Urza's Saga - Notable Cards

Notable Cards

• Morphling — Nicknamed "Superman" for its wide range of abilities, Morphling was for years considered the best creature ever printed due to its abilities and chance to combine them. Being one of the most useful and effective blue creatures available at the time, Morphling appeared in many decks of the time.
• Tolarian Academy — Although part of a cycle of five Legendary Lands, Tolarian Academy was quickly singled out as one of the most obviously powerful cards of the set. Tolarian Academy was used to produce huge amounts of blue mana in combo decks full of cheap artifacts. This mana was often used to draw many cards with Stroke of Genius, or to simply target the opponent with a very large Stroke of Genius, winning the game via decking. Urza's Saga contained many ways to profitably reuse Academy in a single turn, like Time Spiral and other blue "free spells". It is among over a dozen cards from the block to be featured on multiple ban lists
• Goblin Lackey — Unspectacular at first, Goblin Lackey would become a very powerful card when Onslaught block was released long after Urza's Saga. This is due to the high number of powerful Goblin cards released in Onslaught block. Goblin decks would become a common and highly competitive deck in seemingly every format, with Goblin Lackey being a key card in the "Gobvantage" decks of the older formats (Extended, Legacy, and Vintage).
• Yawgmoth's Will — When used in conjunction with mana-producing instants and cheap or zero-casting-cost cards, Yawgmoth's Will can allow a player to replay every card in his or her graveyard in one turn. It is banned in Legacy and restricted in Vintage for this reason. Wizards of the Coast does not ban cards in the Vintage format, but noted Vintage writer Stephen Menendian once said that there should be an exception made for this card because of its extremely high power level.