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

No-Dachi

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike.

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

Not keen-edged enough for cutting armor, the no-dachi slew by folding its victim rapidly and violently under the weight of its impact.

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

Orochi Hatchery

Artifact

Orochi Hatchery enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

, : Put a 1/1 green Snake creature token onto the battlefield for each charge counter on Orochi Hatchery.

Reito Lantern

Artifact

: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Lanterns carved from the mystic stones of the Reito Mines were said to light the way of lost souls.

Sensei's Divining Top

Artifact

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

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

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.

Tatsumasa, the Dragon's Fang

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +5/+5.

, Exile Tatsumasa, the Dragon's Fang: Put a 5/5 blue Dragon Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Return Tatsumasa to the battlefield under its owner's control when that token dies.

Equip

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.)

Uba Mask

Artifact

If a player would draw a card, that player exiles that card face up instead.

Each player may play cards he or she exiled with Uba Mask this turn.

Baku Altar

Artifact

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Baku Altar.

, , Remove a ki counter from Baku Altar: Put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

Blinding Powder

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has "Unattach Blinding Powder: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn."

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

Mirror Gallery

Artifact

The "legend rule" doesn't apply.

Only in mirrors do heroes find their equal.

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

Ornate Kanzashi

Artifact

, : Target opponent exiles the top card of his or her library. You may play that card this turn.

Masako was privy to a great many of Konda's deepest secrets, and her hair was always perfect.

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.)

Shuko

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

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

"One scratch on a wall meant safe passage, two that the target had already been raided, and three warned of a trap."
-Weaponry of Kamigawa

Shuriken

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", Unattach Shuriken: Shuriken deals 2 damage to target creature. That creature's controller gains control of Shuriken unless it was unattached from a Ninja."

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.

That Which Was Taken

Legendary Artifact

, : Put a divinity counter on target permanent other than That Which Was Taken.

Each permanent with a divinity counter on it is indestructible.

"This god held prisoner in human hands has put all humanity in the hands of angry gods."
-Masako the Humorless

Umezawa's Jitte

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte.

Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one - Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn; or target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn; or you gain 2 life.

Equip

Ashes of the Fallen

Artifact

As Ashes of the Fallen enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Each creature card in your graveyard has the chosen creature type in addition to its other types.

The ashes of the dead mingle with the soil, and both become as one.

Blood Clock

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns a permanent he or she controls to its owner's hand unless he or she pays 2 life.

In an age of war, time is measured not by sand but by blood.

Ebony Owl Netsuke

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has seven or more cards in hand, Ebony Owl Netsuke deals 4 damage to him or her.

"Owls filled the skies during the Kami War, harbingers of darker times to come."
-The History of Kamigawa

Ivory Crane Netsuke

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have seven or more cards in hand, you gain 4 life.

It is said that the feathers of a crane are clouds, plucked and sewn together by the hands of the kami.

Manriki-Gusari

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has ": Destroy target Equipment."

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

O-Naginata

Artifact - Equipment

O-Naginata can be attached only to a creature with 3 or more power.

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample.

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

Scroll of Origins

Artifact

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

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

Soratami Cloud Chariot

Artifact

: Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target creature you control this turn.

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.

Bloodletter Quill

Artifact

, , Put a blood counter on Bloodletter Quill: Draw a card, then lose 1 life for each blood counter on Bloodletter Quill.

: Remove a blood counter from Bloodletter Quill.

Boros Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

"Have you ever held a Boros signet? There's a weight to it that belies its size-a weight of strength and of pride."
-Agrus Kos

Bottled Cloister

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, exile all cards from your hand face down.

At the beginning of your upkeep, return all cards you own exiled with Bottled Cloister to your hand, then draw a card.

Cloudstone Curio

Artifact

Whenever a nonartifact permanent enters the battlefield under your control, you may return another permanent you control that shares a card type with it to its owner's hand.

It wants to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Crown of Convergence

Artifact

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is a creature card, creatures you control that share a color with that card get +1/+1.

: Put the top card of your library on the bottom of your library.

Cyclopean Snare

Artifact

, : Tap target creature, then return Cyclopean Snare to its owner's hand.

