Urza by mnio8210

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Lord High Artificer

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

Urza, Lord High Artificer is both the mana engine and the finisher of this mono-blue artifact-combo deck. The primary plan is to accelerate into Urza, use cheap artifacts to generate excess blue mana, and chain Isochron Scepter with Dramatic Reversal to create infinite untaps. With infinite mana, Urza's fifth ability exiles and casts the top of the library, converting the loop into a win. Backup lines use Banishing Knack/Retraction Helix with Battered Golem or Sewer-veillance Cam, and Hullbreaker Horror bounce loops. Token makers such as Sai, Chrome Host Seedshark, Stridehangar Automaton, and Mirrodin Besieged provide a board-presence fallback. The interaction suite of free counterspells and instant-speed bounce protects the fragile assembly turns. This is a fast, tutor-heavy deck that can pivot to artifact-token swarm.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 April O'Neil, Human Element
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Banishing Knack
  • 1 Battered Golem
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chrome Dome
  • 1 Chrome Host Seedshark
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Imposter Mech
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jeweled Amulet
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mirrodin Besieged
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Moonsnare Prototype
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Prized Statue
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Saprazzan Skerry
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sewer-veillance Cam
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Bauble
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Weathered Runestone
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Worldwalker Helm