Strider enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 3 life.

"Pain isn't a negative stimulus. Pain is a sign of your imperfection."
-Sheoldred, Whispering One

Plague Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

: Add to your mana pool.

They watch for a new master, one more sinister than the last.

Psychosis Crawler

Artifact Creature - Horror

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

"If that brain can't figure out the secret of the serum, then add more brains."
-Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

Razorfield Rhino

Artifact Creature - Rhino

Metalcraft - Razorfield Rhino gets +2/+2 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Adapted to tread on razorgrass, the rhino proved adept at treading on Phyrexians as well.

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

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.

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.

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

Tangle Hulk

Artifact Creature - Beast

: Regenerate Tangle Hulk.

"A true Phyrexian predator. It will never know death, just as nature intended."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Thopter Assembly

Artifact Creature - Thopter

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control no Thopters other than Thopter Assembly, return Thopter Assembly to its owner's hand and put five 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

Training Drone

Artifact Creature - Drone

Training Drone can't attack or block unless it's equipped.

"Vulshok flail, Viridian shield, loxodon blade . . . Tazzir, bring the Moriok hook and assemble the rookies."
-Vy Covalt, Neurok agent

Auriok Replica

Artifact Creature - Cleric

, Sacrifice Auriok Replica: Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal to you this turn.

All the loyalty of the Auriok with only a trace of their self-righteousness.

Chrome Steed

Artifact Creature - Horse

Metalcraft - Chrome Steed gets +2/+2 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

According to Auriok myth, it collects scrap in order to reassemble its lost rider.

Clone Shell

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

Imprint - When Clone Shell enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

When Clone Shell dies, turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield under your control.

Copper Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like verdigris: an ever-present patina on the surface of a metal world.

Corpse Cur

Artifact Creature - Hound

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

When Corpse Cur enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card with infect from your graveyard to your hand.

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 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.)

Etched Champion

Artifact Creature - Soldier

Metalcraft - Etched Champion has protection from all colors as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Its predecessors were etched with the wisdom of ancients; its own etchings bear warnings of a future fraught with war.

Gold Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like razorgrass: numberless metal figures, reflecting each other's light.

Golem Artisan

Artifact Creature - Golem

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

: Target artifact creature gains your choice of flying, trample, or haste until end of turn.

Better living through metallurgy.

Ichorclaw Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Whenever Ichorclaw Myr becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Iron Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like rusted metal: gleaming purpose hidden by a thin disguise of debris.

Kuldotha Forgemaster

Artifact Creature - Construct

, Sacrifice three artifacts: Search your library for an artifact card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

The goblins say it used to be larger, before it began to stoke the Great Furnace with pieces of itself.

Leaden Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like necrogen: a transformative force unconcerned with the changes they wreak.

Memnite

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reminders of Memnarch's reign still skirr across Mirrodin, reminiscent of his form if not his power.

Molten-Tail Masticore

Artifact Creature - Masticore

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Molten-Tail Masticore unless you discard a card.

, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Molten-Tail Masticore deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

: Regenerate Molten-Tail Masticore.

Moriok Replica

Artifact Creature - Warrior

, Sacrifice Moriok Replica: You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

All the secrets of the Moriok with only a trace of their corruption.

Myr Battlesphere

Artifact Creature - Myr Construct

When Myr Battlesphere enters the battlefield, put four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Whenever Myr Battlesphere attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, Myr Battlesphere gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to defending player.

Myr Galvanizer

Artifact Creature - Myr

Other Myr creatures you control get +1/+1.

, : Untap each other Myr you control.

"We can't quite determine what they're doing, but they seem to be doing it quite well."
-Vedalken research notes

Myr Propagator

Artifact Creature - Myr

, : Put a token that's a copy of Myr Propagator onto the battlefield.

"We will ingest and remake this world in our image, not unlike some admirable designs I have seen here."
-Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Necropede

Artifact Creature - Insect

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

When Necropede dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Neurok Replica

Artifact Creature - Wizard

, Sacrifice Neurok Replica: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

All the curiosity of the Neurok with only a trace of their duplicity.

Palladium Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations.

Perilous Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

When Perilous Myr dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

To Mirrodin, an explosive. To Phyrexia, a missionary.

Platinum Emperion

Artifact Creature - Golem

Your life total can't change. (You can't gain or lose life. You can't pay any amount of life except 0.)

It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death.

Precursor Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Precursor Golem enters the battlefield, put two 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single Golem, that player copies that spell for each other Golem that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those Golems.

Razorfield Thresher

Artifact Creature - Construct

DANGER! Keep appendages clear of front of machine. And rear of machine. And side of machine. And top of machine.

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.

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.

Silver Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Add to your mana pool.

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

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.

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.

Steel Hellkite

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Steel Hellkite gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost X whose controller was dealt combat damage by Steel Hellkite this turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Sylvok Replica

Artifact Creature - Shaman

, Sacrifice Sylvok Replica: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

All the zeal of the Sylvok with only a trace of their conservancy.

Vector Asp

Artifact Creature - Snake

: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexia's machines take inspiration from nature. Twisted, disturbing inspiration.

Vulshok Replica

Artifact Creature - Berserker

, Sacrifice Vulshok Replica: Vulshok Replica deals 3 damage to target player.

All the fury of the Vulshok with only a trace of their recklessness.

Wall of Tanglecord

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

: Wall of Tanglecord gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Rootlike fibers travel far from Mirrodin's metallic forests, emerging from the crust to drink in the mana-infused sunlight.

Wurmcoil Engine

Artifact Creature - Wurm

Deathtouch, lifelink

When Wurmcoil Engine dies, put a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink onto the battlefield.

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.