Urza, Lord High Artificer by Brandonh62

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Lord High Artificer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered competitive Commander strategy led by Urza, Lord High Artificer. It converts cheap artifacts and tokens into massive mana acceleration, enabling early combo assembly and potent stax locks. The primary win condition is the classic Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal loop, which produces infinite mana and untaps. Urza acts as both the mana engine and the primary infinite outlet, allowing you to exile and cast your entire deck to finish opponents with Walking Ballista. The deck achieves high consistency through a redundant tutor suite for artifacts and instants, backed by free and low-cost countermagic like Pact of Negation, Flusterstorm, and Swan Song. If the game slows down, Stasis locks out opponent mana while Urza breaks parity effortlessly.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Battered Golem
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Vantress
  • 1 Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Giant's Boulder
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 31 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Karn, Scion of Urza
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Paradoxical Outcome
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polymorph
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Stasis
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment
  • 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Urza's Bauble
  • 1 Urza's Command
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Vedalken Mastermind
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Words of Wind