Urza's Saga
Sunder {3}{U}{U}
Instant
Return all lands to their owners' hands.
The flow of time was disrupted; like a flooding river it rose from its banks. Tolaria was drowned in an instant that stretched toward infinity.
Telepathy {U}
Enchantment
Your opponents play with their hands revealed.
"The most disappointing thing about learning telepathy is finding out how boring people really are."
—Teferi, fourth-level student
—Teferi, fourth-level student
Time Spiral {4}{U}{U}
Sorcery
Exile Time Spiral. Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.
Tolarian Winds {1}{U}
Instant
Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.
Afterward, Tolaria's winds were like the whispers of lost wizards, calling for life.
Turnabout {2}{U}{U}
Instant
Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.
The best cure for a big ego is a little failure.
Veil of Birds {U}
Enchantment
When an opponent casts a spell, if Veil of Birds is an enchantment, Veil of Birds becomes a 1/1 Bird creature with flying.
When wind marries sky, even the bride's veil sings her praises.
Veiled Apparition {1}{U}
Enchantment
When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Apparition is an enchantment, Veiled Apparition becomes a 3/3 Illusion creature with flying and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Veiled Apparition unless you pay {1}{U}."
Veiled Crocodile {2}{U}
Enchantment
When a player has no cards in hand, if Veiled Crocodile is an enchantment, Veiled Crocodile becomes a 4/4 Crocodile creature.
Some roads are paved with bad intentions.
Veiled Sentry {U}
Enchantment
When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Sentry is an enchantment, Veiled Sentry becomes an Illusion creature with power and toughness each equal to that spell's mana value.
Veiled Serpent {2}{U}
Enchantment
When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Serpent is an enchantment, Veiled Serpent becomes a 4/4 Serpent creature with "This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island."
Cycling {2}
Cycling {2}
Windfall {2}{U}
Sorcery
Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
"To fill your mind with knowledge, we must start by emptying it."
—Barrin, master wizard
—Barrin, master wizard
Wizard Mentor {2}{U}
Creature - Human Wizard
{T}: Return Wizard Mentor and target creature you control to their owner's hand.
Although some of the students quickly grasped the concept, the others could summon only blackboards.
2/2
Zephid {4}{U}{U}
Creature - Illusion
Flying
Shroud
Shroud
Once you've seen one, you'll understand why spells won't go near them.
3/4
Zephid's Embrace {2}{U}{U}
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and shroud.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and shroud.
Spells will shun you, as will everyone else.
Abyssal Horror {4}{B}{B}
Creature - Horror
Flying
When Abyssal Horror enters the battlefield, target player discards two cards.
When Abyssal Horror enters the battlefield, target player discards two cards.
It has no face of its own—it wears that of its latest victim.
2/2
Befoul {2}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Destroy target land or nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
"The land putrefied at its touch, turned into an oily bile in seconds."
—Radiant, archangel
—Radiant, archangel
Bereavement {1}{B}
Enchantment
Whenever a green creature dies, its controller discards a card.
"Grief is as useless as love."
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
Blood Vassal {2}{B}
Creature - Thrull
Sacrifice Blood Vassal: Add {B}{B}.
"They are bred to suffer and born to die. Much like humans."
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
2/2
Bog Raiders {2}{B}
Creature - Zombie
Swampwalk
"Let weak feed on weak, that we may divine the nature of strength."
—Phyrexian Scriptures
—Phyrexian Scriptures
2/2
Cackling Fiend {2}{B}{B}
Creature - Zombie
When Cackling Fiend enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.
Its windpipe is only the first to amplify its maddening laughter.
2/1
Carrion Beetles {B}
Creature - Insect
{2}{B}, {T}: Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
1/1
Contamination {2}{B}
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Contamination unless you sacrifice a creature.
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.
Corrupt {5}{B}
Sorcery
Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
Yawgmoth brushed Urza's mind, and Urza's world convulsed.