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Mendicant Core Beat Down!
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Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Mendicant Core's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control. Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) Max speed — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)

Creature Artifact
Mendicant Core, Guidelight (dft) 365

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Draw

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Chrome Courier

Flying When this creature enters, reveal the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. If you put an artifact card into your hand this way, you gain 3 life.

Creature Artifact
Chrome Courier (mh2) 190
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (ulg) 32
Market Gnome

When this creature dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card. When this creature is exiled from the battlefield while you're activating a craft ability, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Market Gnome (lci) 22
Riddlesmith

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Riddlesmith (som) 40
Thought Monitor

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards.

Creature Artifact
Thought Monitor (mh2) 71
Voyage Home

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) You draw three cards and gain 3 life.

Sorcery
Voyage Home (dft) 421
Witching Well

When this artifact enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.) {3}{U}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Witching Well (eld) 74

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (woc) 145
Azorius Keyrune

{T}: Add {W} or {U}. {W}{U}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Artifact
Azorius Keyrune (rtr) 225
Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (rvr) 250
Clay-Fired Bricks

Artifact
Clay-Fired Bricks // Cosmium Kiln (lci) 6Clay-Fired Bricks // Cosmium Kiln (lci) 6
Cloud Key

As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery. Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Cloud Key (brr) 75
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (voc) 163
Etherium Sculptor

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

Creature Artifact
Etherium Sculptor (ddu) 37
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (wwk) 123
Fabrication Foundry

{T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell or activate an ability of an artifact source. {2}{W}, {T}, Exile one or more other artifacts you control with total mana value X: Return target artifact card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Fabrication Foundry (lci) 12
Foundry Inspector

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

Creature Artifact
Foundry Inspector (cmr) 310
Kayla's Command

Choose two — • Create a 2/2 colorless Construct artifact creature token. • Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains double strike until end of turn. • Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • You gain 2 life and scry 2.

Sorcery
Kayla's Command (bro) 302
Oaken Siren

Flying, vigilance {T}: Add {U}. Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell or activate an ability of an artifact source.

Creature Artifact
Oaken Siren (lci) 66
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (mh2) 430
Sojourner's Companion

Affinity for artifacts Artifact landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an artifact land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature Artifact
Sojourner's Companion (mh2) 235
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (who) 245
The Enigma Jewel

Artifact
The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55
The Mightstone and Weakstone

When The Mightstone and Weakstone enters, choose one — • Draw two cards. • Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. {T}: Add {C}{C}. This mana can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells. (Melds with Urza, Lord Protector.)

Artifact
The Mightstone and Weakstone (pbro) 238as
Traveler's Amulet

{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Traveler's Amulet (ths) 221
Voyager Quickwelder

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

Creature Artifact
Voyager Quickwelder (dft) 37

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Tutor

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Guidelight Pathmaker

Vigilance When this Vehicle enters, you may search your library for an artifact card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield if its mana value is 2 or less. Otherwise, put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Crew 2

Artifact
Guidelight Pathmaker (dft) 324
Transmutation Font

{T}: Create your choice of a Blood token, a Clue token, or a Food token. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice three artifact tokens with different names: Search your library for an artifact card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Transmutation Font (big) 28

Tutor

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Anthem

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Alacrian Armory

Creatures you control get +0/+1 and have vigilance. At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to one target Mount or Vehicle you control. Until end of turn, that permanent becomes saddled if it's a Mount and becomes an artifact creature if it's a Vehicle.

Artifact
Alacrian Armory (dft) 2
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.

Creature Artifact
Master of Etherium (c16) 92
Salvation Engine

Other artifact creatures you control get +2/+2. Whenever this Vehicle attacks, return up to one target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Crew 6

Artifact
Salvation Engine (dft) 295

Anthem

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Adarkar Wastes (blc) 291
Amonkhet Raceway

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) {T}: Add {C}. Max speed — {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Land
Amonkhet Raceway (dft) 248
Ancient Den

{T}: Add {W}.

Artifact Land
Ancient Den (plst) MRD-278
Avishkar Raceway

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) {T}: Add {C}. Max speed — {3}, {T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.

Land
Avishkar Raceway (dft) 249
Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (c13) 274
Azorius Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Azorius Guildgate (rna) 244
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Darksteel Citadel

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact Land
Darksteel Citadel (plst) MM2-238
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 284
Meandering River

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Meandering River (dom) 274
Muraganda Raceway

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) {T}: Add {C}. Max speed — {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Muraganda Raceway (dft) 257
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mom) 283
Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (voc) 178
Razortide Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (mh2) 252
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (mkc) 284
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (j25) 773
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (blc) 332
Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (thb) 246
Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Tranquil Cove (dft) 267

Land

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Recursion

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Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) When Emry enters, mill four cards. {T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Creature
Emry, Lurker of the Loch (eld) 43
Open the Vaults

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under their owners' control. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in graveyards.)

