urza by Arcan1s

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Chief Artificer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper artifact midrange strategy piloted by Urza, Chief Artificer. It accelerates in the opening turns with cheap artifacts, cost reducers, and affinity enablers. On Turn 4, Urza enters the battlefield at a reduced cost and begins creating scaling Construct tokens on each of your end steps. Because Urza grants all artifact creatures menace, these tokens quickly become unblockable lethal threats. The deck amplifies its board presence using token multipliers like Mondrak, Glory Dominus and secondary token engines like Simulacrum Synthesizer. It defends its advancing board using proactive static protection from Bronze Guardian and Padeem, Consul of Innovation, along with free spells like Flawless Maneuver and Fierce Guardianship. One-sided board wipes such as Organic Extinction and Their Name Is Death reset opposing battlefields without harming your own artifact creatures, allowing you to close the game on Turn 7 via overwhelming combat damage or an Akroma's Will alpha strike.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cranial Plating
  • 1 Cryptothrall
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hulking Metamorph
  • 1 Illustrious Wanderglyph
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Master of Etherium
  • 1 Metalworker
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Oltec Matterweaver
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Their Name Is Death
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Chief Artificer
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine