Yotian Soldier

Artifact Creature - Soldier

Vigilance

After Kroog was destroyed while most of its defenders were at his side, Urza vowed that none of his allies would ever need to fear for their own defense again, even while laying siege to a city far from their homes.

Wurmcoil Engine

Artifact Creature - Wurm

Deathtouch, lifelink

When Wurmcoil Engine dies, put a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink onto the battlefield.

Wurm's Tooth

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

Jevna Nor lugged it around, bragging of his triumph over the wurm. Luckily, the tavern regulars didn't notice it was only a baby tooth.

Worn Powerstone

Artifact

Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Worldslayer

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy all permanents other than Worldslayer.

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

"If that is what you seek, try looking in craters."
-Fodrus, mastersmith

Wooden Stake

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a Vampire, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

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

Wooden Sphere

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.

Wolfhunter's Quiver

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player" and ": This creature deals 3 damage to target Werewolf creature."

Equip

"Steel in the heart, silver in the bow."
-Wolfhunter's creed

Wizard Replica

Artifact Creature - Wizard

Flying

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

Witness of the Ages

Artifact Creature - Golem

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

It strode through the clash of dragons, the fall of Ugin, and the rise of the khans.

Witches' Eye

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : Scry 1." (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Equip

The price of prophecy is a vacant eye socket.

Witchbane Orb

Artifact

When Witchbane Orb enters the battlefield, destroy all Curses attached to you.

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control, including Aura spells.)

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

Wingrattle Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Wingrattle Scarecrow has flying as long as you control a blue creature.

Wingrattle Scarecrow has persist as long as you control a black creature. (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

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.

Windwright Mage

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Windwright Mage has flying as long as an artifact card is in your graveyard.

She knows the names and secrets of each of Esper's twenty-three winds.

Will-Forged Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

The modular nature of the automaton's design makes assembly perfectly intuitive.

Wildfield Borderpost

Artifact

You may pay and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay Wildfield Borderpost's mana cost.

Wildfield Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Wicker Warcrawler

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Whenever Wicker Warcrawler attacks or blocks, put a -1/-1 counter on it at end of combat.

It's the twisted creation of a kithkin diviner who dreamed of very large crows.

Whispersilk Cloak

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature is unblockable and has shroud.

Equip

Whispergear Sneak

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Whispergear Sneak face up.

During the draft, you may turn Whispergear Sneak face down. If you do, look at any unopened booster pack in the draft or any booster pack not being looked at by another player.

Spy for today. Plan for tomorrow.

Whetwheel

Artifact

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

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

Well of Lost Dreams

Artifact

Whenever you gain life, you may pay , where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Some say the knowledge lost during the Ritual of Rebuking is returned through the well's waters.

Welding Jar

Artifact

Sacrifice Welding Jar: Regenerate target artifact.

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.

Wayfarer's Bauble

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

It is the forest beyond the horizon, the mountain waiting to be climbed, the new land across the endless sea.

Watchwing Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Watchwing Scarecrow has vigilance as long as you control a white creature.

Watchwing Scarecrow has flying as long as you control a blue creature.

The wings are held in place by wicker rods. The rods are held in place by pure faith.

Warmonger's Chariot

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

As long as equipped creature has defender, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

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

The best defense is a good offense.

Warlord's Axe

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.

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

To split wood with it would be sacrilege. This tool has but one purpose, and that is war.

Warden of the Wall

Artifact

Warden of the Wall enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

As long as it's not your turn, Warden of the Wall is a 2/3 Gargoyle artifact creature with flying.

Ward of Bones

Artifact

Each opponent who controls more creatures than you can't play creature cards. The same is true for artifacts, enchantments, and lands.

Mages dare not attempt magic in its grotesque presence.

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.

Wanderer's Twig

Artifact

, Sacrifice Wanderer's Twig: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

For every tree who falls, there are countless sprouts waiting to rise.

