Warlord's Axe

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.

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

To split wood with it would be sacrilege. This tool has but one purpose, and that is war.

Whispersilk Cloak

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature is unblockable and has shroud.

Equip

Magebane Armor

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+4 and loses flying.

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to equipped creature.

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

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

Esperzoa

Artifact Creature - Jellyfish

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

The more metal it digests, the more its jelly will fetch on the alchemists' market.

Parasitic Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

When Parasitic Strix enters the battlefield, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

After finding no sustenance on the edges of Grixis, it turned to the skies of Bant.

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

Hoof Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

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

It hunts with the memory of a long lost herd.

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.

Lurebound Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

As Lurebound Scarecrow enters the battlefield, choose a color.

When you control no permanents of the chosen color, sacrifice Lurebound Scarecrow.

It's a fool's race to run if all is lost if it be won.

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.

Tatterkite

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Flying

Tatterkite can't have counters placed on it.

"I rigged it together from wicker and scrap, yet somehow I find it unalterably perfect."
-Braenna, cobblesmith

Umbral Mantle

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", {Q}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn." ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Equip

It harnesses the power of night in a land where daylight fears to show itself.

Wingrattle Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Wingrattle Scarecrow has flying as long as you control a blue creature.

Wingrattle Scarecrow has persist as long as you control a black creature. (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

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

Obsidian Battle-Axe

Tribal Artifact - Warrior Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+1 and has haste.

Whenever a Warrior creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Obsidian Battle-Axe to it.

Equip

It's the flint that sparks a warrior's rage.

Colfenor's Urn

Artifact

Whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it.

At the beginning of the end step, if three or more cards have been exiled with Colfenor's Urn, sacrifice it. If you do, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Moonglove Extract

Artifact

Sacrifice Moonglove Extract: Moonglove Extract deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Diluted, moonglove can etch living tissue. Concentrated, a drop will kill a giant.

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

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.

Bottle Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

Sacrifice Bottle Gnomes: You gain 3 life.

Reinforcements . . . or refreshments?

Crucible of Worlds

Artifact

You may play land cards from your graveyard.

Amidst the darkest ashes grow the strongest seeds.

Loxodon Warhammer

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink. (If the creature 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. Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

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

Phyrexian Vault

Artifact

, , Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

"The secrets of Phyrexia are expensive. You will pay in brass and bone, steel and sinew."
-Kaervek

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.

Steel Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

You can't cast creature spells.

"Once you create perfection, what else is there to make?"
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

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."

Storage Matrix

Artifact

As long as Storage Matrix is untapped, each player chooses artifact, creature, or land during his or her untap step. That player can untap only permanents of the chosen type this step.

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.

Skull of Orm

Artifact

, : Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Though lifeless, the skull still possessed a strange power over the flow of magic.

Wall of Spears

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

First strike

Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging Craw Wurms.

Jester's Scepter

Artifact

When Jester's Scepter enters the battlefield, exile the top five cards of target player's library face down. You may look at those cards for as long as they remain exiled.

, , Put a card exiled with Jester's Scepter into its owner's graveyard: Counter target spell if it has the same name as that card.

Cathodion

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Cathodion dies, add to your mana pool.

Instead of creating a tool that would be damaged by heat, the Thran built one that was charged by it.

Crystal Shard

Artifact

, or , : Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays .

Culling Scales

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target nonland permanent with the lowest converted mana cost. (If two or more permanents are tied for lowest cost, target any one of them.)

Damping Matrix

Artifact

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

Dragon Blood

Artifact

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

Fire in the blood, fire in the belly.

Elf Replica

Artifact Creature - Elf

, Sacrifice Elf Replica: Destroy target enchantment.

Extraplanar Lens

Artifact

Imprint - When Extraplanar Lens enters the battlefield, you may exile target land you control.

Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana to his or her mana pool of any type that land produced.

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.)

Goblin Replica

Artifact Creature - Goblin

, Sacrifice Goblin Replica: Destroy target artifact.

Granite Shard

Artifact

, or , : Granite Shard deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Heartwood Shard

Artifact

, or , : Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Jinxed Choker

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, target opponent gains control of Jinxed Choker and puts a charge counter on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, Jinxed Choker deals damage to you equal to the number of charge counters on it.

: Put a charge counter on Jinxed Choker or remove one from it.

Leonin Bladetrap

Artifact

Flash

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

Lightning Coils

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a charge counter on Lightning Coils.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Lightning Coils has five or more charge counters on it, remove all of them from it and put that many 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

Mindstorm Crown

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you had no cards in hand at the beginning of this turn. If you had a card in hand, Mindstorm Crown deals 1 damage to you.

Myr Adapter

Artifact Creature - Myr

Myr Adapter gets +1/+1 for each Equipment attached to it.

Nim Replica

Artifact Creature - Zombie

, Sacrifice Nim Replica: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Nuisance Engine

Artifact

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

Oblivion Stone

Artifact

, : Put a fate counter on target permanent.

, , Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

Pearl Shard

Artifact

, or , : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Proteus Staff

Artifact

, : Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. That creature's controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of his or her library in any order. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Quicksilver Fountain

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts a flood counter on target non-Island land he or she controls of his or her choice. That land is an Island for as long as it has a flood counter on it.

At the beginning of each end step, if all lands on the battlefield are Islands, remove all flood counters from them.

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.

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.

Skeleton Shard

Artifact

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

Soldier Replica

Artifact Creature - Soldier

, Sacrifice Soldier Replica: Soldier Replica deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Spellweaver Helix

Artifact

Imprint - When Spellweaver Helix enters the battlefield, you may exile two target sorcery cards from a single graveyard.

Whenever a player casts a card, if it has the same name as one of the cards exiled with Spellweaver Helix, you may copy the other. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Tangleroot

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a creature spell, that player adds to his or her mana pool.

Tooth of Chiss-Goria

Artifact

Flash

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

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

Vulshok Battlegear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+3.

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.)

Wizard Replica

Artifact Creature - Wizard

Flying

, Sacrifice Wizard Replica: Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Yotian Soldier

Artifact Creature - Soldier

Vigilance

After Kroog was destroyed while most of its defenders were at his side, Urza vowed that none of his allies would ever need to fear for their own defense again, even while laying siege to a city far from their homes.

Chimeric Egg

Artifact

Whenever an opponent casts a nonartifact spell, put a charge counter on Chimeric Egg.

Remove three charge counters from Chimeric Egg: Chimeric Egg becomes a 6/6 Construct artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

Darksteel Ingot

Artifact

Indestructible

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

Myr Landshaper

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Target land becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

One thing the myr can't do is enjoy the scenery.

Nemesis Mask

Artifact - Equipment

All creatures able to block equipped creature do so.

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.)

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.)

Spellbinder

Artifact - Equipment

Imprint - When Spellbinder enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card from your hand.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Equip

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

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.

Trinisphere

Artifact

As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost to cast costs to cast instead.)

Wirefly Hive

Artifact

, : Flip a coin. If you win the flip, put a 2/2 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wirefly onto the battlefield. If you lose the flip, destroy all permanents named Wirefly.

"The lifespan of a wirefly can be precisely described as ‘short.'"
-Bruenna, Neurok leader

Baton of Courage

Artifact

Flash

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

Remove a charge counter from Baton of Courage: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Battered Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Battered Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may untap Battered Golem.

A dent marks every year of service, and it has as much rust as glory.

Blasting Station

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Blasting Station deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may untap Blasting Station.

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.)

Ferropede

Artifact Creature - Insect

Ferropede is unblockable.

Whenever Ferropede deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from target permanent.

Fist of Suns

Artifact

You may pay rather than pay the mana cost for spells that you cast.

"It is all in my grasp. Every petty dream, every grand scheme, every soul, every fear. It all flows through me and from me."
-Memnarch

Grafted Wargear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+2.

Whenever Grafted Wargear becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent.

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

Helm of Kaldra

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste.

: If you control Equipment named Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, and Shield of Kaldra, put a legendary 4/4 colorless Avatar creature token named Kaldra onto the battlefield and attach those Equipment to it.

Equip

Staff of Domination

Artifact

: Untap Staff of Domination.

, : You gain 1 life.

, : Untap target creature.

, : Tap target creature.

, : Draw a card.

Suntouched Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

As the fifth sun joins the other four, new abilities awaken in the creatures of Mirrodin.

Thermal Navigator

Artifact Creature - Construct

Sacrifice an artifact: Thermal Navigator gains flying until end of turn.

It takes off with a roar of superheated wind, startling wild pterons as they survey the ground below.

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.

Honor-Worn Shaku

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Tap an untapped legendary permanent you control: Untap Honor-Worn Shaku.

Before being presented to its lord, each shaku is blessed by every hero of every region within that lord's domain.

Imi Statue

Artifact

Players can't untap more than one artifact during their untap steps.

"Just looking at it fills me with dread . . . . Yet since it arrived, I've done little else. My blades have dulled and my business has failed, and still I cannot look away."
-Keisaku, master swordmaker

Kusari-Gama

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a blocking creature, Kusari-Gama deals that much damage to each other creature defending player controls.

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

Long-Forgotten Gohei

Artifact

Arcane spells you cast cost less to cast.

Spirit creatures you control get +1/+1.

Long ago, the priests would wave the gohei to call down the gods. Now it lies forgotten, but the spirits still feel its pull.

Nine-Ringed Bo

Artifact

: Nine-Ringed Bo deals 1 damage to target Spirit creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

"We received an anonymous letter suggesting that Kumano holds a secret to defeating the kami, but he is nowhere to be found."
-General Takeno, letter to Lord Konda

Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.

Whenever equipped creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control if it's a Samurai card.

When Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile equipped creature.

Equip

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.

Tenza, Godo's Maul

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. As long as it's legendary, it gets an additional +2/+2. As long as it's red, it has trample.

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

Neko-Te

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a creature, tap that creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Neko-Te remains on the battlefield.

Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a player, that player loses 1 life.

Equip

Orb of Dreams

Artifact

Permanents enter the battlefield tapped.

"Behind the eyelids, a flickering flame.
Beneath the dream, a flickering sorrow.
Can peace find you in this sleep
When all the world is tossed by war?"
-Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

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.)

Slumbering Tora

Artifact

, Discard a Spirit or Arcane card: Slumbering Tora becomes an X/X Cat artifact creature until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's converted mana cost.

Wine of Blood and Iron

Artifact

: Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. Sacrifice Wine of Blood and Iron at the beginning of the next end step.

Godo never revealed what went into his special brew, but he always had more of it after great victories.