UURRZZAA by user3557559

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Chief Artificer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

Urza, Chief Artificer leads an Esper artifact midrange deck that blends explosive mana acceleration, artifact equipment synergies, and scaling combat pressure. The deck leverages high-impact mana engines like Mishra's Workshop, Ancient Tomb, and Grim Monolith alongside artifact lands to cast Urza, Chief Artificer ahead of curve. Urza's affinity for artifact creatures reduces his casting cost, and his end-step ability generates massive Construct tokens that grow with every artifact on the battlefield while gaining menace. Powerful equipment such as Cranial Plating, Nettlecyst, Kaldra Compleat, and Colossus Hammer—often cheated or equipped cheaply via Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist and Hammer of Nazahn—turn any creature into a lethal threat. Tutors like Demonic Tutor, Enlightened Tutor, and Transmute Artifact reliably fetch key pieces, while Bronze Guardian, Lightning Greaves, and Swiftfoot Boots protect the board. Although the deck lacks instant-speed counterspells, its relentless token growth, evasive menace attacks, and potent top-end threats close out multiplayer games efficiently.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Ace's Baseball Bat
  • 1 Adaptive Omnitool
  • 1 Alloy Myr
  • 1 Alpha Myr
  • 1 Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass
  • 1 Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist
  • 1 Argentum Armor
  • 1 Batterskull
  • 1 Bazaar of Baghdad
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Chainflail Centipede
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Colossus Hammer
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cranial Plating
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Grafted Wargear
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hammer of Nazahn
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hunter's Blowgun
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Kaldra Compleat
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Library of Alexandria
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lodestone Golem
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memnarch
  • 1 Metalworker
  • 1 Mishra's Workshop
  • 1 Mycosynth Golem
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Platinum Emperion
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Sunforger
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Body and Mind
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
  • 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
  • 1 Sword of War and Peace
  • 1 Time Walk
  • 1 Transmute Artifact
  • 1 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Umezawa's Jitte
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Chief Artificer
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will