"Release that which was never caged."
—Spellbomb inscription

Aether Spellbomb

{U}, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
{1}, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Draw a card.

{U}, Sacrifice Aether Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
{1}, Sacrifice Aether Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Alpha Myr

Altar of Shadows

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add {B} to your mana pool for each charge counter on Altar of Shadows.
{7}, {T}: Destroy target creature. Then put a charge counter on Altar of Shadows.

The precombat main phase is the first main phase of the turn. All others are postcombat main phases, even if they technically occur before combat.

You put the counter on Altar of Shadows even if the creature regenerates.

At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Altar of Shadows.
{7}, {T}: Destroy target creature. Then put a charge counter on Altar of Shadows.

"The altar does nothing; the device is crushed under the weight of its own impurity."
—Ushanti, leonin seer

Altar's Light

Remove target artifact or enchantment from the game.

Taj-Nar, throne of Raksha Golden Cub, destined leader of the leonin prides.

Ancient Den

(Ancient Den isn't a spell.)
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool.

"Murder of the living is tragic, but murder of the idea is unforgivable."
—Janus, speaker of the synod

Annul

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

A shuffling sound and the smell of ozone follow the slogger as surely as its electric tail.

Arc-Slogger

{R}, Remove the top ten cards of your library from the game: Arc-Slogger deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

{R}, Exile the top ten cards of your library: Arc-Slogger deals 2 damage to any target.

"Unfortunately, it doesn't restrain the beast's smell."
—Glissa Sunseeker

Arrest

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be played.

Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Assert Authority

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to play for each artifact you control.)
Counter target spell. If it's countered this way, remove it from the game instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

On Dominaria, a scavenger. On Mirrodin, a predator.

Atog

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

The Auriok have learned through constant struggle that allies are more precious than water.

Auriok Bladewarden

{T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is Auriok Bladewarden's power.

They put their safety in his hands. He puts sharpened steel in theirs.

Auriok Steelshaper

Equip costs you pay cost {1} less.
As long as Auriok Steelshaper is equipped, Soldiers and Knights you control get +1/+1.

Equip costs you pay cost {1} less.
As long as Auriok Steelshaper is equipped, each creature you control that's a Soldier or a Knight gets +1/+1.

"My grandfather knew enough spells to fill a hundred scrolls. Nowadays, if a spell cannot fight the levelers, it is not even taught to our young."

Auriok Transfixer

Stunned by the mere presence of the leonin kha, the nim raider quickly fell to its knees.

Awe Strike

The next time target creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Banshee's Blade

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Banshee's Blade.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put a charge counter on this card.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card comes into play unattached and stays in play if the creature leaves play.)

The counters stay on Banshee’s Blade even if it becomes unattached, or moves from one creature to another.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Banshee's Blade.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put a charge counter on Banshee's Blade.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

"In the game of conquest, who cares about the pawns if the king yet reigns?"
—Geth, keeper of the Vault

Barter in Blood

Barter in Blood doesn’t target any creatures and may be cast even if a player controls fewer than two creatures.

If a player controls only one creature, that creature is sacrificed.

The active player chooses which creatures will be sacrificed first, then each other player in turn order does the same. Then all creatures are sacrificed simultaneously.

"I would gladly die for the forest, but I'm much better at killing for it."

Battlegrowth

Betrayal of Flesh

Choose one Destroy target creature; or return target creature card from your graveyard to play.
Entwine—
Sacrifice three lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Choose one —
• Destroy target creature.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Entwine—Sacrifice three lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Blinding Beam

Choose one Tap two target creatures; or creatures don't untap during target player's next untap step.
Entwine {1} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

The second mode affects all creatures during the player’s next untap step, including creatures controlled by other players (who may have untapped because of Seedborn Muse, for example) and creatures that weren’t on the battlefield when Blinding Beam resolved.

Choose one —
• Tap two target creatures.
• Creatures don't untap during target player's next untap step.
Entwine {1} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

The vedalken embed such urns in their living artifact creations.

Blinkmoth Urn

At the beginning of each player's precombat main phase, if Blinkmoth Urn is untapped, that player adds {1} to his or her mana pool for each artifact he or she controls.

The “precombat main phase” is the first main phase of the turn. All other main phases are “postcombat main phases.”

At the beginning of each player's first main phase, if Blinkmoth Urn is untapped, that player adds {C} for each artifact they control.

When dictated by blinkmoth migratory patterns, clouds of tiny lights well up from Mirrodin's core.

Blinkmoth Well

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
{2}, {T}: Tap target noncreature artifact.

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Tap target noncreature artifact.

To study the predators of the Tangle, two people are required: one to watch from above, and one to run like hell.

Bloodscent

All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.

Bonesplitter

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card comes into play unattached and stays in play if the creature leaves play.)

As Glissa searches for the truth about Memnarch, Bosh searches to unearth the secrets of his past.

Bosh, Iron Golem

Trample
{3}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Bosh, Iron Golem deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

Bosh can be sacrificed to pay the cost of its last ability.

If an artifact on the battlefield has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

Trample
{3}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Bosh, Iron Golem deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value to any target.

Bottle Gnomes

Sacrifice Bottle Gnomes: You gain 3 life.

Broodstar

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to play for each artifact you control.)
Flying
Broodstar's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying
Broodstar's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

In a strange twist of fate, one of the most annoying creatures in the multiverse was brought to the place where it could cause the most damage.

Brown Ouphe

{1}{G}, {T}: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source. (Mana abilities can't be countered.)

{1}{G}, {T}: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Cathodions repair the Great Furnace by soldering parts of themselves to the mechanism. Eventually, they become one with the machine.

Cathodion

When Cathodion is put into a graveyard from play, add {3} to your mana pool.

You get the mana whether you want it or not. If you don't spend it, it will disappear at the end of the current step (or phase).

Chalice of the Void

Chalice of the Void comes into play with X charge counters on it.
Whenever a player plays a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.

A mana cost of {X}{X} means that you pay twice X. For example, if you want X to be 3, you pay {6} to cast Chalice of the Void.

Chalice of the Void has to be on the battlefield at the end of casting a spell for the ability to trigger. If you sacrifice Chalice of the Void as a cost to cast a spell, its ability can't trigger. However, if it leaves the battlefield once its ability has triggered, that ability will still counter the spell.

If there are zero charge counters on Chalice of the Void, it counters each spell with a mana value of 0. This includes face-down creature spells cast with morph's alternative cost.

The number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void matters only at the time the spell is cast. Changing the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void after a spell has been cast won't change whether the ability triggers or counters the spell.

Chalice of the Void enters with X charge counters on it.
Whenever a player casts a spell with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.

Chimney Imp

Flying
When Chimney Imp is put into a graveyard from play, target opponent puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library.

Flying
When Chimney Imp dies, target opponent puts a card from their hand on top of their library.

"As expected, this sphere's design reflects the colors of the four moons . . . plus another?"
—Pontifex, elder researcher

Chromatic Sphere

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Chromatic Sphere: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card.

This is a mana ability, which means it can be activated as part of the process of casting a spell or activating another ability. If that happens you get the mana right away, but you don’t get to look at the drawn card until you have finished casting that spell or activating that ability.

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Chromatic Sphere: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card.

Chrome Mox

Imprint When Chrome Mox comes into play, you may remove a nonartifact, nonland card in your hand from the game. (The removed card is imprinted on this artifact.)
{T}: Add one mana of any of the imprinted card's colors to your mana pool.

If no card is imprinted on Chrome Mox, it can't add mana. It can never add {C}, even if the imprinted card has a colorless mana symbol in its mana cost.

If you imprinted a multicolored card, you choose one of that card's colors each time you tap Chrome Mox for mana.

Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Clockwork Beetle

Clockwork Beetle comes into play with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Clockwork Beetle attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

Clockwork Beetle enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Clockwork Beetle attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

Clockwork Condor

Flying
Clockwork Condor comes into play with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Clockwork Condor attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

Flying
Clockwork Condor enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Clockwork Condor attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

Clockwork Dragon

Flying
Clockwork Dragon comes into play with six +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Clockwork Dragon attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.
{3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Dragon.

