Urza, Master of Machines

Commander / EDH Artifact Battlecruiser Casual Mono-Blue Vorthos

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Lands: (35)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 18x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower

Ramp: (9)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Alt-Win: (2)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh

Graveyard: (2)

• 1x Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1x Scrap Trawler

Counterspell: (1)

• 1x Spell Swindle

Good Stuff: (11)

• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Efficient Construction
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Control: (9)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Steel Hellkite

Card Advantage (6)

• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Smuggler's Copter
• 1x Vedalken Archmage
• 1x Weatherlight

Board Wipe: (3)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk

Mass Board Protection: (2)

• 1x Paradoxical Outcome
• 1x Rebuild

Commander (1)

Creatures: (10)

• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Karn, Silver Golem *oversized*
• 1x Metalwork Colossus
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Vedalken Humiliator
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Whirler Rogue

Tutor: (5)

• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage

Planes Walkers: (4)

• 1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

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Counterspells: (13)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Daze
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song

Infinite Mana: (9)

• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Grand Architect
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Pili-Pala
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Staff of Domination

Lock Down: (7)

• 1x Damping Sphere
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Trinisphere
• 1x Winter Orb

Alt-Win: (2)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Laboratory Maniac

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*WARNING*

This decklist is built as a casual, non-combo, synergistic version of the High Artificer Urza. This decklist is flavorful and powerful at the same time! I hope you enjoy this list as much as I do.

There will be a sideboard underneath the casual decklist for the cEDH cards that you can slot in when playing in a more competitive meta.

Having a Flavorful list means:

• NO Phyrexian Cards . (i.e.) Jin Gitaxias, Phyrexian Metamorph, Consecrated Sphinx, Mirrodin Besieged, anything like that. As Urza's main conflict is with the artificial plane of Phyrexia, it would not be on flavor to have Urza command Phyrexian cards in this deck.
• NO Counterspells (In the casual build.) I determined that having a complete counterspell package of 5-8 counterspells will make this deck amazing, consistent, and hard to do anything to fight back against for casual groups. However, I have added the counterspell: Spell Swindle from Ixalan. Spell Swindle is a 5 mana counterspell that allows us to create X treasure tokens for the spells CMC. We can either sacrifice the treasures to re-cast Urza or keep the treasures to tap when we have Urza out. Spell Swindle being a 5 mana counter is not super powerful and we must hold up 5 mana, so I have allowed it in this build.

There is 1 non-Game-winning combo in this deck:

I discovered this combo as it developed on the board. The combo insists of a few pieces and does not automatically win the game.

Etherium Sculptor (Artifacts cost 1 less)

Sensei's Divining Top (Taps to draw a card)

Mystic Forge (Allows us to cast an artifact off the top of our library)

Now, with these 3 cards we can draw our entire library by taping the Top to draw a card and replace it with the Top. Then we cast it for free off the top of our library. This will also give us cast triggers for as many cards are in our library until we hit the last piece of the puzzle:

Aetherflux Resevriour

With our booty ton of cast triggers, we will have gained enough life to blast our opponents. If this is not enough to finish off your opponents you will have drawn your entire deck and can now cast any spell you want as our combo cost no mana to do once it is set up.

CEDH Slot List:

Infinite Mana:

The goal of this cEDH deck is primarily to create infinite mana to cast ourselves out with Urza and win with either labman or Jace. We can also create an infinite Walking Ballista to ping people down or Hangerback Walker to make infinite creatures. How we get infinite mana:

1. Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal
2. Grand Architect + Pili-Pala
3. Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth
4. Rings of Brighthearth + Muddle the Mixture (Transmute x2 and search for Dramatic Scepter Combo.)
5. Aphetto Alchemist + Illusionist's Bracers + Any mana rock
6. Aphetto Alchemist + Illusionist's Bracers + Sensei’s Top (Draw our whole deck!)

Tappy-UnTappy:

In this section I will go over the oppressive stax pieces that are broken with Urza that we can either tap or leave untapped to hurt our opponents and help us.

1. Howling Mine
2. Winter Orb
3. Static Orb
4. Trinisphere
Not a tap piece but a lock out combo:
5. Karn, The Great Creator + Mycosynth Lattic

*WARNING* This cEDH version is not for the faint of heart and should be used with maximum caution when playing in a casual group, at a local game store, or with friends. (If you have any left after playing this deck.)

Urza's History: Flavor Behind the Deck

• Urza was a planeswalker originating from Terisiare on Dominaria, best known for his millennia-long struggle with Yawgmoth and the plane of Phyrexia.
• Urza has a long and complicated history. If you wish to know more I suggest reading the Artifact cycle of books centering around Urza Planeswalker.
• Urza realized after he had destroyed his brother, Mishra, had been completely corrupted by the black mana from Phyrexia. This realization filled Urza with grief and pushed him to begin his lifelong hunt for retribution against Phyrexia, and its demonic ruler, Yawgmoth.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.54
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Construct 0/0 C, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure
Folders	EXPENSIVE