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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 activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.1
Illus. Amy Weber
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: Players can remove as many counters as they can pay for each turn.
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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 for 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
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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
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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. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)
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
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/1/2008: If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a "band." The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers' damage is assigned.
- 10/1/2008: A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
- 10/1/2008: Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.
- 10/1/2009: If a creature in combat has banding, it's controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it. That player can ignore the damage assignment order when making this assignment.
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Artifact, 6 (6)
Remove Bronze Tablet from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
Bronze Tablet enters the battlefield tapped.
{4}, {T}: Exile Bronze Tablet and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. 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 exiled card.1
Illus. Tom Wänerstrand
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: If using a copy of the Tablet, you must trade the copy card to your opponent just like you would have traded the Tablet.
- 10/4/2004: You can't choose to pay 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.
- 10/4/2004: You can take control of your opponent's Tablet and in the trade you only have to give them back their Tablet.
- 10/4/2004: 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.
- 10/4/2004: If the tablet is not still on the battlefield when the ability resolves, it is not exiled, and the exchange fails to happen. You don't get the other player's card.
- 8/1/2008: If the tablet is not still on the battlefield when the ability resolves, it is not exiled. The othe player still has the choice to pay 10 life, and you still become the owner of their card if they choose not to do so.
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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
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: You may untap your opponent's lands if desired.
- 10/4/2004: Can be used on an untapped land.
- 10/4/2004: 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.
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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
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Artifact Creature - Bird 0/4, 5 (5)
Flying
Clockwork Avian enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Avian attacked or blocked this combat, 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 Avian to be greater than four. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.1
Illus. Randy Asplund-Faith
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: Loses a counter even if it is affected by a Fog-like effect which prevents it from dealing damage.
- 10/4/2004: Can attack or block even if it has no counters.
- 10/4/2004: If the ability to add counters resolves when there are already the maximum number of counters on it, any counters over the maximum are simply not added.
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Artifact Creature - Golem 9/9, 9 (9)
Trample (If this creature would deal enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it deal the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)
Colossus of Sardia doesn't untap during your untap step.
{9}: Untap Colossus of Sardia. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.1
From the Sardian mountains wakes ancient doom: Warrior born from a rocky womb.
Illus. Jesper Myrfors
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 5/1/2008: The ability that untaps it during your upkeep has been returned to an activated ability. There is no restriction on how many times it can be untapped during your upkeep with this ability.
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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
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Artifact, 4 (4)
As Cursed Rack enters the battlefield, 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
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: 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.
- 10/4/2004: You choose one opposing player just as this card is entering the battlefield and it only affects that one player. This choice is not changed even if this card changes controllers. It becomes useless but stays on the battlefield if the chosen player leaves the game.
- 10/1/2009: If multiple effects modify your hand size, apply them in timestamp order. For example, if you put Null Profusion (an enchantment that says your maximum hand size is two) onto the battlefield and then a player puts Cursed Rack onto the battlefield choosing you, your maximum hand size will be four. However, if those permanents entered the battlefield in the opposite order, your maximum hand size would be two.
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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
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Artifact, 1 (1)
{T}, Exile Feldon's Cane: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.1
Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.
Illus. Mark Tedin
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Artifact, 4 (4)
{1}, {T}: Each nontoken permanent from the Antiquities expansion is sacrificed by its controller.1
From their earliest educations, the brothers had known that no human contrivance could stand against the true masters of Dominia.
Illus. Kerstin Kaman
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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
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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
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: If you have four or fewer cards in your hand when Ivory Tower's ability resolves, the ability has no effect.
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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
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: The +1/+0 applies to attacking creatures from all players.
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