Shrine of Boundless Growth

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a green spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Boundless Growth.

, Sacrifice Shrine of Boundless Growth: Add to your mana pool for each charge counter on Shrine of Boundless Growth.

Shrine of Burning Rage

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a red spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Burning Rage.

, , Sacrifice Shrine of Burning Rage: Shrine of Burning Rage deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to target creature or player.

Shrine of Limitless Power

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a black spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Limitless Power.

, , Sacrifice Shrine of Limitless Power: Target player discards a card for each charge counter on Shrine of Limitless Power.

Shrine of Loyal Legions

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a white spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Loyal Legions.

, , Sacrifice Shrine of Loyal Legions: Put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield for each charge counter on Shrine of Loyal Legions.

Shrine of Piercing Vision

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a blue spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Piercing Vision.

, Sacrifice Shrine of Piercing Vision: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of charge counters on Shrine of Piercing Vision. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Sickleslicer

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/+2.

Equip

Soul Conduit

Artifact

, : Two target players exchange life totals.

"You have an unhealthy attachment to your selfhood. I can help you with that."
-Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Surge Node

Artifact

Surge Node enters the battlefield with six charge counters on it.

, , Remove a charge counter from Surge Node: Put a charge counter on target artifact.

Without a foe to focus on, the machine priests had time to indulge in new sciences.

Sword of War and Peace

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from white.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of War and Peace deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in his or her hand and you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Equip

Torpor Orb

Artifact

Creatures entering the battlefield don't cause abilities to trigger.

"Phyrexia is certainly dangerous, but I have to admire some of its innovations."
-Tezzeret

Unwinding Clock

Artifact

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

"The partisans have unearthed a strange artifact. None know its origin, but it gives them hope of a life beyond."
-Elspeth's journal

Bonehoard

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 +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Equip

Copper Carapace

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and can't block.

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

"We will fight as they do: our flesh protected behind metal."
-Tae Aquil, Viridan weaponsmith

Darksteel Plate

Artifact - Equipment

Darksteel Plate is indestructible.

Equipped creature is indestructible.

Equip

"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever."
-Koth of the Hammer

Decimator Web

Artifact

, : Target opponent loses 2 life, gets a poison counter, then puts the top six cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Mycosynth grew unfettered beneath the black lacuna, metastasizing into a matrix of noxious energy.

Flayer Husk

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.

Equip

Ichor Wellspring

Artifact

When Ichor Wellspring enters the battlefield or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Our glorious infection has taken hold."
-Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Knowledge Pool

Artifact

Imprint - When Knowledge Pool enters the battlefield, each player exiles the top three cards of his or her library.

Whenever a player casts a spell from his or her hand, that player exiles it. If the player does, he or she may cast another nonland card exiled with Knowledge Pool without paying that card's mana cost.

Magnetic Mine

Artifact

Whenever another artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Magnetic Mine deals 2 damage to that artifact's controller.

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.

Mortarpod

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 +0/+1 and has "Sacrifice this creature: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

Equip

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.

Piston Sledge

Artifact - Equipment

When Piston Sledge enters the battlefield, attach it to target creature you control.

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.

Equip-Sacrifice an artifact.

Only the goblins could make a simple machine so complex.

Shriekhorn

Artifact

Shriekhorn enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, Remove a charge counter from Shriekhorn: Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Silverskin Armor

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and is an artifact in addition to its other types.

Equip

Partisan spies warned that no armor would protect the body from Phyrexian infection. Neurok strategists took that as a challenge.

Skinwing

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/+2 and has flying.

Equip

Sphere of the Suns

Artifact

Sphere of the Suns enters the battlefield tapped and with three charge counters on it.

, Remove a charge counter from Sphere of the Suns: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Spine of Ish Sah

Artifact

When Spine of Ish Sah enters the battlefield, destroy target permanent.

When Spine of Ish Sah is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Spine of Ish Sah to its owner's hand.

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

Sword of Feast and Famine

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.

Equip

Titan Forge

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Titan Forge.

, Remove three charge counters from Titan Forge: Put a 9/9 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Viridian Claw

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

Equip

"Phyrexians can't corrupt what they can't get close enough to touch."

Accorder's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

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

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Argentum Armor

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +6/+6.

Whenever equipped creature attacks, destroy target permanent.

Equip

Mirrodin's creator still lives, still shapes metal, and still commands world-shaking power.

Barbed Battlegear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/-1.

Equip

"One need only look at the inhabitants of this world to see that they are forged halfway to perfection. All they need is a whisper of the Glorious Word."
-Urabrask the Hidden

Bladed Pinions

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying and first strike.

Equip

Lacking trained pterons, the Auriok had to rely on other measures to gain the upper hand in the skies.

Chimeric Mass

Artifact

Chimeric Mass enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

: Until end of turn, Chimeric Mass becomes a Construct artifact creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of charge counters on it."

Contagion Clasp

Artifact

When Contagion Clasp enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

, : Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

Contagion Engine

Artifact

When Contagion Engine enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls.

, : Proliferate, then proliferate again. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there. Then do it again.)

Culling Dais

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Culling Dais.

, Sacrifice Culling Dais: Draw a card for each charge counter on Culling Dais.

"Forswear the flesh and you will truly see."
-Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Darksteel Axe

Artifact - Equipment

Darksteel Axe is indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

Equip

Heavier than it looks, tricky to wield, guaranteed to last.

Echo Circlet

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can block an additional creature.

Equip

After the vanishing of the elder generations, the Anvil Tribe developed creative solutions to their personnel shortages.

Flight Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Flight Spellbomb: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

When Flight Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Glint Hawk Idol

Artifact

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Glint Hawk Idol become a 2/2 Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

: Glint Hawk Idol becomes a 2/2 Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Golden Urn

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Golden Urn.

, Sacrifice Golden Urn: You gain life equal to the number of charge counters on Golden Urn.

Golem Foundry

Artifact

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may put a charge counter on Golem Foundry.

Remove three charge counters from Golem Foundry: Put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Golem's Heart

Artifact

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

The heart of a golem gives life to more than just the iron husk around it.

Grafted Exoskeleton

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

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

Equip

Grindclock

Artifact

: Put a charge counter on Grindclock.

: Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of charge counters on Grindclock.

Pray you never hear it chime.

Heavy Arbalest

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Equipped creature has ": This creature deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

Equip

Horizon Spellbomb

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Horizon Spellbomb: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

When Horizon Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Infiltration Lens

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards.

Equip

Neurok spies carry devices that let them look a few moments into the future, giving them an almost insurmountable edge.

Liquimetal Coating

Artifact

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

"They'll soon become accustomed to wearing skin that is not their own."
-Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Livewire Lash

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell, this creature deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

Equip

Lux Cannon

Artifact

: Put a charge counter on Lux Cannon.

, Remove three charge counters from Lux Cannon: Destroy target permanent.

There are few problems that can't be solved by putting a hole in the world.

Mimic Vat

Artifact

Imprint - Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with Mimic Vat to its owner's graveyard.

, : Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of the exiled card. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Mindslaver

Legendary Artifact

, , Sacrifice Mindslaver: You control target player during that player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

It's a helm that leaves the head at its most vulnerable.

Mox Opal

Legendary Artifact

Metalcraft - : Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.

The suns of Mirrodin have shone upon perfection only once.

Myr Reservoir

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast Myr spells or activate abilities of Myr.

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

A mana well as bottomless as the myr are tireless.

Necrogen Censer

Artifact

Necrogen Censer enters the battlefield with two charge counters on it.

, Remove a charge counter from Necrogen Censer: Target player loses 2 life.

Moriok necromancers actively spread necrogen, encouraging the transformation from Mirran to nim.

Nihil Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Nim Deathmantle

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie.

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach Nim Deathmantle to it.

Equip

Origin Spellbomb

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Origin Spellbomb: Put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

When Origin Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Panic Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Panic Spellbomb: Target creature can't block this turn.

When Panic Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Prototype Portal

Artifact

Imprint - When Prototype Portal enters the battlefield, you may exile an artifact card from your hand.

, : Put a token that's a copy of the exiled card onto the battlefield. X is the converted mana cost of that card.

