"We move because the earth does."
—Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad

Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Its secrets once wrought the greatest artifice ever known. Now crabs loot the rubble to decorate their shells.

Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Darksteel Citadel

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Seat of the Synod

Kuldotha, wellspring of molten metal, temple of the goblin horde.

Great Furnace

Ish Sah, den of the warlord Geth, commander of countless nim.

Vault of Whispers

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Island

Swamp

Mountain

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

"All creation in a single point, the point of all creation in all."
—Sunstar loop-mantra

Sol Ring

"An ordered Sothera is a peaceful Sothera. Join the Strategic Corps today and proudly turn the gears of progress!"
—Pinnacle recruitment ad

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

"We have safe houses in every zone, but you'll never find one without this."

Renegade Map

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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

Traveler's Amulet

{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

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

Unstable Obelisk

{T}: Add {C}.
{7}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target permanent.

"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

Trusty Machete

Vessel of Endless Rest

When this artifact enters, put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity.
Equip commander {3}
Equip {5}

"How could anyone survive this? There is some force at work that stifles even the will to go on."
—Naromin, veteran explorer

Winter Orb

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Druids hold certain plants to be sacred and use their leaves and wood as a spellcasting focus.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned."
"And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Sometimes the smallest things make the biggest difference.

Workshop Assistant

When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Scrap Trawler

Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.

Trading Post

Goat

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life.
{1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Myr Battlesphere

When this creature enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Metalwork Colossus

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total mana value of noncreature artifacts you control.
Sacrifice two artifacts: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.
Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Darksteel Colossus

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)
If Darksteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Darksteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

"Into its maw went the seventh sea, never to be seen again while the world remains."
—Esper fable

Inkwell Leviathan

Trample
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Duplicant

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature.
As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Thopter Assembly

Thopter

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control no Thopters other than this creature, return this creature to its owner's hand and create five 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying.

Wurm

Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

"It is not a goal, but a process—the process of creating the perfect Phyrexia."

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Drana, the Last Bloodchief

Flying
Whenever Drana attacks, defending player chooses a nonlegendary creature card in your graveyard. You return that card to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. The creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Crosis, the Purger

Flying
Whenever Crosis deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Flying
When Nicol Bolas enters, each opponent discards a card.
{4}{U}{B}{R}: Exile Nicol Bolas, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

+2: Draw two cards.
−3: Nicol Bolas deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
−4: Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
−12: Exile all but the bottom card of target player's library.

Hoarding Dragon

Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card, exile it, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may put the exiled card into its owner's hand.

Hellkite Tyrant

Flying, trample
Whenever this creature 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.

Dack Fayden Emblem

Dack Fayden

+1: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards.
−2: Gain control of target artifact.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more permanents, gain control of those permanents."

Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

+1: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
−1: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5.
−4: Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is twice the number of artifacts you control.

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

+3: Destroy target noncreature permanent.
−2: Gain control of target creature.
−9: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards seven cards, then sacrifices seven permanents of their choice.

Ugin, the Ineffable

Spirit

Colorless spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
+1: Exile the top card of your library face down and look at it. Create a 2/2 colorless Spirit creature token. When that token leaves the battlefield, put the exiled card into your hand.
−3: Destroy target permanent that's one or more colors.

Karn Liberated

+4: Target player exiles a card from their hand.
−3: Exile target permanent.
−14: Restart the game, leaving in exile all non-Aura permanent cards exiled with Karn. Then put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.

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.)

Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge

Creature and planeswalker spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
+2: Tezzeret deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of artifacts you control. You gain X life.
−3: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
−8: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Put all artifact cards from among them onto the battlefield.

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.

"The Knowledge Pool knows. Memnarch understands."
—Janus, speaker of the synod

Vedalken Archmage

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.

Padeem, Consul of Innovation

Artifacts you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control the artifact with the greatest mana value or tied for the greatest mana value, draw a card.

"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.

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.

Copy

Mirrorworks

The faces of Geth's corpse-dredgers are disturbingly similar.

Whenever another nontoken artifact you control enters, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that artifact.

The Antiquities War

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
III — Artifacts you control become artifact creatures with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.

Thopter Spy Network

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.

Mechanized Production

"Give me eight walkers, I'll give you the city."
—Dovin Baan

Enchant artifact you control
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted artifact. Then if you control eight or more artifacts with the same name as one another, you win the game.

"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.

Muzzio, Visionary Architect

{3}{U}, {T}: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the greatest mana value among artifacts you control. You may put an artifact card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"Doves and pigeons are too subtle. When I send a message, I want it to have some teeth."
—Aeschel, royal diplomat

Loyal Drake

Flying
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, draw a card.

Steel Hellkite

Flying
{2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
{X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death.

Platinum Emperion

Your life total can't change. (You can't gain or lose life. You can't pay any amount of life except 0.)

Yawgmoth's Will

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Mycosynth Lattice

All permanents are artifacts in addition to their other types.
All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are colorless.
Players may spend mana as though it were mana of any color.

Helm of the Host

Forged out of flowstone for the queen of Vesuva.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}

Master of Waves

Elemental

Protection from red
Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.
When this creature enters, create a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Conspiracy

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Zombie

Rotlung Reanimator

Whenever this creature or another Cleric dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Ugin's Nexus

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.

Mephidross gives up treasure easily . . . as long as you take its place.

Myr Retriever

"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

Dr. Eggman

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card. Then each opponent faces a villainous choice — That player discards a card, or you may put a Construct, Robot, or Vehicle card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Chulane, Teller of Tales

Vigilance
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Whenever another Zombie you control dies, if it didn't have decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice a Zombie. If you do, draw a card.

Atraxa, Grand Unifier

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
When Atraxa enters, reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each card type, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Aminatou, the Fateshifter

+1: Draw a card, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.
−1: Exile another target permanent you own, then return it to the battlefield under your control.
−6: Choose left or right. Each player gains control of all nonland permanents other than Aminatou controlled by the next player in the chosen direction.
Aminatou, the Fateshifter can be your commander.

Miles "Tails" Prower

Flash
Flying
Whenever a Vehicle you control enters, draw a card if it has flying. Otherwise, put a flying counter on it.

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