, Sacrifice this artifact: 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.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
For a dozen years the cage had held Lord Ith, but as the Pretender Mairsil's power weakened, so did the bars.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature 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 this creature 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.
, 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.
: 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.
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.
This creature enters with four +1/+0 counters on it.
This creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
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.
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.
, Discard a card at random: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
, : Attach target Aura attached to a creature to another creature.
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.
: 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.
"How is it the legged engines seem so much more alive than their wheeled counterparts? Simply, they were born, not made."
—Mishra
, : Exile the top card of your library. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card.
, Exile this artifact: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.
Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Throw stones, and throw away the world.
—Dwarven proverb
Creature spells cost more to cast.
"Without the protection of Feroz's Ban, I fear the Homelands are lost."
—Daria
, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
, : You gain 1 life.
The fountain had stood in the town square for centuries, but only the pigeons knew its secret.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Exchange control of target artifact, creature, or land you control and target permanent an opponent controls that shares one of those types with it. If those permanents are exchanged this way, destroy all Auras attached to them.
: 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.
, : 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.)
Whether inspired by fear or by honor, all loyalty lends might.
At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on this artifact.
All creatures get +1/+0 for each time counter on this artifact.
: Remove a time counter from this artifact. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.
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.
: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.
, : Draw a card, then discard a card.
This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystic runes.
, : 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.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
"Know your foes' strengths as well as their weaknesses."
—Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist
, : Target creature can't be blocked this turn except by Walls.
"If that thief Joven ever shows his head around here again, make sure he leaves without it."
—Eron the Relentless
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.
When the mighty sleep, the lowly prowl.
, : Target player mills two cards.
More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.
This artifact enters tapped.
, : Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
, : Return target permanent you both own and control to your hand.
The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on fickle reinforcements.
Flying
"It has been my honor to improve on Thran's original design. Perhaps history will remember me in some small part for my work."
—Urza, in his apprenticeship
, : The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
A mirror, a shield, a promise, a great distance, and a kind word—five ways to avoid harm.
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.
, : Create a 1/1 colorless Snake artifact creature token. It has "Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter." (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
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.
, , Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 2 damage to any target.
"Let any who doubt the evil of using the ancient devices look at this infernal machine. What manner of fiend would design such a sadistic device?"
—Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi heretic
Whenever a creature dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
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.
, : 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.)
Mouths and wings beyond numbering, but a single mind to guide them.
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on this artifact.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: This artifact deals damage equal to the number of time counters on it to each creature and each player.
: 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.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at a card at random in target player's hand. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
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.
As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.
"When once winter has ahold,
Not willingly does she withdraw
Her icy touch, wistfully caressing—
The deepened air sleeps its cold."
—Aline Corralurn, "Late Thaw"
Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.