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 the number of cards in their hand minus 4.
, : Put a charge counter on this artifact.
, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add , then add an additional for each charge counter removed this way.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, create a 5/5 colorless Djinn artifact creature token with flying. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 5 damage to you.
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap this creature.
Remove this card from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
This artifact enters tapped.
, : Exile this artifact and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If they do, put this card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns this card and you own the other exiled card.
, : Add one mana of any color.
: Regenerate this creature.
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.
Flying
This creature enters with four +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if this creature attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on this creature. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on this creature to be greater than four. Activate only during your upkeep.
This creature enters with seven +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if this creature attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on this creature. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on this creature to be greater than seven. Activate only during your upkeep.
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
: Untap this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.
From the Sardian mountains wakes ancient doom: Warrior born from a rocky womb.
, : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
, Discard a card at random: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
As this artifact enters, 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.
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.
: Regenerate this creature.
"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning."
—Sevti Mukul, The Fall of Alsoor
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.
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
—Mairsil, called the Pretender
, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
: Look at target player's hand.
: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.
Recent research suggests these creatures were invented by Urza's and Mishra's original master, Tocasia, and that both brothers used them.
, : Put a charge counter on this artifact.
, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add , then add an additional for each charge counter removed this way.
, : 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.
, : 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.
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.
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.)
, : Put a charge counter on this artifact.
, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add , then add an additional for each charge counter removed this way.
, : This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.
As this creature enters, choose a number between 0 and 7.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7.
Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.
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.
, : Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.
You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.
, : Target creature gets +1/+1 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.
When war machines became too costly, Tawnos's Weaponry replaced them.
Flying
This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature. If you do, create that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens. They each have flying and "This token can't be enchanted."
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens created with this creature. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
, : 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.
This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.
A brainchild of Tawnos, the Triskelion later proved both versatile and useful.
: This creature gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of banding, flying, first strike, or trample 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 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.)
Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one versatile being.
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
First strike
Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging Craw Wurms.
, : Put a charge counter on this artifact.
, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add , then add an additional for each charge counter removed this way.
As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.