Urza, Chief Artificer
Affinity for artifact creatures (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact creature you control.) Artifact creatures you control have menace. At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
How Urza decks play in EDH
Urza, Chief Artificer is a Esper commander in white, blue and black costing 3WUB, and its legendary creature - human artificer line shapes the whole deck around it. It makes tokens, so the deck wants ways to pump a wide board and to turn spare bodies into cards or damage. Artifacts drive the deck, so cheap mana rocks and artifact recursion do double duty. The cards below are the ones Urza, Chief Artificer decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $81.18Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Ramp (1)
Card draw (5)
Removal (1)
Creatures (11)
Synergy & payoffs (2)
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Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal Urza, Chief Artificer decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
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What colours can I use in a Urza, Chief Artificer deck?
Urza, Chief Artificer has a Esper colour identity, so every card in the deck must be white, blue and black or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Urza, Chief Artificer?
The cards played most often in Urza, Chief Artificer decks include Fateful Discovery, Gleaming Splendor, Memnarch, the Warden. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Urza, Chief Artificer deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $81.18 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Urza, Chief Artificer deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.