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.

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.

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 Miter

Artifact

Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it wasn't sacrificed, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

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

Urza's Filter

Artifact

Multicolored spells cost up to less to cast.

"It's a tool for aiding my other tools," explained Urza. "Now they'll work in harmony."

Urza's Engine

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Trample

: Urza's Engine gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

: Attacking creatures banded with Urza's Engine gain trample until end of turn.

"Humans and machines working together can be fearsome indeed!" -Arcum Dagsson

Urza's Chalice

Artifact

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

When sorely wounded or tired, Urza would often retreat to the workshops of his apprentices. They were greatly amazed at how much better he looked each time he took a sip of water.

Urza's Blueprints

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.)

: Draw a card.

From concept to paper to reality.

Urza's Bauble

Artifact

, Sacrifice Urza's Bauble: Look at a card at random in target player's hand. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Urza's Avenger

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

: Urza's Avenger gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of banding, flying, first strike, or trample until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one versatile being.

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

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.

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.

Umbilicus

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.

It was the explorers' only tether to reality.

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.

Tsabo's Web

Artifact

When Tsabo's Web enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Each land with an activated ability that isn't a mana ability doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.