Urza, Lord High Artificer by user6170337

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Lord High Artificer

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 72

Deck overview

This list is a competitive Mono-Blue combo-control deck centered around Urza, Lord High Artificer. It accelerates through a dense network of cheap mana rocks, which double as colored mana engines under Urza. The deck leverages asymmetric stax pieces like Winter Orb to paralyze opposing mana development while breaking parity using Urza's tap ability. Its primary path to victory is assembling an infinite mana combo using Basalt Monolith or Grim Monolith paired with Power Artifact, or Isochron Scepter with Dramatic Reversal. Once infinite mana is generated, the pilot activates Urza's activated ability repeatedly to exile the library and cast every spell for free, terminating the game via an arbitrarily large Walking Ballista or infinite Codex Shredder mills. The list is shielded by premier free counterspells and dense artifact tutors, making it resilient, consistent, and lethal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Spellbomb
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Banishing Knack
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Battered Golem
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jeweled Amulet
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Mirran Spy
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Mishra's Workshop
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Pili-Pala
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Power Artifact
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sewer-veillance Cam
  • 7 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Steal Enchantment
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Transmute Artifact
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Bauble
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Welding Jar
  • 1 Winter Orb