Fourth Edition Starter Deck

Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border

Fourth Edition

Mana Vault

Sylvan Library

Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.

Dancing Scimitar

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning."
—Sevti Mukul, *The Fall of Alsoor*

Diabolic Machine

Dingus Egg

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Disrupting Scepter

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

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Dragon Engine

{2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Ebony Horse

{2}, {T}: Untap target attacking creature you control. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
—Mairsil, called the Pretender

Fellwar Stone

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

Flying Carpet

{2}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Glasses of Urza

Recent research suggests these creatures were invented by Urza's and Mishra's original master, Tocasia, and that both brothers used them.

Grapeshot Catapult

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

Green Mana Battery

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact.
{T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {G}, then add an additional {G} for each charge counter removed this way.

Helm of Chatzuk

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Iron Star

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Ivory Cup

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge.

Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Jade Monolith

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Each day of their journey, Jandor opened the saddlebags and found them full of mutton, quinces, cheese, date rolls, wine, and all manner of delicious and satisfying foods.

Jandor's Saddlebags

Jayemdae Tome

Kormus Bell

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

More than one mage was driven insane by the sound of the Millstone relentlessly grinding away.

Millstone

Mishra's War Machine

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 3 damage to you unless you discard a card. If it deals damage to you this way, tap it.

Nevinyrral's Disk

This artifact enters tapped.
{1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

"The foot stone is connected to the ankle stone, the ankle stone is connected to the leg stone . . . ."
—Song of the Artificer

Obsianus Golem

An early inspiration for Urza, Tocasia's Onulets contained magical essences that could be cannibalized after they stopped functioning.

Onulet

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.

Many scholars believe that these creatures were the result of Urza's first attempt at mechanical life, perhaps created in his early days as an apprentice to Tocasia.

Ornithopter

Primal Clay

As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)

Red Mana Battery

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact.
{T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {R}, then add an additional {R} for each charge counter removed this way.

Rod of Ruin

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Shapeshifter

As this creature enters, choose a number between 0 and 7.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7.
Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.

Soul Net

Whenever a creature dies, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Sunglasses of Urza

You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.

Tawnos's Wand

{2}, {T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

When war machines became too costly, Tawnos's Weaponry replaced them.

Tawnos's Weaponry

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.
{2}, {T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Tetravus

Flying
This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature. If you do, create that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens. They each have flying and "This token can't be enchanted."
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens created with this creature. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

The Hive

{5}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wasp. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Invented in Mishra's earlier days, the Rack was once his most feared creation.

The Rack

As this artifact enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

Throne of Bone

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

A brainchild of Tawnos, the Triskelion later proved both versatile and useful.

Triskelion

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one versatile being.

Urza's Avenger

{0}: This creature gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of banding, flying, first strike, or trample until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging Craw Wurms.

Wall of Spears

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
First strike

White Mana Battery

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact.
{T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {W}, then add an additional {W} for each charge counter removed this way.

Winter Orb

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Wooden Sphere

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

After Kroog was destroyed while most of its defenders were at his side, Urza vowed that none of his allies would ever need to fear for their own defense again, even while laying siege to a city far from their homes.

Yotian Soldier

Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: This land becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Oasis

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Unlike previous conflicts, the war between Urza and Mishra made Dominia itself a casualty of war.