Urza, Chief Artificer for the Rise of the Machines (duplicated from Voitagi)

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Chief Artificer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper artifact midrange strategy centered on Urza, Chief Artificer. It uses low-cost artifact creatures and mana rocks to establish board presence, enabling an early Urza cast via affinity for artifact creatures. Once online, Urza produces a scaling Construct token at each of your end steps, giving all artifact creatures menace to make blocking difficult. The deck supplements its commander with secondary Construct producers like Simulacrum Synthesizer and Digsite Engineer, while threat doublers such as Cybermen Squadron, Auton Soldier, and Roaming Throne rapidly accelerate the clock. A robust suite of free and efficient counterspells protects the board from sweepers, while defensive creatures like Bronze Guardian and Cryptothrall shield key artifacts from spot removal. The deck consistently closes games through combat damage by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptothrall
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Digsite Engineer
  • 1 Dino DNA
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
  • 1 Gold Myr
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 1 Iron Man Armor
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Panther Robot
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Chief Artificer
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Voltaic Servant
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Worldwalker Helm