Urza, the Meticulous 🤖 by SNEEKATTAX

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Lord High Artificer

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 84

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered competitive Commander (cEDH) artifact combo-control build centered around Urza, Lord High Artificer. The strategy uses an elite package of zero- and one-mana acceleration to deploy Urza or its primary combo engines by Turn 2 or 3. Once on the battlefield, Urza turns every artifact into a blue mana producer and provides an infinite mana sink in the command zone. The deck wins by generating infinite mana via Power Artifact on Grim Monolith or Basalt Monolith, or Isochron Scepter imprinting Dramatic Reversal. With infinite mana, Urza's activated ability exiles the entire library, allowing the deck to cast Walking Ballista for lethal damage to all opponents in a single turn. Backed by a dense suite of free countermagic like Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Pact of Negation, alongside powerful card engines such as The One Ring and Rhystic Study, the deck pairs rapid combo potential with format-defining stack protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Banishing Knack
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Candelabra of Tawnos
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Copy Artifact
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Forge
  • 1 Daze
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flash Photography
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mishra's Workshop
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Power Artifact
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sewer-veillance Cam
  • 1 Snapback
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time Spiral
  • 1 Timetwister
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Transmute Artifact
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza's Workshop
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Windfall