Argivian Archaeologist
{W}{W}, {T}: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Fascinated by the lore of ancient struggles, the Archaeologist searches incessantly for remnants of an earlier, more powerful era.
Argivian Blacksmith
{T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target artifact creature this turn.
Through years of study and training, the Blacksmiths of Argive became adept at reassembling the mangled remains of the strange, mechanical creatures abounding in their native land.
Artifact Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by artifact sources.
Enchanted creature can't be the target of abilities from artifact sources.
Circle of Protection: Artifacts
{2}: The next time an artifact source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Damping Field
Players can't untap more than one artifact during their untap steps.
Eventually, mages learned to harness the power of natural damping fields and use it for their own ends.
Martyrs of Korlis
As long as Martyrs of Korlis is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by artifacts is dealt to Martyrs of Korlis instead.
Reverse Polarity
You gain X life, where X is twice the damage dealt to you so far this turn by artifacts.
Drafna's Restoration
Put any number of target artifact cards from target player's graveyard on top of their library in any order.
Drafna, founder of the College of Lat-Nam, could create a working model from even the smallest remnants of a newly unearthed artifact.
Energy Flux
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {2}."
Hurkyl's Recall
Return all artifacts target player owns to their hand.
This spell, attributed to Drafna, was actually the work of his wife Hurkyl.
Power Artifact
Enchant artifact
Enchanted artifact's activated abilities cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
Reconstruction
Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Tedious research made the Sages of the College of Lat-Nam adept in repairing broken artifacts.
Sage of Lat-Nam
{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
Transmute Artifact
Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield. If it's greater, you may pay {X}, where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. Then shuffle.
Artifact Possession
Enchant artifact
Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an ability of enchanted artifact without {T} in its activation cost, Artifact Possession deals 2 damage to that artifact's controller.
Any black mage could coax a Thraxodemon to inhabit a magical device.
Gate to Phyrexia
Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.
"The warm rain of grease on my face immediately made it clear I had entered Phyrexia." —Jarsyl, *Diary*
Haunting Wind
Whenever an artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an artifact's ability without {T} in its activation cost, Haunting Wind deals 1 damage to that artifact's controller.
These devices lured so many spirits that sometimes entire battlefields would become haunted at once.
Phyrexian Gremlins
You may choose not to untap Phyrexian Gremlins during your untap step.
{T}: Tap target artifact. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Phyrexian Gremlins remains tapped.
Priest of Yawgmoth
{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value.
Xenic Poltergeist
{T}: Until your next upkeep, target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.
Yawgmoth Demon
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you don't, tap Yawgmoth Demon and it deals 2 damage to you.
Artifact Blast
Counter target artifact spell.
The first line of defense against Urza and Mishra, the Artifact Blast achieved widespread fame until an unlucky mage discovered it was useless on the devices the brothers had already created.
Atog
Sacrifice an artifact: Atog gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Detonate
Destroy target artifact with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.
Dwarven Weaponsmith
{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only during your upkeep.
Goblin Artisans
{T}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, draw a card. If you lose the flip, counter target artifact spell you control that isn't the target of an ability from another creature named Goblin Artisans.
Orcish Mechanics
{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Orcish Mechanics deals 2 damage to any target.
Shatterstorm
Destroy all artifacts. They can't be regenerated.
Chains of leaping fire and sizzling lightning laid waste the artificers' handiwork, sparing not a single device.
Argothian Pixies
Argothian Pixies can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Pixies by artifact creatures.
After the rape of Argoth Forest during the rule of the artificers, the Pixies of Argoth bent their magic to more practical ends.
Argothian Treefolk
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Treefolk by artifact sources.
Haunting cries we hear in our dreams As the forest dies, a death from machines.
Citanul Druid
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Citanul Druid.
Driven mad by the fall of Argoth, the Citanul Druids found peace only in battle.
Crumble
Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. That artifact's controller gains life equal to its mana value.
The spirits of Argoth grant new life to those who repent the folly of enslaving their labors to devices.
Gaea's Avenger
Gaea's Avenger's power and toughness are each equal to 1 plus the number of artifacts your opponents control.
After the destruction of Argoth, Gaea was willing to instill a portion of her own powers into some of her more vengeful followers.
Powerleech
Whenever an artifact an opponent controls becomes tapped or an opponent activates an artifact's ability without {T} in its activation cost, you gain 1 life.
The Forest of Argoth has developed a resistance to mechanical intrusion.
Titania's Song
Each noncreature artifact loses all abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. If Titania's Song leaves the battlefield, this effect continues until end of turn.
Amulet of Kroog
{2}, {T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
Among the first allies Urza gained were the people of Kroog. As a sign of friendship, Urza gave the healers of the city potent amulets; afterwards, thousands journeyed to Kroog in hope of healing, greatly adding to the city's glory.
Armageddon Clock
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on Armageddon Clock.
At the beginning of your draw step, Armageddon Clock deals damage equal to the number of doom counters on it to each player.
{4}: Remove a doom counter from Armageddon Clock. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.
Ashnod's Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.
Ashnod's Battle Gear
You may choose not to untap Ashnod's Battle Gear during your untap step.
{2}, {T}: Target creature you control gets +2/-2 for as long as Ashnod's Battle Gear remains tapped.
This horrid invention clearly illustrates why Mishra's lieutenant was feared as much by her troops as by her foes.
Ashnod's Transmogrant
{T}, Sacrifice Ashnod's Transmogrant: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonartifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.
Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she offered them.
Battering Ram
At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (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 being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)
Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.
By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.
Bronze Tablet
Remove Bronze Tablet from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
Bronze Tablet enters the battlefield tapped.
{4}, {T}: Exile Bronze Tablet and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If they do, put Bronze Tablet into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns Bronze Tablet and you own the other exiled card.
Candelabra of Tawnos
{X}, {T}: Untap X target lands.
Tawnos learned quickly from Urza that utter simplicity often led to wondrous, yet subtle utility.
Clay Statue
{2}: Regenerate Clay Statue.
Tawnos won fame as Urza's greatest assistant. After he created these warriors, Urza ended his apprenticeship, promoting him directly to the rank of master.
Clockwork Avian
Flying
Clockwork Avian enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Avian attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
{X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian to be greater than four. Activate only during your upkeep.
Colossus of Sardia
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Colossus of Sardia doesn't untap during your untap step.
{9}: Untap Colossus of Sardia. Activate only during your upkeep.
From the Sardian mountains wakes ancient doom: Warrior born from a rocky womb.
Coral Helm
{3}, Discard a card at random: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Cursed Rack
As Cursed Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.
Ashnod invented several torture techniques that could make victims even miles away beg for mercy as if the End had come.
