Urza's Rage — ruling 1

To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

Urza's Rage — ruling 2

If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.

Urza's Rage — ruling 3

If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.

Urza's Rage — ruling 4

If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."

Urza's Rage — ruling 5

The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.

Urza's Rage — ruling 6

If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.

Urza's Rage — ruling 7

If the target for Urza's Rage becomes an illegal target, the spell won't resolve and will be put into its owner's graveyard with no effect. This is true even if its damage can't be prevented and even though it can't be countered.

Urza's Rage — ruling 8

A spell or ability that counters spells can still target Urza's Rage. When that spell or ability resolves, Urza's Rage won't be countered, but any additional effects of that spell or ability will still happen.

Urza's Rage : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Urza's Rage is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.) This spell can't be countered. Urza's Rage deals 3 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, instead it deals 10 damage to that permanent or player and the damage can't be prevented.

How it works : Urza's Rage

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#2November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#3November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#4November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
No other card is named in this ruling.
#5November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#6November 8, 2024· Wizards of the Coast
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#7June 14, 2019· Wizards of the Coast
If the target for Urza's Rage becomes an illegal target, the spell won't resolve and will be put into its owner's graveyard with no effect. This is true even if its damage can't be prevented and even though it can't be countered.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#8June 14, 2019· Wizards of the Coast
A spell or ability that counters spells can still target Urza's Rage. When that spell or ability resolves, Urza's Rage won't be countered, but any additional effects of that spell or ability will still happen.
No other card is named in this ruling.