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.

Amulet of Kroog

{2}, {T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Fascinated by the lore of ancient struggles, the Archaeologist searches incessantly for remnants of an earlier, more powerful era.

Argivian Archaeologist

o
Woo
W Tap to bring one artifact from your graveyard to your hand.

{W}{W}, {T}: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Argivian Blacksmith

Tap to prevent up to 2 damage to target artifact creature.

{T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target artifact creature this turn.

After the rape of Argoth Forest during the rule of the artificers, the Pixies of Argoth bent their magic to more practical ends.

Argothian Pixies

Cannot be blocked by artifact creatures. Any damage Argothian Pixies take from artifact creatures is reduced to 0.

Argothian Pixies can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Pixies by artifact creatures.

Haunting cries we hear in our dreams As the forest dies, a death from machines.

Argothian Treefolk

Any damage Argothian Treefolk take from an artifact source is reduced to 0.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Treefolk by artifact sources.

Armageddon Clock

Put one counter on Armageddon Clock during each of your upkeeps. At the end of your upkeep, each player takes damage equal to the number of counters on the Clock. Any player may spend o4 during any upkeep to remove a counter.

Players can remove as many counters as they can pay for each turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on Armageddon Clock.
At the beginning of your draw step, Armageddon Clock deals damage equal to the number of doom counters on it to each player.
{4}: Remove a doom counter from Armageddon Clock. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.

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.

Artifact Blast

Counters any artifact as it is being cast.

Any black mage could coax a Thraxodemon to inhabit a magical device.

Artifact Possession

Artifact Possession does 2 damage to target artifact's controller each time target artifact is tapped or its activation cost is paid. Has no effect if cast on a continuous artifact.

Enchant artifact
Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an ability of enchanted artifact without {T} in its activation cost, Artifact Possession deals 2 damage to that artifact's controller.

Artifact Ward

Target creature cannot be blocked by artifact creatures, and any damage taken from an artifact source is reduced to 0. Target creature is unaffected by any artifact effects that target it.

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.

Ashnod's Altar

o0: Sacrifice one of your creatures to add 2 colorless mana to your mana pool. This effect is played as an interrupt. You may not sacrifice a creature that is already on its way to the graveyard.

This horrid invention clearly illustrates why Mishra's lieutenant was feared as much by her troops as by her foes.

Ashnod's Battle Gear

o2: Give a creature of yours +2/-2 as long as Ashnod's Battle Gear is tapped. You may choose not to untap Ashnod's Battle Gear during untap phase.

You may choose not to untap Ashnod's Battle Gear during your untap step.
{2}, {T}: Target creature you control gets +2/-2 for as long as Ashnod's Battle Gear remains tapped.

Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she offered them.

Ashnod's Transmogrant

Target non-artifact creature gains +1/+1 and is now considered an artifact creature, though it retains its original color. Discard Ashnod's Transmogrant after it is used.

It’s the ability, not the counter that makes the creature an artifact. The creature remains an artifact even if the +1/+1 counter is removed.

{T}, Sacrifice Ashnod's Transmogrant: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonartifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

Atog

o0: +2/+2 until end of turn. Each time you use this ability, you must choose one of your artifacts in play and place it in the graveyard. This artifact cannot be one that is already on its way to the graveyard, and artifact creatures killed this way may not be regenerated.

Sacrifice an artifact: Atog gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Battering Ram

Bands, but only when attacking. Any wall blocking Battering Ram is destroyed. Walls destroyed this way deal their damage before dying.

A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.

Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.

If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a “band.” The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers’ damage is assigned.

If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it. That player can ignore the damage assignment order when making this assignment.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram 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 Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

Bronze Tablet

o4: Target any card opponent has in play; remove it and Bronze Tablet from game. You become owner of that card, and your opponent becomes owner of Bronze Tablet. Exchange is permanent; play as interrupt. Opponent can prevent exchange by spending 10 life; this discards Bronze Tablet. Damage-preventing effects cannot counter such loss of life. Bronze Tablet comes into play tapped. Remove this card from deck if not playing for ante.

If the card being targeted by the Bronze Tablet is removed before Tablet takes effect, then the Tablet ability doesn’t resolve and it remains tapped.

If using a copy of the Tablet, you must trade the copy card to your opponent just like you would have traded the Tablet.

You can take control of your opponent’s Tablet and in the trade you only have to give them back their Tablet.

You can’t choose to pay 10 life if you have less than 10 life, but you may choose to give up the game immediately. This has roughly the same effect.

If the tablet is not still on the battlefield when the ability resolves, it is not exiled. The other player still has the choice to pay 10 life, and you still become the owner of their card if they choose not to do so.

Remove Bronze Tablet from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
Bronze Tablet enters the battlefield tapped.
{4}, {T}: Exile Bronze Tablet and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If they do, put Bronze Tablet into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns Bronze Tablet and you own the other exiled card.

Tawnos learned quickly from Urza that utter simplicity often led to wondrous, yet subtle utility.

Candelabra of Tawnos

This is not mana ability. It is a normal ability and it will resolve along with other spells and abilities on the stack. The lands untap during resolution.

You may untap your opponent's lands if desired.

Circle of Protection: Artifacts

o2: Prevents all damage against you from any one artifact source. If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you must pay o2 each time you want to prevent the damage.

{2}: The next time an artifact source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Driven mad by the fall of Argoth, the Citanul Druids found peace only in battle.

Citanul Druid

Druid gains a +1/+1 counter each time opponent casts an artifact.

In multiplayer games it affects all players.

Whenever an opponent casts an artifact spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Citanul Druid.

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.

Clay Statue

Clockwork Avian

Flying
Put four +1/+0 counters on Avian. After Avian attacks or blocks a creature, discard a counter.
During his or her upkeep, controller may buy back lost counters for o1 per counter; this taps Avian.

Can attack or block even if it has no counters.

If the ability to add counters resolves when there are already the maximum number of counters on it, any counters over the maximum are simply not added.

Loses a counter even if it is affected by a Fog-like effect which prevents it from dealing damage.

Flying
Clockwork Avian enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Avian attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
{X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian to be greater than four. Activate only during your upkeep.

From the Sardian mountains wakes ancient doom: Warrior born from a rocky womb.

Colossus of Sardia

Trample
Colossus does not untap normally during untap phase; you may spend o9 during your upkeep phase to untap Colossus.

The ability that untaps it during your upkeep has been returned to an activated ability. There is no restriction on how many times it can be untapped during your upkeep with this ability.

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Colossus of Sardia doesn't untap during your untap step.
{9}: Untap Colossus of Sardia. Activate only during your upkeep.

Coral Helm

o3: Give target creature +2/+2 until end of turn. Each time you use this ability, you must discard one card at random from your hand. Coral Helm cannot be used if you have no cards in your hand.

{3}, Discard a card at random: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The spirits of Argoth grant new life to those who repent the folly of enslaving their labors to devices.

Crumble

Destroy target artifact; artifact creatures may not regenerate. Artifact's controller gains life points equal to target artifact's casting cost.

If the target artifact becomes illegal before resolution, the player does not gain any life.

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. That artifact's controller gains life equal to its mana value.

Ashnod invented several torture techniques that could make victims even miles away beg for mercy as if the End had come.

Cursed Rack

Opponent must discard down to four cards during his or her discard phase.

The effect of lowering the maximum hand size makes it so the player discards down to 4 cards (instead of the usual 7) during the cleanup step.

You choose one opposing player just as this card is entering the battlefield and it only affects that one player. This choice is not changed even if this card changes controllers. It becomes useless but stays on the battlefield if the chosen player leaves the game.

If multiple effects modify your hand size, apply them in timestamp order. For example, if you put Null Profusion (an enchantment that says your maximum hand size is two) onto the battlefield and then a player puts Cursed Rack onto the battlefield choosing you, your maximum hand size will be four. However, if those permanents entered the battlefield in the opposite order, your maximum hand size would be two.

As Cursed Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.

Eventually, mages learned to harness the power of natural damping fields and use it for their own ends.

Damping Field

Players may not untap more than one artifact during each of their own untap phases.

Artifact creatures are artifacts. They are affected so only one may untap.

Damping Field does not prevent artifacts being untapped by spells or abilities at other times.

Players can't untap more than one artifact during their untap steps.

Detonate

Targets any artifact; X is the casting cost of target artifact. Target artifact is destroyed, and Detonate does X points of damage to artifact's controller. Artifact creatures destroyed in this manner may not be regenerated.

If the artifact becomes an illegal target before resolution, then no damage is done.

Destroy target artifact with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.

Drafna, founder of the College of Lat-Nam, could create a working model from even the smallest remnants of a newly unearthed artifact.

Drafna's Restoration

Take any number of artifacts of your choice from target player's graveyard and place them on top of that player's library, in any order.

Put any number of target artifact cards from target player's graveyard on top of their library in any order.

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Dragon Engine

{2}: Dragon Engine gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Dwarven Weaponsmith

Tap during your upkeep to add a permanent +1/+1 counter to any creature. Each time you use this ability, you must choose one of your artifacts in play and place it in the graveyard. This artifact cannot be one that is already on its way to the graveyard, and artifact creatures killed in this way may not be regenerated.

