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===Memory Jar=== | |||
This card pretty much gives you a brand new hand for 5 mana. This was during a period in Magic's history with a disgusting amount of 1-turn-wonder combo fodder (not just from Urza's Saga but from Tempest block as well) and ways to rapid fire cards onto the table, plus enough cheap non-land mana sources that getting 5 colorless on your first turn wasn't hard at all. The result was that Memory Jar became the first and (so far) only card to be banned from Standard before it was ever legal. Wizards offered you replacement packs if you opened an Urza's Legacy booster with a Memory Jar, it was such an embarrassment at the time. | |||
== Free Mechanic == | == Free Mechanic == | ||
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The Urza's Saga Block is Infamous for being one of the most, if not the most broken set ever created, so bad that the CEO of Wizards called design up and threatened that doing it again will make you fired. It's know for containing many broken artifacts (even though the theme was meant to be enchantments)
Notable Cards
Oh boy, you're in for a ride. This block has tons of cheese.
Memory Jar
This card pretty much gives you a brand new hand for 5 mana. This was during a period in Magic's history with a disgusting amount of 1-turn-wonder combo fodder (not just from Urza's Saga but from Tempest block as well) and ways to rapid fire cards onto the table, plus enough cheap non-land mana sources that getting 5 colorless on your first turn wasn't hard at all. The result was that Memory Jar became the first and (so far) only card to be banned from Standard before it was ever legal. Wizards offered you replacement packs if you opened an Urza's Legacy booster with a Memory Jar, it was such an embarrassment at the time.
Free Mechanic
Many cards had a free mechanic: pay more mana than usual for a spell, but you get to untap lands equal to the amount of mana paid. That is already pretty powerful, but then is boosted by the fact that there's lands that tap for more than one mana. It's considered one of the Mechanics you can't balance as well: Making it cost more mana makes it better.
| Settings of Magic: The Gathering | |
|---|---|
| Pre-revisionist: | First Magic Sets - First Urza Block - Arabian Nights Legends - Homelands - Ice Age - Mirage |
| Weatherlight Saga: | Portal Starter Sets - Second Urza Block Tempest Block - Masques Block - Invasion Block |
| Post-Weatherlight: | Otaria Block - Mirrodin - Kamigawa - Ravnica - Time Spiral |
| After the Mending: | Lorwyn - Alara - Zendikar - New Phyrexia Innistrad - Return to Ravnica - Theros - Tarkir - Eldraine - Ikoria |
| Two-Block Paradigm: | Kaladesh - Amonkhet - Ixalan |
| Post Two-Block Paradigm: | Eldraine - Ikoria - Kaldheim - Strixhaven |
| Never in a standard set: | Fiora (Where the Conspiracy sets take place) - Kylem (Battlebond) |