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Artifact, 2 (2)
{2}, {T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.1
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 addding to the city's glory.
Illus. Margaret Organ-Kean
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Artifact, 6 (6)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on Armageddon Clock.
At the beginning of your draw step, Armageddon Clock deals damage to each player equal to the number of doom counters on it.
{4}: Remove a doom counter from Armageddon Clock. Any player may play this ability but only during any upkeep step.1
Illus. Amy Weber
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- Players can remove as many counters as they can pay for each turn. [D'Angelo 2000/02/25]
- Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.
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Artifact, 3 (3)
Sacrifice a creature: Add {2} to your mana pool.1
Illus. Anson Maddocks
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Artifact, 2 (2)
You may choose not to untap Ashnod's Battle Gear during your untap step.
{2}, {T}: Target creature you control gets +2/-2 as long as Ashnod's Battle Gear remains tapped.1
This horrid invention clearly illustrates why Mishra's lieutenant was feared as much by her troops as her foes.
Illus. Mark Poole
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.
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Artifact, 1 (1)
{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.1
Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she offered them.
Illus. Mark Tedin
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- The counter only gives the +1/+1. The artifactness is a permanent change not associated with the counter. [Aahz 1997/08/22] So if the counter is moved off of the creature the artifact nature stays.
- Note - Also see Changing a Permanent's Type, Rule 212.1c.
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Artifact Creature - Construct 1/1, 2 (2)
At the beginning of your combat phase, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat.
Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.1
By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.
Illus. Jeff A. Menges
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
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Artifact, 6 (6)
Remove Bronze Tablet from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
Bronze Tablet comes into play tapped.
{4}, {T}: Remove Bronze Tablet and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns from the game. That player may pay 10 life. If he or she does, put Bronze Tablet into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns Bronze Tablet and you own the other removed card.1
Illus. Tom Wänerstrand
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- Cannot choose to lose 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. [D'Angelo 1994/06/01]
- If the card being targeted by the Bronze Tablet is removed before Tablet takes effect, then the Tablet ability is countered and it remains tapped. [D'Angelo 2001/08/31]
- If the tablet is not still in play when the ability resolves, it is not removed from the game, and the exchange fails to happen. You don't get the other player's card. [D'Angelo 2001/08/31]
- If using a Copy Artifact of the Tablet, you must trade the Copy Artifact card to your opponent just like you would have traded the Tablet. [bethmo 1994/08/01]
- You can take control of your opponent's Tablet and in the trade you only have to give them back their Tablet. [Duelist Magazine #2, Page 15]
- Vintage tournaments (see Rule 801) have banned this card since 1994/05/02.
- Legacy tournaments (see Rule 802) have always banned this card.
- Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have always banned this card.
- Standard (Type 2) tournaments (see Rule 804) have always banned this card.
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Artifact, 1 (1)
{X}, {T}: Untap X target lands.1
Tawnos learned quickly from Urza that utter simplicity often led to wondrous, yet subtle utility.
Illus. Douglas Shuler
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- This is not mana ability. It is a normal ability and it will resolve along with other spells and abilities in its stack. The lands untap during resolution. [D'Angelo 2000/02/25]
- You may untap your opponent's lands if desired. [Aahz 1994/05/03] This can be useful if Power Surge is in play.
- Can be used on an untapped land. [Duelist Magazine #5, Page 22]
- Vintage tournaments (see Rule 801) restricted this card from 1994/05/02 until 1997/10/01.
- Legacy tournaments (see Rule 802) banned this card until 1999/04/01.
- Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have always banned this card.
- Standard (Type 2) tournaments (see Rule 804) have always banned this card.
- Note - The card type is "Artifact" and not "Mono Artifact". [Oracle 1998/07/01]
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Artifact Creature - Golem 3/1, 4 (4)
{2}: Regenerate Clay Statue.1
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.
Illus. Jesper Myrfors
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- Note - This card had no creature type until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Golem".
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Artifact Creature - Bird 0/4, 5 (5)
Flying
Clockwork Avian comes into play with four +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Avian attacked or blocked this turn, 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 Beast to be greater than four. Play this ability only during your upkeep.1
Illus. Randy Asplund-Faith
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- See Clockwork Beast for rulings.
- Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.
- Note - This card had no creature type until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Bird".
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Artifact Creature - Golem 9/9, 9 (9)
Trample (If this creature would deal enough combat damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it deal the rest of its damage to defending player.)
Colossus of Sardia doesn't untap during your untap step.
{9}: Untap Colossus of Sardia. Play this ability only during your upkeep.1
From the Sardian mountains wakes ancient doom: Warrior born from a rocky womb.
Illus. Jesper Myrfors
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
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Artifact, 3 (3)
{3}, Discard a card at random: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.1
Illus. Amy Weber
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- The cards are discarded from your hand during announcement and as a cost. [Duelist Magazine #11, Page 56]
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Artifact, 4 (4)
As Cursed Rack comes into play, choose an opponent.
The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.1
Ashnod invented several torture techniques that could make victims even miles away beg for mercy as if the End had come.
Illus. Richard Thomas
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- 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. [D'Angelo 2000/02/25]
- You choose one opposing player just as this card is coming into play and it only affects that one player. This choice is not changed even if this card changes controllers. It becomes useless but stays in play if the target player leaves play. [D'Angelo 2001/08/31]
- If multiple effects modify your hand size limit, apply them in the order they enter play. For example, if both this and Recycle are in play, the most recent in play decides your hand size. [D'Angelo 2001/05/21]
- Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.
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Artifact Creature - Construct 1/3, 3 (3)
{2}: Dragon Engine gets +1/+0 until end of turn.1
Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.
Illus. Anson Maddocks
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- Note - This card had no creature type until Oracle 2007/09/01, when it became "Construct".
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Artifact, 1 (1)
{T}, Remove Feldon's Cane from the game: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.1
Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.
Illus. Mark Tedin
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- Vintage tournaments (see Rule 801) restricted this card from 1994/05/02 until 1997/10/01. It is not currently banned or restricted.
- Legacy tournaments (see Rule 802) banned this card until 1999/01/01. It is not currently banned or restricted.
- Standard (Type 2) tournaments (see Rule 804) restricted this card from 1994/05/02 through 1996/04/01. It is not currently banned or restricted.
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Artifact, 4 (4)
{1}, {T}: Destroy all cards from the Antiquities expansion.1
From their earliest educations, the brothers had known that no human contrivance could stand against the true masters of Dominia.
Illus. Kerstin Kaman
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- Only affects cards with the Antiquities anvil symbol on them. It does not affect cards that came from the Antiquities expansion into the main set. [bethmo 1994/06/04]
- It does affect cards from Chronicles with the anvil symbol. [Duelist Magazine #7, Page 98] This does not include the Wall of Shadows from Chronicles with an anvil symbol on it. That card has errata to replace that symbol with a Legends symbol. [Duelist Magazine #7, Page 98]
- Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have always banned this card.
- Note - The card type is "Artifact" and not "Mono Artifact". [Oracle 1998/07/01]
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Artifact Creature - Construct 2/3, 4 (4)
{T}: Grapeshot Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.1
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.
Illus. Dan Frazier
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- Note - This card had no creature type until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Construct".
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Artifact, 1 (1)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus four.1
Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge.
Illus. Margaret Organ-Kean
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- The amount of life is determined when effect is resolved and not when it is announced. [D'Angelo 1995/10/05]
- If the total is less than zero, you neither gain nor lose life. [D'Angelo 2001/08/31]
- Vintage tournaments (see Rule 801) restricted this card from 1994/05/02 until 1999/10/01.
- Legacy tournaments (see Rule 802) banned this card until 1999/10/01.
- Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have always banned this card.
- Standard (Type 2) tournaments (see Rule 804) have banned this card since 1997/01/01. Previously it was restricted since this format was created.
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Artifact, 3 (3)
{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.1
This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystical runes.
Illus. Tom Wänerstrand
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Artifact, 4 (4)
Attacking creatures get +1/+0.1
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.
Illus. Pete Venters
Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries
- The +1/+0 applies to attacking creatures from all players. [Aahz 1994/06/01]
- Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have always banned this card.
- Note - The card type is "Artifact" and not "Continuous Artifact". [Oracle 1998/07/01]
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