Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Darksteel Citadel

"So even the heart of our world has succumbed."
—Koth of the Hammer

Phyrexia's Core

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: You gain 1 life.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Mistveil Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)
Mistveil Plains enters tapped.
{W}, {T}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

Mystifying Maze

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Exile target attacking creature an opponent controls. At the beginning of the next end step, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

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.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace."
—Ajani Goldmane

Radiant Fountain

When Radiant Fountain enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Arch of Orazca

City's Blessing

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Wastes

Plains

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.

Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

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.

Spine of Ish Sah

When Spine of Ish Sah enters, destroy target permanent.
When Spine of Ish Sah is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Spine of Ish Sah to its owner's hand.

Myr Battlesphere

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

The impact sent the soldiers scattering—then something came out of the crater.

Meteor Golem

When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible
{10}: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as Colossus of Akros is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

"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.

Carrot Cake

Rabbit

"Secret ingredient? What do you think?"
—Ms. Bumbleflower

When Carrot Cake enters and when you sacrifice it, create a 1/1 white Rabbit creature token and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Carrot Cake: You gain 3 life.

Automaton inspectors ensure that the Consulate's stringent standards for mass production are upheld.

Foundry Inspector

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

Unwanted Remake

Destroy target creature. Its controller manifests dread. (That player looks at the top two cards of their library, then puts one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender has trample, hexproof, and haste as long as an opponent controls a planeswalker.
Whenever another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Syr Ginger and scry 1.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Syr Ginger: You gain life equal to its power.

"Look! Another one! Who cares what Mother said? We'll be home before she gets back."
—Daniela, Edgewall youth

Candy Trail

When Candy Trail enters, scry 2.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Candy Trail: You gain 3 life and draw a card.

Magic can knit the body back together, but the courage to fight on comes only from within.

Potion of Healing

When Potion of Healing enters, draw a card.
{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Potion of Healing: You gain 3 life.

"Cure that which was never ill."
—Spellbomb inscription

Sunbeam Spellbomb

{W}, Sacrifice Sunbeam Spellbomb: You gain 5 life.
{1}, Sacrifice Sunbeam Spellbomb: Draw a card.

"The wisdom of the elders is just as much a weapon as a sword or spear. We must learn to wield it."
—Ushanti, leonin seer

Leonin Elder

Whenever an artifact enters, you may gain 1 life.

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

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.

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.

"It is said Chimil never sees the same lands twice. So too must we expand our horizons."

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Scrap Trawler

Whenever Scrap Trawler 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.

Found Footage

You may look at face-down creatures your opponents control any time.
{2}, Sacrifice Found Footage: Surveil 2, then draw a card. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Unidentified Hovership

Flying
When Unidentified Hovership enters, exile up to one target creature with toughness 5 or less.
When Unidentified Hovership leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner manifests dread.
Crew 1

Bottle Gnomes

Sacrifice Bottle Gnomes: You gain 3 life.

Implement of Improvement

{W}, Sacrifice Implement of Improvement: You gain 2 life.
When Implement of Improvement is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Leyline of Hope

If Leyline of Hope is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Gnome

Tinker's Tote

When Tinker's Tote enters, create two 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens.
{W}, Sacrifice Tinker's Tote: You gain 3 life.

Dusk Rose Reliquary

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Ward {2}
When Dusk Rose Reliquary enters, exile target artifact or creature an opponent controls until Dusk Rose Reliquary leaves the battlefield.

"We have done our best to heal this land together, but now I must entrust the future to my sister. She will carry our dreams onward into the sunrise."
—Michiko Konda's journal

Brilliant Restoration

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Thopter

Thopter Shop

Rushed repairs once sent a thopter back to combat with a mechanic's still-warm lunch in the gunner's seat.

Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
{2}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Eriette's Tempting Apple

When Eriette's Tempting Apple enters, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Eriette's Tempting Apple: You gain 3 life.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Eriette's Tempting Apple: Target opponent loses 3 life.

"Tools and artisans can be destroyed, but the act of creation is inviolate."
—Elspeth Tirel

Pristine Talisman

Esika alone knows how to distill the essence of the World Tree into the Cosmos Elixir, a magical substance which grants the Skoti god-family immortality.

Revitalize

Sometimes, "as fast as you can" isn't quite fast enough.

