Urza's Saga

USG · 357 cards · Released

Breach
Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Cackling Fiend
Creature — Zombie

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Its windpipe is only the first to amplify its maddening laughter.

2/1
Carrion Beetles
Creature — Insect

, : Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

1/1
Contamination
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you sacrifice a creature.

If a land is tapped for mana, it produces instead of any other type and amount.

Corrupt
Sorcery

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Yawgmoth brushed Urza's mind, and Urza's world convulsed.

Crazed Skirge
Creature — Phyrexian Imp

Flying, haste

They are Phyrexia's couriers; the messages they carry are inscribed on their slick hides.

2/2
Dark Hatchling
Creature — Horror

Flying

When this creature enters, destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

3/3
Dark Ritual
Instant

Add .

"From void evolved Phyrexia. Great Yawgmoth, Father of Machines, saw its perfection. Thus the Grand Evolution began."

Phyrexian Scriptures

Darkest Hour
Enchantment

All creatures are black.

"Yawgmoth spent eons wrapping Phyrexians in human skin. They are the sleeper agents, and they are everywhere."

—Xantcha, to Urza

Despondency
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-0.

When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Diabolic Servitude
Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

When the creature put onto the battlefield with this enchantment dies, exile it and return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with this enchantment.

Diabolic Servitude
Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

When the creature put onto the battlefield with this enchantment dies, exile it and return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with this enchantment.

Discordant Dirge
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment.

, Sacrifice this enchantment: Look at target opponent's hand and choose up to X cards from it, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment. That player discards those cards.

Duress
Sorcery

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"We decide who is worthy of our works."

—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor

Eastern Paladin
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Knight

, : Destroy target green creature.

"Their fragile world. Their futile lives. They obstruct the Grand Evolution. In Yawgmoth's name, we shall excise them."

—Oath of the East

3/3
Exhume
Sorcery

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

"Death—an outmoded concept. We sleep, and we change."

—Sitrik, birth priest

Expunge
Instant

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Flesh Reaver
Creature — Phyrexian Horror

Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature or opponent, this creature deals that much damage to you.

Though the reaver is horrifyingly effective, its dorsal vents spit a highly corrosive cloud of filth.

4/4
Hollow Dogs
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Dog

Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

A hollow dog is never empty. It is filled with thirst for the hunt.

3/3
Ill-Gotten Gains
Sorcery

Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards their hand, then returns up to three cards from their graveyard to their hand.

Urza thought it a crusade. Xantcha knew it was a robbery.

Looming Shade
Creature — Shade

: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

The shade tracks victims by reverberations of the pipes, as a spider senses prey tangled in its trembling web.

1/1
Looming Shade
Creature — Shade

: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

1/1
Lurking Evil
Enchantment

Pay half your life, rounded up: This enchantment becomes a 4/4 Phyrexian Horror creature with flying.

"Ash is our air, darkness our flesh."

Phyrexian Scriptures

Mana Leech
Creature — Leech

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.

: Tap target land. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this creature remains tapped.

1/1
No Rest for the Wicked
Enchantment

Sacrifice this enchantment: Return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

"The soul? Here, we have no use for such frivolities."

—Sitrik, birth priest

No Rest for the Wicked
Enchantment

Sacrifice this enchantment: Return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Oppression
Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.

"Do not presume to speak for yourself."

—Gix, to Xantcha

Order of Yawgmoth
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Knight

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

2/2
Parasitic Bond
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, this Aura deals 2 damage to that player.

"All bonds are parasitic. Only rulership is pure."

—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor

Persecute
Sorcery

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

"My finest warrior was lost to the Phyrexians. I pray that Lady Selenia died honorably."

—Radiant, archangel

Pestilence
Enchantment

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Phyrexian Ghoul
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Phyrexia wastes nothing. Its food chain is a spiraling cycle.

2/2
Planar Void
Enchantment

Whenever another card is put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile that card.

"Planeswalking isn't about walking. It's about falling and screaming."

—Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast

Priest of Gix
Creature — Phyrexian Human Cleric Minion

When this creature enters, add .

"Gix doesn't want a people to rule but puppets to entertain his madness."

—Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast

2/1
Rain of Filth
Instant

Until end of turn, lands you control gain "Sacrifice this land: Add ."

"When I say it rained, it was not small drops, but a thick, greasy drool pouring from the heavens."

—Urza, journal

Ravenous Skirge
Creature — Phyrexian Imp

Flying

Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Hunger is a kind of madness—and here, all madness flourishes.

1/1
Reclusive Wight
Creature — Zombie Minion

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control another nonland permanent, sacrifice this creature.

There are places so horrible that even the dead hide their faces.

4/4
Reprocess
Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, creatures, and/or lands. Draw a card for each permanent sacrificed this way.

Everything will find its use in Phyrexia. Eventually.

Sanguine Guard
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Knight

First strike

: Regenerate this creature.

"Father of Machines! Your filigree gaze carves us, and the scars dance upon our grateful flesh."

Phyrexian Scriptures

2/2
Sicken
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Urza dared to attack Phyrexia. Slowly, it retaliated.

Skirge Familiar
Creature — Phyrexian Imp

Flying

Discard a card: Add .

The first Yawgmoth priest to harness their power was rewarded with several unique mutilations.

3/2
Skittering Skirge
Creature — Phyrexian Imp

Flying

When you cast a creature spell, sacrifice this creature.

The imps' warbling cries echo through Phyrexia's towers like those of mourning doves in a cathedral.

3/2
Sleeper Agent
Creature — Phyrexian Minion

When this creature enters, target opponent gains control of it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 2 damage to you.

3/3
Spined Fluke
Creature — Worm Horror

When this creature enters, sacrifice a creature.

: Regenerate this creature.

Its spines are prized as writing quills by the priests of Gix.

5/1
Tainted Aether
Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters, its controller sacrifices a creature or land of their choice.

Gix despised the sylvan morass. The gouge that the portal had torn in the forest was the only pleasing sight.

Unnerve
Sorcery

Each opponent discards two cards.

"If fear is the only tool you have left, then you'll never control me."

—Xantcha, to Gix

Unworthy Dead
Creature — Phyrexian Skeleton

: Regenerate this creature.

"Great Yawgmoth moves across the seas of shard and bone and rust. We exalt him in life, in death, and in between."

Phyrexian Scriptures

1/1
Unworthy Dead
Creature — Phyrexian Skeleton

: Regenerate this creature.

1/1
Vampiric Embrace
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by enchanted creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Vampiric Embrace
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by enchanted creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Vebulid
Creature — Phyrexian Horror

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

When this creature attacks or blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

0/0
Victimize
Sorcery

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective. We must scrap it."

Vile Requiem
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment.

, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy up to X target nonblack creatures, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.

Western Paladin
Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Knight

, : Destroy target white creature.

"Their weak laws. Their flawed systems. They inhibit the Grand Evolution. In Yawgmoth's name, we shall erase them."

—Oath of the West

3/3
Witch Engine
Creature — Horror

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

: Add . Target opponent gains control of this creature. (Activate only as an instant.)

4/4
Yawgmoth's Edict
Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a white spell, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"Phyrexia's purity permits no other."

—Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast

Yawgmoth's Will
Sorcery

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.

If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Acidic Soil
Sorcery

Acidic Soil deals damage to each player equal to the number of lands they control.

Phyrexia had tried to take Urza's soul. He was relieved that Shiv tried to claim only his soles.

Antagonism
Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's end step, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player unless one of their opponents was dealt damage this turn.

Arc Lightning
Sorcery

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Rainclouds don't last long in Shiv, but that doesn't stop the lightning.