Sorcery
Open the Vaults (pip) 168
Remember the Fallen

Choose one or both — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Remember the Fallen (2xm) 27

Recursion

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Copy

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Sculpting Steel

You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.

Artifact
Sculpting Steel (brr) 50

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Protection

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Azorius Charm

Choose one — • Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn. • Draw a card. • Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Instant
Azorius Charm (ima) 192
Blacksmith's Skill

Target permanent gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. If it's an artifact creature, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Instant
Blacksmith's Skill (mh2) 6
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Darksteel Forge

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Artifact
Darksteel Forge (2xm) 248
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (brr) 58

Protection

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Removal

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Absorb

Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.

Instant
Absorb (rna) 151
Assert Authority

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Assert Authority (mrd) 30
Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Basilisk Collar (wwk) 122
Bounce Off

Return target creature or Vehicle to its owner's hand.

Instant
Bounce Off (dft) 39
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (tmp) 57
Defabricate

Choose one — • Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. • Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Instant
Defabricate (bro) 45
Hindering Light

Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control. Draw a card.

Instant
Hindering Light (otp) 46
Lens Flare

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Lens Flare deals 5 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Instant
Lens Flare (mh2) 20
Portable Hole

When this artifact enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value 2 or less until this artifact leaves the battlefield.

Artifact
Portable Hole (afr) 33
Ride's End

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a tapped permanent. Exile target creature or Vehicle.

Instant
Ride's End (dft) 25
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (c16) 78
Warping Wail

({C} represents colorless mana.) Choose one — • Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less. • Counter target sorcery spell. • Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Instant
Warping Wail (ogw) 12

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Creature

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Filigree Attendant

Flying Filigree Attendant's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Creature Artifact
Filigree Attendant (j25) 312
Gingerbrute

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) {1}: This creature can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.

Creature Artifact
Gingerbrute (eld) 219
Guidelight Synergist

Flying This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.

Creature Artifact
Guidelight Synergist (dft) 16
Memory Guardian

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying

Creature Artifact
Memory Guardian (dft) 49
Ornithopter

Flying

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter (brr) 37
Waterlogged Hulk

Artifact
Waterlogged Hulk // Watertight Gondola (lci) 83Waterlogged Hulk // Watertight Gondola (lci) 83

Creature

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Pump

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Ethercaste Knight

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Creature Artifact
Ethercaste Knight (arb) 3
Mantle of Tides

Equipped creature gets +1/+2. Whenever you draw your second card each turn, attach this Equipment to target creature you control. Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Mantle of Tides (eld) 52
Maul of the Skyclaves

When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and first strike.(It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Equip {2}{W}{W}

Artifact
Maul of the Skyclaves (pznr) 27p
Mighty Leap

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

Instant
Mighty Leap (ori) 26
Nettlecyst

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control. Equip {2}

Artifact
Nettlecyst (mh2) 231
Rover Blades

Double strike Equipped creature has double strike. Equip {4} Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn. Creatures can't be attached to other permanents.)

Artifact
Rover Blades (dft) 331

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Tokens

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Etherium Spinner

Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 4 or greater, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature Artifact
Etherium Spinner (mh2) 40
Master's Guide-Mural

Artifact
Master's Guide-Mural // Master's Manufactory (lci) 233Master's Guide-Mural // Master's Manufactory (lci) 233
Myr Battlesphere

When this creature enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens. Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Creature Artifact
Myr Battlesphere (c13) 247
Nesting Bot

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. Max speed — This creature gets +1/+0.

Creature Artifact
Nesting Bot (dft) 22
Thousand Moons Smithy

Artifact
Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand (lci) 39Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand (lci) 39
Threefold Thunderhulk

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create a number of 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens equal to its power. {2}, Sacrifice another artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Threefold Thunderhulk (lci) 265
Tinker's Tote

When this artifact enters, create two 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens. {W}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.

Artifact
Tinker's Tote (lci) 40

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Sideboard

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Armillary Sphere

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

Artifact
Armillary Sphere (cmr) 298
Guidelight Matrix

When this artifact enters, draw a card. {2}, {T}: Target Mount you control becomes saddled until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery. {2}, {T}: Target Vehicle you control becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.

Artifact
Guidelight Matrix (dft) 233
Roadside Assistance

Enchant creature or Vehicle When this Aura enters, create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." Enchanted permanent gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.

Enchantment
Roadside Assistance (dft) 26

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Urza, Lord Protector

Artifact, instant, and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {7}: If you both own and control Urza, Lord Protector and an artifact named The Mightstone and Weakstone, exile them, then meld them into Urza, Planeswalker. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Urza, Lord Protector (bro) 225
Vedalken Archmage

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.

Creature
Vedalken Archmage (jmp) 187

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23 mana - 23 cards
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