Urza's Saga

Urza’s Saga is the 15th Magic expansion and was released on 12th October, 1998 as the first set in the Urza’s block.

The set contains some very powerful artifacts and artifact-themed cards like Fluctuator and Tolarian Academy. In fact so many broken cards are in the set that the following period became known as Combo Winter. Players believed that too many overpowered cards and combos filled all the tournament formats, which moved the DCI to ban a large number of cards in December 1998.

Urza’s Saga was the first set to replace 60-card starter decks with 75-card tournament decks. Cards were also sold in 15-card boosters and four preconstructed theme decks.

The prerelease for Urza’s Saga gave away foil copies of the card Lightning Dragon as a promotion. This was the first release of a foil card in Magic although the next set in the block, Urza’s Legacy, had them inserted randomly into booster packs.

Phyrexian Colossus was printed with a collector number of 306/350 when it should be 305/350. 306 is the number for Phyrexian Processor which is printed correctly.