Wand of the Elements

Artifact

, Sacrifice an Island: Put a 2/2 blue Elemental creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a Mountain: Put a 3/3 red Elemental creature token onto the battlefield.

It gives legs to the earth and wings to the sky.

Wall of Tanglecord

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender

: Wall of Tanglecord gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Rootlike fibers travel far from Mirrodin's metallic forests, emerging from the crust to drink in the mana-infused sunlight.

Wall of Spears

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

First strike

Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging Craw Wurms.

Walking Atlas

Artifact Creature - Construct

: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Crafted by lullmages and bound to the land, it alters itself to match the tumultuous terrain.

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.

Vulshok Replica

Artifact Creature - Berserker

, Sacrifice Vulshok Replica: Vulshok Replica deals 3 damage to target player.

All the fury of the Vulshok with only a trace of their recklessness.

Vulshok Morningstar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.

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

Vulshok Gauntlets

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+2 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

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.)

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.)

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.

Vorrac Battlehorns

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has trample and can't be blocked by more than one creature.

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.)

Voltaic Key

Artifact

, : Untap target artifact.

The missing piece to every puzzle.

Voltaic Construct

Artifact Creature - Golem Construct

: Untap target artifact creature.

The undead may outlast the living, but those who have never lived outlast them both.

Volatile Rig

Artifact Creature - Construct

Trample

Volatile Rig attacks each turn if able.

Whenever Volatile Rig is dealt damage, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, sacrifice Volatile Rig.

When Volatile Rig dies, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, it deals 4 damage to each creature and each player.

Viseling

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Viseling deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand minus 4.

"This may hurt a lot."

Viridian Longbow

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

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.)

Viridian Claw

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

Equip

"Phyrexians can't corrupt what they can't get close enough to touch."

Vial of Poison

Artifact

, Sacrifice Vial of Poison: Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

There are worse ways to die, but not many.

Vial of Dragonfire

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Vial of Dragonfire: Vial of Dragonfire deals 2 damage to target creature.

Designed by an ancient artificer, the vials are strong enough to hold the very breath of a dragon-until it's needed.

Vexing Arcanix

Artifact

, : Target player names a card, then reveals the top card of his or her library. If it's the named card, the player puts it into his or her hand. Otherwise, the player puts it into his or her graveyard and Vexing Arcanix deals 2 damage to him or her.

Veteran's Armaments

Tribal Artifact - Soldier Equipment

Equipped creature has "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each attacking creature."

Whenever a Soldier creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Veteran's Armaments to it.

Equip

Vessel of Endless Rest

Artifact

When Vessel of Endless Rest enters the battlefield, put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

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

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.

Venser's Journal

Artifact

You have no maximum hand size.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

A Planeswalker's chronicle spans worlds and civilizations, each page a lifetime.

Veinfire Borderpost

Artifact

You may pay and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay Veinfire Borderpost's mana cost.

Veinfire Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Veilstone Amulet

Artifact

Whenever you cast a spell, creatures you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn.

Sometimes it's ostentatious to go unseen.

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.

Vedalken Outlander

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Scout

Protection from red

The Seekers of Carmot searched across the unknown lands for the mystical red stone that could reforge Esper in ethereal perfection.

Vedalken Orrery

Artifact

You may cast nonland cards as though they had flash.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

Vector Asp

Artifact Creature - Snake

: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexia's machines take inspiration from nature. Twisted, disturbing inspiration.

Vectis Silencers

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Silencers gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Even on Esper, there are those who eschew the use of magic in favor of simpler methods.

Vectis Dominator

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

: Tap target creature unless its controller pays 2 life.

"I appreciate the artistry of the telemins, but the creatures of the other worlds provide a much more dramatic performance."
-Ennor, mentalist

Vectis Agents

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Agents gets -2/-0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

With their life energy suppressed under their etherium enhancements, thieves from Esper found it surprisingly easy to explore the ruins of Grixis.

Vault Skirge

Artifact Creature - Imp

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Flying

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

From the remnants of the dead, Geth forged a swarm to safeguard his throne.

