, : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.
Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
, : Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.
, : Untap target attacking creature you control. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.
, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
: Look at target player's hand.
, : Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.
Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge.
: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.
, , Discard the last card you drew this turn: Draw a card.
, : Untap target creature.
Each day of their journey, Jandor opened the saddlebags and found them full of mutton, quinces, cheese, date rolls, wine, and all manner of delicious and satisfying foods.
, : Draw a card.
This creature attacks each combat if able.
This creature can't be blocked by Walls.
We had taken refuge in a small cave, thinking the entrance was too narrow for it to follow. To our horror, its gigantic head smashed into the mountainside, ripping itself a new entrance.
All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.
You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Regenerate this creature.
Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.
This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add .
Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
, : Target player mills two cards.
More than one mage was driven insane by the sound of the Millstone relentlessly grinding away.
Banding (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 blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 3 damage to you unless you discard a card. If it deals damage to you this way, tap it.
This artifact enters tapped.
, : Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
"The foot stone is connected to the ankle stone, the ankle stone is connected to the leg stone..."
—Song of the Artificer
When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.
An early inspiration for Urza, Tocasia's Onulets contained magical essences that could be cannibalized after they stopped functioning.
Flying
Many scholars believe that these creatures were the result of Urza's first attempt at mechanical life, perhaps created in his early days as an apprentice to Tocasia.
As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)
: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target. Destroy this artifact at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only if you've controlled this artifact continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.
What these devices lacked in subtlety, they made up in strength.
, : This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.
: Add .
Whenever a creature dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.
, : Create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wasp. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
As this artifact enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.
Invented in Mishra's earlier days, the Rack was once his most feared creation.
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.
Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
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