Urza's Saga

USG · 357 cards · Released

Bedlam
Enchantment

Creatures can't block.

Sometimes quantity, in the absence of quality, is good enough.

Brand
Instant

Gain control of all permanents you own. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

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

"By this glyph I affirm your role."

—Urza, to Karn

Bravado
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control.

"We drive the dragons from our home. Why should we fear you?"

—Fire Eye, viashino bey

Bulwark
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to target opponent, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus the number of cards in that player's hand.

"It will be the goblin's first bath, and its last."

—Fire Eye, viashino bey

Crater Hellion
Creature — Hellion Beast

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

When this creature enters, it deals 4 damage to each other creature.

6/6
Destructive Urge
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a land of their choice.

Red sky at night, dragon's delight.

Disorder
Sorcery

Disorder deals 2 damage to each white creature and each player who controls a white creature.

"Then, just when the other guys were winnin', the sky threw up."

—Jula, goblin raider

Dromosaur
Creature — Dinosaur

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/-2 until end of turn.

They say dromosaurs are frightened of dogs, even little ones. There are no dogs in Shiv. Not even little ones.

2/3
Electryte
Creature — Trilobite Beast

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to defending player, it deals damage equal to its power to each blocking creature.

Shivan inhabitants are hardened to fire, so their predators have developed alternative weaponry.

3/3
Falter
Instant

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

Like a sleeping dragon, Shiv stirs and groans at times.

Fault Line
Instant

Fault Line deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

We live on the serpent's back.

—Viashino saying

Fiery Mantle
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

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

Fire Ants
Creature — Insect

: This creature deals 1 damage to each other creature without flying.

Visitors to Shiv fear the dragons, the goblins, or the viashino. Natives fear the ants.

2/1
Fire Ants
Creature — Insect

: This creature deals 1 damage to each other creature without flying.

2/1
Gamble
Sorcery

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

When you've got nothing, you might as well trade it for something else.

Goblin Cadets
Creature — Goblin

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, target opponent gains control of it. (This removes this creature from combat.)

"If you kids don't stop that racket, I'm turning this expedition around right now!"

2/1
Goblin Lackey
Creature — Goblin

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, you may put a Goblin permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

All bark, someone else's bite.

1/1
Goblin Matron
Creature — Goblin

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Goblin card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

There's always room for one more.

1/1
Goblin Offensive
Sorcery

Create X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

They certainly are.

Goblin Patrol
Creature — Goblin

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

"Take the sharp metal stick and make a lotta holes."

—Jula, goblin raider

2/1
Goblin Raider
Creature — Goblin Warrior

This creature can't block.

He was proud to wear the lizard skin around his waist, just for the fun of annoying the enemy.

2/2
Goblin Spelunkers
Creature — Goblin Warrior

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

"It only short jump. You go first."

"AIIIEEEE!"

"Hmm . . . we go different way now."

2/2
Goblin War Buggy
Creature — Goblin

Haste

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

2/2
Guma
Creature — Cat

Protection from blue

When the giant returned for the night, he found a dead merfolk on his pillow. Although he praised the little guma, he inwardly wondered where she had hid the head.

2/2
Headlong Rush
Instant

Attacking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.

A landslide of goblins poured toward the defenders—tumbling, rolling, and bouncing their way down the steep hillside.

Heat Ray
Instant

Heat Ray deals X damage to target creature.

It's not known whether the Thran built the device to forge their wonders or to defend them.

Jagged Lightning
Sorcery

Jagged Lightning deals 3 damage to each of two target creatures.

The pungent smell of roasting flesh made both mages realize they'd rather break for dinner than fight.

Lay Waste
Sorcery

Destroy target land.

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

Lightning Dragon
Creature — Dragon

Flying

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

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

4/4
Meltdown
Sorcery

Destroy each artifact with mana value X or less.

Catastrophes happened so often at the mana rig that the viashino language had a special word to describe them.

