Rakdos Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Rakdos Keyrune becomes a 3/1 black and red Devil artifact creature with first strike until end of turn.

The Rakdos use it for everything you can think of and plenty more than that.

Selesnya Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Selesnya Keyrune becomes a 3/3 green and white Wolf artifact creature until end of turn.

A mark of unity when you want one; a fierce guardian when you need one.

Tablet of the Guilds

Artifact

As Tablet of the Guilds enters the battlefield, choose two colors.

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.

It is rumored the Azorius paid an exorbitant sum to ensure its symbol would appear at the top.

Dispeller's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Dispeller's Capsule: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I find its symmetry pleasing. It rids our world of offensive refuse while disposing of itself."
-Dolomarus, Proctor of the Clean

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.

Scourglass

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scourglass: Destroy all permanents except for artifacts and lands. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

"Soon I will sleep, eyes closing to a world tarnished with flesh, and then wake to a polished vision."
-Sharuum

Courier's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Courier's Capsule: Draw two cards.

In ages past, Esper couriers bore messages written on ornate scrolls. The medium has grown more sophisticated, but the principle remains the same.

Etherium Astrolabe

Artifact

Flash

, , Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

"Speculation is foolish when the tools of certainty are available."
-Cinna, vedalken consul

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.

Protomatter Powder

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Protomatter Powder: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"There is no such thing as scrap metal. All such material can be repaired with the proper bonding agent."
-Quennus, metallurgeon

Executioner's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Executioner's Capsule: Destroy target nonblack creature.

There is always a moment of trepidation before opening a message capsule, for fear of the judgment that might be contained within.

Immortal Coil

Artifact

, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draw a card.

If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. Exile a card from your graveyard for each 1 damage prevented this way.

When there are no cards in your graveyard, you lose the game.

Onyx Goblet

Artifact

: Target player loses 1 life.

The goblet was a gift from the sphinx Gorael, who hoped humans and vedalken would eventually destroy each other to acquire it, leaving all of Esper to her own kind.

Lich's Mirror

Artifact

If you would lose the game, instead shuffle your hand, your graveyard, and all permanents you own into your library, then draw seven cards and your life total becomes 20.

It shows not what you are but what you were.

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.

Obelisk of Bant

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Whether incorporated into the structure of castles or admired as lone symbols, the obelisks stand for Bant's values of loyalty, honor, and truth.

Obelisk of Esper

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

It is a monument as austere, unyielding, and inscrutable as Esper itself.

Obelisk of Grixis

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation.

Obelisk of Jund

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Volcanic ash-winds batter it, climbing vines overwhelm it, dragonfire roasts it, and yet it still stands as a testament to a forgotten world.

Obelisk of Naya

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Centuries have passed since the plane shattered, yet the obelisks of each shard faithfully serve their long-forgotten purpose.

Quietus Spike

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half his or her life, rounded up.

Equip

Relic of Progenitus

Artifact

: Target player exiles a card from his or her graveyard.

, Exile Relic of Progenitus: Exile all cards from all graveyards. Draw a card.

Elves believe the hydra-god Progenitus sleeps beneath Naya, feeding on forgotten magics.

Sigil of Distinction

Artifact - Equipment

Sigil of Distinction enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Sigil of Distinction.

Equip-Remove a charge counter from Sigil of Distinction.

Catalyst Stone

Artifact

Flashback costs you pay cost up to less.

Flashback costs your opponents pay cost more.

The gems' incandescence invades the dreams of all who see them.

Charmed Pendant

Artifact

, Put the top card of your library into your graveyard: For each colored mana symbol in that card's mana cost, add one mana of that color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only any time you could cast an instant. (For example, if the card's mana cost is , you add to your mana pool.)

Darkwater Egg

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Darkwater Egg: Add to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"Do you thirst for knowledge no matter the cost?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

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

Mossfire Egg

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Mossfire Egg: Add to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"Can you feel your instincts overwhelm your reason?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Sandstone Deadfall

Artifact

, Sacrifice two lands and Sandstone Deadfall: Destroy target attacking creature.

"Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there."
-Kamahl, pit fighter

Shadowblood Egg

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Shadowblood Egg: Add to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"Does your passion for power consume your soul?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Skycloud Egg

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Skycloud Egg: Add to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"Have your dreams of a better society become an obsession?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Steamclaw

Artifact

, : Exile target card from a graveyard.

, Sacrifice Steamclaw: Exile target card from a graveyard.

"There's dead, and then there's dead dead."
-Steamclaw driver

Sungrass Egg

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Sungrass Egg: Add to your mana pool. Draw a card.

"Has your peaceful nature led you on a crusade?"
-Watnik, master glassblower

Norn's Annex

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays for each of those creatures.

Rage Extractor

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Whenever you cast a spell with {P} in its mana cost, Rage Extractor deals damage equal to that spell's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

New Phyrexia is an engine that both consumes and creates malice.

Birthing Pod

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

, , Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Batterskull

Artifact - Equipment

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink.

: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand.

Equip

Caged Sun

Artifact

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

Whenever a land's ability adds one or more mana of the chosen color to your mana pool, add one additional mana of that color to your mana pool.

Conversion Chamber

Artifact

, : Exile target artifact card from a graveyard. Put a charge counter on Conversion Chamber.

, , Remove a charge counter from Conversion Chamber: Put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Darksteel Relic

Artifact

Darksteel Relic is indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"It's the last thing we can call our own."
-Minhu, Mirran resistance