Card
Urabrask // The Great Work
Mana cost {2}{R}{R} //
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor // Enchantment — Saga
First strike Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Urabrask deals 1 damage to target opponent. Add {R}. {R}: Exile Urabrask, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you've cast three or more instant and/or sorcery spells this turn. // (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.) I — This Saga deals 3 damage to target opponent and each creature they control. II — Create three Treasure tokens. III — Until end of turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from any graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead. Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 86 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · MOM · #169
- Cheapest printing
- €13.98
- EDHREC salt
- 0.53
- Color identity
- Red
- Keywords
- Transform, First strike, Treasure
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
86 known combos.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast
If multiple players are allowed to cast the same card, the player with priority at any given time determines who can cast it. The player whose turn it is has priority as each step and phase begins, and they receive priority after each spell and ability resolves. This means immediately after chapter III resolves you’ll have priority to cast spells before any other player does. - 2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast
Urabrask will count any instant or sorcery spells you’ve cast during the turn, whether those spells resolved, didn’t resolve, were countered, or left the stack some other way. Urabrask won’t count copies of instant and sorcery spells that were created on the stack and not cast. - 2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast
After chapter III of The Great Work resolves, casting spells from graveyards follows the normal rules for casting those cards. You must pay their costs, and you must follow all applicable timing rules. For example, to cast a sorcery spell from a graveyard, you can do so by paying its mana cost only during your main phase while the stack is empty. - 2023-04-14 · Wizards of the Coast
Urabrask’s second ability isn’t a mana ability, even though it causes you to add mana. It uses the stack and can be responded to.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast