Academy Ruins

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.

{1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Its secrets once wrought the greatest artifice ever known. Now crabs loot the rubble to decorate their shells.

Illus. Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Akroma's Memorial

Legendary Artifact, 7 (7)

Creatures you control have flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red.

"No rest. No mercy. No matter what."
—Memorial inscription

Illus. Dan Scott

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Legendary Land

Boseiju, Who Shelters All enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}, Pay 2 life: Add {1} to your mana pool. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Illus. Ralph Horsley

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 12/1/2004: The spell can't be countered if the mana produced by Boseiju is spent to cover any cost of the spell, even an additional cost such as a splice cost. This is true even if you pay an additional cost while casting a spell "without paying its mana cost."
• 12/1/2004: Suppose mana produced by Boseiju is spent on a spell and an effect creates a copy of that spell. The copy can be countered, even though the original can't.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Bosh, Iron Golem

Legendary Artifact Creature — Golem 6/7, 8 (8)

Trample

{3}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Bosh, Iron Golem deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

As Glissa searches for the truth about Memnarch, Bosh searches to unearth the secrets of his past.

Illus. Brom

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Dark Depths

Legendary Snow Land

Dark Depths enters the battlefield with ten ice counters on it.

{3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.

When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, put a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and "This creature is indestructible" named Marit Lage onto the battlefield.

Illus. Stephan Martiniere

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 7/15/2006: Dark Depths is a land with no mana ability.
• 7/15/2006: Dark Depths's last ability is a state trigger. It will not trigger again while the ability is on the stack, but if the ability is countered and Dark Depths is still on the battlefield with no ice counters on it, it will trigger again immediately.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Banned in Modern

Day of Destiny

Legendary Enchantment, 3W (4)

Legendary creatures you control get +2/+2.

"Rise like the sun, stand like the mountain, charge like the lion, die as a hero."
—General Takeno

Illus. Daren Bader

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Eiganjo Castle

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool.

{W}, {T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature this turn.

Since the war began, the castle's walls mark the only place on Kamigawa where no kami has ever set foot.

Illus. Wayne England

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Elbrus, the Binding Blade

Legendary Artifact — Equipment, 7 (7)

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

When equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, unattach Elbrus, the Binding Blade, then transform it.

Equip {1}

Those who grasp its hilt soon hear the demon's call.

Illus. Eric Deschamps

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 1/22/2011: The "legend rule" checks only for permanents with exactly the same name. Elbrus, the Binding Blade and Withengar Unbound can be on the battlefield at the same time without either going to its owner's graveyard.
• 1/22/2011: Elbrus will transform even if you are unable to unattach it (most likely because the equipped creature died).
• 1/22/2011: If the equipped creature deals combat damage to more than one player at the same time, perhaps because some of its combat damage was redirected, Elbrus's ability will trigger once for each player it deals combat damage to. This may cause it to become unattached, transform, then transform again. If it transforms back into Elbrus, it will remain unattached.
• 1/22/2011: Withengar's triggered ability will trigger no matter how a player loses the game: due to a state-based action (as a result of having a life total of 0 or less, trying to draw a card from an empty library, or having ten poison counters), a spell or ability that says that player loses the game, a concession, or a game loss awarded by a judge.
• 1/22/2011: In a multiplayer game using the limited range of influence option (such as a Grand Melee game), if a spell or ability says that you win the game, it instead causes all of your opponents within your range of influence to lose the game. This is another way by which Withengar's ability can trigger.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Eye of Ugin

Legendary Land

Colorless Eldrazi spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

{7}, {T}: Search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

An eye closes. A race awakens.

Illus. James Paick

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 3/1/2010: Eye of Ugin doesn't have a mana ability.
• 3/1/2010: Eye of Ugin's second ability lets you find any colorless creature card in your deck, such as an artifact creature card that has no colored mana symbols in its mana cost, or a creature card that's become colorless due to Mycosynth Lattice.
• 4/15/2013: Mistform Ultimus and creatures with changeling are Eldrazi. If they become colorless, possibly due to Mycosynth Lattice, Eye of Ugin would reduce the cost to cast them by {2}.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Flagstones of Trokair

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool.

When Flagstones of Trokair is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a Plains card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, shuffle your library.

Dust-spiked winds eroded the stones, but the ground where they had stood still holds power.

Illus. Rob Alexander

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Gaea's Cradle

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool for each creature you control.

