Is Urza's Power Plant good in Commander?

Urza's Power Plant

Land — Urza's Power-Plant

: Add . If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add instead.

CMC: 0
Mana cost
Color identity: C
Rarity: common
Set: Fifth Edition
Price: $0.85
EDHREC rank: #827

Urza's Power Plant taps for colorless on its own, but assembling it with Urza's Mine and Urza's Tower turns all three into three-mana sources — a meaningful mana advantage that warps what you can cast on turns 3 and 4. Commanders like Omo, Queen of Vesuva that can copy or proliferate land types unlock the full Urzatron without hunting down all three pieces, and Magus of the Candelabra can untap the assembled set for explosive bursts of colorless mana.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

Omo, Queen of Vesuva

92.7% of decks · synergy 0.87

Omo, Queen of Vesuva's ability to grant land subtypes means a single Urza's Power Plant can effectively become all three Urzatron lands at once, completing the combo without needing Mine or Tower in play.

Ulalek, Fused Atrocity

42.2% of decks · synergy 0.39

Ulalek, Fused Atrocity needs enormous amounts of colorless mana to copy spells repeatedly, and Urza's Power Plant is a cornerstone of the Urzatron package that lets Ulalek threaten multiple triggers in a single turn.

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite

39.4% of decks · synergy 0.38

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite's foretell-heavy gameplan demands a reliable colorless mana engine, and Urza's Power Plant is a key piece of the Urzatron package that keeps Herigast casting and suspending ahead of curve.

Urza, Lord Protector

38.5% of decks · synergy 0.37

Urza, Lord Protector has an inherent flavor pull toward Urza's Power Plant, but the inclusion is functional too — the Urzatron package accelerates Urza into his combined meld form and fuels artifact-heavy lines thereafter.

Urza, Prince of Kroog

33.2% of decks · synergy 0.31

Urza, Prince of Kroog's artifact synergies reward flooding the board quickly, and Urza's Power Plant feeds that engine by contributing to the Urzatron mana base that lets the deck operate a full turn ahead of schedule.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	legal
oathbreaker	legal

In Commander, Urza's Power Plant is a niche inclusion that rewards dedicated Urzatron builds — decks running all three lands and enough tutors or type-granting effects to assemble them consistently. Outside of that package it's a tapland that produces colorless, which is rarely what Commander decks want from their mana base. In Legacy and Vintage it sees essentially no play; the formats are too fast and the payoff too slow for a three-card, three-land setup. Pauper is the other format where Urza's Power Plant has genuine history — Tron decks there use the full package to power out threats that would otherwise be unreachable at common, making it a staple in that specific archetype.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,798 decks

Magus of the Candelabra Maze of Ith Urza's TowerUrza's Power PlantUrza's Mine

Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite untap of lands you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.85 bulk tier

At $0.85, Urza's Power Plant sits firmly in bulk territory despite decades of printings keeping supply high. It's a safe pickup at this price — demand from Pauper Tron and Commander Urzatron builds keeps it from dropping further, but don't expect movement in either direction.

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Updated 2026-05-30. Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.