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Urza, Lord High Artificer

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}.
{5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Dominaria Remastered
Price
$13.73
EDHREC rank
#790
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Urza, Lord High Artificer card art
Urza, Lord High Artificer turns every artifact you control into a Powerstone, then lets you dump that mana into an activated ability that exiles the top card of your library and casts it for free — the on-board mana engine alone warrants the slot. Forensic Gadgeteer and Urza, Chief Artificer both want this effect badly, and at four mana it's exactly where a high-impact blue legend should land.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Urza, Chief Artificer

Urza, Chief Artificer

55.8% of decks · synergy 0.50

Urza, Chief Artificer floods the board with artifact tokens and then needs a way to convert that artifact count into mana advantage — Urza, Lord High Artificer is the cleanest answer, tapping each of those tokens for blue mana and then spending it to chain spells off the top.

03
Iron Man, Titan of Innovation

Iron Man, Titan of Innovation

46.9% of decks · synergy 0.43

Iron Man, Titan of Innovation cares about artifact count in multiples and rewards stacking as many artifacts as possible, so Urza, Lord High Artificer pulls double duty as both a mana converter and a top-of-deck spell-caster in that shell.

04
Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Lonis, Cryptozoologist

44.8% of decks · synergy 0.42

Lonis, Cryptozoologist generates Clue tokens at scale, and Urza, Lord High Artificer converts that Clue pile directly into blue mana — tapping a dozen Clues into a free cast off the top is the kind of late-game burst the deck wants.

05
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

48.7% of decks · synergy 0.41

Leonardo da Vinci produces artifact tokens and rewards going wide on the artifact axis, making Urza, Lord High Artificer a natural fit that translates board presence into spell velocity through the free-cast ability.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the primary home for Urza, Lord High Artificer — the artifact-count payoff scales with the longer game, the free-cast ability generates card advantage that multiplayer tables reward, and the four-mana cost is easy to hit in a dedicated artifact build. In Legacy, he's technically legal but competes with faster engines and sees almost no play outside of fringe Stax shells that want the mana-generation axis. Vintage is similar: legal, occasionally theorycrafted, but the format moves too fast for a four-mana creature to matter. Oathbreaker is the one alternative where he shows up meaningfully, often as the Planeswalker's partner in blue artifact brews.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

No single card fully replaces Urza, Lord High Artificer, but Sai, Master Thopterist covers the artifact-into-value angle for under a dollar — you lose the mana engine and the free-cast, but you gain a token generator that still rewards artifact density. Inspiring Statuary is another partial substitute if the mana-conversion piece is the priority, letting you tap non-creature artifacts for improvise costs without the four-mana body.

Price Context

Current price

$13.73 mid tier

At $13.73, Urza, Lord High Artificer sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate purchase, cheap enough that it belongs in any serious artifact Commander build without much debate. It's seen consistent demand since printing and doesn't appear to be a card that gets cut as decks improve, which keeps the floor stable.

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