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Urza, Lord High Artificer - community staples
Urza, Lord High Artificer · U · 100 cards · 37 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 37Instants 12Sorceries 1Artifacts 8Enchantments 2Planeswalkers 2Lands 37
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Strategy
Urza, Lord High Artificer leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, building an artifact board and cashing it in. The list holds 12 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 3.23.
Early: Use the early turns on mana. Mana Drain and the rest of the 12 ramp pieces are what let the deck cast Urza, Lord High Artificer on curve and keep casting after it.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Counterspell is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Sensei's Divining Top keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Cyclonic Rift for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 2 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 3.23 average mana value the top end is middling, which means most turns hold two spells.
Win conditions: Wins through artifact payoffs and the damage or mana they produce.
- Unwinding Clock - Core to the plan
- Dramatic Reversal - Core to the plan
- Fabricate - Core to the plan
- Isochron Scepter - Core to the plan
- Tormod's Crypt - Core to the plan
- Whir of Invention - Core to the plan
- Etherium Sculptor - Core to the plan
- Mishra's Bauble - Core to the plan
~$747.00
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Urza, Lord High Artificer
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}.
{5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Creatures (37)
Etherium Sculptor
Artifact Creature — Vedalken Artificer
$0.7
Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Hullbreaker Horror
Creature — Kraken Horror
$5.72
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Sai, Master Thopterist
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
$0.29
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
{1}{U}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw a card.
Foundry Inspector
Artifact Creature — Construct
$0.36
Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Forensic Gadgeteer
Creature — Vedalken Artificer Detective
$1.92
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
Phyrexian Metamorph
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter
$2.1
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
The Reality Chip
Legendary Artifact Creature — Equipment Jellyfish
$4.02
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
As long as The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
Reconfigure {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)
Spellskite
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
$6.86
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Emry, Lurker of the Loch
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
$0.57
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
When Emry enters, mill four cards.
{T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)
Padeem, Consul of Innovation
Legendary Creature — Vedalken Artificer
$1.36
Artifacts you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control the artifact with the greatest mana value or tied for the greatest mana value, draw a card.
Displacer Kitten
Creature — Cat Beast
$26.45
Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Thought Monitor
Artifact Creature — Construct
$0.27
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards.
Walking Ballista
Artifact Creature — Construct
$5.22
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.
Trinket Mage
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.31
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Shimmer Myr
Artifact Creature — Myr
$0.34
Flash
You may cast artifact spells as though they had flash.
Vedalken Archmage
Creature — Vedalken Wizard
$12.61
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.
Tribute Mage
Creature — Human Wizard
$1.16
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 2, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
Legendary Artifact Creature — Thopter
$7.45
Flash
Flying
You may cast colorless spells and artifact spells as though they had flash.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast that spell is greater than Liberator's power, put a +1/+1 counter on Liberator.
Kappa Cannoneer
Artifact Creature — Turtle Warrior
$0.26
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Ward {4}
Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It can't be blocked this turn.
Trophy Mage
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.55
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.27
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Thassa's Oracle
Creature — Merfolk Wizard
$20.99
When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Master Transmuter
Artifact Creature — Human Artificer
$4.97
{U}, {T}, Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Faerie Mastermind
Creature — Faerie Rogue
$11.47
Flash
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card.
{3}{U}: Each player draws a card.
Tidespout Tyrant
Creature — Djinn
$1.43
Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, return target permanent to its owner's hand.
Cyberdrive Awakener
Artifact Creature — Construct
$1.51
Flying
Other artifact creatures you control have flying.
When this creature enters, each noncreature artifact you control becomes a 4/4 artifact creature until end of turn.
Jhoira's Familiar
Artifact Creature — Bird
$1.41
Flying
Historic spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Blightsteel Colossus
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem
$33.43
Trample, infect, indestructible
If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.
Myr Battlesphere
Artifact Creature — Myr Construct
$0.24
When this creature enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.
Valley Floodcaller
Creature — Otter Wizard
$4.3
Flash
You may cast noncreature spells as though they had flash.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Birds, Frogs, Otters, and Rats you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap them.
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
$8.2
Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Karn, Legacy Reforged
Legendary Artifact Creature — Golem
$19.32
Karn's power and toughness are each equal to the greatest mana value among artifacts you control.
At the beginning of your upkeep, add {C} for each artifact you control. This mana can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.
Ornithopter of Paradise
Artifact Creature — Thopter
$0.44
Flying
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Grand Architect
Creature — Vedalken Artificer
$1.05
Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
{U}: Target artifact creature becomes blue until end of turn.
Tap an untapped blue creature you control: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.
Instants (12)
Whir of Invention
Instant
$5.93
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Swan Song
Instant
$9.85
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Instant
$3.01
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Mana Drain
Instant
$51.22
Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.
Cyclonic Rift
Instant
$30.27
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Mystical Tutor
Instant
$14.99
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Force of Negation
Instant
$42
If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
Muddle the Mixture
Instant
$2.2
Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
High Tide
Instant
$0.81
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.
Desynchronization
Instant
$4.73
Return each nonland permanent that's not historic to its owner's hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Sorceries (1)
Fabricate
Sorcery
$6.75
Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifacts (8)
Unwinding Clock
Artifact
$20.76
Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.
Tormod's Crypt
Artifact
$0.41
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.
Mishra's Bauble
Artifact
$1.24
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Sensei's Divining Top
Artifact
$35.46
{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.
Forsaken Monument
Legendary Artifact
$5.71
Colorless creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever you tap a permanent for {C}, add an additional {C}.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, you gain 2 life.
Prized Statue
Artifact
$0.44
When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Wayfarer's Bauble
Artifact
$0.3
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Enchantments (2)
Mystic Remora
Enchantment
$10.11
Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.
Rhystic Study
Enchantment
$67.53
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.
Planeswalkers (2)
Tezzeret the Seeker
Legendary Planeswalker — Tezzeret
$25.64
+1: Untap up to two target artifacts.
−X: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
−5: Artifacts you control become artifact creatures with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.
Ugin, Eye of the Storms
Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin
$41.29
When you cast this spell, exile up to one target permanent that's one or more colors.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, exile up to one target permanent that's one or more colors.
+2: You gain 3 life and draw a card.
0: Add {C}{C}{C}.
−11: Search your library for any number of colorless nonland cards, exile them, then shuffle. Until end of turn, you may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.
Lands (37)
Urza's Saga
Enchantment Land — Urza's Saga
$36.03
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Inventors' Fair
Legendary Land
$18.95
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
Academy Ruins
Legendary Land
$5.19
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Otawara, Soaring City
Legendary Land
$26.49
{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Buried Ruin
Land
$0.44
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Mystic Sanctuary
Land — Island
$1.11
({T}: Add {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Uthros, Titanic Godcore
Land — Planet
$12.1
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ | {U}, {T}: Add {U} for each artifact you control.
Minamo, School at Water's Edge
Legendary Land
$58.63
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.
Urza's Power Plant
Land — Urza's Power-Plant
$0.6
{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.
Basic lands: 25 Island
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