"Here sprouted the first seedling of Argoth. Here the last tree will fall."
—Gamelen, Citanul elder

Illus. Mark Zug

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Official Reprint Policy (This card is on the reserved list)

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Banned in Block Constructed
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Gemstone Caverns

Legendary Land

If Gemstone Caverns is in your opening hand and you're not playing first, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Illus. Martina Pilcerova

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 9/25/2006: After all players have decided not to take any more mulligans, players choose whether to put Leylines and/or Gemstone Caverns onto the battlefield, starting with the player who will be going first and proceeding in turn order. Each player may choose any number of Leylines and/or Gemstone Caverns. The cards are revealed and put onto the battlefield at the same time.
• 9/25/2006: If multiple Gemstone Caverns are put onto the battlefield before the game begins, the "legend rule" won't put them all into the graveyard until just before the first player gets priority during his or her first upkeep step. There's no opportunity to tap them for mana.
• 6/1/2011: Your "opening hand" is the hand of cards you decide to start the game with after taking any mulligans.
• 6/1/2011: After all players have decided not to take any more mulligans, if the starting player has any cards that allow actions to be taken with them from a player's opening hand, that player may take the actions of any of those cards. The starting player repeats this, taking all actions he or she wishes to, one at a time. Then each other player in turn order may do the same. After each player has exercised his or her option to take actions from his or her opening hand, the first turn of the game begins.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Gleemax

Legendary Artifact, 1000000 (1000000)

You choose all targets for all spells and abilities.

Help us ... R&D under mental domination of alien brain in jar ... only chance ... Gleemax's blatant disregard for flavor text ... send help!

Illus. Richard Thomas

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• This card is not legal in any format

Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.

When Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

Listen at its walls and you will hear the whispers of gods.

Illus. John Avon

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Grimoire of the Dead

Legendary Artifact, 4 (4)

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.

{T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Illus. Steven Belledin

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 9/22/2011: "Creature cards" includes each card with the type creature, even if it has additional types, such as artifact.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Hall of the Bandit Lord

Legendary Land

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}, Pay 3 life: Add {1} to your mana pool. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

Illus. Paolo Parente

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 12/1/2004: The creature has haste if the mana is spent to cover any cost of the spell, even an additional cost.
• 12/1/2004: The effect that grants haste doesn't wear off at end of turn.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Hammerheim

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {R} to your mana pool.

{T}: Target creature loses all landwalk abilities until end of turn.

"‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,/ And robes the mountain in its azure hue." —Thomas Campbell, "Pleasures of Hope"

Illus. Bryon Wackwitz

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: This can be used on a creature without landwalking but has no effect.
• 10/1/2009: Causing a creature to lose landwalk abilities is useful only during the declare attackers step or earlier. Once the declare blockers step begins, it's too late to block the creature.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Helm of Kaldra

Legendary Artifact — Equipment, 3 (3)

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste.

{1}: If you control Equipment named Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, and Shield of Kaldra, put a legendary 4/4 colorless Avatar creature token named Kaldra onto the battlefield and attach those Equipment to it.

Equip {2}

Illus. Donato Giancola

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 12/1/2004: The token isn't put onto the battlefield unless you control all three Equipment when the ability resolves.
• 12/1/2004: Helm of Kaldra is the third card in the Kaldra cycle. Sword of Kaldra was in the Mirrodin set. Shield of Kaldra was in the Darksteel set.
• 12/1/2004: The token is named "Kaldra," has the Supertype "Legendary," and has creature type "Avatar."This is different from previous creature tokens, where the name and creature type were the same.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Fifth Dawn prerelease participation bonus.

Printings:
#23 (Donato Giancola)

Editions:
Prerelease Events (Special)
Fifth Dawn (Rare)

Languages:
Kaldras Helm
Heaume de Kaldra
Elmo di Kaldra
Casco de Kaldra
Elmo de Kaldra
カルドラの兜
卡尔札之盔


all prints in all languages

Helvault

Legendary Artifact, 3 (3)

{1}, {T}: Exile target creature you control.

{7}, {T}: Exile target creature you don't control.

When Helvault is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Illus. Jaime Jones

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 1/22/2011: Helvault's first and third abilities are linked. Similarly, Helvault's second and third abilities are linked. Only cards exiled as a result of Helvault's first or second abilities will be returned to the battlefield by its third ability.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Honden of Cleansing Fire

Legendary Enchantment — Shrine, 3W (4)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life for each Shrine you control.

To the sorrow of all, its fire was turned toward those who worshipped it.

Illus. Greg Staples

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern