Sharuum the Hegemon

Flying
When Sharuum the Hegemon enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Armillary Sphere

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Esper Charm

Choose one —
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Draw two cards.
• Target player discards two cards.

Dispeller's Capsule

{2}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Dispeller's Capsule: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Ethersworn Adjudicator

Flying
{1}{W}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature or enchantment.
{2}{U}: Untap Ethersworn Adjudicator.

Filigree Angel

Flying
When Filigree Angel enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life for each artifact you control.

Tezzeret the Seeker

+1: Untap up to two target artifacts.
−X: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
−5: Artifacts you control become artifact creatures with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.

Tidehollow Sculler

When Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.
When Tidehollow Sculler leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Tidehollow Strix

Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Obelisk of Esper

Esper Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Esper Panorama: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Metallurgeon

Architects of Will

When Architects of Will enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order.
Cycling {U/B} ({U/B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Ethersworn Shieldmage

Flash
When Ethersworn Shieldmage enters the battlefield, prevent all damage that would be dealt to artifact creatures this turn.

Fieldmist Borderpost

You may pay {1} and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Fieldmist Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Magister Sphinx

Flying
When Magister Sphinx enters the battlefield, target player's life total becomes 10.

Mistvein Borderpost

You may pay {1} and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Mistvein Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Unbender Tine

Sludge Strider

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control or another artifact you control leaves the battlefield, you may pay {1}. If you do, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Sanctum Plowbeast

Defender
Plainscycling {2}, islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Mask of Riddles

Equipped creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Equip {2}

Vectis Dominator

{T}: Tap target creature unless its controller pays 2 life.

Esper Sojourners

When you cycle Esper Sojourners or it dies, you may tap or untap target permanent.
Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Etherwrought Page

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one —
• You gain 2 life.
• Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
• Each opponent loses 1 life.

Scepter of Dominance

Cumber Stone

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.

Scepter of Insight

Telemin Performance

Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. That player puts all noncreature cards revealed this way into their graveyard, then you put the creature card onto the battlefield under your control.

Marble Chalice

Scourglass

{T}, Sacrifice Scourglass: Destroy all permanents except for artifacts and lands. Activate only during your upkeep.

Courier's Capsule

{1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Courier's Capsule: Draw two cards.

Esper Battlemage

{W}, {T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Etherium Astrolabe

Flash
{B}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Filigree Sages

Gather Specimens

If a creature would enter the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, it enters the battlefield under your control instead.

Protomatter Powder

{4}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Protomatter Powder: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Resounding Wave

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
Cycling {5}{W}{U}{B} ({5}{W}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Resounding Wave, return two target permanents to their owners' hands.

Skill Borrower

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, Skill Borrower has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)

Spell Snip

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sphinx's Herald

{2}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a white creature, a blue creature, and a black creature: Search your library for a card named Sphinx Sovereign, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Immortal Coil

{T}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draw a card.
If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. Exile a card from your graveyard for each 1 damage prevented this way.
When there are no cards in your graveyard, you lose the game.

Onyx Goblet

Puppet Conjurer

{U}, {T}: Create a 0/1 blue Homunculus artifact creature token.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Homunculus.

Brilliant Ultimatum

Exile the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. You may play lands and cast spells from one of those piles. If you cast a spell this way, you cast it without paying its mana cost.

Punish Ignorance

Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Sphinx Sovereign

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.

Thoughtcutter Agent

{U}{B}, {T}: Target player loses 1 life and reveals their hand.

Enigma Sphinx

Flying
When Enigma Sphinx is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.)

Etherium Sculptor

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Arcane Sanctum

Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Memory Erosion

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player mills two cards.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Rupture Spire

Rupture Spire enters the battlefield tapped.
When Rupture Spire enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Sharding Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Sphinx Summoner

Flying
When Sphinx Summoner enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Master Transmuter

{U}, {T}, Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Master of Etherium

Master of Etherium's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.
Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

Ethersworn Canonist

Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.

Time Sieve

{T}, Sacrifice five artifacts: Take an extra turn after this one.

Sen Triplets

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target opponent. This turn, that player can't cast spells or activate abilities and plays with their hand revealed. You may play lands and cast spells from that player's hand this turn.

Thopter Foundry

{1}, Sacrifice a nontoken artifact: Create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying. You gain 1 life.

Glassdust Hulk

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Glassdust Hulk gets +1/+1 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Cycling {W/U} ({W/U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Esperzoa

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

Parasitic Strix

Flying
When Parasitic Strix enters the battlefield, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Executioner's Capsule

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Executioner's Capsule: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Faerie Mechanist

Flying
When Faerie Mechanist enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Sanctum Gargoyle

Flying
When Sanctum Gargoyle enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Island

Plains

Swamp

Sphinx of the Steel Wind

Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green

Salvage Titan

You may sacrifice three artifacts rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile three artifact cards from your graveyard: Return Salvage Titan from your graveyard to your hand.

Scepter of Fugue

{1}{B}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.

Mindlock Orb

Lapse of Certainty

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

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