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.

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.

Jhoira's Timebug

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Choose target permanent you control or suspended card you own. If that permanent or card has a time counter on it, you may remove a time counter from it or put another time counter on it.

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

Mindless Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

Mindless Automaton enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

, Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mindless Automaton.

Remove two +1/+1 counters from Mindless Automaton: Draw a card.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Triskelavus

Artifact Creature - Construct

Flying

Triskelavus enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelavus: Put a 1/1 colorless Triskelavite artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

Venser's Sliver

Artifact Creature - Sliver

Venser admired his handiwork and smiled. His first prototype had joined with the hive mind all too well, running with the brood and becoming a predator itself. This one, he thought, would be accepted into the hive but still obey his commands.

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.

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.

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.

Mishra's Bauble

Artifact

, Sacrifice Mishra's Bauble: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Arcum is a babbling fool Phyrexian technology is our greatest blessing. Take this delightful trinket for instance . . ."
-Heidar, Rimewind master

Thrumming Stone

Legendary Artifact

Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast any revealed cards with the same name as the spell without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

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.

Bronze Bombshell

Artifact Creature - Construct

When a player other than Bronze Bombshell's owner controls it, that player sacrifices it. If the player does, Bronze Bombshell deals 7 damage to him or her.

"Ooh, shiny! Let's pull off the chain and take her with us."
-Ukl, Gruul raider, last words

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.

Transguild Courier

Artifact Creature - Golem

Reluctant to meet face to face, the leaders of the ten guilds prefer to do official business through a go-between immune to bribes and threats.

Walking Archive

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Walking Archive enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player draws a card for each +1/+1 counter on Walking Archive.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Archive.

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

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.

Glass Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Izzet artificers have learned to steer their beautiful constructs clear of Boros warhammers-and the opera house.

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

Junktroller

Artifact Creature - Golem

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

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

One man's trash is another man's troller.

Leashling

Artifact Creature - Hound

Put a card from your hand on top of your library: Return Leashling to its owner's hand.

Constructed of leather and irony.

Nullstone Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

Whenever the first noncreature spell of a turn is cast, counter that spell.

Nullstone absorbs and dampens most forms of magical energy, as well as light, sound, and heat.

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.

Aladdin's Ring

Artifact

, : Aladdin's Ring deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

"A good lamp will light your way. A good ring will clear it."
-Nervan, royal jeweler

Beast of Burden

Artifact Creature - Golem

Beast of Burden's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Though it was built as an instrument of labor, it wasn't long before it became an instrument of war.

Booby Trap

Artifact

As Booby Trap enters the battlefield, name a card other than a basic land card and choose an opponent.

The chosen player reveals each card he or she draws.

When the chosen player draws the named card, sacrifice Booby Trap. If you do, Booby Trap deals 10 damage to that player.

Dancing Scimitar

Artifact Creature - Spirit

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

A blade that has never known sheath, a hilt that has never known hand.

Defense Grid

Artifact

Each spell costs more to cast except during its controller's turn.

It lights up the sky, beckoning enemies only to repel them.

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."

Fellwar Stone

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
-Mairsil, the Pretender

Jade Statue

Artifact

: Jade Statue becomes a 3/6 Golem artifact creature until end of combat. Activate this ability only during combat.

"The paradox of jade statues is that their victims never really expect attack, but they are never completely surprised either."
-Kabel, Tolarian archivist

Jester's Cap

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Jester's Cap: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

"Know your foes' strengths as well as their weaknesses."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

Slate of Ancestry

Artifact

, , Discard your hand: Draw a card for each creature you control.

The pattern of life can be studied like a book, if you know how to read it.

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.

Tanglebloom

Artifact

, : You gain 1 life.

The bloom contains no seeds. It's meant only to nourish the forest's inhabitants.

Teferi's Puzzle Box

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in his or her hand on the bottom of his or her library in any order, then draws that many cards.

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.

Vulshok Morningstar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

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

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.

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

General's Kabuto

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

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

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

Hair-Strung Koto

Artifact

Tap an untapped creature you control: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"The Kami War drove many members of Konda's court insane. As their spiritual world turned against them, so too did their minds turn from reality."
-The History of Kamigawa

Hankyu

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": Put an aim counter on Hankyu" and ", Remove all aim counters from Hankyu: This creature deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of aim counters removed this way."

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

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.