Urza, Chief Artificer by user3469850

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Chief Artificer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper artifact midrange strategy built around Urza, Chief Artificer. Its primary plan is to deploy efficient low-cost artifact creatures and mana rocks during the early turns to accelerate Urza onto the battlefield on Turn 4. Once deployed, Urza creates a scaling Karnstruct token on every end step and grants all artifact creatures menace. The deck quickly amasses overwhelming board power, leveraging token doublers like Mondrak, Glory Dominus, secondary construct generators like Simulacrum Synthesizer, and evasion from Cyberdrive Awakener to eliminate opponents through combat damage. Defensive layers such as Cryptothrall, Bronze Guardian, and Teferi's Protection shield the battlefield from opposing interaction, while light stax elements including Ethersworn Canonist and Winter Orb disrupt opponent sequencing. The deck maintains reliable card flow through The One Ring, Losheel, Clockwork Scholar, and Thopter Spy Network, ensuring continuous gas even through removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aether Vial
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Biotransference
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Broodstar
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Cityscape Leveler
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptothrall
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Dolmen Gate
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gold Myr
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lita, Mechanical Engineer
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Metalwork Colossus
  • 1 Mirrodin Besieged
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scene of the Crime
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sojourner's Companion
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thopter Shop
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Chief Artificer
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Urza, Prince of Kroog
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine