Umbilicus

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.

It was the explorers' only tether to reality.

Whetstone

Artifact

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

To hone swords and dull minds.
-Whetstone inscription

Worn Powerstone

Artifact

Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Angel's Trumpet

Artifact

All creatures have vigilance.

At the beginning of each player's end step, tap all untapped creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Angel's Trumpet deals damage to the player equal to the number of creatures tapped this way.

Crawlspace

Artifact

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

The goblins did not understand their attraction to the mana rig. They simply knew it was where they belonged.

Damping Engine

Artifact

A player who controls more permanents than each other player can't play lands or cast artifact, creature, or enchantment spells. That player may sacrifice a permanent for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

Grim Monolith

Artifact

Grim Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add to your mana pool.

: Untap Grim Monolith.

Part prison, part home.

Iron Maiden

Artifact

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

The maiden is a jealous lover.

Memory Jar

Artifact

, Sacrifice Memory Jar: Each player exiles all cards from his or her hand face down and draws seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, each player discards his or her hand and returns to his or her hand each card he or she exiled this way.

Ring of Gix

Artifact

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

, : Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Not every cage is made of bars.

Scrapheap

Artifact

Whenever an artifact or enchantment is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Junk heaps have rats, but scrapheaps have goblins.

Thran Lens

Artifact

All permanents are colorless.

"Every device in the rig is evidence of Thran enlightenment. All mana was the same to them, whether from rock or water, growth or decay. Can you imagine such unity of vision?"
-Urza, journal

Thran Weaponry

Artifact

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

You may choose not to untap Thran Weaponry during your untap step.

, : All creatures get +2/+2 for as long as Thran Weaponry remains tapped.

Urza's Blueprints

Artifact

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

: Draw a card.

From concept to paper to reality.

Wheel of Torture

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Wheel of Torture deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

"I'd like to buy a bowel."

Braidwood Cup

Artifact

: You gain 1 life.

"I think it no accident that every civilized people has discovered the art of distillation."
-Rofellos of Llanowar

Braidwood Sextant

Artifact

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

Powder Keg

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Powder Keg.

, Sacrifice Powder Keg: Destroy each artifact and creature with converted mana cost equal to the number of fuse counters on Powder Keg.

Scrying Glass

Artifact

, : Choose a number greater than 0 and a color. Target opponent reveals his or her hand. If that opponent reveals exactly the chosen number of cards of the chosen color, you draw a card.

Thran Dynamo

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

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

Thran Foundry

Artifact

, , Exile Thran Foundry: Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.

"What we do not use up, we use again."
-Urza

Urza's Incubator

Artifact

As Urza's Incubator enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Creature spells of the chosen type cost less to cast.

"Stop thinking like an artificer, Urza, and start thinking like a father!"
-Rayne, Academy Chancellor

Assembly Hall

Artifact

, : Reveal a creature card in your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Barbed Wire

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Barbed Wire deals 1 damage to that player.

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt by Barbed Wire this turn.

A steel snake with ten thousand teeth.

Bargaining Table

Artifact

, : Draw a card. X is the number of cards in an opponent's hand.

Although it looks like a game, business around the table is deadly serious.

Credit Voucher

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Credit Voucher: Shuffle any number of cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Crooked Scales

Artifact

, : Flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy target creature an opponent controls. If you lose the flip, destroy target creature you control unless you pay and repeat this process.

Crumbling Sanctuary

Artifact

If damage would be dealt to a player, that player exiles that many cards from the top of his or her library instead.

Eye of Ramos

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sacrifice Eye of Ramos: Add to your mana pool.

Ramos wept, and there were seas.

General's Regalia

Artifact

: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, that damage is dealt to target creature you control instead.

A uniform fit for a goblin.

Heart of Ramos

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sacrifice Heart of Ramos: Add to your mana pool.

Ramos bled, and there was fire.

Horn of Plenty

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a spell, he or she may pay . If that player does, he or she draws a card at the beginning of the next end step.

"This horn is an exact replica of the fabled Horn of Ramos, except mine is more lavish."
-Mercadian magistrate

Horn of Ramos

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sacrifice Horn of Ramos: Add to your mana pool.