Gingerbrute

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
{1}: Gingerbrute can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Gingerbrute: You gain 3 life.

"You break it, you buy it. You steal it, I find it."

Ironsoul Enforcer

Whenever Ironsoul Enforcer or a commander you control attacks alone, return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy.
Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Entrepreneurs have attempted to sell the water, but to no avail. Whatever magic it contains disappears upon bottling.

Fountain of Renewal

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.
{3}, Sacrifice Fountain of Renewal: Draw a card.

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.

Elephant

Generous Gift

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

It is the moment of discovery, the triumph of the mind, the reimagining of past glory.

Conjurer's Bauble

{T}, Sacrifice Conjurer's Bauble: Put up to one target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Draw a card.

Mystic Forge

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Smelting Vat

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another artifact: Reveal the top eight cards of your library. Put up to two noncreature artifact cards with total mana value less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value from among them onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

"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.

"Olivia Voldaren has faith only in herself. We answer to a higher calling."
—Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Sanctify

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 3 life.

Feed it steel. Feed it gold. Feed it bone. In the belly of the furnace, the flames know no difference.

Scrabbling Claws

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard.
{1}, Sacrifice Scrabbling Claws: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Sometimes safety is a place. Sometimes it's a person. Sometimes it's a tangible reminder that even in darkness, hope persists.

Arcane Signet

"I use maps to find out where explorers have already been. Then I go the other way."
—Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Expedition Map

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

Angel of the Ruins

Flying
When Angel of the Ruins enters, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.
Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Griffin

Griffin Aerie

When griffins started nesting atop the northern tower, the castellan worried they'd be a nuisance. Instead, they took the entire castle under their protection.

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying.

"This item is not from ... now. It reflects a sky no longer ours and gleams with hope that does not exist."
—Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Chromatic Star

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Chromatic Star: Add one mana of any color.
When Chromatic Star is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Cat Collector

Food

"Why so many? Because they need a home, just like I once did."

When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever you gain life for the first time during each of your turns, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token.

Bumbleflower's Sharepot

When Bumbleflower's Sharepot enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice Bumbleflower's Sharepot: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Not all minds touched by the Eldrazi turn to raging psychosis. Some simply withdraw from this world into memories of a better one.

Peace of Mind

Orazca Relic

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Orazca Relic: You gain 3 life and draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

"Put your backs into it! If we don't lay claim to it, the Fallaji will!"

Recommission

Return target artifact or creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If a creature enters this way, it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

"It's the must-have gift for everyone on your list. Get one for yourself, too!"
—Chammi, curio vendor

Filigree Familiar

When Filigree Familiar enters, you gain 2 life.
When Filigree Familiar dies, draw a card.

Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sun Titan

Vigilance
Whenever Sun Titan enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Fountainport's town crier once saved the townsfolk from predation by a rottenmouth viper with only their bell.

Fountainport Bell

When Fountainport Bell enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
{1}, Sacrifice Fountainport Bell: Draw a card.

"Technology evolves faster than a blade can swing."
—Arima, lead inventor of the Futurists

Organic Extinction

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Destroy all nonartifact creatures.

Golden Egg

A Golden Opportunity

When Golden Egg enters, draw a card.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Golden Egg: Add one mana of any color.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Golden Egg: You gain 3 life.

"Let's see how brave you really are behind all that oak and steel."

Invoke the Divine

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.

No Meletian had ever laid eyes on an angel, but when protective Halo flooded the Multiverse, they knew a divine blessing was at hand.

Surge of Salvation

You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Prevent all damage that black and/or red sources would deal to creatures you control this turn.

Fabrication Foundry

{T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell or activate an ability of an artifact source.
{2}{W}, {T}, Exile one or more other artifacts you control with total mana value X: Return target artifact card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

It shines with the conviction of a zealous acolyte.

Basilica Skullbomb

{1}, Sacrifice Basilica Skullbomb: Draw a card.
{2}{W}, Sacrifice Basilica Skullbomb: Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Human Knight

The Prydwen, Steel Flagship

Flying
Whenever another nontoken artifact enters under your control, create a 2/2 white Human Knight creature token with "This creature gets +2/+2 as long as an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn."
Crew 2

Human

"Who was that knight, so graceful and strong? Why did she flee before the food was gone?"
—*Tale of the Masked Maiden*

Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

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