Artificers by kevinprox

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Chief Artificer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Esper artifact deck leverages Urza, Chief Artificer alongside a unique package of 14 copies of Cid, Timeless Artificer to create an overwhelming combat engine. The primary game plan develops rapid artifact mana through artifact lands, cheap rocks, and cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor, setting up an early commander deployment. Urza immediately begins generating scaling Construct tokens that grow with every artifact in play and gain evasion through menace. Multiple copies of Cid can be cycled for card draw, simultaneously filling the graveyard to grant massive static buffs to all artifact creatures on board. Complementary engines such as Simulacrum Synthesizer, Thousand Moons Smithy, and Sai, Master Thopterist ensure the board goes wide and tall even if Urza is removed. Supported by efficient one-mana interaction and card advantage engines like Esper Sentinel and Rhystic Study, the deck applies relentless combat pressure that overwhelms opponents across two to three combat cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 All That Glitters
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 14 Cid, Timeless Artificer
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cranial Plating
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Digsite Engineer
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glimmervoid
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Illustrious Wanderglyph
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Lita, Mechanical Engineer
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Michiko's Reign of Truth // Portrait of Michiko
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Oltec Matterweaver
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tempered Steel
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Urza's Command
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Chief Artificer
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Urza, Lord Protector
  • 1 Vault Skirge
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Whirler Rogue