Urza, Academy Headmaster

Online Resources

Do you think ‘black-border’ will ever use online or app-based resources ala Urza, Academy Headmaster?

I don’t expect it in the near future.

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Carthalion Trivia

Hiya Mark! It was my birthday a couple days ago, I wanted to ask you some trivia about the Carthalion cards (Jared/Jenson/Carth the Lion) or, failing that, something about my favorite color combination, GUR! Have a magical day! :D

Jared Carthalion is one of only two five color planeswalkers. That had been a request from the players for a long while, so I made Urza, Academy Headmaster in Unstable. The players then asked for an eternal legal one and that ended up being Jared Carthalion in a Dominaria United Commander deck. My gut is we’ll make another one one day (five-color planeswalker, that is).Happy Belated Birthday!

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Future Un-set Plans

Hi Mark, I want to give my appreciation for the site askurza.com and say how much I love both Urza, Academy Headmaster and Urza’s Fun House! If you ever could make another Un-set, would you add another AskUrza card?

Probably. : )

Appreciation Humor Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets Urza Urza, Academy Headmaster Urza's Fun House

Urza's Hot Tub Rules

I have an Urza themed deck with "Urza's Hot Tub" in it. Can I discard "Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter" to the hot tub to go get "Urza, Academy Headmaster"? does the "apostrophe s" in liberator make this a no go?

The word has to be exact (aka the “complete” word). I will point out that the Un-rules care about the specific card in question, and some cards that are Urza’s ________ in English might be ______ of Urza in other languages. For example, the Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese versions of Liberator Urza’s Battlethopter have “Urza” in their title.

_____ Discard English Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter Rules Un-sets Urza Urza, Academy Headmaster Urza's Hot Tub

Urza's Fun House Doc

Are there any plans to make a document for Urza’s fun house similar to the one for Urza, Academy Headmaster?

I’ll ask. Note they overlap a bunch.

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Urza Ability Selection

Mark, with the Unfinity update for AskUrza.com, Urza no longer has + or - buttons, but instead says "Select the loyalty ability you're using" and offers a PDF download with numbered lists. Do we now get to pick the ability of our choice for Urza, Academy Headmaster, or do we roll a d20 for each ability?If we do roll a d20, does it count as a die roll for dice effects?

I’ll try to get the buttons added back.

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Urza's Fun House Intent

Buggy code aside, what is the INTENDED way for Urza's Fun House to work? Is it supposed to have completely different abilities?

It’s using the same database as Urza, Academy Headmaster. That database can change.

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Urza's Fun House Error

I think this may be an error on Urza’s fun house I get “put a loyalty counter on Urza for each creature target opponent controls”; however Urza’s fun house is a land.

It’s pulling from the same database as Urza, Academy Headmaster. We’ll fix it. In the meantime, just rehit the button if the result doesn’t make sense.

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Magical Hacker's Ability

Un-rules question: What happens if I use Magical Hacker's ability on Urza, Academy Headmaster, and then use the -6 ability (now a +6 ability)? Since there's no +6 button, do I just click the -6 button?

I don’t believe you can change loyalty abilities as the card only affects “text” (aka rules text). If you could (and again, you can’t), it would just negate the ability as there is no +6 button. EDIT: Okay, I was wrong. A loyalty ability is rules text, so it can be affected. That means you can shut off the -6 ability as there is no +6 button to hit.

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Urza, Academy Headmaster Border

Would Urza, Academy Headmaster be acorn or black-border if printed today? I think a case could be made for black border since none of his effects (to my knowledge) are actually outside of game rules. Would using an external site like Askurza be enough cause to make it acorn or does that still technically work?

I think the interface with the internet is probably enough to keep it acorn. It’s possible non Un-sets sets cross that boundary one day, but until they do, Urza stays acorn.

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Experience with Un/acorn Cards

To the question of playing Un/acorn cards, I keep a copy of Urza, Academy headmaster as a lone silver card in my Superfriends Commander deck and no one has ever complained about it. Usually everyone just has a laugh at whatever bizarre effect the website tells us to do.

Happy to hear that.

Commander Decks Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets Urza Urza, Academy Headmaster

Urza, Academy Headmaster Query

Hi Mark! Is Urza, Academy Headmaster the real Urza or some Bablovian Bizarro version?

It’s the Un-iverse version of Urza.

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Five Colored Planeswalkers

Will we see a 5 colored Planeswalker at some point?

We have. Unstable had Urza, Academy Headmaster. I assume one day black border will get one.

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