Trading Post

Artifact

, , Discard a card: You gain 4 life.

, , Pay 1 life: Put a 0/1 white Goat creature token onto the battlefield.

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

, , Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Angel's Feather

Artifact

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

The angel represents divine perfection; even the smallest feather is imbued with beauty and benevolence.

Crown of Empires

Artifact

, : Tap target creature. Gain control of that creature instead if you control artifacts named Scepter of Empires and Throne of Empires.

"With this crown, assert your authority."
-Crown inscription

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.

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

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.

Greatsword

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0.

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

The only blow that matters is the killing blow.

Kite Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3.

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

"To my sword I owe my glory, but to my shield I owe my life."
-Sarlena, paladin of the Northern Verge

Kraken's Eye

Artifact

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

It's seen the wonders of entire worlds trapped in the depths of a bottomless ocean.

Manalith

Artifact

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

Planeswalkers seek out great monuments throughout the Multiverse, knowing that their builders were unknowingly drawn by the convergence of mana in the area.

Quicksilver Amulet

Artifact

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

Those who examine the amulet too closely have been known to become part of its ornate carvings.

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

Sundial of the Infinite

Artifact

, : End the turn. Activate this ability only during your turn. (Exile all spells and abilities on the stack. Discard down to your maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Swiftfoot Boots

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste.

Equip

Throne of Empires

Artifact

, : Put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. Put five of those tokens onto the battlefield instead if you control artifacts named Crown of Empires and Scepter of Empires.

"With this throne, unite your nation."
-Throne inscription

Worldslayer

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy all permanents other than Worldslayer.

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

"If that is what you seek, try looking in craters."
-Fodrus, mastersmith

Wurm's Tooth

Artifact

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

Jevna Nor lugged it around, bragging of his triumph over the wurm. Luckily, the tavern regulars didn't notice it was only a baby tooth.

Altar of the Lost

Artifact

Altar of the Lost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast spells with flashback from a graveyard.

Avacyn's Collar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has vigilance.

Whenever equipped creature dies, if it was a Human, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Equip

Chalice of Life

Artifact

: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform Chalice of Life.

The sweet taste of hope's promise.

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.

Executioner's Hood

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has intimidate. (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

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

Grafdigger's Cage

Artifact

Creature cards can't enter the battlefield from graveyards or libraries.

Players can't cast cards in graveyards or libraries.

"If you wind up in one of mine, you can be sure as silver it will be your last."
-Grafdigger Wulmer

Heavy Mattock

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

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

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

Helvault

Legendary Artifact

, : Exile target creature you control.

, : Exile target creature you don't control.

When Helvault is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Jar of Eyeballs

Artifact

Whenever a creature you control dies, put two eyeball counters on Jar of Eyeballs.

, , Remove all eyeball counters from Jar of Eyeballs: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of eyeball counters removed this way. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Warden of the Wall

Artifact

Warden of the Wall enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

As long as it's not your turn, Warden of the Wall is a 2/3 Gargoyle artifact creature with flying.

Wolfhunter's Quiver

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player" and ": This creature deals 3 damage to target Werewolf creature."

Equip

"Steel in the heart, silver in the bow."
-Wolfhunter's creed

Blazing Torch

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can't be blocked by Vampires or Zombies.

Equipped creature has ", Sacrifice Blazing Torch: Blazing Torch deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

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

Butcher's Cleaver

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0.

As long as equipped creature is a Human, it has lifelink.

Equip

Outside the safety of Thraben, there is little distinction between tool and weapon.

Cellar Door

Artifact

, : Target player puts the bottom card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If it's a creature card, you put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

As if anyone needed another reason to avoid dark, dank cellars.

Cobbled Wings

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying.

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

For the necro-alchemist, any puzzle can be solved with intelligence and harvested body parts.

Demonmail Hauberk

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+2.

Equip-Sacrifice a creature.

It comes off as easily as your own skin.

Ghoulcaller's Bell

Artifact

: Each player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

The bell's chime heralds the rise of the unhallowed from the grave and the fall of their victims into the earth.

Graveyard Shovel

Artifact

, : Target player exiles a card from his or her graveyard. If it's a creature card, you gain 2 life.

Thanks to Havengul's thriving illegal market for corpses, the shovel that interred a body during the day is usually the same one digging it out at night.

Grimoire of the Dead

Legendary Artifact

, , Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.

, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Inquisitor's Flail

Artifact - Equipment

If equipped creature would deal combat damage, it deals double that damage instead.

If another creature would deal combat damage to equipped creature, it deals double that damage to equipped creature instead.

Equip

Mask of Avacyn

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Equip

It hides the face and protects the soul.

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.

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.

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.

Traveler's Amulet

Artifact

, Sacrifice Traveler's Amulet: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The rider set off into the eerie mist, swaddled in armor and laden with amulets.

Trepanation Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card. The creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each card revealed this way. That player puts the revealed cards into his or her graveyard.

Equip

Witchbane Orb

Artifact

When Witchbane Orb enters the battlefield, destroy all Curses attached to you.

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control, including Aura spells.)

Wooden Stake

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a Vampire, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

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

Azorius Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"The higher the mind soars, the greater its understanding of the law."
-Isperia

Chromatic Lantern

Artifact

Lands you control have ": Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

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

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Civic Saber

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each of its colors.

Equip

Those without a guild signet often display a different form of protection.

Codex Shredder

Artifact

: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

, , Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Golgari Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Golgari Keyrune becomes a 2/2 black and green Insect artifact creature with deathtouch until end of turn.

Like a single ant, it only hints at the colony below.

Izzet Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Until end of turn, Izzet Keyrune becomes a 2/1 blue and red Elemental artifact creature.

Whenever Izzet Keyrune deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Pithing Needle

Artifact

As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, name a card.

Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

The fearful want the procedure before a blood festival. The guilty seek it afterward.

Rakdos Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Rakdos Keyrune becomes a 3/1 black and red Devil artifact creature with first strike until end of turn.

The Rakdos use it for everything you can think of and plenty more than that.

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.

Tablet of the Guilds

Artifact

As Tablet of the Guilds enters the battlefield, choose two colors.

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.

It is rumored the Azorius paid an exorbitant sum to ensure its symbol would appear at the top.

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

Marble Chalice

Artifact

: You gain 1 life.

The cup was a gift from the sphinx Tameron, who hoped that those who drank from it would live long enough to decrypt the sphinxes' wisdom.

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

Courier's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Courier's Capsule: Draw two cards.

In ages past, Esper couriers bore messages written on ornate scrolls. The medium has grown more sophisticated, but the principle remains the same.

Etherium Astrolabe

Artifact

Flash

, , Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

"Speculation is foolish when the tools of certainty are available."
-Cinna, vedalken consul

Mindlock Orb

Artifact

Players can't search libraries.

Rogue mechanists once rummaged through the wastes of the Tidehollow, constructing unauthorized golems to threaten the hegemony of the sphinxes. The orbs put a stop to that.

Protomatter Powder

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Protomatter Powder: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"There is no such thing as scrap metal. All such material can be repaired with the proper bonding agent."
-Quennus, metallurgeon

Executioner's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Executioner's Capsule: Destroy target nonblack creature.

There is always a moment of trepidation before opening a message capsule, for fear of the judgment that might be contained within.

Immortal Coil

Artifact

, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draw a card.

If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. Exile a card from your graveyard for each 1 damage prevented this way.

When there are no cards in your graveyard, you lose the game.

Onyx Goblet

Artifact

: Target player loses 1 life.

The goblet was a gift from the sphinx Gorael, who hoped humans and vedalken would eventually destroy each other to acquire it, leaving all of Esper to her own kind.

Lich's Mirror

Artifact

If you would lose the game, instead shuffle your hand, your graveyard, and all permanents you own into your library, then draw seven cards and your life total becomes 20.

It shows not what you are but what you were.

Minion Reflector

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. That token has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this permanent."

To crack a mirror is to provide an opening for the reflection to escape.

Obelisk of Bant

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Whether incorporated into the structure of castles or admired as lone symbols, the obelisks stand for Bant's values of loyalty, honor, and truth.

Obelisk of Esper

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

It is a monument as austere, unyielding, and inscrutable as Esper itself.

Obelisk of Grixis

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation.

Obelisk of Jund

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Volcanic ash-winds batter it, climbing vines overwhelm it, dragonfire roasts it, and yet it still stands as a testament to a forgotten world.

Obelisk of Naya

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Centuries have passed since the plane shattered, yet the obelisks of each shard faithfully serve their long-forgotten purpose.

Quietus Spike

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half his or her life, rounded up.

Equip

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.

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.

Catalyst Stone

Artifact

Flashback costs you pay cost up to less.

Flashback costs your opponents pay cost more.

The gems' incandescence invades the dreams of all who see them.

Charmed Pendant

Artifact

, Put the top card of your library into your graveyard: For each colored mana symbol in that card's mana cost, add one mana of that color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only any time you could cast an instant. (For example, if the card's mana cost is , you add to your mana pool.)

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

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

Mossfire Egg

Artifact

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

"Can you feel your instincts overwhelm your reason?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

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

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

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

Steamclaw

Artifact

, : Exile target card from a graveyard.

, Sacrifice Steamclaw: Exile target card from a graveyard.

"There's dead, and then there's dead dead."
-Steamclaw driver

Sungrass Egg

Artifact

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

"Has your peaceful nature led you on a crusade?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Norn's Annex

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays for each of those creatures.

Rage Extractor

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Whenever you cast a spell with {P} in its mana cost, Rage Extractor deals damage equal to that spell's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

New Phyrexia is an engine that both consumes and creates malice.

Birthing Pod

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

, , Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Batterskull

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 +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink.

: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand.

Equip

Caged Sun

Artifact

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color.

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

Whenever a land's ability adds one or more mana of the chosen color to your mana pool, add one additional mana of that color to your mana pool.

Conversion Chamber

Artifact

, : Exile target artifact card from a graveyard. Put a charge counter on Conversion Chamber.

, , Remove a charge counter from Conversion Chamber: Put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

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

Gremlin Mine

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Gremlin Mine: Gremlin Mine deals 4 damage to target artifact creature.

, , Sacrifice Gremlin Mine: Remove up to four charge counters from target noncreature artifact.

Isolation Cell

Artifact

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, that player loses 2 life unless he or she pays .

"Attrition is the answer. Starve them, and let their despair be their undoing."
-Sheoldred, Whispering One

Lashwrithe

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 +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.

Equip ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Mindcrank

Artifact

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard. (Damage dealt by sources without infect causes loss of life.)

"Let go of your memories and be reborn."
-Argent Etchings, plate 106, passage 27

Mycosynth Wellspring

Artifact

When Mycosynth Wellspring enters the battlefield or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

The oil created the mycosynth. The mycosynth created New Phyrexia.

Necropouncer

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 +3/+1 and has haste.

Equip

Omen Machine

Artifact

Players can't draw cards.

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player exiles the top card of his or her library. If it's a land card, the player puts it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, the player casts it without paying its mana cost if able.

Pristine Talisman

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool. You gain 1 life.

"Tools and artisans can be destroyed, but the act of creation is inviolate."
-Elspeth Tirel