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.

Soldier Replica

Artifact Creature - Soldier

, Sacrifice Soldier Replica: Soldier Replica deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Spellweaver Helix

Artifact

Imprint - When Spellweaver Helix enters the battlefield, you may exile two target sorcery cards from a single graveyard.

Whenever a player casts a card, if it has the same name as one of the cards exiled with Spellweaver Helix, you may copy the other. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Tangleroot

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a creature spell, that player adds to his or her mana pool.

Tooth of Chiss-Goria

Artifact

Flash

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

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

Vulshok Battlegear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+3.

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.)

Wizard Replica

Artifact Creature - Wizard

Flying

, Sacrifice Wizard Replica: Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

Chimeric Egg

Artifact

Whenever an opponent casts a nonartifact spell, put a charge counter on Chimeric Egg.

Remove three charge counters from Chimeric Egg: Chimeric Egg becomes a 6/6 Construct artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

Darksteel Ingot

Artifact

Indestructible

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

Myr Landshaper

Artifact Creature - Myr

: Target land becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

One thing the myr can't do is enjoy the scenery.

Nemesis Mask

Artifact - Equipment

All creatures able to block equipped creature do so.

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.)

Serum Powder

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

Any time you could mulligan and Serum Powder is in your hand, you may exile all the cards from your hand, then draw that many cards. (You can do this in addition to taking mulligans.)

Spellbinder

Artifact - Equipment

Imprint - When Spellbinder enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card from your hand.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Equip

Sword of Fire and Ice

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to target creature or player and you draw a card.

Equip

Sword of Light and Shadow

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Equip

Thunderstaff

Artifact

As long as Thunderstaff is untapped, if a creature would deal combat damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

, : Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Trinisphere

Artifact

As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost to cast costs to cast instead.)

Wirefly Hive

Artifact

, : Flip a coin. If you win the flip, put a 2/2 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wirefly onto the battlefield. If you lose the flip, destroy all permanents named Wirefly.

"The lifespan of a wirefly can be precisely described as ‘short.'"
-Bruenna, Neurok leader

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.

Ensouled Scimitar

Artifact - Equipment

: Ensouled Scimitar becomes a 1/5 Spirit artifact creature with flying until end of turn. (Equipment that's a creature can't equip a creature.)

Equipped creature gets +1/+5.

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

Ferropede

Artifact Creature - Insect

Ferropede is unblockable.

Whenever Ferropede deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from target permanent.

Fist of Suns

Artifact

You may pay rather than pay the mana cost for spells that you cast.

"It is all in my grasp. Every petty dream, every grand scheme, every soul, every fear. It all flows through me and from me."
-Memnarch

Grafted Wargear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+2.

Whenever Grafted Wargear becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent.

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

Helm of Kaldra

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste.

: If you control Equipment named Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, and Shield of Kaldra, put a legendary 4/4 colorless Avatar creature token named Kaldra onto the battlefield and attach those Equipment to it.

Equip

Staff of Domination

Artifact

: Untap Staff of Domination.

, : You gain 1 life.

, : Untap target creature.

, : Tap target creature.

, : Draw a card.

Suntouched Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

As the fifth sun joins the other four, new abilities awaken in the creatures of Mirrodin.

Thermal Navigator

Artifact Creature - Construct

Sacrifice an artifact: Thermal Navigator gains flying until end of turn.

It takes off with a roar of superheated wind, startling wild pterons as they survey the ground below.

Vedalken Shackles

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Vedalken Shackles during your untap step.

, : Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.)

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