Urza's Saga

USG · 357 cards · Released

Endoskeleton
Artifact

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

, : Target creature gets +0/+3 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Fluctuator
Artifact

Cycling abilities you activate cost less to activate.

Fiko summoned only atogs for three straight sessions. The tutor couldn't decide whether to punish his failure or praise his consistency.

Grafted Skullcap
Artifact

At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card.

At the beginning of your end step, discard your hand.

"Let go your mind. Mine is fitter."

—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor

Hopping Automaton
Artifact Creature — Construct

: This creature gets -1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Designed to carry equipment across rivers, the hopping automaton was soon pressed into service in the infantry.

2/2
Karn, Silver Golem
Legendary Artifact Creature — Golem

Whenever Karn blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -4/+4 until end of turn.

: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn.

4/4
Lifeline
Artifact

Whenever a creature dies, if another creature is on the battlefield, return the first card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Lotus Blossom
Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on this artifact.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of petal counters on this artifact.

Metrognome
Artifact

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, create four 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens.

, : Create a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token.

Mishra's Helix
Artifact

, : Tap X target lands.

The helix was the finest example of Mishra's campaign strategy: if he couldn't have Argoth, no one could.

Mobile Fort
Artifact Creature — Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: This creature gets +3/-1 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Activate only once each turn.

0/6
Noetic Scales
Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, return to its owner's hand each creature that player controls with power greater than the number of cards in their hand.

Phyrexian Colossus
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.

Pay 8 life: Untap this creature.

This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

8/8
Phyrexian Processor
Artifact

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life.

, : Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Pit Trap
Artifact

, , Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target attacking creature without flying. It can't be regenerated.

Yotian soldiers were designed to fight, not watch their feet.

Purging Scythe
Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, this artifact deals 2 damage to the creature with the least toughness. If two or more creatures are tied for least toughness, you choose one of them.

Smokestack
Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on this artifact.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice for each soot counter on this artifact.

Temporal Aperture
Artifact

, : Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. Until end of turn, for as long as that card remains on top of your library, play with the top card of your library revealed and you may play that card without paying its mana cost. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)

Thran Turbine
Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may add . You can't spend this mana to cast spells.

When Urza asked the viashino what it did, they answered: "It hums."

Umbilicus
Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay 2 life. If they don't, they return a permanent they control to its owner's hand.

It was the explorers' only tether to reality.

Urza's Armor
Artifact

If a source would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

"Tawnos's blueprints were critical to the creation of my armor. As he once sealed himself in steel, I sealed myself in a walking crypt."

—Urza

Voltaic Key
Artifact

, : Untap target artifact.

The key did not work on a single lock, yet it opened many doors.

Wall of Junk
Artifact Creature — Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Urza saw the wall and realized that even if he tore every Phyrexian to pieces, they would still resist him.

0/7
Whetstone
Artifact

: Each player mills two cards.

To hone swords and dull minds.

—Whetstone inscription

Wirecat
Artifact Creature — Cat

This creature can't attack or block if an enchantment is on the battlefield.

Its purr is the sound of iron filings sliding down satin.

4/3
Worn Powerstone
Artifact

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add .

Blasted Landscape
Land

: Add .

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

Drifting Meadow
Land

This land enters tapped.

: Add .

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

Gaea's Cradle
Legendary Land

: Add for each creature you control.

"Here sprouted the first seedling of Argoth. Here the last tree will fall."

—Gamelen, Citanul elder

Phyrexian Tower
Legendary Land

: Add .

, Sacrifice a creature: Add .

Living metal encasing dying flesh.

Polluted Mire
Land

This land enters tapped.

: Add .

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

Remote Isle
Land

This land enters tapped.

: Add .

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

Serra's Sanctum
Legendary Land

: Add for each enchantment you control.

A fragile cocoon of dreaming will.

Shivan Gorge
Legendary Land

: Add .

, : Shivan Gorge deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Both forge and pyre.

Slippery Karst
Land

This land enters tapped.

: Add .

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

Smoldering Crater
Land

This land enters tapped.

: Add .

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

Thran Quarry
Land

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no creatures, sacrifice this land.

: Add one mana of any color.

Tolarian Academy
Legendary Land

: Add for each artifact you control.

The academy worked with time—until time ran out.

Plains
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Island
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Swamp
Basic Land — Swamp

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Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain

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Forest
Basic Land — Forest

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