MTG Staple Just KEEPS Going UP in Price

Urza’s Saga is such a good card that many players wish it didn’t exist. It’s just so versatile! The Saga can make massive Construct tokens and tutor your library for silver bullet artifacts. Across multiple formats, many MTG decks are finding ways to fit in Urza’s Saga. It’s becoming ubiquitous. And it’s also becoming quite expensive.

Urza’s Saga

Urza’s Saga is about $38.00 at the time of this article. It’s had a substantial price spike back in November. But since then, the card has continued to gradually climb in price.

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Urza’s Saga Decks – Why The Card is So Expensive

Urza’s Saga is being played everywhere! It’s used in Commander and Legacy. But it is most dominant in Modern. Many top-tier decks of the format are using Saga to grind out Construct tokens or tutor for artifact combo pieces. It can even find critical sideboard cards such as Grafdigger’s CageGrafdigger’s CageCreature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries., Pithing Needle, and Relic of ProgenitusRelic of Progenitus{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard.
{1}, Exile this artifact: Exile all graveyards. Draw a card..

The growing prevalence of Urza’s Saga is pumping up its price. Just check out how many Modern decks are playing the card:

“Zoomer” Jund

To demonstrate the influence of Urza’s Saga, let’s start by looking at perhaps the least obvious deck that’s adapted the card. These days, traditional Jund decks (red/black/green) are cutting classic cards of the longstanding archetype such as Liliana of the VeilLiliana of the Veil+1: Each player discards a card.
−2: Target player sacrifices a creature.
−6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice., and Bloodbraid ElfBloodbraid ElfHaste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.).

Now, Jund has dropped their entire mana curve to play Lurrus of the Dream Den as its companion. And they play Wrenn and SixWrenn and Six+1: Return up to one target land card from your graveyard to your hand.
−1: Wrenn and Six deals 1 damage to any target.
−7: You get an emblem with "Instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard have retrace." (You may cast instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.) to repeatedly buy back Urza’s Saga once it goes to the grave. This creates a steady stream of growing Construct tokens that will eventually overwhelm your opponent.

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Affinity

Affinity was once thought to be a dead archetype when Mox OpalMox OpalMetalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts. was banned. But Urza’s Saga and a few other noteworthy upgrades from MH2 such as Thought Monitor and Sojourner’s Companion have brought the deck back from the grave.

If you want to make the biggest possible Construct tokens with Urza’s Saga, then this is the deck for you.

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Hammer Time

Hammertime is one of the top decks of the Modern metagame. The deck revolves around Colossus Hammer and circumventing its equip cost with cards such as Sigarda’s Aid and Puresteel Paladin.

Urza’s Saga is able to tutor for Colossus Hammer. But it can also find ShadowspearShadowspearEquipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip {2} to grant trample to your hammer-wielding creatures, allowing them to punch through blockers for lethal damage.

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Amulet Titan

Amulet Titan has been around in Modern for a long time. It can produce wins as early as Turn 2 via the deck’s two namesake cards, Amulet of Vigor and Primeval TitanPrimeval TitanTrample
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle..

Now the deck is even more consistent thanks to Urza’s Saga. The third chapter of the Enchantment Land can put Amulet of Vigor from your deck directly onto the battlefield.

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More Urza’s Saga Decks in Modern

There are a bunch of other Modern decks that leverage Urza’s Saga such as Hardened Scales, Thopter Combo, and Eldrazi Tron.

And I have to mention one of my pet decks, Asmo’s Kitchen. The Food deck, named after Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, makes a buffet of artifact Food tokens which make for massive Construct tokens with Urza’s Saga.

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