The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts

BRR · 189 cards · Released

Unwinding Clock
Artifact

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

"The partisans have unearthed a strange artifact. None know its origin, but it gives them hope of a life beyond."

—Elspeth's journal

Well of Lost Dreams
Artifact

Whenever you gain life, you may pay , where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Some say the knowledge lost during the Ritual of Rebuking is returned through the well's waters.

Wurmcoil Engine
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Wurm

Deathtouch, lifelink

When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

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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.

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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.

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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.

"These estimates are conservative. Its true capacity may be far, far greater."

—Research notes, signature illegible

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.

"These estimates are conservative. Its true capacity may be far, far greater."

—Research notes, signature illegible

Altar of Dementia
Artifact

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

"My dreams have brought more visions from our master: an altar, exquisite and perfect. We must build it at once."

—Writings of Artonac, priest of Gix

Altar of Dementia
Artifact

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

"My dreams have brought more visions from our master: an altar, exquisite and perfect. We must build it at once."

—Writings of Artonac, priest of Gix

Ashnod's Altar
Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add .

"Blood fluting needs to be deeper. Additional hooks needed for nerve rigging. Surface stippling could be coarser."

—Ashnod, design notes

Ashnod's Altar
Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add .

"Blood fluting needs to be deeper. Additional hooks needed for nerve rigging. Surface stippling could be coarser."

—Ashnod, design notes

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.

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

"Tempered in the blood of ten thousand sacrifices? Superstitious drivel."

—Mishra, note to his researchers

Blackblade Reforged
Legendary Artifact — Equipment

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

Equip legendary creature

Equip

"Tempered in the blood of ten thousand sacrifices? Superstitious drivel."

—Mishra, note to his researchers

Bone Saw
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

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

"When metal instruments are scarce, a saw constructed from the subject's femur will suffice for a craniectomy."

—Ashnod, research notes

Bone Saw
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

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

"When metal instruments are scarce, a saw constructed from the subject's femur will suffice for a craniectomy."

—Ashnod, research notes

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.

"The natural world has already solved our problems. Our challenge is to replicate the elegance of its solutions."

—Tawnos

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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.

"The natural world has already solved our problems. Our challenge is to replicate the elegance of its solutions."

—Tawnos

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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.

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.

"Feldon's latest discovery appears to draw upon the same 'memories of the land' my wife studied. How I wish she could see it."

—Writings of Drafna

Chromatic Lantern
Artifact

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

: Add one mana of any color.

"Feldon's latest discovery appears to draw upon the same 'memories of the land' my wife studied. How I wish she could see it."

—Writings of Drafna

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.

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.

"A key only unlocks a door. Its wielder must choose whether to cross the threshold."

Hurkyl's Metaphysics, vol. II

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.

"A key only unlocks a door. Its wielder must choose whether to cross the threshold."

Hurkyl's Metaphysics, vol. II

Defense Grid
Artifact

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

"Properly installed, each powerstone emits a targeted electromagnetic field that halts momentum as sure as stone."

Tome of Obstructions

Defense Grid
Artifact

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

"Properly installed, each powerstone emits a targeted electromagnetic field that halts momentum as sure as stone."

Tome of Obstructions

Door to Nothingness
Artifact

This artifact enters tapped.

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

"I have re-created a Thran portal at last! Before I inform Lord Urza, I'll test it myself."

—Oryan, Urzan artificer, final research note

Door to Nothingness
Artifact

This artifact enters tapped.

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

"I have re-created a Thran portal at last! Before I inform Lord Urza, I'll test it myself."

—Oryan, Urzan artificer, final research note

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.

"My husband is clever enough to bottle the sky, and foolish enough to ignore its beauty."

—Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

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.

"My husband is clever enough to bottle the sky, and foolish enough to ignore its beauty."

—Queen Kayla bin-Kroog

Foundry Inspector
Artifact Creature — Construct

Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

"Delicate resonance detectors could scan the assembly lines for metallic impurities, loose bolts, and freak occurrences of sentience."

