Sunglasses of Urza
Artifact
You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Limited Edition Alpha
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #25161
Sunglasses of Urza lets you spend white mana as though it were red mana — a narrow permission slip that costs three mana to deploy and one to equip, asking a lot for a effect that only matters when your hand is full of white cards you'd rather cast with red. Outside of dedicated white-heavy decks that also need red mana fixing, this is a curiosity, not a tool.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sunglasses of Urza is a fringe inclusion at best — the formats where you'd actually want cross-color mana flexibility are better served by dual lands, signets, or talismans that don't cost four mana across two turns to come online. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but have no incentive to run it when fast mana and proper fixing dominate those formats. Sunglasses of Urza is legal in Oathbreaker as well, but the same logic applies: the cost-to-effect ratio doesn't compete with real fixing.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Sunglasses of Urza isn't currently available in this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current figure. Given its narrow application and low demand, it typically sits in bulk-rare territory — don't expect to pay much, but don't expect it to do much either.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.