Urza's Saga

Urza's Saga is the 15th expert level set, a 350-card Magic: The Gathering expansion set that debuted in October 1998. Some employees of Wizard consider it one of the most powerful sets ever released. The expansion symbol features a pair of gears from an Urza machine. Many players believed that the Urza block was another group of artifact sets like Antiquities because of Urza's association with artifacts and the fact that the block contained many ... more

Urza's Saga is the 15th expert level set, a 350-card Magic: The Gathering expansion set that debuted in October 1998. Some employees of Wizard consider it one of the most powerful sets ever released. The expansion symbol features a pair of gears from an Urza machine. Many players believed that the Urza block was another group of artifact sets like Antiquities because of Urza's association with artifacts and the fact that the block contained many powerful artifacts. This is also the official claim of Wizards of the Coast, even calling the Urza Block the Artifacts Cycle much like how Tempest Block was called the Rath Cycle. However, it was much closer to being an "enchantment-driven" block the same way that Mirrodin was created as an "artifact-driven" block than anything else. The block was initially intended to be enchantment driven in the design stages, but thematically from a storyline point of view Wizards maintains that this block is centered around artifacts. This can be seen... less