Urza, Chief Artificer
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
Affinity for artifact creatures (This spell costs 
less to cast for each artifact creature you control.)
Artifact creatures you control have menace.
At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BUW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- The Brothers' War Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4569
Urza, Chief Artificer turns every artifact into a menacing threat and closes games through combat or combo lines like Time Sieve the moment you assemble enough tokens. The cost — five mana in three colors — is steep, but the immediate board impact justifies it; you're not waiting to untap before this card does work.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Soundwave, Sonic Spy
Soundwave, Sonic Spy runs Urza, Chief Artificer in roughly a third of its builds because the artifact-token density Urza provides feeds directly into Soundwave's copy-spell and token-doubling payoffs. The menace anthem on top of that means the tokens you're flooding out actually punch through.
Sydri, Galvanic Genius
Sydri, Galvanic Genius wants high-value artifacts it can animate and swing with, and Urza, Chief Artificer delivers a menace grant that makes every one of those animated threats harder to double-block. The overlap in blue-black artifact synergies makes Urza a near-automatic inclusion.
Breya, Etherium Shaper
Breya, Etherium Shaper is the highest-volume home for Urza, Chief Artificer simply because Breya decks are already in the same colors and flooding the board with artifact tokens is the default game plan. Urza sharpens that plan by making token swings lethal instead of merely threatening.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the primary home for Urza, Chief Artificer — a five-mana legendary that generates value across multiple turns is exactly the kind of card the format rewards. In the 99, it fits any Esper or four-color artifact deck that wants a menace anthem and combo-enabling token production. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically real, but a five-mana do-nothing-until-the-next-turn creature has no competitive role in either format. Oathbreaker gives it a narrower stage, but the same artifact-combo shell applies there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Urza, Chief ArtificerTime SieveMyr BattlesphereTeleportation Circle
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
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Current pricing data for Urza, Chief Artificer isn't available here — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. Given its role as a multi-deck staple across Esper artifact builds, it tends to carry a meaningful price tag relative to similarly costed legendary creatures.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Time Sieve
- Soundwave, Sonic Spy
- Sydri, Galvanic Genius
- Breya, Etherium Shaper
- Myr Battlesphere
- Teleportation Circle
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.