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 <R>: 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 <T>: 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. ; <T>: 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. ; <X, T>: 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 <T>: 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 <G> 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 <T>: 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 <T>: 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 <T>: 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 <T>: 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. ; <T>: 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 <BB> 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 <T>: 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. ; <T>: 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 <T>: 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 <T>: Draw a card. If it is not a land, discard it. Strip Mine Land U Daniel Gelon <T>: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. ; <T>: 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 <T>: 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 <T>: 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 <T>: 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 <T>: 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)