Urza Artificer by user2401356

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Lord High Artificer

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a mono-blue artifact-value deck helmed by Urza, Lord High Artificer, built around a dense equipment package and a Thopter-generation subtheme. The primary plan is to deploy a critical mass of cheap artifacts, cast Urza to create a scaling Construct token and unlock his tap-artifacts-for-blue mana engine, then suit him up with equipment like Fireshrieker and Haunted Cloak to close games through commander damage. A robust secondary axis generates flying Thopter tokens via Sai, Master Thopterist, Efficient Construction, and Thopter Spy Network to win through the air. The deck leans heavily on card draw stapled to artifacts and combat triggers, with a blink subtheme (Displace, Teferi's Time Twist, Voyager Staff) to re-trigger value ETBs. It is a midrange value deck that wins through incremental combat rather than any infinite line.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acquisition Octopus
  • 1 Aether Spellbomb
  • 1 Anchor to Reality
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomender
  • 1 Artificer's Epiphany
  • 1 Assassin Gauntlet
  • 1 Barrow-Blade
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Blighted Cataract
  • 1 Bloodforged Battle-Axe
  • 1 Blur
  • 1 Blustersquall
  • 1 Brass Knuckles
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Ceremonial Knife
  • 1 Cryptic Caves
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadeye Quartermaster
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam
  • 1 Efficient Construction
  • 1 Encroaching Mycosynth
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Explorer's Scope
  • 1 Fireshrieker
  • 1 Forebear's Blade
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Foundry of the Consuls
  • 1 Golden Egg
  • 1 Goldvein Pick
  • 1 Haunted Cloak
  • 1 Herbal Poultice
  • 1 Hot Soup
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Instant Ramen
  • 21 Island
  • 1 Loyal Inventor
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Memorial to Genius
  • 1 Meneldor, Swift Savior
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nephalia Smuggler
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Phyrexia's Core
  • 1 Pirate Hat
  • 1 Planar Atlas
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Prized Statue
  • 1 Prying Blade
  • 1 Psychic Paper
  • 1 Riddlesmith
  • 1 Ring of Evos Isle
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rook Turret
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Sentinel Totem
  • 1 Sharding Sphinx
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Sleep
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stone of Erech
  • 1 Team Pennant
  • 1 Teferi's Time Twist
  • 1 The Irencrag
  • 1 Thief's Knife
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Urza's Factory
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Voyager Staff
  • 1 Whirler Rogue
  • 1 Witching Well
  • 1 Zephyr Boots