Urza's Chalice
Artifact
Whenever a player casts an artifact spell, you may pay 
. If you do, you gain 1 life.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Masters Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23422
Urza's Chalice is a one-mana artifact that gains you 1 life whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control — a trickle effect that adds up fast in dedicated artifact shells but does nothing on its own. It earns a slot in high-density artifact decks and nowhere else.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Urza's Chalice is a role-player in artifact-tribal builds where the life accumulation becomes meaningful over a long game — think Breya, Etherium Shaper or Arcum Dagsson, where dozens of artifacts enter across a session. In Legacy and Vintage, it sees essentially no competitive play; the effect is too slow and too low-impact for formats that end quickly. Pauper is its best non-Commander home, where cheap artifacts are abundant and life totals matter more in longer games, though it still sits at the fringe of playability there.
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Price Context
Current price
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.