Life Matrix

Artifact

, : Put a matrix counter on target creature and that creature gains "Remove a matrix counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature." Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Lifeline

Artifact

Whenever a creature dies, if another creature is on the battlefield, return the first card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Lifespark Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Lifespark Spellbomb: Until end of turn, target land becomes a 3/3 creature that's still a land.

, Sacrifice Lifespark Spellbomb: Draw a card.

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.

Lightning Greaves

Artifact - Equipment

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

Equip

Limestone Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

, Sacrifice Limestone Golem: Target player draws a card.

Dwarves have been known to take pickaxes to their own creations, hoping to discover treasures within.

Lion's Eye Diamond

Artifact

Sacrifice Lion's Eye Diamond, Discard your hand: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only any time you could cast an instant.

Held in the lion's eye
-Zhalfirin saying meaning "caught in the moment of crisis"

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

Living Armor

Artifact

, Sacrifice Living Armor: Put X +0/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Though it affords excellent protection, few don this armor. The process is uncomfortable and not easily reversed.

Living Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

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.

Lockjaw Snapper

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

When Lockjaw Snapper dies, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Lodestone Bauble

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Lodestone Bauble: Put up to four target basic land cards from a player's graveyard on top of his or her library in any order. That player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Lodestone Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Nonartifact spells cost more to cast.

"Somehow it warps the Æther. It brings a strange weight, a blockade in the flow of spellcraft."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Lodestone Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

Trample

Tap an untapped artifact you control: Lodestone Myr gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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.

Lore Seeker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reveal Lore Seeker as you draft it. After you draft Lore Seeker, you may add a booster pack to the draft. (Your next pick is from that booster pack. Pass it to the next player and it's drafted this draft round.)

Each volume contains wonders.

Loreseeker's Stone

Artifact

, : Draw three cards. This ability costs more to activate for each card in your hand.

Mages come from far and wide to bathe in its wisdom.

Lotus Bloom

Artifact

Illus. Mark Zug

Lotus Blossom

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on Lotus Blossom.

, Sacrifice Lotus Blossom: Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is the number of petal counters on Lotus Blossom.

Lotus Guardian

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Flying

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

Lotus fields are too valuable to leave undefended.

Lotus Petal

Artifact

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

"Hard to imagine," mused Hanna, stroking the petal, "such a lovely flower inspiring such greed."

Loxodon Warhammer

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink. (If the creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker. Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

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

Lumengrid Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

"Anything that watches without sleep and fights without fear is a valuable ally against the Phyrexians."
-Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

Lunar Avenger

Artifact Creature - Golem

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Lunar Avenger: Lunar Avenger gains your choice of flying, first strike, or haste until end of turn.

Lurebound Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

As Lurebound Scarecrow enters the battlefield, choose a color.

When you control no permanents of the chosen color, sacrifice Lurebound Scarecrow.

It's a fool's race to run if all is lost if it be won.

Lurking Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reveal Lurking Automaton as you draft it and note how many cards you've drafted this draft round, including Lurking Automaton.

Lurking Automaton enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the highest number you noted for cards named Lurking Automaton.

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.

Mage Slayer

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it deals damage equal to its power to defending player.

Equip

"When the wielder is strong enough, any sword will do."
-Kresh the Bloodbraided

Magebane Armor

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+4 and loses flying.

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

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

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.

Magister Sphinx

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Magister Sphinx enters the battlefield, target player's life total becomes 10.

"These benighted worlds are thick with ignorance. I will educate them. They will listen, or they will die."

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.

Magma Mine

Artifact

: Put a pressure counter on Magma Mine.

, Sacrifice Magma Mine: Magma Mine deals damage equal to the number of pressure counters on it to target creature or player.

BOOM!

Magnetic Mine

Artifact

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

Magnetic Web

Artifact

If a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them attack if able.

Whenever a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them block that creature this turn if able.

, : Put a magnet counter on target creature.

Malachite Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Malachite Golem gains trample until end of turn.

Malachite Talisman

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay . If you do, untap target permanent.

Mana Cylix

Artifact

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

Those who dismiss the cylix as an ordinary wooden bowl are blind to the true measure of its worth.

Mana Matrix

Artifact

Instant and enchantment spells you cast cost up to less to cast.

Mana Prism

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

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

Mana Vault

Artifact

Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Mana Vault.

At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

: Add to your mana pool.

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.

Manaforce Mace

Artifact - Equipment

Domain - Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each basic land type among lands you control.

Equip

As the shards merged, relics once thought mundane regained forgotten powers.

Manakin

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Add to your mana pool.

Hanna regarded Squee sternly. "Because it's not a toy, no matter how much it may look like one," she said, taking the manakin from him.

Manalith

Artifact

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

Planeswalkers seek out great monuments throughout the Multiverse, knowing that their builders were unknowingly drawn by the convergence of mana in the area.

Mangara's Tome

Artifact

When Mangara's Tome enters the battlefield, search your library for five cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library.

: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead put the top card of the exiled pile into its owner's hand.

