The hoop to jump through, melding the card, seemed difficult enough that it allowed us the ability to make a very powerful planeswalker. Urza holds an important place in the story as a character, so we knew a planeswalker card of him had to be a big deal. One of the challenges of doing planeswalkers from prior to the Mending is capturing a sense of how powerful they were. When Ari and I were making the demo decks, we knew that we were going to have a meld Urza where the melded version would be an Urza planeswalker card. (Quick little factoid: Urza's head is one of only a small handful of characters to show up in three different Un- sets.) Urza then showed up as a legendary creature called Urza, Lord High Artificer in Modern Horizons (this portrayed him prior to his spark igniting). Unstable had the first-ever Un- planeswalker, a five-color Urza, as that had been a frequent request from the players, and everyone seemed to enjoy Urza's head as a character. In Unhinged, Urza showed up as a head (making fun of a plot point from the Weatherlight Saga story-his head gets chopped off, but he keeps on living as a disembodied head). Urza finally got a card with his name on it in Unstable: Urza, Academy Headmaster. If you didn't read the novel, though, you'd have no idea this was Urza, even with a tiny tease from the flavor text.
We didn't have planeswalker cards at the time (that wouldn't come until Lorwyn many years later), so this was a way to have him appear as a creature. He wanted to help Gerrard and company, but he didn't want them to know he was Urza. In the story, Urza disguised himself as a blind seer.
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