The spoiled, gluttonous halls of the Orzhov teem with gaudy, needless wealth. Even their security measures are made for beauty first, efficiency second.

Dimir Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members-and the doomed.

Golgari Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Depending on your point of view, the seal represents a proud guardian of the natural cycle or one who has sold her soul to darkness for eternal life.

Grifter's Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Flash

As Grifter's Blade enters the battlefield, choose a creature you control it could be attached to. If you do, it enters the battlefield attached to that creature.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

Equip

Pariah's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to equipped creature instead.

Equip

To bear the shield of the pariah is the highest honor a Boros can receive-and the last.

Peregrine Mask

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has defender, flying, and first strike.

Equip

The mask confers both the prowess of a falcon and its loyalty.

Plague Boiler

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a plague counter on Plague Boiler.

: Put a plague counter on Plague Boiler or remove a plague counter from it.

When Plague Boiler has three or more plague counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, destroy all nonland permanents.

Selesnya Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

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

Spectral Searchlight

Artifact

: Choose a player. That player adds one mana of any color he or she chooses to his or her mana pool.

The first searchlights were given as gifts, symbols of cooperation, to the emissaries present at the signing of the Guildpact.

Sunforger

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+0.

, Unattach Sunforger: Search your library for a red or white instant card with converted mana cost 4 or less and cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then shuffle your library.

Equip

Terrarion

Artifact

Terrarion enters the battlefield tapped.

, , Sacrifice Terrarion: Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool.

When Terrarion is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Voyager Staff

Artifact

, Sacrifice Voyager Staff: Exile target creature. Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Voyager staffs are sought by those hoping to find an escape from the sprawling glut of Ravnica.

Gruul Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Gruul War Plow

Artifact

Creatures you control have trample.

: Gruul War Plow becomes a 4/4 Juggernaut artifact creature until end of turn.

Izzet Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Mizzium Transreliquat

Artifact

: Mizzium Transreliquat becomes a copy of target artifact until end of turn.

: Mizzium Transreliquat becomes a copy of target artifact and gains this ability.

Moratorium Stone

Artifact

, : Exile target card from a graveyard.

, , Sacrifice Moratorium Stone: Exile target nonland card from a graveyard, all other cards from graveyards with the same name as that card, and all permanents with that name.

Orzhov Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

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

Azorius Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law-strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Evolution Vat

Artifact

, : Tap target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Until end of turn, that creature gains ": Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature."

The vats are self-contained worlds, bubbling and churning with unnatural speed, boiling down eons of change into moments.

Magewright's Stone

Artifact

, : Untap target creature that has an activated ability with in its cost.

The stones hark back to an age before civilization, when the living earth blessed all who trod its untamed wilds.

Muse Vessel

Artifact

, : Target player exiles a card from his or her hand. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

: Choose a card exiled with Muse Vessel. You may play that card this turn.

Rakdos Riteknife

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each blood counter on Rakdos Riteknife and has ", Sacrifice a creature: Put a blood counter on Rakdos Riteknife."

, Sacrifice Rakdos Riteknife: Target player sacrifices a permanent for each blood counter on Rakdos Riteknife.

Equip

Rakdos Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Made of bone and boiled in blood, a Rakdos signet is not considered finished until it has been used as a murder weapon.

Simic Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

For the Simic Combine, its sigil serves not as an emblem of honor but as a trademark. Its familiar image on any biological commodity attests to superb craftsmanship, ingenious innovation, and higher cost.

Skullmead Cauldron

Artifact

: You gain 1 life.

, Discard a card: You gain 3 life.

Once tasted, the flavor of skullmead lingers in the throat, a secret brand of guilt for those who partake in forbidden pleasures.

Candles of Leng

Artifact

, : Reveal the top card of your library. If it has the same name as a card in your graveyard, put it into your graveyard. Otherwise, draw a card.

"A tome stored in its light is as crisp as the day it was written."
-Ettovard, Tolarian archivist

Chronatog Totem

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

: Chronatog Totem becomes a 1/2 blue Atog artifact creature until end of turn.

: Chronatog Totem gets +3/+3 until end of turn. You skip your next turn. Activate this ability only once each turn and only if Chronatog Totem is a creature.

Foriysian Totem

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

: Foriysian Totem becomes a 4/4 red Giant artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

As long as Foriysian Totem is a creature, it can block an additional creature.

Gauntlet of Power

Artifact

As Gauntlet of Power enters the battlefield, choose a color.

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

Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds one mana of that color to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Hivestone

Artifact

Creatures you control are Slivers in addition to their other creature types.

Rath's evincars used hivestones to control the slivers, but the overlay put their power into unwitting hands. Now the stones make not masters, but slaves.

Locket of Yesterdays

Artifact

Spells you cast cost less to cast for each card with the same name as that spell in your graveyard.

Every hour, at the turning of the glass, its owner had whispered to the locket, seeding it with secrets. This would be her legacy, her memory, if the rifts should take her.

Lotus Bloom

Artifact

Illus. Mark Zug

Paradise Plume

Artifact

As Paradise Plume enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.

: Add one mana of the chosen color to your mana pool.

A last wisp of paradise in a fallen world.

Phyrexian Totem

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

: Phyrexian Totem becomes a 5/5 black Horror artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

Whenever Phyrexian Totem is dealt damage, if it's a creature, sacrifice that many permanents.

Prismatic Lens

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

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

It bends not light but mana, aligning its chaotic currents into the sharp angles necessary for the mystic's purposes.

Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII

Artifact

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

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

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

Thunder Totem

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

: Thunder Totem becomes a 2/2 white Spirit artifact creature with flying and first strike until end of turn.

Weatherseed Totem

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

: Weatherseed Totem becomes a 5/3 green Treefolk artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

When Weatherseed Totem is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it was a creature, return this card to its owner's hand.

Cloud Key

Artifact

As Cloud Key enters the battlefield, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery.

Spells you cast of the chosen type cost less to cast.

The musical sound of its turning triggers the tumblers of revelation.

Coalition Relic

Artifact

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

: Put a charge counter on Coalition Relic.

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Sword of the Meek

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2.

Equip

Whenever a 1/1 creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Sword of the Meek from your graveyard to the battlefield, then attach it to that creature.

Veilstone Amulet

Artifact

Whenever you cast a spell, creatures you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn.

Sometimes it's ostentatious to go unseen.

Darksteel Garrison

Artifact - Fortification

Fortified land is indestructible.

Whenever fortified land becomes tapped, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Fortify (: Attach to target land you control. Fortify only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the land leaves.)

Whetwheel

Artifact

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

Morph (You may cast this face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Claws of Gix

Artifact

, Sacrifice a permanent: You gain 1 life.

When the Brotherhood of Gix dug out the cave of Koilos they found their master's severed hand. They enshrined it, hoping that one day it would point the way to Phyrexia.

Feldon's Cane

Artifact

, Exile Feldon's Cane: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.

Grinning Totem

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Grinning Totem: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles his or her library. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you haven't played it, put it into its owner's graveyard.

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

The Rack

Artifact

As The Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, The Rack deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

Invented in Mishra's earlier days, the Rack was once his most feared creation.

Serrated Arrows

Artifact

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

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

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

War Barge

Artifact

: Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn. When War Barge leaves the battlefield this turn, destroy that creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

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."

Champion's Helm

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Equip

Sol Ring

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Amulet of Vigor

Artifact

Whenever a permanent enters the battlefield tapped and under your control, untap it.

"After years of study, I've learned an important lesson: the relics we watch may be watching us back."
-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Basilisk Collar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.

Equip

During their endless travels, the mages of the Goma Fada caravan have learned ways to harness both life and death.

Everflowing Chalice

Artifact

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Everflowing Chalice enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.

: Add to your mana pool for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

Hammer of Ruin

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target Equipment that player controls.

Equip

By hammer forged, and by hammer undone.

Razor Boomerang

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", Unattach Razor Boomerang: Razor Boomerang deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Return Razor Boomerang to its owner's hand."

Equip

Few can catch it without losing a finger.

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."

Orzhov Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Orzhov Keyrune becomes a 1/4 white and black Thrull artifact creature with lifelink until end of turn.

You only need to wield it once to appreciate the power of control.

Simic Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Simic Keyrune becomes a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)