The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts

BRR · 189 cards · Released

Adaptive Automaton
Artifact Creature — Construct

As this creature enters, choose a creature type.

This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

2/2
Aetherflux Reservoir
Artifact

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.

Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

While most power is used for ordinary, everyday tasks, one shouldn't underestimate its potential for the extraordinary.

Altar of Dementia
Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."

—Volrath

Ashnod's Altar
Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add .

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."

—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Astral Cornucopia
Artifact

This artifact enters with X charge counters on it.

: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on this artifact.

Blackblade Reforged
Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control.

Equip legendary creature

Equip

It spilled the blood of one elder dragon. In Gideon's hands, it may yet taste another's.

Bone Saw
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

In a world where death is always violent, cruel weapons are as common as rocks.

Burnished Hart
Artifact Creature — Elk

, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Forged by divine hands to wander mortal realms.

2/2
Caged Sun
Artifact

As this artifact enters, choose a color.

Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add an additional one mana of that color.

Chromatic Lantern
Artifact

Lands you control have ": Add one mana of any color."

: Add one mana of any color.

By guild tradition, any puddle of multicolored light on the cobblestones can serve as neutral ground.

Chromatic Star
Artifact

, , Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Cloud Key
Artifact

As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery.

Spells you cast of the chosen type cost less to cast.

The musical sound of its turning triggers the tumblers of revelation.

Defense Grid
Artifact

Each spell costs more to cast except during its controller's turn.

It lights up the sky, beckoning enemies only to repel them.

Door to Nothingness
Artifact

This artifact enters tapped.

, , Sacrifice this artifact: Target player loses the game.

Only a monster could create such a door. Only a fool would open it.

Elsewhere Flask
Artifact

When this artifact enters, draw a card.

Sacrifice this artifact: Choose a basic land type. Each land you control becomes that type until end of turn.

One night Oona bottled the sky. The next night she aligned the stars and released it.

Foundry Inspector
Artifact Creature — Construct

Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

Automaton inspectors ensure that the Consulate's stringent standards for mass production are upheld.

3/2
Gilded Lotus
Artifact

: Add three mana of any one color.

"The perfection of the lotus reminds me of my hopes for this world . . . and my failures. I will not rest until I've atoned for them."

—Karn

Goblin Charbelcher
Artifact

, : Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. This artifact deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to any target. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, this artifact deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Helm of the Host
Legendary Artifact — Equipment

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.

Equip

Howling Mine
Artifact

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

The mine's riches never end, nor do the moans of the spirits doomed to haunt them.

Ichor Wellspring
Artifact

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Our glorious infection has taken hold."

—Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Inspiring Statuary
Artifact

Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for .)

Ghirapur's most celebrated inventors have been immortalized in clockwork.

Ivory Tower
Artifact

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.

Jalum Tome
Artifact — Book

, : Draw a card, then discard a card.

Most books simply deliver knowledge. This one expects some in return.

Journeyer's Kite
Artifact

, : Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"From the clouds, you can see as far as the distant horizon. It's a reminder of the infinite possibilities of everyday life."

—Noboru, master kitemaker

Keening Stone
Artifact

, : Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in that player's graveyard.

As it spins, dead voices shriek in an ever-increasing cacophony, rending the mind asunder.

Key to the City
Artifact

, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Whenever this artifact becomes untapped, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

It would be unfortunate if the key fell into the wrong hands.

Liquimetal Coating
Artifact

: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

"They'll soon become accustomed to wearing skin that is not their own."

—Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Lodestone Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem

Nonartifact spells cost more to cast.

"Somehow it warps the Æther. It brings a strange weight, a blockade in the flow of spellcraft."

—Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

5/3
Mazemind Tome
Artifact — Book

, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

, , Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card.

When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Mesmeric Orb
Artifact

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

A step in one direction is two steps away from another.

Millstone
Artifact

, : Target player mills two cards.

Minds, like mountains, are never so grand and mighty that they can't be reduced to dust.

Mind's Eye
Artifact

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

"Ideas drift like petals on the wind. I have only to lift my face to the breeze."

Mishra's Bauble
Artifact

, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Arcum is a babbling fool! Phyrexian technology is our greatest blessing. Take this delightful trinket for instance . . ."

—Heidar, Rimewind master

Mox Amber
Legendary Artifact

: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

A moment in time made tangible, it has the power to realize epic visions.

Mystic Forge
Artifact

You may look at the top card of your library any time.

You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library.

, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Ornithopter
Artifact Creature — Thopter

Flying

Once a year, the skies over Paliano fill with the flying machines of those who hope to be taken on as pupils by the artificer Muzzio.

0/2
Perilous Vault
Artifact

, , Exile this artifact: Exile all nonland permanents.

The spirit dragon Ugin arranged the hedrons of Zendikar to direct leylines of energy. To disrupt one is to unleash devastation and chaos.

Phyrexian Processor
Artifact

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life.

, : Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Phyrexian Revoker
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name.

Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

"To be in the presence of a revoker is to be truly alone."

—Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

2/1
Platinum Angel
Artifact Creature — Angel

Flying

You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

She is the apex of the artificer's craft, the spirit of the divine called out of base metal.

4/4
Precursor Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem

When this creature enters, create two 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature tokens.

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single Golem, that player copies that spell for each other Golem that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those Golems.

3/3
Pristine Talisman
Artifact

: Add . You gain 1 life.

"Tools and artisans can be destroyed, but the act of creation is inviolate."

—Elspeth Tirel

Psychosis Crawler
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

"If that brain can't figure out the secret of the serum, then add more brains."

—Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

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Quicksilver Amulet
Artifact

, : You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Those who examine the amulet too closely have been known to become part of its ornate carvings.

Quietus Spike
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

Equip

Ramos, Dragon Engine
Legendary Artifact Creature — Dragon

Flying

Whenever you cast a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ramos for each of that spell's colors.

Remove five +1/+1 counters from Ramos: Add . Activate only once each turn.

4/4
Runechanter's Pike
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.

Equip

As sharp as its bearer's words of faith.

Scrap Trawler
Artifact Creature — Construct

Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.

3/2
Sculpting Steel
Artifact

You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Self-Assembler
Artifact Creature — Assembly-Worker

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Assembly-Worker creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

It sees itself in all of its creations.

4/4
Semblance Anvil
Artifact

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonland card from your hand.

Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost less to cast.

Forged from what it forges.

Sigil of Valor
Artifact — Equipment

Whenever equipped creature attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other creature you control.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

With each honor he earns, Gideon paves the path to his redemption.

Soul-Guide Lantern
Artifact

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard.

, , Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Springleaf Drum
Artifact

, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

"The music is in the drum. I simply coax it out to be heard."

Staff of Domination
Artifact

: Untap this artifact.

, : You gain 1 life.

, : Untap target creature.

, : Tap target creature.

, : Draw a card.

Sundering Titan
Artifact Creature — Golem

When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, choose a land of each basic land type, then destroy those lands.

"Even if we defeat it, what remains to be saved?"

—Glissa Sunseeker

7/10
Swiftfoot Boots
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and no matter when it came under your control.)

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"There is great wisdom in rushing headlong into combat . . . if you're prepared."

—Kenjek, captain of the Thousand Swords

Sword of the Meek
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2.

Equip

Whenever a 1/1 creature you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then attach it to that creature.

Thorn of Amethyst
Artifact

Noncreature spells cost more to cast.

Mined from a cave in the Dark Meanders, it shines brightest when no one is looking.