Urza
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Urza was an ancient artificer located on MtG's former prime plane of Dominaria. After finding a magic rock which he was forced to split with his brother, waging a war for said rock that destroyed nations, building countless war automatons that have yet to be matched, pioneering the early theories that would define the five colors of magic as they're understood today, and blowing up an entire island thereby plunging the world into a long and deadly Ice Age, he became a planeswalker - indeed, THE Planeswalker, as "Urza Planeswalker" was the name he typically went by. He has been praised by Dominaria's artificers and damned by mostly everyone else for fucking the plane up as badly as it has been. Urza was the main opponent of the Phyrexians, but was known for being callous, longsighted and indifferent to the plight of brief mortals in the pursuit of his goals (though these could be argued to be common traits for the godlike Planeswalkers of the time). Notorious for fucking up the planes he tried to save roughly as much as he helped them, Urza is a tragic hero very much in the classical style.
In his efforts to defeat Phyrexia, he developed time travel, and built the being that would later become the planeswalker Karn for this purpose, as silver could pass through the time warp undamaged where everything else kind of died. Urza's research into the ancient Thran civilization and development of the Legacy artifacts would ultimately save Dominaria from Phyrexia's vile Lord of the Wastes, though Urza himself fell prey to Yawgmoth's temptations and spent his last few hours as a literal talking head helping Gerrard Capashen and the crew of the Weatherlight prepare the Legacy Weapon.
He taught Jhoira of the Ghitu and Teferi, 'fathered' Gerrard and the Metathran, hung out with Freyalise, was the great (great great?) grandfather of Jodah the Archmage Eternal and ultimately provided the Spark that allowed Karn's transcendence and the creation of the plane Argentum that would one day become Mirrodin.
He also developed a bomb powered by the Planeswalker Spark which could destroy entire planes. So, there's that too.
He has one creature card, Blind Seer, which is him in disguise, and no Planeswalker cards, because they were not conceived until long after he died, though he is technically alive within Karn. It is fairly shameful that this article about the single most important figure in MtG mythology is shorter than the ones on all the puddle-deep nuWalkers.
| Planeswalkers of Magic: The Gathering | |
|---|---|
| Original Five: | Ajani Goldmane - Chandra Nalaar Garruk Wildspeaker - Jace Beleren - Liliana Vess |
| Alara: | Elspeth Tirel - Nicol Bolas - Sarkhan Vol - Tezzeret |
| Zendikar: | Gideon Jura - Nissa Revane - Sorin Markov |
| Scars of Mirrodin: | Karn - Koth of the Hammer - Venser |
| Innistrad: | Tamiyo - Tibalt - Davriel Cane |
| Return to Ravnica: | Domri Rade - Ral Zarek - Vraska |
| Theros: | Ashiok - Kiora - Xenagos - Calix |
| Tarkir: | Ugin - Narset |
| Kaladesh: | Dovin Baan - Saheeli Rai |
| Amonkhet: | Samut |
| Other: | Dack Fayden - Vivien Reid - Kaya |
| Commander 2014: | Daretti - Freyalise - Nahiri - Ob Nixilis - Teferi |
| Pre-mending: | Bo Levar - Commodore Guff - Jaya Ballard - Urza |
| Forgotten Realms: | Ellywick Tumblestrum - Bahamut - Lolth - Zariel - Mordenkainen |
| Planeswalker Groups: | The Gatewatch |