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Urza, Prince of Kroog

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2.
{6}: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact you control, except it's a 1/1 Soldier creature in addition to its other types.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
rare
Set
The Brothers' War Promos
Price
$0.65
EDHREC rank
#4062
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Urza, Prince of Kroog card art
Urza, Prince of Kroog doubles the power and toughness of every artifact creature you control — including tokens — which turns a Myr Battlesphere board into a one-shot threat without any additional pieces. The cost is a four-mana legendary that does nothing the turn it arrives and dies to every removal spell in the format, so you need a reason to protect it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Brenard, Ginger Sculptor

Brenard, Ginger Sculptor

44.7% of decks · synergy 0.43

Brenard, Ginger Sculptor generates a steady stream of Golem artifact creature tokens whenever your nontoken creatures die, and Urza, Prince of Kroog immediately doubles those Golems' base stats — the combination means every death replaces itself with a body that hits harder than what was lost.

02
Urza, Lord Protector

Urza, Lord Protector

44.9% of decks · synergy 0.42

Urza, Lord Protector can meld into The Titanic, which is already a game-ending threat, but before that payoff Urza, Prince of Kroog fills the artifact-creature role in the 99 while buffing whatever construct army the deck assembles along the way.

03
Urza, Chief Artificer

Urza, Chief Artificer

37.6% of decks · synergy 0.36

Urza, Chief Artificer makes artifact creatures menacing and generates Construct tokens as a combat reward, so Urza, Prince of Kroog effectively doubles the size of every creature that engine produces and makes each combat more punishing.

04

Tetzin, Gnome Champion

36.5% of decks · synergy 0.35

Tetzin, Gnome Champion builds a wide board of artifact creatures through its puzzle-box triggers, and Urza, Prince of Kroog converts that horizontal mass into a vertical kill threat without needing any additional payoff cards.

05
Cayth, Famed Mechanist

Cayth, Famed Mechanist

27.2% of decks · synergy 0.25

Cayth, Famed Mechanist cares about artifact creatures entering the battlefield and going wide, so Urza, Prince of Kroog sitting in the 99 ensures every creature that hits the table is already twice as threatening from the moment it lands.

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, Prince of Kroog belongs — the static buff scales with the token-generating artifact synergies that define the format's blue-white artifact archetypes, and the legendary supertype is a feature rather than a drawback in a singleton environment. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer the card simply isn't playable; four mana for a do-nothing-now anthem effect can't keep pace with the tempo demands of those formats, and artifact creature decks there want cheap lords that impact the board immediately. Legacy and Vintage offer no better home — the raw power bar is too high for a four-mana anthem to matter. Oathbreaker shares enough Commander DNA that the same token-doubling synergies apply, and Urza, Prince of Kroog can function as a signature spell payoff target in the right shell.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,207 decks
Urza, Prince of KroogTriplicate TitanAshnod's Altar

Urza, Prince of KroogTriplicate TitanAshnod's Altar

Infinite colorless mana; Infinite copies of artifacts you control; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite creature copies of artifacts you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.65 bulk tier

At $0.65, Urza, Prince of Kroog sits firmly in bulk territory, which is accurate for a card that sees play almost exclusively as a role-player in Commander artifact decks. Bulk rares with narrow homes don't tend to climb without a breakout deck pushing demand, so treat this as a cheap pickup for the decks that want it rather than anything you'd trade for speculatively.

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