Aether Vial

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Æther Vial.
{T}: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Æther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

If Aether Vial leaves the battlefield while its second ability is on the stack, use its last known number of charge counters to determine what you may put from your hand onto the battlefield.

If a card in a player’s hand has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Aether Vial.
{T}: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Aether Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

Black Vise

As Black Vise enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand minus 4.

You choose one opposing player as it enters the battlefield and it only affects that one player. This choice is not changed even if Black Vise changes controllers. It becomes useless but stays on the battlefield if that player leaves the game.

If the chosen player has four or fewer cards in their hand as Black Vise’s ability resolves, the ability just won’t do anything that turn.

As Black Vise enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your hand.
{2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

If Isochron Scepter leaves the battlefield while the activated ability is on the stack, the ability can still make a copy. On the other hand, if the imprinted card leaves the exile zone while the activated ability is on the stack, the copy can't be made.

If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

If you cast a spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.

If you don't want to cast the copy, you can choose not to; the copy ceases to exist the next time state-based actions are checked.

You cast the copy while the ability is resolving and still on the stack. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn.

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.
{2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

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

Ivory Tower

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

"Know your foes' strengths as well as their weaknesses."
—Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

Jester's Cap

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Jester's Cap: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Jester's Cap: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Karn, Silver Golem

Whenever Karn, Silver Golem blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -4/+4 until end of turn.
{1}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost until end of turn.

The blocking ability triggers only once no matter how many blockers are declared.

A noncreature permanent that turns into 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.

Whenever Karn, Silver Golem blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -4/+4 until end of turn.
{1}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn.

Masticore

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Masticore unless you discard a card.
{2}: Masticore deals 1 damage to target creature.
{2}: Regenerate Masticore.

Memory Jar

{T}, Sacrifice Memory Jar: Each player exiles all cards from his or her hand face down and draws seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, each player discards his or her hand and returns to his or her hand each card he or she exiled this way.

You can’t look at the cards you exiled until they return to your hand.

{T}, Sacrifice Memory Jar: Each player exiles all cards from their hand face down and draws seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, each player discards their hand and returns to their hand each card they exiled this way.

"It offers you what you want, not what you need."
—Braids, dementia summoner

Mirari

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Everything about the original spell is copied, including any decisions made on announcement, such as whether it was kicked or its Buyback cost was paid. Effects on the spell, such as Sleight of Mind or Flashback, are not copied.

If the copied spell requires a target and there are no legal targets, then the copy has the same target (which should be illegal) as the original.

If the spell is countered before the triggered ability resolves, then the ability will make a copy of how the spell looked right before it was countered.

It triggers once per spell, so you can’t get multiple copies of a spell using this card. And since this card is legendary, you can’t control more than one.

The copy is not “cast” so it will not trigger anything that triggers on a spell being cast.

You are not required to choose new targets. If you do choose, then the targets must be legal. If you don’t change them, the spell is placed on the stack whether or not the targets are legal. The legality of the targets is always checked on resolution of the spell, so the spell may be countered at that time if all of its targets are illegal.

You choose whether or not to pay when the triggered ability resolves.

Mox Diamond

If Mox Diamond would enter the battlefield, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put Mox Diamond onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

If you don’t discard a land card, Mox Diamond never enters the battlefield. It won’t trigger abilities that look for something entering the battlefield, and you won’t get the opportunity to tap it for mana.

If Mox Diamond would enter the battlefield, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put Mox Diamond onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Nevinyrral's Disk

Nevinyrral's Disk enters the battlefield tapped.
{1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

You don't sacrifice Nevinyrral's Disk to activate its ability. It's destroyed as part of the ability's resolution if it's still on the battlefield. If an effect gives Nevinyrral's Disk indestructible or regenerates it, it stays on the battlefield.

Lost to time is the artificer's art of trapping light from a distant star in a ring of purest gold.

Sol Ring

Sundering Titan

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

If a land has more than one basic land type, it can be chosen more than once.

If one of the basic land types isn't present, it isn't chosen. If the only land of a certain type is one you control, you must choose it.

Players can't take actions in between the time you choose the lands and the time you destroy them. Notably, they can't activate mana abilities of those lands.

Sundering Titan's ability isn't targeted. When it resolves, Sundering Titan's controller must choose one land for each basic land type (Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest), and then they are destroyed simultaneously.

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

Sword of Body and Mind

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield and that player puts the top ten cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Equip {2}

If there are fewer than ten cards in that player's library, that player puts all the cards from their library into their graveyard.

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token and that player mills ten cards.
Equip {2}

"I will go to any length to achieve my goal. Eternal life is worth any sacrifice."
—Zur the Enchanter

Card (15)	Type	^{$0.00 (0.00)} Price
Aether Vial - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Black Vise - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Isochron Scepter - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ivory Tower - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Jester's Cap - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Karn, Silver Golem - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Masticore - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Memory Jar - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mirari - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mox Diamond - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Nevinyrral's Disk - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Sol Ring - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Sundering Titan - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Sword of Body and Mind - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Zuran Orb - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)

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