Flying
Clockwork Dragon enters with six +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Clockwork Dragon attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.
{3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Dragon.

Clockwork Vorrac

Trample
Clockwork Vorrac comes into play with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Clockwork Vorrac attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Vorrac.

Trample
Clockwork Vorrac enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Clockwork Vorrac attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Vorrac.

"He watches from above. He watches from below. He watches from within."
—Inscription on Tel-Jilad, the Tree of Tales

Cloudpost

Cloudpost comes into play tapped.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool for each Locus in play.

Cloudpost enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C} for each Locus on the battlefield.

Centuries before the first tides of the Quicksilver Sea rose to meet each new sun, Mirrodin's light shone on the golems alone.

Cobalt Golem

{1}{U}: Cobalt Golem gains flying until end of turn.

Confusion in the Ranks

Whenever an artifact, creature, or enchantment comes into play, its controller chooses target permanent another player controls that shares a type with it. Exchange control of those permanents.

The exchange isn't optional. If there is a legal choice, you must make one.

Confusion in the Ranks triggers on itself entering. If an opponent controls an enchantment, exchange Confusion in the Ranks for that enchantment.

Even though Confusion in the Ranks triggers only when an artifact, creature, or enchantment enters, the ability can target a land if the permanent entering is an artifact land.

The permanents are exchanged only if they're both on the battlefield when the ability resolves.

The permanents have to share a permanent type both when the target is chosen and when the ability resolves.

Whenever an artifact, creature, or enchantment enters, its controller chooses target permanent another player controls that shares a card type with it. Exchange control of those permanents.

Mephidross changes all who dwell there, taking their lives and adding them to its own.

Consume Spirit

Spend only black mana on X.
Consume Spirit deals X damage to target creature or player. You gain X life.

If the targeted permanent or player is an illegal target by the time Consume Spirit would resolve, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t gain any life.

The amount of life you gain is equal to the number chosen for X, not the amount of damage Consume Spirit deals (in case some of it is prevented).

Spend only black mana on X.
Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

Contaminated Bond

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

The elves thought of the myr as minor threats, just as the myr thought of the elves.

Copper Myr

Like all forest beasts, it lives by one rule: if there's no room to grow, make some.

Copperhoof Vorrac

Copperhoof Vorrac gets +1/+1 for each untapped permanent your opponents control.

The deadliest force on Mirrodin isn't the largest organism—it's the smallest.

Creeping Mold

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

The vedalken know it is not of this world, so they know that this world is not the only one.

Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

You can pay either of the two costs (but not both at the same time) to activate the ability.

Culling Scales

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target nonland permanent with the lowest converted mana cost among nonland permanents in play. (If two or more permanents are tied for lowest cost, target any one of them.)

If the lowest mana value is 3, Culling Scales can destroy itself.

If the targeted permanent doesn't have the lowest mana value when the ability resolves, the ability doesn't resolve and the permanent isn't destroyed.

Most tokens have a mana value of 0. A token that's a copy of another permanent or card has a mana value equal to that permanent or card's mana value.

You choose the target. If there's more than one nonland permanent tied for lowest mana value, you choose which one to target.

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target nonland permanent with the lowest mana value. (If two or more permanents are tied for lowest, target any one of them.)

The priests tried cursing it. The mages tried dispelling it. In the end, they all obeyed it.

Damping Matrix

Activated abilities of artifacts and creatures can't be played unless they're mana abilities.

A mana ability is an ability that produces mana, not an ability that costs mana.

Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities, such as equip, are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.

Damping Matrix’s ability affects only artifacts and creatures on the battlefield. Activated abilities that work in other zones (such as bloodrush or unearth) can still be activated. Triggered abilities (starting with “when,” “whenever,” or “at”) are unaffected.

