Urza by user3808516

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Lord High Artificer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This mono-blue artifact midrange deck uses Urza, Lord High Artificer to transform cheap utility artifacts and zero-mana cheerios into potent mana engines. Early turns focus on developing artifact density with pieces like Sol Ring, Memnite, and Ornithopter. Once Urza enters on Turn 4, the sudden influx of blue mana fuels massive threats such as Blightsteel Colossus, Cybermen Squadron, and Hullbreaker Horror, or enables multiple activations of Urza's five-mana exile ability. The deck shields its board and disrupts opponents with a deep suite of over 15 counterspells, including Counterspell, Swan Song, and Archmage's Charm. Because its mana base relies on tapping artifacts, the deck advances its battlefield while maintaining full interactive mana on opposing turns. It closes games around Turn 7 through lethal combat damage from scaling Construct tokens and indestructible Colossi.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abjure
  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Access Denied
  • 1 Admiral's Order
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Stone Idol
  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Bane's Contingency
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bone to Ash
  • 1 Brush Off
  • 1 Cephalid Illusionist
  • 1 Chromatic Sphere
  • 1 Chromatic Star
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Dark Sphere
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Darksteel Relic
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Draining Whelk
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fountain of Youth
  • 1 Geode Golem
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hurkyl's Recall
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 30 Island
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lithoform Engine
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Metalwork Colossus
  • 1 Mirran Spy
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Paradise Mantle
  • 1 Relic of Progenitus
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellbook
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Bauble
  • 1 Urza's Command
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Welding Jar
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul