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

Cumber Stone

Artifact

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.

"The stone is more potent than ever. The flesh that creeps into our land will become even more slovenly and weak."
-Niclavs, archmage of Esper

Faerie Mechanist

Artifact Creature - Faerie Artificer

Flying

When Faerie Mechanist enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Master Transmuter

Artifact Creature - Human Artificer

, , Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Wasted potential surrounds us. Lend me that bauble, and let me see what it can be made to be."

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

Esper Cormorants

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

"The smiths of this land must be mad to reach so far and so high for another creature to decorate."
-Cagen Vargan, Jhessian sea scout

Sludge Strider

Artifact Creature - Insect

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control or another artifact you control leaves the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Underneath the cities of Esper are cycles of life unseen by those who feed them.

Font of Mythos

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws two additional cards.

Those who drink from Malfegor's cup are tainted with hunger and stained with lies.

Manaforce Mace

Artifact - Equipment

Domain - Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each basic land type among lands you control.

Equip

As the shards merged, relics once thought mundane regained forgotten powers.

Acorn Catapult

Artifact

, : Acorn Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature or player. That creature's controller or that player puts a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token onto the battlefield.

The Kalonian word for "ammunition" is the same as the word for "bait."

Hedron Rover

Artifact Creature - Construct

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Hedron Rover gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Now that it has woken up and wandered off, we should go see what it was guarding."
-Gotzen, Bulwark explorer

Lodestone Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Nonartifact spells cost more to cast.

"Somehow it warps the Æther. It brings a strange weight, a blockade in the flow of spellcraft."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

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."

Millennial Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

"You've got to keep your wits about you on the roofs. Not all stones are compliant handholds."
-Iveta, rooftop runner

Etched Oracle

Artifact Creature - Wizard

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

, Remove four +1/+1 counters from Etched Oracle: Target player draws three cards.

Frogmite

Artifact Creature - Frog

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

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.

Haunted Plate Mail

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+4.

: Until end of turn, Haunted Plate Mail becomes a 4/4 Spirit artifact creature that's no longer an Equipment. Activate this ability only if you control no creatures.

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

Thran Dynamo

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Akroan Horse

Artifact Creature - Horse

Defender

When Akroan Horse enters the battlefield, an opponent gains control of it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent puts a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

Anvilwrought Raptor

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

"I know its lightness, for I have seen it fly. I know its weight, for I have seen it strike."
-Brigone, soldier of Meletis

Eye of Doom

Artifact

When Eye of Doom enters the battlefield, each player chooses a nonland permanent and puts a doom counter on it., , Sacrifice Eye of Doom: Destroy each permanent with a doom counter on it.

Nevinyrral's Disk

Artifact

Nevinyrral's Disk enters the battlefield tapped.

, : Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Sword of the Paruns

Artifact - Equipment

As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0.

As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

: You may tap or untap equipped creature.

Equip

Tower of Fortunes

Artifact

, : Draw four cards.

Viseling

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Viseling deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand minus 4.

"This may hurt a lot."

Well of Lost Dreams

Artifact

Whenever you gain life, you may pay , where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Some say the knowledge lost during the Ritual of Rebuking is returned through the well's waters.

Canal Dredger

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Canal Dredger face up.

Each player passes the last card from each booster pack to a player who drafted a card named Canal Dredger.

: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

Coercive Portal

Artifact

Will of the council - At the beginning of your upkeep, starting with you, each player votes for carnage or homage. If carnage gets more votes, sacrifice Coercive Portal and destroy all nonland permanents. If homage gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw a card.

Cogwork Librarian

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Cogwork Librarian face up.

As you draft a card, you may draft an additional card from that booster pack. If you do, put Cogwork Librarian into that booster pack.

Why wait for answers?

Cogwork Tracker

Artifact Creature - Hound Construct

Reveal Cogwork Tracker as you draft it and note the player who passed it to you.

Cogwork Tracker attacks each turn if able.

Cogwork Tracker attacks a player you noted for cards named Cogwork Tracker each turn if able.

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

Silent Arbiter

Artifact Creature - Construct

No more than one creature can attack each combat.

No more than one creature can block each combat.

Scholars say that arbiters exist on every world, created by an unknown hand to enforce justice.

Vedalken Orrery

Artifact

You may cast nonland cards as though they had flash.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

Avarice Amulet

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has vigilance and "At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card."

When equipped creature dies, target opponent gains control of Avarice Amulet.

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

Designed by Penny Arcade

The Chain Veil

Legendary Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't activate a loyalty ability of a planeswalker this turn, you lose 2 life.

, : For each planeswalker you control, you may activate one of its loyalty abilities once this turn as though none of its loyalty abilities have been activated this turn.

Perilous Vault

Artifact

, , Exile Perilous Vault: Exile all nonland permanents.

The spirit dragon Ugin arranged the hedrons of Zendikar to direct leylines of energy. To disrupt one is to unleash devastation and chaos.

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.

Assault Suit

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or a planeswalker you control, and can't be sacrificed.

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it.

Equip

Ur-Golem's Eye

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

It still stares accusingly at Memnarch, though millennia have passed since he separated the eye from its body.

Goblin Boom Keg

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Goblin Boom Keg.

When Goblin Boom Keg is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Dragonfire spawned many imitations. Some were more dramatic than others.

Ugin's Construct

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Ugin's Construct enters the battlefield, sacrifice a permanent that's one or more colors.

While trapping the Eldrazi on Zendikar, Ugin learned little from Sorin, but he gleaned the rudiments of lithomancy from Nahiri.

Ancestral Statue

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.

The mage awakened the statue in hopes of learning the lost lore of her clan, but the statue was interested only in war.

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.

Tapestry of the Ages

Artifact

, : Draw a card. Activate this ability only if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn.

"Abzan, Jeskai, Sultai, Mardu, Temur-names lost to history, yet worthy of further study."
-Narset

Aligned Hedron Network

Artifact

When Aligned Hedron Network enters the battlefield, exile all creatures with power 5 or greater until Aligned Hedron Network leaves the battlefield. (Those creatures return under their owners' control.)

The last hedron slotted into place, locking Ulamog in an infinite loop of binding energy.

Hedron Archive

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned.""And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Conjurer's Closet

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

"Tomorrow wears yesterday's face."
-Kordel the Cryptic

Narstad Scrapper

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Narstad Scrapper gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Finally, the principles of corpse animation applied to bloodless materials!"
-Ludevic, necro-alchemist

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.

Gilded Lotus

Artifact

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

Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.

Stuffy Doll

Artifact Creature - Construct

Indestructible

As Stuffy Doll enters the battlefield, choose a player.

Whenever Stuffy Doll is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to the chosen player.

: Stuffy Doll deals 1 damage to itself.

Crumbling Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample (If this 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.)

When Crumbling Colossus attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

Thran Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

As long as Thran Golem is enchanted, it gets +2/+2 and has flying, first strike, and trample.

The golems of the ancient Thran still draw power in ways that baffle the artificers of today.

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

Creepy Doll

Artifact Creature - Construct

Indestructible

Whenever Creepy Doll deals combat damage to a creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy that creature.

A child's porcelain doll went missing one night, as did a pair of kitchen shears and the town magistrate.

Manor Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Defender

Manor Gargoyle has indestructible as long as it has defender.

: Until end of turn, Manor Gargoyle loses defender and gains flying.

Nothing could break it but the fall.

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

Cloudheath Drake

Artifact Creature - Drake

Flying

: Cloudheath Drake gains vigilance until end of turn.

A permanent storm rages over the plain of Cloudheath, and drakes ride its currents-two reminders that some elements of Esper will not be controlled.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.)

Mirrorworks

Artifact

Whenever another nontoken artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put a token that's a copy of that artifact onto the battlefield.

The faces of Geth's corpse-dredgers are disturbingly similar.

Myr Turbine

Artifact

: Put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

, Tap five untapped Myr you control: Search your library for a Myr creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

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

Strandwalker

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 +2/+4 and has reach.

Equip

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Trigon of Thought

Artifact

Trigon of Thought enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Thought.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Thought: Draw a card.

Venser's Journal

Artifact

You have no maximum hand size.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

A Planeswalker's chronicle spans worlds and civilizations, each page a lifetime.

Angelheart Vial

Artifact

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many charge counters on Angelheart Vial.

, , Remove four charge counters from Angelheart Vial: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

It holds a whisper from Iona: "Persevere."

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

Glassdust Hulk

Artifact Creature - Golem

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Glassdust Hulk gets +1/+1 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Etherium Abomination

Artifact Creature - Horror

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

It was given life by the etherium of a hundred slain Esperites.

Skyclaw Thrash

Artifact Creature - Viashino Warrior

Whenever Skyclaw Thrash attacks, flip a coin. If you win the flip, Skyclaw Thrash gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Their newfound wings shined elegantly and functioned partially.

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.

Stone Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

The sculptor, like most artists, put his heart and soul in his work. But the newly awakened golem decided he wanted his creator's other, more tangible parts.

Coat of Arms

Artifact

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

A banner for bonds of blood or belief.

Mirror of Fate

Artifact

, Sacrifice Mirror of Fate: Choose up to seven face-up exiled cards you own. Exile all the cards from your library, then put the chosen cards on top of your library.

As the glass shattered, forgotten realities and dead memories came flooding back.

Ethersworn Adjudicator

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Knight

Flying

, : Destroy target creature or enchantment.

: Untap Ethersworn Adjudicator.

Esper mages devised their weapons to be so devastating that war seemed unnecessary.

Sphinx Summoner

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sphinx Summoner enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Vectis Agents

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Agents gets -2/-0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

With their life energy suppressed under their etherium enhancements, thieves from Esper found it surprisingly easy to explore the ruins of Grixis.

Mind's Eye

Artifact

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Skyreach Manta

Artifact Creature - Fish

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

Flying

As the dawns break, the manta soars.

Pyromancer's Gauntlet

Artifact

If a red instant or sorcery spell you control or a red planeswalker you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 2 to that permanent or player instead.

An inferno is just a gesture away.

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.

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

Heroes' Podium

Legendary Artifact

Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other legendary creature you control.

, : Look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal a legendary creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.