@database LG_ARTIFACT.guide @author "Tom de Ruyter" @$VER: MTG.guide 1.6 (17.6.96) @node MAIN "Legends - Artifact Cards" @{" " link MTG_CARD_LISTS.guide/CL_LG} @{b}Legends - Artifact Cards@{ub} @{" Al-abara's Carpet " link ALABA} @{" Alchor's Tomb " link ALCHO} @{" Arena of the Ancients " link ARENA} @{" Black Mana Battery " link BLACK} @{" Blue Mana Battery " link BLUEM} @{" Bronze Horse " link BRONZ} @{" Forethought Amulet " link FORET} @{" Gauntlets of Chaos " link GAUNT} @{" Green Mana Battery " link GREEN} @{" Horn of Deafening " link HORNO} @{" Knowledge Vault " link KNOWL} @{" Kry Shield " link KRYSH} @{" Life Chisel " link LIFEC} @{" Life Matrix " link LIFEM} @{" Mana Matrix " link MANAM} @{" Marble Priest " link MARBL} @{" Mirror Universe " link MIRRO} @{" North Star " link NORTH} @{" Nova Pentacle " link NOVAP} @{" Planar Gate " link PLANA} @{" Red Mana Battery " link REDMA} @{" Relic Barrier " link RELIC} @{" Ring of Immortals " link RINGO} @{" Sentinel " link SENTI} @{" Serpent Generator " link SERPE} @{" Sword of the Ages " link SWORD} @{" Triassic Egg " link TRIAS} @{" Voodoo Doll " link VOODO} @{" White Mana Battery " link WHITE} @endnode @node ALABA "Al-abara's Carpet" @{b}Al-abara's Carpet@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 5 Artist = Kaja Foglio Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): <5T>: Prevents all damage done to you by attacking non-flying creatures. Flavor Text: @{i}Al-abara simply laughed and lifted one finger, and the carpet carried her high out of our reach.@{ui} @{b}NO RULINGS@{ub} @endnode @node ALCHO "Alchor's Tomb" @{b}Alchor's Tomb@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Jesper Myrfors Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): <2T>: Change the color of target permanent you control to a color of your choice. Use counters. Cost to cast, tap, maintain, or use a special ability of card remains unchanged. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_A.guide/ALCHO} @endnode @node ARENA "Arena of the Ancients" @{b}Arena of the Ancients@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) / CR(U1) Type = Artifact Cost = 3 Artist = Tom Wanerstrand Print run = LG(19,500) / CR(516,000) Text(LG): All legends become tapped when Arena comes into play. Legends do not untap as normal during the untap phase. Text(CR): When Arena of the Ancients comes into play, tap all legends. Legends do not untap during their controllers' untap phase. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_A.guide/AOFTA} @endnode @node BLACK "Black Mana Battery" @{b}Black Mana Battery@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(U1) / 4E(R) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Anson Maddocks Print run = LG(58,000) / 4E(353,500) Text(LG): <2T>: Put one counter on Black Mana Battery. : Add to your mana pool. Remove as many counters as you wish. For each counter removed, add to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt. Text(4E): <2T>: Put one charge counter on Black Mana Battery. : Add to your mana pool and remove as many charge counters as you wish. For each charge counter removed from Black Mana Battery, add to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_B.guide/BLAMB} @endnode @node BLUEM "Blue Mana Battery" @{b}Blue Mana Battery@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(U1) / 4E(R) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Amy Weber Print run = LG(58,000) / 4E(353,500) Text(LG): <2T>: Put one counter on Blue Mana Battery. : Add to your mana pool. Remove as many counters as you wish. For each counter removed, add to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt. Text(4E): <2T>: Put one charge counter on Blue Mana Battery. : Add to your mana pool and remove as many charge counters as you wish. For each charge counter removed from Blue Mana Battery, add to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_B.guide/BLUMB} @endnode @node BRONZ "Bronze Horse" @{b}Bronze Horse@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) / CR(U1) Type = Artifact Creature (4/4) Cost = 7 Artist = Mark Poole Print run = LG(19,500) / CR(516,000) Text(LG): Trample Damage done to Bronze Horse by spells which target it is reduced to zero as long as you control another creature. Text(CR): Trample As long as you control any other creatures, damage dealt to Bronze Horse by spells that target it is reduced to 0. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_B.guide/BRONZ} @endnode @node FORET "Forethought Amulet" @{b}Forethought Amulet@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 5 Artist = Melissa Benson Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): Pay 3 during your upkeep or Forethought Amulet is destroyed. If you receive more than 2 damage from a sorcery or instant source, that damage is reduced to 2. @{b}NO RULINGS@{ub} @endnode @node GAUNT "Gauntlets of Chaos" @{b}Gauntlets of Chaos@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) / CR(U1) Type = Artifact Cost = 5 Artist = Dan Frazier Print run = LG(19,500) / CR(516,000) Text(LG): <5>: Sacrifice Gauntlets of Chaos. Take control of target land, creature, or artifact. Then give the former controller of that permanent control of a target permanent of the same type under your control. You each control these permanents until game ends. Gauntlets of Chaos does not tap or untap these permanents. Enchantments on traded permanents are destroyed. Text(CR): <5>: Sacrifice Gauntlets of Chaos. Choose a target artifact, creature, or land opponent controls and a target permanent you control of the same type. Exchange control of these permanents. Bury any enchantments played on these permanents. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_G.guide/GAUCH} @endnode @node GREEN "Green Mana Battery" @{b}Green Mana Battery@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(U1) / 4E(R) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Christopher Rush Print run = LG(58,000) / 4E(353,500) Text(LG): <2T>: Put one counter on Green Mana Battery. : Add to your mana pool. Remove as many counters as you wish. For each counter removed, add to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt. Text(4E): <2T>: Put one charge counter on Green Mana Battery. : Add to your mana pool and remove as many charge counters as you wish. For each charge counter removed from Green Mana Battery, add to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_G.guide/GMBAT} @endnode @node HORNO "Horn of Deafening" @{b}Horn of Deafening@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) / CR(U1) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Dan Frazier Print run = LG(19,500) / CR(516,000) Text(LG): <2T>: Target creature deals no damage during combat this turn. Text(CR): <2T>: Target creature deals no damage in combat this turn. Flavor Text: @{i}"A blast, an echo... then silence."@{ui} @{b}NO RULINGS@{ub} @endnode @node KNOWL "Knowledge Vault" @{b}Knowledge Vault@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Amy Weber Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): <2T>: Take a card from your library without looking at it and place it face down under Knowledge Vault. Sacrifice Knowledge Vault to discard entire hand and take the cards under the vault into your hand. If Knowledge Vault leaves play, put all cards under it in your graveyard. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_K.guide/KNOWL} @endnode @node KRYSH "Kry Shield" @{b}Kry Shield@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(U1) Type = Artifact Cost = 2 Artist = Richard Thomas Print run = LG(58,000) Text(LG): <2T>: Target creature you control deals no damage this turn, but gains +0/+X until end of turn, where X is the casting cost of target creature. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_K.guide/KRYSH} @endnode @node LIFEC "Life Chisel" @{b}Life Chisel@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(U2) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Anthony Waters Print run = LG(116,000) Text(LG): Sacrifice a creature during your upkeep to gain life equal to creature's toughness. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_L.guide/LIFCH} @endnode @node LIFEM "Life Matrix" @{b}Life Matrix@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Amy Weber Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): <4T>: During your upkeep, put one counter on target creature. You may remove this counter at any time to regenerate that creature. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_L.guide/LIFMA} @endnode @node MANAM "Mana Matrix" @{b}Mana Matrix@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 6 Artist = Mark Tedin Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): Pay up to <2> less than required whenever casting an instant, interrupt, or enchantment spell. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_M.guide/MANMA} @endnode @node MARBL "Marble Priest" @{b}Marble Priest@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(U1) Type = Artifact Creature (3/3) Cost = 5 Artist = Melissa Benson Print run = LG(58,000) Text(LG): All walls able to block Marble Priest must do so. Walls able to block more than one creature can still do so. If blocking wall is compelled to block more creatures than it is legally able to, defender chooses which of these attacking creatures to block, but must block as many creatures as it legally can. Damage dealt to Marble Priest from walls during combat is reduced to 0. @{b}NO RULINGS@{ub} @endnode @node MIRRO "Mirror Universe" @{b}Mirror Universe@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 6 Artist = Phil Foglio Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): : Sacrifice Mirror Universe during your upkeep, and trade your number of life points with opponent. For example, if you had 2 life points and your opponent had 10, you would now have 10 life points and your opponent would have 2. Effects that prevent or redirect damage may not be used to counter this change of life. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_M.guide/MIRRO} @endnode @node NORTH "North Star" @{b}North Star@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Kaja Foglio Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): <4T>: You may cast one spell this turn by paying its casting cost with any type of mana. For example, <2GG> becomes <4>. However, the card still retains its original color. This ability is played as an interrupt. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_N.guide/NORTH} @endnode @node NOVAP "Nova Pentacle" @{b}Nova Pentacle@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Richard Thomas Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): <3T>: Redirect damage done to you from one source to target creature of opponent's choice. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_N.guide/NOVAP} @endnode @node PLANA "Planar Gate" @{b}Planar Gate@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 6 Artist = Melissa Benson Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): Pay up to <2> less than required whenever casting a summon spell. Flavor Text: @{i}Nireya reached through the Gate, sensing the energies trapped beyond.