Ramos touched, and there was life.

Iron Lance

Artifact

, : Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"The only way to get Mercadians to fight on the front lines is to give them really long weapons."
-Gerrard

Jeweled Torque

Artifact

As Jeweled Torque enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may pay . If you do, you gain 2 life.

Kyren Archive

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile the top card of your library face down.

, Discard your hand, Sacrifice Kyren Archive: Put all cards exiled with Kyren Archive into their owner's hand.

Kyren Toy

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Kyren Toy.

, Remove X charge counters from Kyren Toy: Add to your mana pool.

Magistrate's Scepter

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Magistrate's Scepter.

, Remove three charge counters from Magistrate's Scepter: Take an extra turn after this one.

Mercadian Atlas

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't play a land this turn, you may draw a card.

One may as well chart the clouds as try to map Mercadia.

Mercadian Lift

Artifact

, : Put a winch counter on Mercadian Lift.

, Remove X winch counters from Mercadian Lift: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost X from your hand onto the battlefield.

Monkey Cage

Artifact

When a creature enters the battlefield, sacrifice Monkey Cage and put X 2/2 green Ape creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Panacea

Artifact

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

A drop numbs the tongue. A sip sends the heart racing. A draught reforges the body.

Power Matrix

Artifact

: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying, first strike, and trample until end of turn.

As he repaired the ship's planeswalking engine, Karn saw for the first time how he could catalyze the Weatherlight's evolution.

Puffer Extract

Artifact

, : Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

The puffer's flesh is the deadliest in the sea-and therefore the most useful.

Rishadan Pawnshop

Artifact

, : Shuffle target nontoken permanent you control into its owner's library.

Everything comes to the waterfront eventually, on the tide or on credit.

Skull of Ramos

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sacrifice Skull of Ramos: Add to your mana pool.

Ramos fell, and there was night.

Tooth of Ramos

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sacrifice Tooth of Ramos: Add to your mana pool.

Ramos smiled, and there was day.

Worry Beads

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Belbe's Armor

Artifact

, : Target creature gets -X/+X until end of turn.

It protects her from the ravages of Phyrexia and the savages of Rath.

Belbe's Portal

Artifact

As Belbe's Portal enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

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

The fight will continue on a new battlefield.

Eye of Yawgmoth

Artifact

, , Sacrifice a creature: Reveal a number of cards from the top of your library equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Put one into your hand and exile the rest.

Flowstone Armor

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Flowstone Armor during your untap step.

, : Target creature gets +1/-1 for as long as Flowstone Armor remains tapped.

Kill Switch

Artifact

, : Tap all other artifacts. They don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as Kill Switch remains tapped.

Success is largely a matter of knowing which lever to pull.

Parallax Inhibitor

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Parallax Inhibitor: Put a fade counter on each permanent with fading you control.

"The best I can offer is a temporary reprieve."
-Belbe

Predator, Flagship

Legendary Artifact

: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

, : Destroy target creature with flying.

"The scourge of Skyshroud is airborne once more."
-Oracle en-Vec

Rejuvenation Chamber

Artifact

Fading 2 (This artifact enters the battlefield with two fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

: You gain 2 life.

Tangle Wire

Artifact

Fading 4 (This artifact enters the battlefield with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land he or she controls for each fade counter on Tangle Wire.

Chimeric Idol

Artifact

: Tap all lands you control. Chimeric Idol becomes a 3/3 Turtle artifact creature until end of turn.

After a chimeric idol attacked them, the Keldons smashed all unfamiliar statues.

Well of Discovery

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, draw a card.

When you have given everything, then you are capable of anything.
-Well inscription

Well of Life

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, you gain 2 life.

When you have given everything, then you have everything to gain.
-Well inscription

Bloodstone Cameo

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

"The stone whispers to me of dragon's fire and darkness. I wish I'd never pried it from the figurehead of that sunken Keldon longship."
-Isel, master carver

Chromatic Sphere

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Chromatic Sphere: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"Let insight and energy be your guides."
-The Blind Seer, to Gerrard

Drake-Skull Cameo

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

"A strange skull was turned up by an Ephran farmer's plow. I traded a copper ring for the ‘ox skull.' It resonates of the sea and danger."
-Isel, master carver

Juntu Stakes

Artifact

Creatures with power 1 or less don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"Those who can't survive are of no consequence."
-Tsabo Tavoc

Phyrexian Altar

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"Your life was meaningless, but your death will glorify Yawgmoth."
-Tsabo Tavoc

Phyrexian Lens

Artifact

, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"There's nothing I wouldn't give to achieve victory. Can you say the same?"
-Tsabo Tavoc, to Gerrard

Power Armor

Artifact

Domain - , : Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

"Great peril demands formidable weaponry."
-Urza

Seashell Cameo

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

"Today a seashell fell from the empty sky here in Kinymu, a hundred leagues from the sea. I'm torn-shall I carve a woman or a bird?"
-Isel, master carver

Tigereye Cameo

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

"An elvish adventurer unearthed this stone in Jolrael's jungle. Now it's truly fit for display in one of her palaces."
-Isel, master carver

Troll-Horn Cameo

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

"I found a troll-horn fragment in the wooded foothills of Hurloon, and it keeps growing larger. I wonder, is the horn recreating itself or the troll?"
-Isel, master carver

Tsabo's Web

Artifact

When Tsabo's Web enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Each land with an activated ability that isn't a mana ability doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Urza's Filter

Artifact

Multicolored spells cost up to less to cast.

"It's a tool for aiding my other tools," explained Urza. "Now they'll work in harmony."

Skyship Weatherlight

Legendary Artifact

When Skyship Weatherlight enters the battlefield, search your library for any number of artifact and/or creature cards and exile them. Then shuffle your library.

, : Choose a card at random that was exiled with Skyship Weatherlight. Put that card into its owner's hand.

Dragon Arch

Artifact

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

In their hunger for the arch's power, mages often forget that it only makes dragons easier to summon. It doesn't make them easier to control.

Mask of Intolerance

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if there are four or more basic land types among lands that player controls, Mask of Intolerance deals 3 damage to him or her.

Cryptic Gateway

Artifact

Tap two untapped creatures you control: You may put a creature card from your hand that shares a creature type with each creature tapped this way onto the battlefield.

Its lock changes to fit each key.

Doom Cannon

Artifact

As Doom Cannon enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

, , Sacrifice a creature of the chosen type: Doom Cannon deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Dream Chisel

Artifact

Face-down creature spells you cast cost less to cast.

Itself a product of Ixidor's tortured psyche, the chisel brings his darkest dreams to life.

Riptide Replicator

Artifact

As Riptide Replicator enters the battlefield, choose a color and a creature type.

Riptide Replicator enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

, : Put an X/X creature token of the chosen color and type onto the battlefield, where X is the number of charge counters on Riptide Replicator.

Ark of Blight

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Ark of Blight: Destroy target land.

When opened, it erases entire landscapes from minds and maps.

Stabilizer

Artifact

Players can't cycle cards.

"Hold that thought."
-Pemmin, Riptide survivor

Æther Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Altar of Shadows

Artifact

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add to your mana pool for each charge counter on Altar of Shadows.

, : Destroy target creature. Then put a charge counter on Altar of Shadows.

Banshee's Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Banshee's Blade.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put a charge counter on Banshee's Blade.

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.)

Blinkmoth Urn

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's precombat main phase, if Blinkmoth Urn is untapped, that player adds to his or her mana pool for each artifact he or she controls.

Bonesplitter

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

Equip

Chalice of the Void

Artifact

Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.

Chrome Mox

Artifact

Imprint - When Chrome Mox enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.

: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors to your mana pool.

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.

Dead-Iron Sledge

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy both creatures.

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.)

Empyrial Plate

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.

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.)

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.

Farsight Mask

Artifact

Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, if Farsight Mask is untapped, you may draw a card.

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.)

Galvanic Key

Artifact

Flash

, : Untap target artifact.

Gate to the Æther

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player reveals the top card of his or her library. If it's an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card, the player may put it onto the battlefield.

Goblin Charbelcher

Artifact

, : Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Goblin Charbelcher deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to target creature or player. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, Goblin Charbelcher deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Golem-Skin Gauntlets

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each Equipment attached to it.

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.)