Okk
Creature — Goblin

This creature can't attack unless a creature with greater power also attacks.

This creature can't block unless a creature with greater power also blocks.

4/4
Outmaneuver
Instant

X target blocked creatures assign their combat damage this turn as though they weren't blocked.

"Push one goblin into sight, an' run a lot. That's tactics."

—Jula, goblin raider

Rain of Salt
Sorcery

Destroy two target lands.

Here, rain does not wash the land; it desiccates it.

Raze
Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.

Destroy target land.

The viashino believe that the oldest mountains hate everyone equally.

Reflexes
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)

Enchanted creature has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"Here's how ya win. Don't let the other guy hit back first."

—Jula, goblin raider

Retromancer
Creature — Lizard Shaman

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, this creature deals 3 damage to that spell or ability's controller.

"If one harm us, strike them in return. So sayeth the bey."

3/3
Rumbling Crescendo
Enchantment

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

, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy up to X target lands, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment.

Scald
Enchantment

Whenever a player taps an Island for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

"Shiv may be surrounded by water, but the mountains go far deeper."

—Fire Eye, viashino bey

Scoria Wurm
Creature — Wurm

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, return this creature to its owner's hand.

Late at night, ululations echo from deep under Shiv, as the wurms sing of times older than humanity.

7/7
Scrap
Instant

Destroy target artifact.

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

Shivan Hellkite
Creature — Dragon

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

: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

A dragon's scale can be carved into a mighty shield, provided you can procure a dragontooth to cut it.

5/5
Shivan Raptor
Creature — Dinosaur

First strike, haste

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

3/1
Shiv's Embrace
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

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

: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Wear the foe's form to best it in battle. So sayeth the bey."

Shower of Sparks
Instant

Shower of Sparks deals 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

The viashino had learned how to operate the rig through trial and error—mostly error.

Sneak Attack
Enchantment

: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice the creature at the beginning of the next end step.

"Nothin' beat surprise—'cept rock."

Steam Blast
Sorcery

Steam Blast deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

The viashino knew of the cracked pipes but deliberately left them unmended to bolster the rig's defenses.

Sulfuric Vapors
Enchantment

If a red spell would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 1 to that permanent or player instead.

It was the dragons who first learned to chase their prey into the vapors before igniting them.

Thundering Giant
Creature — Giant

Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

The giant was felt a few seconds before he was seen.

4/3
Torch Song
Enchantment

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

, Sacrifice this enchantment: It deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment.

Viashino Outrider
Creature — Lizard

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

"Give thy ration to thy mount, if the road be long. So sayeth the bey."

4/3
Viashino Runner
Creature — Lizard

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"It moved this way, an' that way, an' then before I could stick it, it jumped over my head an' was gone."

—Jula, goblin raider

3/2
Viashino Sandswimmer
Creature — Lizard

: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, return this creature to its owner's hand. If you lose the flip, sacrifice this creature.

Few swim in a place of such thirst.

3/2
Viashino Weaponsmith
Creature — Lizard

Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Within the rig settlement, those who have mastered the making of weapons earn highest honor.

2/2
Vug Lizard
Creature — Lizard

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

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

3/4
Wildfire
Sorcery

Each player sacrifices four lands of their choice. Wildfire deals 4 damage to each creature.

"Shiv hatched from a shell of stone around a yolk of flame."

—Viashino myth

Abundance
Enchantment

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Acridian
Creature — Insect

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

The elves of Argoth were trained to ride these creatures, even when their mounts traveled upside-down.

2/4
Albino Troll
Creature — Troll

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

: Regenerate this creature.

3/3
Anaconda
Creature — Snake

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

If you're smaller than the anaconda, it considers you food. If you're larger than the anaconda, it considers you a lot of food.

3/3
Argothian Elder
Creature — Elf Druid

: Untap two target lands.

Sharpen your ears

—Elvish expression meaning "grow wiser"

2/2