Abu Ja'far
Smn Leper
W
0/1
U
Ken Meyer, Jr.
If Abu Ja'Far is put into the graveyard from play during combat, bury
all creatures blocking or blocked by Abu Ja'Far.
Aladdin
Smn Aladdin
2RR
1/1
U
Julie Baroh
<1RR, T>: Gain control of target artifact. Lose control of target
artifact if Aladdin leaves play or if you lose control of Aladdin.
Ali Baba
Smn Ali Baba
R
1/1
U
Julie Baroh
: Tap target wall.
"When he reached the entrance of the cavern, he pronounced the words,
'Open, Sesame!'" -The Arabian Nights, Junior Classics trans.
Amulet of Kroog
Artifact
2
C
Margaret Organ-Kean
<2, T>: Prevent 1 damage to any creature or player.
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.
Argothian Pixies
Smn Faeries
1G
2/1
C
Amy Weber
Cannot be blocked by artifact creatures. Any damage dealt to Argothian
Pixies by artifact creatures is reduced to 0.
After the rape of Argoth Forest during the rule of the artificers, the
Pixies of Argoth bent their magic to more practical ends.
Ashnod's Altar
Artifact
3
C
Anson Maddocks
<0>: Sacrifice a creature to add two colorless mana to your mana pool.
Play this ability as an interrupt.
Ashnod's Battle Gear
Artifact
2
U
Mark Poole
<2, T>: Target creature you control gets +2/-2 as long as Ashnod's
Battle Gear remains tapped. You may choose not to untap Ashnod's
Battle Gear during your untap phase.
This invention shows why Ashnod was feared by her troops as well as
her foes.
Ashnod's Transmogrant
Artifact
1
C
Mark Tedin
: Sacrifice Ashnod's Transmogrant to put a +1/+1 counter on target
non-artifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact creature,
although it retains its color.
Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she
offered them.
Battering Ram
Artf Crt
2
1/1
C
Jeff A. Menges
Banding when attacking ; At the end of combat, destroy all walls
blocking Battering Ram.
By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely
heavily on walls.
Bird Maiden
Smn Bird Maiden
2R
1/2
C
Kaja Foglio
Flying
Four things that never meet do here unite/ To shed my blood and to
ravage my heart,/ A radiant brow and tresses that beguile/ And rosy
cheeks and a glittering smile." -The Arabian Nights, trans. Haddawy
Bronze Tablet
Artifact
6
R
Tom Wänerstrand
Comes into play tapped. ; <4, T>: Remove Bronze Tablet and target card
opponent owns from the game. You become owner of opponent's card and
opponent becomes owner of Bronze Tablet. Opponent may prevent this
exchange by paying 10 life; if he or she does so, destroy Bronze
Tablet. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to
counter this loss of life. Play this ability as an interrupt. ; Remove
Bronze Tablet from your deck before playing if not playing for ante.
Circle of Protection: Artifacts
Enchantment
1W
U
Pete Venters
<2>: Prevent all damage against you from one artifact source. If a
source deals damage to you more than once in a turn, you may pay <2>
each time to prevent the damage.
City of Brass
Land
U
Mark Tedin
Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. ;
: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Clay Statue
Artf Crt
4
3/1
C
Jesper Myrfors
<2>: Regenerate
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.
Clockwork Avian
Artf Crt
5
0/4
R
Randy Asplund-Faith
Flying ; When Clockwork Avian comes into play, put four +1/+0 counters
on it. At the end of any combat in which Clockwork Avian is assigned
to attack or block, remove a counter. ; : Put X +1/+0 counters
on Clockwork Avian. You may have no more than four of these counters
on Clockwork Avian. Use this ability only during your upkeep.
Colossus of Sardia
Artf Crt
9
9/9
R
Jesper Myrfors
Trample ; Colossus does not untap during your untap phase. ; <9>:
Untap Colossus. Use this ability only during your upkeep.
From the Sardian mountains wakes ancient doom: Warrior born from a
rocky womb.
Coral Helm
Artifact
3
R
Amy Weber
<3>: Discard a card at random from your hand to give target creature
+2/+2 until end of turn.
Cuombajj Witches
Smn Witches
BB
1/3
C
Kaja Foglio
: Cuombajj Witches deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
Cuombajj Witches also deals 1 damage to target creature or player of
target opponent's choice. Choose your target first.
Cursed Rack
Artifact
4
U
Richard Thomas
Target opponent discards down to four cards during his or her discard
phase.
Ashnod invented several torture techniques that could make victims
even miles away beg for mercy as if the End had come.
Cyclone
Enchantment
2GG
U
Mark Tedin
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a wind counter on Cyclone. ;
During your upkeep, pay for each wind counter on Cyclone or bury
Cyclone. If you pay, Cyclone deals 1 damage to each player and each
creature for each wind counter on it.
Dandan
Smn Dandan
UU
4/1
C
Drew Tucker
Cannot attack if defending player controls no islands. If at any time
you control no islands, bury Dandán.
Detonate
Sorcery
XR
U
Randy Asplund-Faith
Bury target artifact. Detonate deals X damage to the artifact's
controller, where X is the casting cost of the artifact.
Erhnam Djinn
Smn Djinn
3G
4/5
U
Ken Meyer, Jr.
During your upkeep, target non-wall creature an opponent controls
gains forestwalk until your next turn. Ignore this effect if there are
no legal targets.
Feldon's Cane
Artifact
1
C
Mark Tedin
: Reshuffle your graveyard into your library. Remove Feldon's Cane
from the game.
Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.
Fishliver Oil
Echt Crt
1U
C
Anson Maddocks
Target creature gains islandwalk.
Then the maiden bade him cast off his robes and cover his body with
fishliver oil, that he might safely follow her into the sea.
Ghazban Ogre
Smn Ogre
G
2/2
C
Jesper Myrfors
During your upkeep, the player with the most life gains control of
Ghazban Ogre. If the highest life total is shared by more than one
player, the player currently controlling Ghazban Ogre retains control
of it.
Giant Tortoise
Smn Tortoise
1U
1/1
C
Kaja Foglio
Giant Tortoise gets +0/+3 while untapped.
Goblin Artisans
Smn Goblins
R
1/1
U
Julie Baroh
: Use this ability only when you cast a target artifact spell; play
this ability as an interrupt. Flip a coin; target opponent calls heads
or tails while coin is in the air. If the flip ends up in your favor,
draw a card. Otherwise, counter your artifact spell. More than one
Goblin Artisans ability cannot target the same artifact spell.
Grapeshot Catapult
Artf Crt
4
2/3
C
Dan Frazier
: Grapeshot Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.
Recent research suggests these creatures were invented by Urza's and
Mishra's original master, Tocasia, and that both brothers used them.
Hasran Ogress
Smn Ogre
BB
3/2
C
Dan Frazier
If you declare Hasran Ogress as an attacker, pay <2> or Hasran Ogress
deals 3 damage to you.
Hurr Jackal
Smn Jackal
R
1/1
R
Drew Tucker
: Target creature cannot regenerate this turn.
Ironclaw Orcs
Smn Orcs
1R
2/2
C
Anson Maddocks
Cannot be assigned to block any creature with power greater than 1.
Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously
cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious,
depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.
Jalum Tome
Artifact
3
U
Tom Wänerstrand
<2, T>: Draw a card; then choose and discard a card from your hand.
This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories,
though he never fully comprehended its mystical runes.
Jeweled Bird
Artifact
1
U
Amy Weber
Remove Jeweled Bird from your deck if not playing for ante. ; :
Draw a card. Put your contribution to the ante into your graveyard and
replace it with Jeweled Bird.
Junun Efreet
Smn Efreet
1BB
3/3
U
Christopher Rush
Flying ; During your upkeep, pay or bury Junun Efreet.
Metamorphosis
Sorcery
G
C
Christopher Rush
Sacrifice a creature to add an amount of mana equal to its casting
cost plus one to your mana pool. This mana may be of any one color.
Use this mana only to cast summon spells.
Mishra's Factory
Land
U
Kaja & Phil Foglio
: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. ; <1>: Mishra's Factory
becomes an Assembly Worker, a 2/2 artifact creature, until end of
turn. Assembly Worker still counts as a land but cannot be tapped for
mana the turn it comes into play. ; : Target Assembly Worker gets
+1/+1 until end of turn.
Nafs Asp
Smn Asp
G
1/1
C
Christopher Rush
If Nafs Asp damages a player, it also deals 1 damage to that player
during his or her next draw phase. Before then, the player may pay <1>
to prevent this damage.
Oasis
Land
U
Brian Snõddy
: Prevent 1 damage to any creature.
Obelisk of Undoing
Artifact
1
U
Tom Wänerstrand
<6, T>: Return target permanent you control and own to your hand.
The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on fickle
reinforcements.
Rakalite
Artifact
6
U
Christopher Rush
<2>: Prevent 1 damage to any creature or player. Return Rakalite to
owner's hand at end of turn.
Urza was the first to understand that the war would not be lost for
lack of power, but for lack of troops.
