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.

Imi Statue

Artifact

Players can't untap more than one artifact during their untap steps.

"Just looking at it fills me with dread . . . . Yet since it arrived, I've done little else. My blades have dulled and my business has failed, and still I cannot look away."
-Keisaku, master swordmaker

Jade Idol

Artifact

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, Jade Idol becomes a 4/4 Spirit artifact creature until end of turn.

Before the Kami War, the shishi were symbolic guardians, protecting the shrines where they stood. But after the kami turned on the material world, shishi began pouncing from their perches to attack would-be supplicants.

Journeyer's Kite

Artifact

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

"From the clouds, you can see as far as the distant horizon. It's a reminder of the infinite possibilities of everyday life."
-Noboru, master kitemaker

Junkyo Bell

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have target creature you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control. If you do, sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Konda's Banner

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Konda's Banner can be attached only to a legendary creature.

Creatures that share a color with equipped creature get +1/+1.

Creatures that share a creature type with equipped creature get +1/+1.

Equip

Kusari-Gama

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a blocking creature, Kusari-Gama deals that much damage to each other creature defending player controls.

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

Long-Forgotten Gohei

Artifact

Arcane spells you cast cost less to cast.

Spirit creatures you control get +1/+1.

Long ago, the priests would wave the gohei to call down the gods. Now it lies forgotten, but the spirits still feel its pull.

Moonring Mirror

Artifact

Whenever you draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile all cards from your hand face down. If you do, put all other cards you own exiled with Moonring Mirror into your hand.

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.

Anodet Lurker

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Anodet Lurker dies, you gain 3 life.

These machines build fearsome visages out of scrap metal to scare off predators who would otherwise be eager to consume them.

Arachnoid

Artifact Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It follows the green sun over Mirrodin's surface, spinning massive webs of whispersilk as it goes.

Arcbound Wanderer

Artifact Creature - Golem

Modular-Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Avarice Totem

Artifact

: Exchange control of Avarice Totem and target nonland permanent.

Souls and steel, the essence of Mirrodin. Memnarch lacks one but has an abundance of the other.

Baton of Courage

Artifact

Flash

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

Remove a charge counter from Baton of Courage: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Battered Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Battered Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may untap Battered Golem.

A dent marks every year of service, and it has as much rust as glory.

Blasting Station

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Blasting Station deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may untap Blasting Station.

Chimeric Coils

Artifact

: Chimeric Coils becomes an X/X Construct artifact creature. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

The energy that infuses the rings with life also melts them away, leaving only useless puddles of slag.

Clearwater Goblet

Artifact

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain life equal to the number of charge counters on Clearwater Goblet.

Conjurer's Bauble

Artifact

, Sacrifice Conjurer's Bauble: Put up to one target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Draw a card.

It is the moment of discovery, the triumph of the mind, the reimagining of past glory.

Cranial Plating

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.

: Attach Cranial Plating to target creature you control.

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