—Tawnos, proposal for overseer prototype

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Foundry Inspector
Artifact Creature — Construct

Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.

"Delicate resonance detectors could scan the assembly lines for metallic impurities, loose bolts, and freak occurrences of sentience."

—Tawnos, proposal for overseer prototype

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Gilded Lotus
Artifact

: Add three mana of any one color.

"The lotus is a potent but ephemeral source of power. To preserve its potency, lacquer carefully with a conductive coating."

Hurkyl's Metaphysics, vol. II

Gilded Lotus
Artifact

: Add three mana of any one color.

"The lotus is a potent but ephemeral source of power. To preserve its potency, lacquer carefully with a conductive coating."

Hurkyl's Metaphysics, vol. II

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.

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

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 Sardian dwarves have let superstition override common sense. There's plenty of ore left in the mountain, and we mustn't let it go to waste."

—Last dispatch of Bolgon, Argivian surveyor

Howling Mine
Artifact

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

"The Sardian dwarves have let superstition override common sense. There's plenty of ore left in the mountain, and we mustn't let it go to waste."

—Last dispatch of Bolgon, Argivian surveyor

Ichor Wellspring
Artifact

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

"Should a single drop take hold, the oil begins to consume organic tissue and will multiply until it overwhelms the host."

—Yawgmoth, collected writings

Ichor Wellspring
Artifact

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

"Should a single drop take hold, the oil begins to consume organic tissue and will multiply until it overwhelms the host."

—Yawgmoth, collected writings

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 .)

"In the early days, Urza's wondrous automatons were seen as symbols of hope and courage."

The Antiquities War

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 .)

"In the early days, Urza's wondrous automatons were seen as symbols of hope and courage."

The Antiquities War

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.

"Ringed by white stone, Terisia was a city of scholarship and knowledge, where magic promised a brighter future to a world devoured by artifice."

The Antiquities War

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.

"Ringed by white stone, Terisia was a city of scholarship and knowledge, where magic promised a brighter future to a world devoured by artifice."

The Antiquities War

Jalum Tome
Artifact — Book

, : Draw a card, then discard a card.

"These glyphs describe a Thran device capable of controlling a machine army, but the dimensions make no sense. It's nearly the size of the Null Moon."

—Urza, diary

Jalum Tome
Artifact — Book

, : Draw a card, then discard a card.

"These glyphs describe a Thran device capable of controlling a machine army, but the dimensions make no sense. It's nearly the size of the Null Moon."

—Urza, diary

Journeyer's Kite
Artifact

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

"Measure the angles carefully. Note the gauge of the paper. By your sixth birthday, I expect a flying prototype."

—Tawnos, letter to Harbin

Journeyer's Kite
Artifact

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

"Measure the angles carefully. Note the gauge of the paper. By your sixth birthday, I expect a flying prototype."

—Tawnos, letter to Harbin

Keening Stone
Artifact

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

"The new prototype utilizing a rotational axis is marvelously effective: it makes me want to tear my own ears off."

—Ashnod, to her assistants

Keening Stone
Artifact

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

"The new prototype utilizing a rotational axis is marvelously effective: it makes me want to tear my own ears off."

—Ashnod, to her assistants

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.

"Presented to the Chief Artificer in recognition of his unparalleled service to Yotia."

—Rusted plaque

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.

"Presented to the Chief Artificer in recognition of his unparalleled service to Yotia."

—Rusted plaque

Liquimetal Coating
Artifact

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

"We've had a breakthrough on the fifth iteration. The subject's skin was entirely replaced within an hour, and he survived a full day after that!"

—Ashnod, to Mishra

Liquimetal Coating
Artifact

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

"We've had a breakthrough on the fifth iteration. The subject's skin was entirely replaced within an hour, and he survived a full day after that!"

—Ashnod, to Mishra

Lodestone Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem

Nonartifact spells cost more to cast.

"Progress update: the problem of the slagheap blocking the entrance seems to have solved itself."

—Mine supervisor's report

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