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Mendicant Core Artefacts cooking
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Commander

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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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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (who) 239
Basalt Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. {3}: Untap this artifact.

Artifact
Basalt Monolith (c13) 237
Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (blc) 162
Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (mrd) 188
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact. When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (drc) 79
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Mox Amber

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Relic of Legends

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Relic of Legends (dmu) 236
Repurposing Bay

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice another artifact: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Repurposing Bay (dft) 56
Sculpting Steel

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

Artifact
Sculpting Steel (moc) 374
Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Shadowspear (pthb) 236p
Simulacrum Synthesizer

When this artifact enters, scry 2. Whenever another artifact you control with mana value 3 or greater enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."

Artifact
Simulacrum Synthesizer (big) 6
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56

Artifact

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Creature

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Artificer's Assistant

Flying Whenever you cast a historic spell, scry 1. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Artificer's Assistant (plst) DOM-44
Cyberdrive Awakener

Flying Other artifact creatures you control have flying. When this creature enters, until end of turn, each noncreature artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 4/4.

Creature Artifact
Cyberdrive Awakener (nec) 12
Digsite Engineer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."

Creature
Digsite Engineer (c21) 15
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Etherium Sculptor

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

Creature Artifact
Etherium Sculptor (brc) 82
Forensic Gadgeteer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Creature
Forensic Gadgeteer (mkm) 57
Foundry Inspector

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

Creature Artifact
Foundry Inspector (cmm) 385
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 (j25) 751
Hope of Ghirapur

Flying Sacrifice Hope of Ghirapur: Until your next turn, target player who was dealt combat damage by Hope of Ghirapur this turn can't cast noncreature spells.

Creature Artifact
Hope of Ghirapur (plst) AER-154
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (inr) 303
Illustrious Wanderglyph

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Other artifact creatures you control get +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing. At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token.

Creature Artifact
Illustrious Wanderglyph (lcc) 9
Jhoira's Familiar

Flying Historic spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Creature Artifact
Jhoira's Familiar (2xm) 265
K-9, Mark I

Negative — As long as K-9 is untapped, other legendary creatures you control have ward {1}. Affirmative — {1}{U}, {T}: Target legendary creature can't be blocked this turn. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Creature Artifact
K-9, Mark I (who) 47
Kappa Cannoneer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Ward {4} Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and it can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Kappa Cannoneer (mh3) 270
Padeem, Consul of Innovation

Artifacts you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control the artifact with the greatest mana value or tied for the greatest mana value, draw a card.

Creature
Padeem, Consul of Innovation (j25) 62
Palladium Myr

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

Creature Artifact
Palladium Myr (cmm) 967
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (mkc) 116
Prismite

{2}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Prismite (m21) 235
Prophet of Distortion

Devoid (This card has no color.) {3}{C}: Draw a card. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Creature
Prophet of Distortion (ogw) 46
Research Thief

Flash Flying Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Research Thief (nec) 16
Sai, Master Thopterist

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. {1}{U}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw a card.

Creature
Sai, Master Thopterist (drc) 82
Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Scrawling Crawler (fdn) 132
Silver Raven

Flying When this creature enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature Artifact
Silver Raven (afr) 74
Skrelv, Defector Mite

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) Skrelv can't block. {W/P}, {T}: Choose a color. Another target creature you control gains toxic 1 and hexproof from that color until end of turn. It can't be blocked by creatures of that color this turn. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Skrelv, Defector Mite (one) 33
Spellskite

{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Spellskite (clb) 873
Stonework Packbeast

Stonework Packbeast is also a Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard. {2}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Stonework Packbeast (znr) 255
Stridehangar Automaton

Thopters you control get +1/+1. If one or more artifact tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus an additional 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying are created instead.

Creature Artifact
Stridehangar Automaton (drc) 19
Unctus, Grand Metatect

Other blue creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, draw a card, then discard a card." Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1. {U/P}: Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a blue artifact in addition to its other colors and types. Activate only as a sorcery. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Unctus, Grand Metatect (one) 75
Urza, Lord High Artificer

When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control." Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}. {5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Urza, Lord High Artificer (dmr) 71
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
Vnwxt, Verbose Host

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.) You have no maximum hand size. Max speed — If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.

Creature
Vnwxt, Verbose Host (dft) 73
Voyager Quickwelder

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

Creature Artifact
Voyager Quickwelder (dft) 37
Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (aer) 181
Witch Enchanter

Creature
Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239

Creature

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Enchantment

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Efficient Construction

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Efficient Construction (cmm) 88
Freed from the Real

Enchant creature {U}: Tap enchanted creature. {U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (sok) 38
Pemmin's Aura

Enchant creature {U}: Untap enchanted creature. {U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn. {U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Pemmin's Aura (scg) 45
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (prna) 22p

Enchantment

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Instant

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Desynchronization

Return each nonland permanent that's not historic to its owner's hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Instant
Desynchronization (acr) 16
Dispatch

Tap target creature. Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, exile that creature.

Instant
Dispatch (pip) 159
Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant
Dramatic Reversal (kld) 44
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 6
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (2x2) 23
Reality Heist

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal up to two artifact cards from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Reality Heist (neo) 75
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (ltc) 197
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (drc) 37
Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}{U} — Counter target spell. + {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Three Steps Ahead (otj) 75
Whir of Invention

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Whir of Invention (plst) AER-49

Instant

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Land

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Academy Ruins

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

Land
Academy Ruins (drc) 58
Adarkar Wastes

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

Land
Adarkar Wastes (drc) 144
Ancient Den

{T}: Add {W}.

Artifact Land
Ancient Den (brc) 172
Archway of Innovation

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Land
Archway of Innovation (mh3) 214
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Floodfarm Verge

{T}: Add {W}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 259
Fomori Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Discard a card: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of artifacts you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Land
Fomori Vault (big) 29
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (drc) 159
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 280
Hengegate Pathway

Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260
Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Land
Inventors' Fair (plst) KLD-247
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 281
Lonely Arroyo

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Lonely Arroyo (otj) 260
Mystic Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Mystic Gate (cmm) 1013
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 277
Razortide Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (pip) 281
Seachrome Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Seachrome Coast (blc) 328
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
The Mycosynth Gardens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {X}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target nontoken artifact you control with mana value X.

Land
The Mycosynth Gardens (one) 256
Treasure Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create X Treasure tokens.

Artifact Land
Treasure Vault (drc) 180

Land

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Sorcery

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Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (40k) 181
Organic Extinction

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Destroy all nonartifact creatures.

Sorcery
Organic Extinction (mkc) 76
Slip Through Space

Devoid (This card has no color.) Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Slip Through Space (ogw) 47
Thoughtcast

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

Sorcery
Thoughtcast (j25) 374
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) 227

Sorcery

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