Ratchet Bomb

Artifact

: Put a charge counter on Ratchet Bomb.

, Sacrifice Ratchet Bomb: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Ratchet Bomb.

Rusted Relic

Artifact

Metalcraft - Rusted Relic is a 5/5 Golem artifact creature as long as you control three or more artifacts.

"We consider rust a curable disease."
-Tarrin, Hammer-Tribe shaman

Semblance Anvil

Artifact

Imprint - When Semblance Anvil enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonland card from your hand.

Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost less to cast.

Forged from what it forges.

Strata Scythe

Artifact - Equipment

Imprint - When Strata Scythe enters the battlefield, search your library for a land card, exile it, then shuffle your library.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land on the battlefield with the same name as the exiled card.

Equip

Strider Harness

Artifact - Equipment

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

Equip

Each journey begins with a single step-and sometimes ends with that single step as well.

Sword of Body and Mind

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from blue.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield and that player puts the top ten cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Equip

Sylvok Lifestaff

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature dies, you gain 3 life.

Equip

The druid's lifestaff connects her to generations of bygone Sylvok.

Throne of Geth

Artifact

, Sacrifice an artifact: Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)

At the heart of Ish Sah, Geth stokes the dark fires of Phyrexia.

Tower of Calamities

Artifact

, : Tower of Calamities deals 12 damage to target creature.

The ur-golems concealed one of their towers out of fear that its power would be abused, and in anticipation of a time when its power would be sorely needed.

Trigon of Corruption

Artifact

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

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Corruption.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Corruption: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Trigon of Infestation

Artifact

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

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Infestation.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Infestation: Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token with infect onto the battlefield.

Trigon of Mending

Artifact

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

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Mending.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Mending: Target player gains 3 life.

Trigon of Rage

Artifact

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

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Rage.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Rage: Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

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.

Tumble Magnet

Artifact

Tumble Magnet enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, Remove a charge counter from Tumble Magnet: Tap target artifact or creature.

Magnetic devices that keep massive golems and structures standing can also be used for the opposite purpose.

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."

Dreamstone Hedron

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Dreamstone Hedron: Draw three cards.

Only the Eldrazi mind thinks in the warped paths required to open the hedrons and tap the power within.

Hedron Matrix

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is its converted mana cost.

Equip

The hedrons awoke along with the Eldrazi, forming superstructures that radiated overwhelming magic.

Keening Stone

Artifact

, : Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of cards in that player's graveyard.

As it spins, dead voices shriek in an ever-increasing cacophony, rending the mind asunder.

Ogre's Cleaver

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +5/+0.

Equip

She adopted the weapon of the slave-lord Kazuul, and with it, all his cruelty.

Pennon Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control.

Equip

Draped with the pennon of a fallen outpost, the sword came to symbolize the peoples of Zendikar becoming one.

Prophetic Prism

Artifact

When Prophetic Prism enters the battlefield, draw a card.

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

"The explorer who found it got a bad deal when he sold it. He merely got rich."

Sphinx-Bone Wand

Artifact

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on Sphinx-Bone Wand. If you do, Sphinx-Bone Wand deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to target creature or player.

Its host's final curse lies captured within.

Warmonger's Chariot

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

As long as equipped creature has defender, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

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

The best defense is a good offense.

Adventuring Gear

Artifact - Equipment

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

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

An explorer's essentials in a wild world.

Blade of the Bloodchief

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.

Equip

Carnage Altar

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

"In these bloodstains I will find the fingerprints of our oppressors."
-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

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

Eternity Vessel

Artifact

Eternity Vessel enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it, where X is your life total.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have your life total become the number of charge counters on Eternity Vessel.

Expedition Map

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"I use maps to find out where explorers have already been. Then I go the other way."
-Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Explorer's Scope

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped.

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

Grappling Hook

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has double strike.

Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may have target creature block it this turn if able.

Equip

Part tool, part weapon, part of the kor.

Khalni Gem

Artifact

When Khalni Gem enters the battlefield, return two lands you control to their owner's hand.

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

A fragment of ancient power lost in the heart of Ora Ondar.

Spidersilk Net

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

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