Urabrask's Forge
Artifact
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put an oil counter on this artifact, then create an X/1 red Phyrexian Horror creature token with trample and haste, where X is the number of oil counters on this artifact. Sacrifice that token at the beginning of the next end step.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos
- Price
- $2.86
- EDHREC rank
- #2489
Urabrask's Forge hits the table and immediately starts clocking opponents — each upkeep you get a hasty Phyrexian token that grows by one power every turn, with zero additional mana investment after the initial three. The catch is the token dies at end of turn, so you need to extract value before cleanup, which is exactly why Breath of Fury and commanders like Goro-Goro and Satoru are the natural homes.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Goro-Goro and Satoru
Goro-Goro and Satoru rewards attacking with a power-5-or-greater creature by creating a 5/5 Dragon token — and Urabrask's Forge's token hits that threshold by turn three of the enchantment being in play, making the Forge a reliable Dragon factory stapled to your upkeep.
Shadow the Hedgehog
Shadow the Hedgehog cares about attacking with haste creatures and building toward chaos counters, so the free hasty attacker Urabrask's Forge provides every upkeep feeds that gameplan without spending a card slot on the creature itself.
Mishra, Claimed by Gix
Mishra, Claimed by Gix wants as many attackers in combat as possible to maximize the Phyrexian meld trigger, and Urabrask's Forge provides a guaranteed body with haste each turn — free fuel for a mechanic that scales directly with your attacker count.
The Master, Multiplied
The Master, Multiplied copies tokens, so the Phyrexian attacker Urabrask's Forge creates each upkeep becomes a copy target, letting the Master turn a single throwaway token into a wide board before end of turn wipes it.
Ognis, the Dragon's Lash
Ognis, the Dragon's Lash generates Treasure whenever a haste creature attacks, and Urabrask's Forge delivers a free haste attacker every single upkeep — that's one Treasure per turn at minimum, accelerating into the Forge's escalating cost before it even becomes relevant.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Urabrask's Forge is a Commander card through and through — the slow scaling of the token's power and the enchantment's three-mana entry cost are fine in a 40-life multiplayer game where you have multiple upkeeps to build toward a board presence, but both 60-card and competitive formats punish that kind of incremental setup harshly. In Modern and Pioneer, three mana for an enchantment that doesn't immediately affect the board gets outpaced by threats that demand an answer on the spot. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but the Forge has no business being there. Stick it in Commander, specifically in decks that care about haste, attacking, or token generation — that's the only context where the delayed payoff becomes a feature instead of a liability.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Breath of FuryUrabrask's Forge
Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinitely powerful creature until end of turn
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Current price
$2.86 cheap tier
At $2.86, Urabrask's Forge sits in the sweet spot where it's a trivial include — cheap enough to slot into any red aggro or token Commander build without a second thought. It's a constructed-relevant rare with real synergy density, so the floor is unlikely to fall out from under it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.