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Urabrask // The Great Work

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor // Enchantment — Saga

First strike
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Urabrask deals 1 damage to target opponent. Add {R}.
{R}: Exile Urabrask, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you've cast three or more instant and/or sorcery spells this turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
March of the Machine Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1745
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Urabrask // The Great Work card art
Urabrask // The Great Work puts immediate pressure on the table: your spells cost one less while opponents pay one more, and the back half churns through your deck generating Phyrexian mana for every instant or sorcery you cast. The cost is five mana for a legendary creature that dies to every removal spell in the format — but the tempo swing is real enough that decks built around spell velocity, like those running Seething Song to chain casts, get outsized value even from a single turn of the symmetry-breaking effect, and Electro, Assaulting Battery shells that want spell count in the graveyard treat it as a near-auto-include.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Electro, Assaulting Battery

Electro, Assaulting Battery

50.7% of decks · synergy 0.45

Electro, Assaulting Battery runs Urabrask // The Great Work in over half its decks because the cost-reduction effect directly accelerates the spell-chaining gameplan Electro rewards, letting you fire off more instants and sorceries in a single turn while the passive drains opponents for each one you cast.

02
Ashling, Flame Dancer

Ashling, Flame Dancer

47.6% of decks · synergy 0.42

Ashling, Flame Dancer wants Urabrask // The Great Work because the cost reduction compounds Ashling's need to cast multiple spells per turn, and the life-payment mode on the back half generates additional cast triggers that feed directly into Ashling's copy-spell damage engine.

03

Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might

37.8% of decks · synergy 0.32

Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might turns Urabrask // The Great Work's pinging Phyrexian mana sources into live damage, since any source dealing less than four damage gets bumped up — so the incidental life-drain triggers from The Great Work's chapter abilities become meaningful burn under Ojer Axonil's replacement effect.

04
Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph

Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph

37.2% of decks · synergy 0.29

Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph amplifies exactly the kind of one-damage pings that Urabrask // The Great Work produces, converting each Phyrexian mana payment into a two-damage burst that Ghyrson Starn then copies to hit every opponent.

05
Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot

Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot

28.0% of decks · synergy 0.26

Taii Wakeen, Perfect Shot cares about sources dealing exactly one damage, which means the life-payment triggers off Urabrask // The Great Work's saga chapters slot neatly into Taii Wakeen's damage-doubling engine and help fill the graveyard for her secondary payoffs.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Urabrask // The Great Work earns its reputation — the cost asymmetry is most punishing in a four-player pod, and the saga's final chapter can generate enough mana to recast a sweeper or a game-ending spell in the same turn. In Modern and Legacy it's a fringe option at best, outcompeted by cheaper permanents that tax opponents or generate mana without requiring five up front. Pioneer is broadly similar: the effect is powerful in theory but too slow and too exposed to answer for any dedicated competitive shell. Oathbreaker is worth mentioning as a secondary home, since the format's lower life totals make the cost-tax more immediately threatening and spell-heavy signatures pair cleanly with the front half's reduction.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Magnus the RedUrabrask // The Great WorkHaze of Rage

Magnus the RedUrabrask // The Great WorkHaze of Rage

Infinite damage; Infinitely powerful creatures you control until end of turn; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

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Price data for Urabrask // The Great Work isn't available in the current feed, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer directly for the current market rate. As a mythic rare with strong Commander demand across multiple popular archetypes, it typically sits in the mid-to-upper range for Standard-legal mythics — worth confirming before budgeting a build around it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.