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Nim Deathmantle

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {4}. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach Nim Deathmantle to it.
Equip {4}

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

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

Master Transmuter

{U}, {T}, Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

One footstep among many is silent. One footstep alone is deafening.

Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, untap all creatures.

Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Dance of the Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Dance of the Dead." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach Dance of the Dead to it. When Dance of the Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Worldgorger Dragon

Flying, trample
When Worldgorger Dragon enters the battlefield, exile all other permanents you control.
When Worldgorger Dragon leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Most clocks measure time, but a few measure everything.

Clock of Omens

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Untap target artifact.

Eldrazi Displacer

Devoid (This card has no color.)
{2}{C}: Exile another target creature, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

When the great vault fell, it scattered its wonders across Thunder Junction.

Sol Ring

Body Launderer

Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, Body Launderer connives.
When Body Launderer dies, return another target non-Rogue creature card with equal or lesser power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
You may have Phyrexian Metamorph enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Phantasmal Image

You may have Phantasmal Image enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Geralf's Messenger

Geralf's Messenger enters the battlefield tapped.
When Geralf's Messenger enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 2 life.
Undying (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.)

The loyalty of a felidar is hard won but worth the effort.

Felidar Guardian

When Felidar Guardian enters the battlefield, you may exile another target permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Journey to Nowhere

When Journey to Nowhere enters the battlefield, exile target creature.
When Journey to Nowhere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

"Gix doesn't want a people to rule but puppets to entertain his madness."
—Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast

Priest of Gix

When Priest of Gix enters the battlefield, add {B}{B}{B}.

Forging the Tyrite Sword

Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms

Halvar, God of Battle

Creatures you control that are enchanted or equipped have double strike.
At the beginning of each combat, you may attach target Aura or Equipment attached to a creature you control to target creature you control.

It cuts through the Cosmos itself, carving new Omenpaths between the realms.

Sword of the Realms

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has vigilance.
Whenever equipped creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.
Equip {1}{W}

Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has an activated ability. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
Abilities you activate that aren't mana abilities cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
{1}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn.

"It has been my honor to improve on Thran's original design. Perhaps history will remember me in some small part for my work."
—Urza, in his apprenticeship

Ornithopter

Thopter Spy Network

Thopter

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Padeem, Consul of Innovation

Artifacts you control have hexproof.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control the artifact with the highest mana value or tied for the highest mana value, draw a card.

Imskir Iron-Eater

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
When Imskir Iron-Eater enters the battlefield, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is half the number of artifacts you control, rounded down.
{3}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Imskir deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value to any target.

"I pray that I am never considered useless or old."
—Sharuum the Hegemon

Time Sieve

{T}, Sacrifice five artifacts: Take an extra turn after this one.

As she took the wheel of the *Weatherlight* for the first time in a millennium, Jhoira knew she'd been right to restore the ship. Anything was possible now.

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain

Whenever you cast a historic spell, draw a card. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Sai, Master Thopterist

"Industry without artistry is just a fancy way to fill the junkyard."

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
{1}{U}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw a card.

Servo

Cayth, Famed Mechanist

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.)
Other nontoken creatures you control have fabricate 1.
{2}, {T}: Choose one —
• Populate.
• Proliferate.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Etherium Sculptor

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Archway of Innovation

Archway of Innovation enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

"The arc of my blade has carved a path of light for the peace that will follow."

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

The mind is a beautiful bounty encased in an annoying bone container.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Emry, Lurker of the Loch

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.
When Emry, Lurker of the Loch enters the battlefield, mill four cards.
{T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.)
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Thopter Foundry

"Etherium is limited. Innovation is not."
—Tezzeret

{1}, Sacrifice a nontoken artifact: Create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying. You gain 1 life.

Visitors marvel at its design, unaware of the other world that inspired it.

Chromatic Orrery

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}{C}{C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

"The sun banishes darkness every morning. I too will rise with such assuredness."
—Huatli

Talisman of Conviction

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}. Talisman of Conviction deals 1 damage to you.

