, : 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.
: 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.
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.
: The next time an artifact source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
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.
As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by artifacts is dealt to this creature instead.
You gain X life, where X is twice the damage dealt to you so far this turn by artifacts.
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.
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay ."
Return all artifacts target player owns to their hand.
This spell, attributed to Drafna, was actually the work of his wife Hurkyl.
Enchant artifact
Enchanted artifact's activated abilities cost less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
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.
, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
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 , 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.
Enchant artifact
Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an ability of enchanted artifact without in its activation cost, this Aura deals 2 damage to that artifact's controller.
Any black mage could coax a Thraxodemon to inhabit a magical device.
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
Whenever an artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an artifact's ability without in its activation cost, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that artifact's controller.
These devices lured so many spirits that sometimes entire battlefields would become haunted at once.
You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.
: Tap target artifact. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this creature remains tapped.
, Sacrifice an artifact: Add an amount of equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value.
: Until your next upkeep, target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.
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 this creature and it deals 2 damage to you.
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.
Sacrifice an artifact: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Sacrifice an artifact: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Destroy target artifact with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.
, Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only during your upkeep.
: 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.
, Sacrifice an artifact: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.
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.
This creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature 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.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by artifact sources.
Haunting cries we hear in our dreams As the forest dies, a death from machines.
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Driven mad by the fall of Argoth, the Citanul Druids found peace only in battle.
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'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.
Whenever an artifact an opponent controls becomes tapped or an opponent activates an artifact's ability without in its activation cost, you gain 1 life.
The Forest of Argoth has developed a resistance to mechanical intrusion.
Each noncreature artifact loses all abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. If this enchantment leaves the battlefield, this effect continues until end of turn.
, : 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.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, this artifact deals damage equal to the number of doom counters on it to each player.
: Remove a doom counter from this artifact. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.
Sacrifice a creature: Add .
You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.
, : Target creature you control gets +2/-2 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.
This horrid invention clearly illustrates why Mishra's lieutenant was feared as much by her troops as by her foes.
, 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 them.
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.
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.
, : Untap X target lands.
Tawnos learned quickly from Urza that utter simplicity often led to wondrous, yet subtle utility.
: 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.
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.
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.
: 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.
, Exile this artifact: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.
Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.
, : Each nontoken permanent with a name originally printed in the Antiquities expansion is sacrificed by its controller.
From their earliest educations, the brothers had known that no human contrivance could stand against the true masters of Dominia.
: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.
For years scholars debated whether these were Urza's or Mishra's creations. Recent research suggests they were invented by the brothers' original master, Tocasia, and that both used these devices.
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.
, : Draw a card, then discard a card.
This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystical runes.
Attacking creatures get +1/+0.
While exploring the sacred cave of Koilos with his brother Mishra and their master Tocasia, Urza fell behind in the Hall of Tagsin, where he discovered the remarkable Mightstone.
, : 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.
, : Return target permanent you both own and control to your hand.
The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on fickle reinforcements.
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.