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Energy Flux

All artifacts in play now require an upkeep cost of o2 in addition to any other upkeep costs they may have. If the upkeep cost for an artifact is not paid, the artifact must be discarded.

All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {2}."

Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.

Feldon's Cane

o0: Reshuffle your graveyard into your library. If Feldon's Cane is used, remove it from the game, returning it to its owner's deck only when the game is over.

{T}, Exile Feldon's Cane: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

After the destruction of Argoth, Gaea was willing to instill a portion of her own powers into some of her more vengeful followers.

Gaea's Avenger

The *s below are the number of artifacts opponent has in play.

In multi-player games it counts artifacts of all opponents.

Gaea's Avenger's power and toughness are each equal to 1 plus the number of artifacts your opponents control.

"The warm rain of grease on my face immediately made it clear I had entered Phyrexia." —Jarsyl, *Diary*

Gate to Phyrexia

Sacrifice one of your creatures during your upkeep to destroy any one artifact. You may not sacrifice a creature that is already on its way to the graveyard.

Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

Goblin Artisans

You may tap Goblin Artisans as you cast an artifact. Then flip a coin; opponent calls heads or tails while coin is in the air. If the flip ends up in opponent's favor, your artifact is countered. Otherwise, draw another card from your library. You can only use this ability once for each time you cast an artifact.

{T}: 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.

From their earliest educations, the brothers had known that no human contrivance could stand against the true masters of Dominia.

Golgothian Sylex

o1: All cards from the Antiquities expansion, including Golgothian Sylex, must be discarded from play.

{1}, {T}: Each nontoken permanent with a name originally printed in the Antiquities expansion is sacrificed by its controller.

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.

Grapeshot Catapult

Tap to deal 1 damage to target flying creature.

{T}: Grapeshot Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

These devices lured so many spirits that sometimes entire battlefields would become haunted at once.

Haunting Wind

Each time an artifact in play is tapped or its activation cost is paid, Haunting Wind does 1 damage to that artifact's controller. Is not triggered by continuous artifacts.

Whenever an artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an artifact's ability without {T} in its activation cost, Haunting Wind deals 1 damage to that artifact's controller.

This spell, attributed to Drafna, was actually the work of his wife Hurkyl.

Hurkyl's Recall

All artifacts in play owned by target player are returned to target player's hand. Any enchantments on those artifacts are discarded. Cannot be played during the damage-dealing phase of an attack.

It only returns artifacts which are on the battlefield.

Retrieves all artifacts owned by the target player regardless of who controls them. Ignores artifacts owned by other players even if target player has control of them.

Return all artifacts target player owns to their hand.

Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge.

Ivory Tower

During your upkeep phase, gain 1 life for each card in your hand above four.

If you have four or fewer cards in your hand when Ivory Tower's ability resolves, the ability has no effect.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystical runes.

Jalum Tome

o2: Draw a card from your library, then immediately discard a card of your choice to your graveyard.

You draw a card and discard a card all while Jalum Tome's ability is resolving. Nothing can happen in between, and no player can choose to take actions.

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Martyrs of Korlis

Unless Martyrs of Korlis is tapped, any damage done to you by artifacts is instead applied to Martyrs of Korlis. You may not take this damage yourself, though you may prevent it if possible. No more than one Bodyguard of your choice can take damage for you in this manner each turn.

If you have multiple Martyrs of Korlis, you can decide which one receives the redirected damage each time artifact damage would be dealt to you.

As long as Martyrs of Korlis is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by artifacts is dealt to Martyrs of Korlis instead.

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.

Mightstone

The +1/+0 applies to attacking creatures from all players.

More than one mage was driven insane by the sound of the Millstone relentlessly grinding away.

Millstone

o2: Take the top two cards from target player's library and put them in target player's graveyard.

Can be used on a player with less than 2 cards in their library. It will remove 0 or 1 cards if that is all that is available.

It is not a draw effect so it will not cause a player with less than 2 cards in their library to lose.

Since you are putting more than one card in the graveyard at one time, the affected player can choose the order the 2 cards go in.

Mishra's Factory

Tap to add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool or give any Assembly Worker +1/+1 until end of turn.
o1: Mishra's Factory becomes an Assembly Worker, a 2/2 artifact creature, until end of turn. Assembly Worker is still considered a land as well.

A noncreature permanent that becomes a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature. Notably, if you turn Mishra's Factory into a creature on the turn it entered the battlefield, you won't be able to then activate its first or last abilities.

After it becomes a creature, Mishra's Factory will still have all its abilities.

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Mishra's War Machine

Bands
During your upkeep, discard one card of your choice from your hand, or Mishra's War Machine becomes tapped and does 3 points of damage to you.

You may choose to take damage or to discard. You can’t avoid taking damage if you have no cards to discard.

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, Mishra's War Machine deals 3 damage to you unless you discard a card. If Mishra's War Machine deals damage to you this way, tap it.

Though he eventually came to despise Tocasia, Mishra listened well to her lessons on clarity of purpose. Unlike his brother, he focused his mind on a single goal.

Mishra's Workshop

Tap to add 3 colorless mana to your mana pool. This mana may only be used to cast artifacts.

The mana can't be used to pay Echo costs.

This mana may be used on additional costs to cast the spell, such as Kicker.

This mana may not be used to pay costs imposed after the spell is initially cast.

You can spend the mana on costs on the spell's text.

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells.

The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on fickle reinforcements.

Obelisk of Undoing

o6: Return any of your permanents in play to your hand; enchantments on that permanent are discarded. Can be used only on permanents you cast.

{6}, {T}: Return target permanent you both own and control to your hand.

Card (102)	Type	^{$4624.10 (0.00)} Price
Amulet of Kroog - 1993	Artifact	$0.25 ^(0.00)
Argivian Archaeologist - 1993	Creature	$125.00 ^(0.00)
Argivian Blacksmith - 1993	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Argothian Pixies - 1993	Creature	$0.25 ^(0.00)
Argothian Treefolk - 1993	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Armageddon Clock - 1993	Artifact	$2.50 ^(0.00)
Artifact Blast - 1993	Instant	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Artifact Possession - 1993	Enchantment	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Artifact Ward - 1993	Enchantment	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Ashnod's Altar - 1993	Artifact	$20.00 ^(0.00)
Ashnod's Battle Gear - 1993	Artifact	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Ashnod's Transmogrant - 1993	Artifact	$4.00 ^(0.00)
Atog - 1993	Creature	$1.50 ^(0.00)
Atog - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Battering Ram - 1993	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Bronze Tablet - 1993	Artifact	$6.00 ^(0.00)
Candelabra of Tawnos - 1993	Artifact	$750.00 ^(0.00)
Circle of Protection: Artifacts - 1993	Enchantment	$1.50 ^(0.00)
Citanul Druid - 1993	Creature	$7.50 ^(0.00)
Clay Statue - 1993	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Clockwork Avian - 1993	Creature	$12.00 ^(0.00)
Colossus of Sardia - 1993	Creature	$20.00 ^(0.00)
Coral Helm - 1993	Artifact	$5.00 ^(0.00)
Crumble - 1993	Instant	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Cursed Rack - 1993	Artifact	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Damping Field - 1993	Enchantment	$5.00 ^(0.00)
Detonate - 1993	Sorcery	$1.50 ^(0.00)
Drafna's Restoration - 1993	Sorcery	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Dragon Engine - 1993	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Dwarven Weaponsmith - 1993	Creature	$1.00 ^(0.00)
Energy Flux - 1993	Enchantment	$7.50 ^(0.00)
Feldon's Cane - 1993	Artifact	$4.00 ^(0.00)
Gaea's Avenger - 1993	Creature	$50.00 ^(0.00)
Gate to Phyrexia - 1993	Enchantment	$32.50 ^(0.00)
Goblin Artisans - 1993	Creature	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Golgothian Sylex - 1993	Artifact	$20.00 ^(0.00)
Grapeshot Catapult - 1993	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Haunting Wind - 1993	Enchantment	$15.00 ^(0.00)
Hurkyl's Recall - 1993	Instant	$60.00 ^(0.00)
Ivory Tower - 1993	Artifact	$12.50 ^(0.00)
Jalum Tome - 1993	Artifact	$6.00 ^(0.00)
Martyrs of Korlis - 1993	Creature	$3.00 ^(0.00)
Mightstone - 1993	Artifact	$5.00 ^(0.00)
Millstone - 1993	Artifact	$7.50 ^(0.00)
Mishra's Factory - 1993	Land	$45.00 ^(0.00)
Mishra's Factory - 1993	Land	$60.00 ^(0.00)
Mishra's Factory - 1993	Land	$75.00 ^(0.00)
Mishra's Factory - 1993	Land	$300.00 ^(0.00)
Mishra's War Machine - 1993	Creature	$5.00 ^(0.00)
Mishra's Workshop - 1993	Land	$2000.00 ^(0.00)