Tinker
Urza's Legacy 45 • uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Legacy
- Collector number
- 45
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Mike Raabe
- Market price
- $4.71
What it does
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact.
Search your library for an artifact card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
"I wonder how it feels to be bored."— Jhoira, artificer
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyBanned
- VintageRestricted
- CommanderBanned
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerBanned
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Where it came from
Tinker was released in 1999 as part of the Urza's Legacy expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Developed during a period when Wizards of the Coast was pushing the boundaries of card power and synergy, the card was designed to embody the themes of the Urza block, which centered on complex machinery and artifact-based strategies. By allowing a player to sacrifice an artifact to search their library for a more powerful replacement, it became an immediate focal point for deck builders looking to accelerate their board state.
The artwork was provided by Mike Raabe, whose illustration depicts a stylized, mechanical assembly process that captures the efficiency of the spell's effect. Upon its release, the card quickly gained a reputation for its immense utility in tournament play, eventually necessitating restrictions in various competitive formats due to the ease with which it could bring high-impact artifacts into play ahead of schedule. It remains a hallmark of 1990s card design and a significant piece of Magic history for its role in defining early artifact-centric archetypes.
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