@{ui} @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_P.guide/PLANA} @endnode @node REDMA "Red Mana Battery" @{b}Red Mana Battery@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(U1) / 4E(R) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Mark Tedin Print run = LG(58,000) / 4E(353,500) Text(LG): <2T>: Put one counter on Red Mana Battery. : Add to your mana pool. Remove as many counters as you wish. For each counter removed, add to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt. Text(4E): <2T>: Put one charge counter on Red Mana Battery. : Add to your mana pool and remove as many charge counters as you wish. For each charge counter removed from Red Mana Battery, add to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_R.guide/REDMA} @endnode @node RELIC "Relic Barrier" @{b}Relic Barrier@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(U2) Type = Artifact Cost = 2 Artist = Harold McNeill Print run = LG(116,000) Text(LG): : Target artifact becomes tapped. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_R.guide/RELBA} @endnode @node RINGO "Ring of Immortals" @{b}Ring of Immortals@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 5 Artist = Melissa Benson Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): <3T>: Counters target interrupt or enchantment. Can only counter spells which target a permanent under your control. This ability is played as an interrupt. @{b}NO RULINGS@{ub} @endnode @node SENTI "Sentinel" @{b}Sentinel@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) / CR(U1) Type = Artifact Creature (1/*) Cost = 4 Artist = Randy Asplund-Faith Print run = LG(19,500) / CR(516,000) Text(LG): The * is 1 when cast. While blocking, you may choose to change * to equal one plus the power of target creature sentinel blocks this turn. While attacking, you may choose to change * to equal one plus the power of target creature that blocks Sentinel this turn. Text(CR): When Sentinel comes into play, its toughness is equal to 1. <0>: Change Sentinel's toughness to 1 plus the power of target creature blocking or blocked by Sentinel. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_S.guide/SENTI} @endnode @node SERPE "Serpent Generator" @{b}Serpent Generator@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) / CR(U1) Type = Artifact Cost = 6 Artist = Mark Tedin Print run = LG(19,500) / CR(516,000) Text(LG): <4T>: Put a Poison Snake token into play. Treat this token as a 1/1 artifact creature. If this creature damages opponent, opponent gets a poison counter. If opponent ever has ten or more poison counters, opponent loses game. Text(CR): <4T>: Put a Poison Snake token into play. Treat this token as a 1/1 artifact creature. Whenever a Poison Snake damages a player, he or she gets a poison counter. When a player has ten or more poison counters, he or she loses the game. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_S.guide/SERPE} @endnode @node SWORD "Sword of the Ages" @{b}Sword of the Ages@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) Type = Artifact Cost = 6 Artist = Dan Frazier Print run = LG(19,500) Text(LG): Sword of the Ages comes into play tapped. : Sacrifice Sword of the Ages and as many creatures as you choose. Sword does the combined power of these creatures in damage to one target. Sacrificed creatures and Sword are then removed from the game entirely. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_S.guide/SWOAG} @endnode @node TRIAS "Triassic Egg" @{b}Triassic Egg@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) / CR(U1) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Dan Frazier Print run = LG(19,500) / CR(516,000) Text(LG): <3T>: Put one counter on Triassic Egg. If there are at least two such counters, you may sacrifice Triassic Egg to take any creature from your hand or graveyard and put it directly into play. Treat this creature as though it were just summoned. Text(CR): <3T>: Put a hatchling counter on Triassic Egg. <0>: Sacrifice Triassic Egg to take target creature from your hand or graveyard and put it directly into play as though it were just summoned. Use this ability only when there are at least two hatchling counters on Triassic Egg. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_T.guide/TRIAS} @endnode @node VOODO "Voodoo Doll" @{b}Voodoo Doll@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(R1) / CR(U1) Type = Artifact Cost = 6 Artist = Sandra Everingham Print run = LG(19,500) / CR(516,000) Text(LG): Put one counter on Voodoo Doll during your upkeep. If Voodoo Doll is not tapped at end of your turn, it does X damage to you and is destroyed. X equals the number of counters on Voodoo Doll. : Voodoo Doll does X damage to any one target. Text(CR): At the beginning of your upkeep, put one pin counter on Voodoo Doll. If Voodoo Doll is untapped at the end of your turn, it deals X damage to you, where X is equal to the number of pin counters on Voodoo Doll. If Voodoo Doll deals damage to you in this way, destroy it. : Voodoo Doll deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is equal to the number of pin counters on Voodoo Doll. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_V.guide/VOODO} @endnode @node WHITE "White Mana Battery" @{b}White Mana Battery@{ub} Color = Colorless Rarity = LG(U1) / 4E(R) Type = Artifact Cost = 4 Artist = Anthony Waters Print run = LG(58,000) / 4E(353,500) Text(LG): <2T>: Put one counter on White Mana Battery. : Add to your mana pool. Remove as many counters as you wish. For each counter removed, add to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt. Text(4E): <2T>: Put one charge counter on White Mana Battery. : Add to your mana pool and remove as many charge counters as you wish. For each charge counter removed from White Mana Battery, add to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. @{" Rulings " link MTG_CARD_W.guide/WHIMB} @endnode