Urza by mysticocelot

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Lord Protector

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius artifact midrange strategy commanded by Urza, Lord Protector. Urza provides immediate cost reduction on artifacts, instants, and sorceries, accelerating mana rock deployment and card filtering. The deck's primary plan seeks to deploy and meld with The Mightstone and Weakstone, transforming into Urza, Planeswalker. With double loyalty activations per turn, Urza quickly reaches his -10 ultimate to execute an asymmetric, one-sided wipe of all opposing nonland permanents. Complementing the meld line is a dense suite of construct generators, including Thousand Moons Smithy, Digsite Engineer, and Urza, Prince of Kroog, which scale token power with total artifact count. Defensive countermagic and cheap exile removal like Dispatch and Swords to Plowshares keep opposing threats at bay, while recursive staples like Sun Titan and Brilliant Restoration ensure prolonged resilience across attrition-heavy multiplayer pods.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Brilliant Restoration
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Chromatic Star
  • 1 Clay-Fired Bricks // Cosmium Kiln
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Currency Converter
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Digsite Engineer
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Guardian of Faith
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lion Sash
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexia's Core
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rebbec, Architect of Ascension
  • 1 Sarah Jane Smith
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Search for Glory
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Serra Paragon
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
  • 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza, Lord Protector
  • 1 Urza, Prince of Kroog