Manor Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Defender

Manor Gargoyle has indestructible as long as it has defender.

: Until end of turn, Manor Gargoyle loses defender and gains flying.

Nothing could break it but the fall.

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.)

Mantis Engine

Artifact Creature - Insect

: Mantis Engine gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

: Mantis Engine gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"It's a clever design. You should look closely at its gearing after it swallows your head."
-Jhoira, master artificer

Marble Chalice

Artifact

: You gain 1 life.

The cup was a gift from the sphinx Tameron, who hoped that those who drank from it would live long enough to decrypt the sphinxes' wisdom.

Marble Diamond

Artifact

Marble Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Marble Priest

Artifact Creature - Cleric

All Walls able to block Marble Priest do so.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Marble Priest by Walls.

Mardu Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Mardu Banner: Draw a card.

Speed to strike, fury to smash.

Mask of Avacyn

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Equip

It hides the face and protects the soul.

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.

Mask of Memory

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card.

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.)

Mask of Riddles

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Equip

Master of Etherium

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Master of Etherium's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

"Only a mind unfettered with the concerns of the flesh can see the world as it truly is."

Master Transmuter

Artifact Creature - Human Artificer

, , Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Wasted potential surrounds us. Lend me that bauble, and let me see what it can be made to be."

Masterwork of Ingenuity

Artifact - Equipment

You may have Masterwork of Ingenuity enter the battlefield as a copy of any Equipment on the battlefield.

"The crucible yields what you have forged in your mind. You need only reach in and draw the masterwork forth."
-Wahara, Keeper of the Crucible

Masticore

Artifact Creature - Masticore

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Masticore unless you discard a card.

: Masticore deals 1 damage to target creature.

: Regenerate Masticore.

Matopi Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

: Regenerate Matopi Golem. When it regenerates this way, put a -1/-1 counter on it.

Some potmakers claim to use the mud of such creatures to make their finest bowls-and that the bowls scream when fired.

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

Meekstone

Artifact

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Memnarch

Legendary Artifact Creature - Wizard

: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

: Gain control of target artifact. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

In the blur between metal and flesh, Memnarch found madness.

Memnite

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reminders of Memnarch's reign still skirr across Mirrodin, reminiscent of his form if not his power.

Memory Crystal

Artifact

Buyback costs cost less.

Hues of recollection flicker like facets of a gem.

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.

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.

Mesmeric Orb

Artifact

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Metallic Sliver

Artifact Creature - Sliver

When the clever counterfeit was accepted by the hive, Volrath's influence upon the slivers grew even stronger.

Metallurgeon

Artifact Creature - Human Artificer

, : Regenerate target artifact.

"By the time I got there, the heart had stopped. Fortunately, I was able to replace it with something better."

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

Meteorite

Artifact

When Meteorite enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

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

"And if I'm lying," he began . . .

Metrognome

Artifact

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Metrognome, put four 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield.

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

Mightstone

Artifact

Attacking creatures get +1/+0.

While exploring the sacred cave of Koilos with his brother Mishra and their master Tocasia, Urza fell behind in the Hall of Tagsin, where he discovered the remarkable Mightstone.

Millennial Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

"You've got to keep your wits about you on the roofs. Not all stones are compliant handholds."
-Iveta, rooftop runner

Millikin

Artifact Creature - Construct

, Put the top card of your library into your graveyard: Add to your mana pool.

The toymaker frowned in bewilderment. None of his creations had ever sneezed before.

Millstone

Artifact

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

More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.

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.

Mind Stone

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom gained."
-Titus Maccius Plautus, Trinummus

Mind's Eye

Artifact

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Mindcrank

Artifact

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard. (Damage dealt by sources without infect causes loss of life.)

"Let go of your memories and be reborn."
-Argent Etchings, plate 106, passage 27

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.

Mindlock Orb

Artifact

Players can't search libraries.

Rogue mechanists once rummaged through the wastes of the Tidehollow, constructing unauthorized golems to threaten the hegemony of the sphinxes. The orbs put a stop to that.

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.

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.

Minion Reflector

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. That token has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this permanent."

To crack a mirror is to provide an opening for the reflection to escape.

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

Mirror Gallery

Artifact

The "legend rule" doesn't apply.

Only in mirrors do heroes find their equal.

Mirror Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Imprint - When Mirror Golem enters the battlefield, you may exile target card from a graveyard.

Mirror Golem has protection from each of the exiled card's card types. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal are card types.)

Mirror of Fate

Artifact

, Sacrifice Mirror of Fate: Choose up to seven face-up exiled cards you own. Exile all the cards from your library, then put the chosen cards on top of your library.

As the glass shattered, forgotten realities and dead memories came flooding back.

Mirror Universe

Artifact

, Sacrifice Mirror Universe: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

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.

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

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

Mishra's Groundbreaker

Artifact

, Sacrifice Mishra's Groundbreaker: Target land becomes a 3/3 artifact creature that's still a land. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

The very ground yielded to Mishra's wishes.