Vanguard's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and can block an additional creature.

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

Wars are not fought on a single front.

Urza's Armor

Artifact

If a source would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Urza protected his body well, but neglected his soul.

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.

Unwinding Clock

Artifact

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

"The partisans have unearthed a strange artifact. None know its origin, but it gives them hope of a life beyond."
-Elspeth's journal

Unstable Obelisk

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

Its collapse is like the lashing out of a long-dead civilization that resents being forgotten.

Unscythe, Killer of Kings

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has first strike.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn dies, you may exile that card. If you do, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Equip

Unbender Tine

Artifact

: Untap another target permanent.

Creations made in madness may contain great power. The path to that power is as labyrinthine as the creator's mind.

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

Umbral Mantle

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", {Q}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn." ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Equip

It harnesses the power of night in a land where daylight fears to show itself.

Ugin's Nexus

Legendary Artifact

If a player would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.

If Ugin's Nexus would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, instead exile it and take an extra turn after this one.

All at once Sarkhan's mind fell silent.

Ugin's Construct

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Ugin's Construct enters the battlefield, sacrifice a permanent that's one or more colors.

While trapping the Eldrazi on Zendikar, Ugin learned little from Sorin, but he gleaned the rudiments of lithomancy from Nahiri.

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.

Tyrant's Machine

Artifact

, : Tap target creature.

"Though tempered differently, all wills can be broken."
-Inquisitor Kyrik

Twinning Glass

Artifact

, : You may cast a nonland card from your hand without paying its mana cost if it has the same name as a spell that was cast this turn.

It takes two to craft a mirror: a practiced metalsmith to silver one side and her own hazy reflection to polish the other.

Tumble Magnet

Artifact

Tumble Magnet enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, Remove a charge counter from Tumble Magnet: Tap target artifact or creature.

Magnetic devices that keep massive golems and structures standing can also be used for the opposite purpose.

Trusty Machete

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+1.

Equip

"Until this expedition is done, that blade is your guardian, your liberator, and your best friend all rolled into one."
-Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Triskelion

Artifact Creature - Construct

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

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelion: Triskelion deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"Why do bad things always come in threes?"
-Gisulf, expedition survivor

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."

Trip Noose

Artifact

, : Tap target creature.

A taut slipknot trigger is the only thing standing between you and standing.

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.)

Trigon of Thought

Artifact

Trigon of Thought enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Thought.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Thought: Draw a card.

Trigon of Rage

Artifact

Trigon of Rage enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Rage.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Rage: Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Trigon of Mending

Artifact

Trigon of Mending enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Mending.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Mending: Target player gains 3 life.

Trigon of Infestation

Artifact

Trigon of Infestation enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Infestation.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Infestation: Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token with infect onto the battlefield.

Trigon of Corruption

Artifact

Trigon of Corruption enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.

, : Put a charge counter on Trigon of Corruption.

, , Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Corruption: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Trespassing Souleater

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Trespassing Souleater is unblockable this turn. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for surveilling our lives that we may be preserved from our own ignorance."
-Drones' hymn of gratitude

Trepanation Blade

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card. The creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each card revealed this way. That player puts the revealed cards into his or her graveyard.

Equip

Traveler's Amulet

Artifact

, Sacrifice Traveler's Amulet: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

The rider set off into the eerie mist, swaddled in armor and laden with amulets.

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.

Training Drone

Artifact Creature - Drone

Training Drone can't attack or block unless it's equipped.

"Vulshok flail, Viridian shield, loxodon blade . . . Tazzir, bring the Moriok hook and assemble the rookies."
-Vy Covalt, Neurok agent

Trailblazer's Boots

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It's unblockable as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.)

Equip

It's much easier to list the places they haven't been.

Trading Post

Artifact

, , Discard a card: You gain 4 life.

, , Pay 1 life: Put a 0/1 white Goat creature token onto the battlefield.

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

, , Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Tower of Murmurs

Artifact

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