Activated abilities of artifacts and creatures can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Dead-Iron Sledge

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature and equipped creature.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card comes into play unattached and stays in play if the creature leaves play.)

Moving Dead-Iron Sledge after the ability triggers will not affect which creatures are destroyed.

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy both creatures.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

"Nothing in this world, not even magic, likes to be caged."

Deconstruct

Destroy target artifact. Then add {G}{G}{G} to your mana pool.

The goblins have forty-two different words for "ow."

Detonate

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

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.

Disarm

Unattach all Equipment from target creature.

The Equipment remains on the battlefield under its controller’s control, but is no longer attached to that creature.

He stands in the shadow of his lord, Geth, drinking in the dark energies of the Vault.

Disciple of the Vault

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from play, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

If an artifact is put into a graveyard at the same time as Disciple of the Vault, its ability triggers for that artifact.

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

Since they haven't seen their original master for millennia, golems are eager to take orders from anyone.

Domineer

Enchant artifact creature
You control enchanted artifact creature.

Card (306)	Type	^{$332.02 (2652.06)} Price
Aether Spellbomb - 2003	Artifact	$0.02 ^(7.25)
Alpha Myr - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(1.50)
Altar of Shadows - 2003	Artifact	$0.10 ^(0.20)
Altar's Light - 2003	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.30)
Ancient Den - 2003	Artifact	$0.50 ^(12.50)
Annul - 2003	Instant	$0.02 ^(3.02)
Arc-Slogger - 2003	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.75)
Arrest - 2003	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(0.17)
Assert Authority - 2003	Instant	$0.02 ^(1.52)
Atog - 2003	Creature	$0.05 ^(2.00)
Auriok Bladewarden - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Auriok Steelshaper - 2003	Creature	$0.15 ^(5.30)
Auriok Transfixer - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Awe Strike - 2003	Instant	$0.25 ^(14.27)
Banshee's Blade - 2003	Artifact	$0.05 ^(4.75)
Barter in Blood - 2003	Sorcery	$0.15 ^(4.25)
Battlegrowth - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.65)
Betrayal of Flesh - 2003	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.20)
Blinding Beam - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.02)
Blinkmoth Urn - 2003	Artifact	$3.50 ^(45.50)
Blinkmoth Well - 2003	Land	$0.05 ^(4.00)
Bloodscent - 2003	Instant	$0.50 ^(3.15)
Bonesplitter - 2003	Artifact	$0.02 ^(2.75)
Bosh, Iron Golem - 2003	Creature	$0.10 ^(8.50)
Bottle Gnomes - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(2.30)
Broodstar - 2003	Creature	$0.15 ^(4.15)
Brown Ouphe - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.27)
Cathodion - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.60)
Chalice of the Void - 2003	Artifact	$22.00 ^(91.75)
Chimney Imp - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chromatic Sphere - 2003	Artifact	$0.05 ^(17.55)
Chrome Mox - 2003	Artifact	$0.02 ^(230.92)
Clockwork Beetle - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.82)
Clockwork Condor - 2003	Creature	$0.15 ^(3.65)
Clockwork Dragon - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(2.50)
Clockwork Vorrac - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cloudpost - 2003	Land	$0.02 ^(3.50)
Cobalt Golem - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(5.02)
Confusion in the Ranks - 2003	Enchantment	$5.00 ^(15.00)
Consume Spirit - 2003	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.15)
Contaminated Bond - 2003	Enchantment	$0.50 ^(3.52)
Copper Myr - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(4.00)
Copperhoof Vorrac - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(2.50)
Creeping Mold - 2003	Sorcery	$1.50 ^(6.80)
Crystal Shard - 2003	Artifact	$0.75 ^(4.75)
Culling Scales - 2003	Artifact	$0.02 ^(6.52)
Damping Matrix - 2003	Artifact	$0.50 ^(7.55)
Dead-Iron Sledge - 2003	Artifact	$2.00 ^(13.15)
Deconstruct - 2003	Sorcery	$0.25 ^(9.75)
Detonate - 2003	Sorcery	$1.50 ^(6.00)