Arcum's Whistle

Artifact

, : Choose target non-Wall creature the active player has controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn. That player may pay , where X is that creature's converted mana cost. If he or she doesn't, the creature attacks this turn if able, and at the beginning of the next end step, destroy it if it didn't attack. Activate this ability only before attackers are declared.

Goblin Lyre

Artifact

Sacrifice Goblin Lyre: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, Goblin Lyre deals damage to target opponent equal to the number of creatures you control. If you lose the flip, Goblin Lyre deals damage to you equal to the number of creatures that opponent controls.

Runed Arch

Artifact

Runed Arch enters the battlefield tapped.

, , Sacrifice Runed Arch: X target creatures with power 2 or less are unblockable this turn.

Staff of the Ages

Artifact

Creatures with landwalk abilities can be blocked as though they didn't have those abilities.

"We found this staff useful on our visit to this very commission. Would Relicbane prefer we had been slain by Lim-Dûl's horrors?"
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Sunstone

Artifact

, Sacrifice a snow land: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"I dispute Relicbane's hysterical allegations, Commissioner, but it is true that these artifacts can be dangerous."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Wall of Shields

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Banding (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)

"It's the pokey bits that hurt the most."
-Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician

War Chariot

Artifact

, : Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

"I wouldn't advise using it with a Woolly Mammoth, but it's quite appropriate for many other beasts."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

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.

Chariot of the Sun

Artifact

, : Until end of turn, target creature you control gains flying and its toughness becomes 1.

"Sun follows Moon until she tires, then carries her until she's strong / and runs ahead of him again."
-"Love Song of Night and Day"

Ersatz Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

: Target spell becomes colorless.

: Target permanent becomes colorless until end of turn.

From jungle to sea, from sea to stone, from stone to field, from field to bone. What am I? -Zhalfirin riddle

Horrible Hordes

Artifact Creature - Spirit

Rampage 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Few are able to underestimate the hordes.

Misers' Cage

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has five or more cards in hand, Misers' Cage deals 2 damage to him or her.

"Let him be imprisoned while his possessions wander free."
-Suq'Ata legal decree

Paupers' Cage

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, Paupers' Cage deals 2 damage to him or her.

A cage may keep you in, but it does not keep the stones out.

Unerring Sling

Artifact

, , Tap an untapped creature you control: Unerring Sling deals damage equal to the tapped creature's power to target attacking or blocking creature with flying.

Ventifact Bottle

Artifact

, : Put X charge counters on Ventifact Bottle. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, if Ventifact Bottle has a charge counter on it, tap it and remove all charge counters from it. Add to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Bösium Strip

Artifact

, : Until end of turn, if the top card of your graveyard is an instant or sorcery card, you may cast that card. If a card cast this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Chimeric Sphere

Artifact

: Until end of turn, Chimeric Sphere becomes a 2/1 Construct artifact creature with flying.

: Until end of turn, Chimeric Sphere becomes a 3/2 Construct artifact creature without flying.

Jangling Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Jangling Automaton attacks, untap all creatures defending player controls.

"We always look upon our first creations as masterpieces, no matter how awful they are."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Mana Web

Artifact

Whenever a land an opponent controls is tapped for mana, tap all lands that player controls that could produce any type of mana that land could produce.

Serrated Biskelion

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Put a -1/-1 counter on Serrated Biskelion and a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Whereas I was created to protect, the biskelion was created to destroy."
-Karn, silver golem

Thran Forge

Artifact

: Until end of turn, target nonartifact creature gets +1/+0 and becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

"This will work," Gerrard called to the elves as he used the forge to strengthen the aboroth, "but if it doesn't, we won't survive to care."

Well of Knowledge

Artifact

: Draw a card. Any player may activate this ability but only during his or her draw step.

Coiled Tinviper

Artifact Creature - Snake

First strike

The bite of the tinviper feels most like a razor drawn across the tongue.

Phyrexian Grimoire

Artifact

, : Target opponent chooses one of the top two cards of your graveyard. Exile that card and put the other one into your hand.

Every page cost a life; every secret cost a thousand more.

Puppet Strings

Artifact

, : You may tap or untap target creature.

"Have no illusions," Volrath warned Greven, "about free will."

Torture Chamber

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pain counter on Torture Chamber.

At the beginning of your end step, Torture Chamber deals damage to you equal to the number of pain counters on it.

, , Remove all pain counters from Torture Chamber: Torture Chamber deals damage to target creature equal to the number of pain counters removed this way.

Watchdog

Artifact Creature - Hound

Watchdog blocks each turn if able.

As long as Watchdog is untapped, all creatures attacking you get -1/-0.

Its growl is a long, rumbling grind of gears and clockwork, its bark a blast of hissing steam.

Heartstone

Artifact

Activated abilities of creatures cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the amount of mana an ability costs to activate to less than one mana.

"Finding a true heartstone is even harder than finding a true heart."
-Hanna

Horn of Greed

Artifact

Whenever a player plays a land, that player draws a card.

"Rath grows, and I am nourished."
-Volrath

Medicine Bag

Artifact

, , Discard a card: Regenerate target creature.

"My medicine bag and I have treated countless wounds and illnesses. But never have I seen so many made so sick for so long. We will never eat Squee's cooking again."
-Orim, journal

Memory Crystal

Artifact

Buyback costs cost less.

Hues of recollection flicker like facets of a gem.

Transmogrifying Licid

Artifact Creature - Licid

, : Transmogrifying Licid loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay to end this effect.

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

Cathodion

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Cathodion dies, add to your mana pool.

Instead of creating a tool that would be damaged by heat, the Thran built one that was charged by it.

Crystal Chimes

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Crystal Chimes: Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand.

As Serra was to learn, the peace and sanctity of her realm were as fragile as glass.

Dragon Blood

Artifact

, : Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Fire in the blood, fire in the belly.

Hopping Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Hopping Automaton gets -1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Designed to carry equipment across rivers, the hopping automaton was soon pressed into service in the infantry.

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.

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.

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.

Ticking Gnomes

Artifact Creature - Gnome

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.)

Sacrifice Ticking Gnomes: Ticking Gnomes deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

Brass Secretary

Artifact Creature - Construct

, Sacrifice Brass Secretary: Draw a card.

The students disliked the secretary for its unfailing memory-until they discovered it couldn't dodge thrown objects.

Junk Diver

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

When Junk Diver dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Garbage in, treasure out.

Metalworker

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Reveal any number of artifact cards in your hand. Add to your mana pool for each card revealed this way.

"At this rate I fully expect to be replaced by a clockwork golem by year's end."
-Barrin

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

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.

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 Ramos

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Sacrifice Horn of Ramos: Add to your mana pool.

Ramos touched, and there was 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Sparring Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Whenever Sparring Golem becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"Part drill sergeant, part training dummy," thought Gerrard. "I hope it can stand up to a real war."

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

Proteus Machine

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

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

When Proteus Machine is turned face up, it becomes the creature type of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

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.

Elf Replica

Artifact Creature - Elf

, Sacrifice Elf Replica: Destroy target enchantment.

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.

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.)

Goblin Replica

Artifact Creature - Goblin

, Sacrifice Goblin Replica: Destroy target artifact.

Granite Shard

Artifact

, or , : Granite Shard deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Heartwood Shard

Artifact

, or , : Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Jinxed Choker

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, target opponent gains control of Jinxed Choker and puts a charge counter on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, Jinxed Choker deals damage to you equal to the number of charge counters on it.

: Put a charge counter on Jinxed Choker or remove one from it.

Leonin Bladetrap

Artifact

Flash

, Sacrifice Leonin Bladetrap: Leonin Bladetrap deals 2 damage to each attacking creature without flying.

Lightning Coils

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a charge counter on Lightning Coils.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Lightning Coils has five or more charge counters on it, remove all of them from it and put that many 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

Mindstorm Crown

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you had no cards in hand at the beginning of this turn. If you had a card in hand, Mindstorm Crown deals 1 damage to you.

Myr Adapter

Artifact Creature - Myr

Myr Adapter gets +1/+1 for each Equipment attached to it.

Nim Replica

Artifact Creature - Zombie

, Sacrifice Nim Replica: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Nuisance Engine

Artifact

, : Put a 0/1 colorless Pest artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Oblivion Stone

Artifact

, : Put a fate counter on target permanent.

, , Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

Pearl Shard

Artifact

, or , : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Proteus Staff

Artifact

, : Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. That creature's controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of his or her library in any order. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Quicksilver Fountain

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player puts a flood counter on target non-Island land he or she controls of his or her choice. That land is an Island for as long as it has a flood counter on it.

At the beginning of each end step, if all lands on the battlefield are Islands, remove all flood counters from them.

Scale of Chiss-Goria

Artifact

Flash

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)

: Target creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Serum Tank

Artifact

Whenever Serum Tank or another artifact enters the battlefield, put a charge counter on Serum Tank.

, , Remove a charge counter from Serum Tank: Draw a card.

Skeleton Shard

Artifact

, or , : Return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to your hand.