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Urza, Powerstone Prodigy

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

Vigilance
{1}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever you discard one or more artifact cards, create a tapped Powerstone token. This ability triggers only once each turn. (The token is an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The Brothers' War
Price
$0.21
EDHREC rank
#11840
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Urza, Powerstone Prodigy card art
Urza, Powerstone Prodigy puts a free artifact token on the table every time you cast a noncreature spell, which in the right deck means your mana base builds itself while you play your game plan. The cost is real — this is a two-mana 1/1 with no immediate protection and no text until you start chaining spells — but commanders like Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing and Leonardo da Vinci generate enough noncreature volume that the Powerstone stream becomes oppressive fast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

13.4% of decks · synergy 0.13

Leonardo da Vinci's entire strategy is casting expensive artifact creatures and noncreature spells, which means Urza, Powerstone Prodigy is drip-feeding you Powerstone tokens turn after turn — and those tokens tap for mana that conveniently goes toward Leonardo's own activated ability to build more constructs.

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 Urza, Powerstone Prodigy actually earns its slot — artifact-heavy blue decks cast enough noncreature spells per game that the Powerstone accumulation becomes a genuine mana engine, and the token synergies with sacrifice outlets, affinity, and cost-reduction commanders are deep. In Modern and Legacy the card is legal but barely relevant; two-mana 1/1s that generate slow, tap-only mana tokens can't compete at those tables. Pioneer is the same story — the card exists in the format but has no natural home at that speed. Commander remains the format where this card is actually good, and it's good specifically because of how much noncreature spell density the format rewards.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.21 bulk tier

At $0.21, Urza, Powerstone Prodigy is deep bulk — pick it up in any common bin without a second thought. The price reflects its narrow application outside Commander, but within the right artifact deck it punches well above that $0.21 price tag.

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