Repentant Blacksmith
Smn Smith
1W
1/2
C
Drew Tucker
Protection from red
"For my confession they burned me with fire/ And found that I was for
endurance made." -The Arabian Nights, trans. Haddawy
Sandstorm
Instant
G
C
Brian Snõddy
Sandstorm deals 1 damage to all attacking creatures.
Even the landscape turned against Sarsour, first rising up and pelting
him, then rearranging itself so he could no longer find his way.
Shapeshifter
Artf Crt
6
*/(7-*)
U
Dan Frazier
Shapeshifter has power and toughness that add up to seven, but neither
may be more than seven. Set them when Shapeshifter comes into play;
you may change them during your upkeep.
Sindbad
Smn Sindbad
1U
1/1
U
Julie Baroh
: Draw a card. If it is not a land, discard it.
Strip Mine
Land
U
Daniel Gelon
: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. ; : Sacrifice Strip
Mine to destroy target land.
Unlike previous conflicts, the war between Urza and Mishra made
Dominia itself a casualty of war.
Tawnos's Wand
Artifact
4
U
Douglas Shuler
<2, T>: Target creature with power no greater than 2 becomes
unblockable until end of turn. Other effects may later be used to
increase the creature's power beyond 2.
Tawnos's Weaponry
Artifact
2
U
Dan Frazier
<2, T>: Target creature gets +1/+1 as long as Tawnos's Weaponry
remains tapped. ; You may choose not to untap Tawnos's Weaponry during
your untap phase.
When war machines became too costly, Tawnos's Weaponry replaced them.
Tetravus
Artf Crt
6
1/1
R
Mark Tedin
Flying ; When Tetravus comes into play, put three +1/+1 counters on
it. ; During your upkeep, you may move each of these counters on or
off of Tetravus, regardless of who controls them. Counters that are
removed become Tetravite tokens. Treat these tokens as 1/1 artifact
creatures with flying. These creatures cannot have enchantments played
on them and do not share any enchantments on Tetravus.
Triskelion
Artf Crt
6
1/1
R
Douglas Shuler
When Triskelion comes into play, put three +1/+1 counters on it. ;
<0>: Remove one of these counters from Triskelion to have Triskelion
deal 1 damage to target creature or player.
A brainchild of Tawnos, the Triskelion later proved both versatile and
useful.
Twiddle
Instant
U
C
Rob Alexander
Tap or untap target land, artifact, or creature.
Urza's Avenger
Artf Crt
6
4/4
R
Amy Weber
<0>: Urza's Avenger gets -1/-1 until end of turn and your choice of
flying, banding, first strike, or trample until end of turn.
Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one
versatile being.
Urza's Mine
Land
C
Anson Maddocks
: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's
Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add two colorless mana to
your mana pool instead of one.
Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.
Urza's Power Plant
Land
C
Mark Tedin
: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's
Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add two colorless mana to
your mana pool instead of one.
Artifact construction required immense resources.
Urza's Tower
Land
C
Mark Poole
: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's
Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add three colorless mana
to your mana pool instead of one.
Urza always put Tocasia's lessons on resource-gathering to effective
use.
Wall of Spears
Artf Crt
3
2/3
C
Sandra Everingham
First strike, counts as a wall
Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the
Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off
a trio of rampaging Craw Wurms.
War Elephant
Smn Elephant
3W
2/2
C
Kristen Bishop
Banding, trample
"When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers." -Kikuyu proverb
Xenic Poltergeist
Smn Poltergeist
1BB
1/1
R
Dan Frazier
: Target non-creature artifact becomes an artifact creature with
power and toughness each equal to its casting cost. Target retains all
original abilities. This change lasts until your next upkeep.
Yawgmoth Demon
Smn Demon
4BB
6/6
U
Sandra Everingham
Flying, first strike ; During your upkeep, sacrifice an artifact or
Yawgmoth Demon deals 2 damage to you. If Yawgmoth's Demon deals damage
to you in this way, tap it.
Yotian Soldier
Artf Crt
3
1/4
C
Christopher Rush
Attacking does not cause Yotian Soldier to tap.
After Kroog was destroyed while most of its defenders were at his
side, Urza vowed that none of his allies would ever need to fear for
their own defense again, even while laying siege to a city far from
their homes.
Statistics:
Number of cards 60 Cards
Colors 7 Red, 5 Black, 4 White, 5 Blue, 7 Green, 25 Artifacts
Types 7 Lands 32 Creatures 21 Spells
Rarity 9 Rares 24 Uncommons 27 Commons
Card Value $0.00
Cards by Edition 60 Renaissance (Italian)