YoUrza gonna Win!

Commander / EDH Mono-Blue

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Artifact (19)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lithoform Engine *f-pre*
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Land (31)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 25x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Tolaria West

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Back to Basics
• 1x Copy Artifact
• 1x Mind Over Matter
• 1x Power Artifact
• 1x Training Grounds

Creature (15)

• 1x Darksteel Juggernaut
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Walking Ballista

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Bribery
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Flood of Recollection
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Reshape
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Transmute Artifact
• 1x Windfall

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage
• 1x Tezzeret the Seeker

Commander (1)

Instant (15)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Swan Song

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Time Spiral

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Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to check out my Urza, High Lord Artificer deck.

For the succinct readers, basically, we are assembling infinite mana asap and playing our deck with multiple back up win cons. If you hit infinite mana and stack the plays right, I don't see how you can lose.

When I started collecting valuable magic cards I typically played mono colored decks; Yisan, Krenko, Teferi, Drana, and Isamaru. I quickly realized that the most universal, high-end magic cards were, of course, artifacts. I have since amassed a good assortment of most the critical artifacts to be played.

Now before Urza, I played a couple Teferi builds. Originally it was stax but that was quickly not okay and banned by my usual playgroup. I then turned him to do some eldrazi/mana rock ramp deck which was perhaps worse but less consistent than the stax variety and Yisan so it was tolerated.

When Urza was spoiled, I was extremely excited and began the search for him locally. After a few months searching, I finally found a person willing to sell me one, I picked up my favorite sleeves, dragonshield silvers and began to come up with this deck.

I had seen all the paradox engine/stax builds of this deck and while I originally included PE, I knew stax was not how I was going to build it. I have included a few pieces to slow everyone down, but keeping in mind I wanted to outpace them into a combo win regardless.

With that I looked into all the ways I could get infinite mana, primarily to abuse Urza's ability to shuffle the deck, exile a card, and cast the card at any point during that turn without paying its mana cost. I wanted to win in nearly unstoppable way once I got to that point. So, I started looking at what I need to be protected enough to get that Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Weilder of Mysteries win. It boils down to:

Exile the library until I can cast Vedalken Orrery, Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir, Lightning Greaves, Isochron scepter + stifle, Copy artifact (targeting scepter) + dramatic reversal in that order.

Now my spells have flash, and I am protected from my opponents for the most part. From there I cast Lab Man, exile the rest of my library and pop of Gitaxian Probe.

After playing the deck a few times, I realized how badly the deck needed to out draw my opponents. Any time I felt like I was slowing down, I realized I needed to be activating Urza as much as possible to get the cards I needed out of my deck. This means I needed Urza on the field as much as possible and that some sweet cards are going to be exiled.Yet, most the ones you need to win faster will still hit the field. However with that need came a great weakness so I developed some alt win cons.

Alternate win cons:

Fun:

Aetherflux Reservoir can be an alt win and used to bait out split-second cards or to test the waters.

Blue Sun's Zenith and Stroke of Genius them to death or you to a win with Lab Man or Jace, WOM.

Walking Ballista to machine gun them down with infinite mana

Competitive:

Mycosynth Lattice + Karn, the Great Creator

Infinite mana and Memnarch the Board

Overall, I would say this is a glass canon build looking to outpace the competition.

I have successfully pulled off a turn 3 win and a turn 4 win so far.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.93
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Emblem Teferi, Temporal Archmage