Unglued uncommon. Urza’s Contact Lenses was a winking reference—if you’ll pardon the pun—to Alpha classics Urza’s Glasses and Urza’s Sunglasses. At this point, though, the central joke—a “clap on, clap off” artifact in the vein of the appliances and accessories popularized in cheesy late 90s TV commercials—is a casualty of the game’s changing rules. When Unglued came out in 1998, artifacts “worked” only while untapped, with often confusing exceptions for abilities that wouldn’t make sense otherwise, so the Contact Lenses was intended to reveal all players’ hands only while untapped.