To restore the day-night balance, the Celestus mechanism's Sungold Lock must be reunited with its long-lost key.

Moonsilver Key

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Moonsilver Key: Search your library for an artifact card with a mana ability or a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Hellkite Tyrant

Flying, trample
Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Liliana whispered to whatever consciousness Oketra and Bontu had left. "You are the gods. He is the usurper. You know what to do."

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Treasure

Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

The goblins say it used to be larger, before it began to stoke the Great Furnace with pieces of itself.

Kuldotha Forgemaster

{T}, Sacrifice three artifacts: Search your library for an artifact card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"If their ears are to the ground, we will make them bleed!"
—Taklai, Kolaghan warrior

Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, Impact Tremors deals 1 damage to each opponent.

"Hold on to your lunch!"
—Bartleby, gnome wizard

Teleportation Circle

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target artifact or creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Cranial Plating

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
{B}{B}: Attach Cranial Plating to target creature you control.
Equip {1}

Venser wondered if it could still be called a teleportation spell if the destination is oblivion.

Dispatch

Tap target creature.
Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, exile that creature.

"Organization is often undervalued but rarely unjustified."
—Frasio, royal archivist

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you *need* to know.

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Mox Opal

Quicksilver Lapidary

The suns of Mirrodin have shone upon perfection only once.

Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact."
—Sargis Haz, artificer

Steel Overseer

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

When the task spilled over into undeath, he stopped calling it his life's work.

Ad Nauseam

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

"Your artillery will burn itself out before I allow my focus to waver."

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

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

Unwinding Clock

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

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Launch Mishap

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Chrome Mox

Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Saheeli, the Gifted

Copy

+1: Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
+1: The next spell you cast this turn costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control as you cast it.
−7: For each artifact you control, create a token that's a copy of it. Those tokens gain haste. Exile those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.
Saheeli, the Gifted can be your commander.

Clue

Detective's Satchel

When Detective's Satchel enters the battlefield, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Activate only if you've sacrificed an artifact this turn.

Pilot

Shorikai, Genesis Engine

{1}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card. Create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This creature crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater."
Crew 8 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 8 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
Shorikai, Genesis Engine can be your commander.

Urza, Prince of Kroog

The prince consort was happy to let Yotia's coffers fund his extravagant research.

Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2.
{6}: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact you control, except it's a 1/1 Soldier creature in addition to its other types.

Breya, Etherium Shaper

When Breya, Etherium Shaper enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying.
{2}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Choose one —
• Breya deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
• You gain 5 life.

Garna, the Bloodflame

Flash
When Garna enters, return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from anywhere this turn.
Other creatures you control have haste.

Kefka, Court Mage

Whenever Kefka enters or attacks, each player discards a card. Then you draw a card for each card type among cards discarded this way.
{8}: Each opponent sacrifices a permanent of their choice. Transform Kefka. Activate only as a sorcery.

Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

Flying
Whenever an opponent loses life during your turn, you draw that many cards.

Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

"You fool. Do I look like some lowly black mage soldier?"

Black Waltz No. 3

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Black Waltz No. 3 deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Sliver Overlord

{3}: Search your library for a Sliver card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{3}: Gain control of target Sliver. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Goblin

Krenko, Mob Boss

"Threats? Extortion? Good sir, you have me all wrong. I am a legitimate businessman; my colleagues and I are simply here to conduct legitimate business."

{T}: Create X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens, where X is the number of Goblins you control.

Snail

Wick, the Whorled Mind

Whenever Wick or another Rat you control enters, create a 1/1 black Snail creature token if you don't control a Snail. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on a Snail you control.
{U}{B}{R}, Sacrifice a Snail: Wick deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to each opponent. Then draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Flying
Ward—Pay 2 life.
Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth and draw a card.

The Ur-Dragon

Eminence — As long as The Ur-Dragon is in the command zone or on the battlefield, other Dragon spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Flying
Whenever one or more Dragons you control attack, draw that many cards, then you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Maelstrom Wanderer

Creatures you control have haste.
Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)

Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Defender
Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped.
Sokratic Dialogue — {T}: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."

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