Urza's Workshop
Land — Urza's
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Metalcraft — : Add for each Urza's land you control. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Brothers' War Commander
- Price
- $14.45
- EDHREC rank
- #2413
Urza's Workshop taps for colorless mana equal to the number of artifacts you control — in a deck with eight to twelve artifacts on board, that's a land producing as much mana as an Gaea's Cradle. The catch is a steep entry condition: Urza, Lord Protector or any artifact-heavy commander needs a critical mass of permanents in play before the Workshop outperforms a basic.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Urza, Lord Protector
Urza, Lord Protector's ability to turn noncreature artifacts into creatures means the battlefield fills with artifact permanents fast, and Urza's Workshop scales directly with that count — it can hit four or five mana off a single land as early as turn four.
Urza, Prince of Kroog
Urza, Prince of Kroog copies artifacts at combat, which balloons the artifact count Urza's Workshop counts — the land effectively grows every time a copy trigger resolves.
Karn, Legacy Reforged
Karn, Legacy Reforged raises the mana value floor on every colorless source you control, so Urza's Workshop doesn't just produce more mana than a Wastes — it produces more mana than almost any land on board.
Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought rewards packing the deck with high-mana-value artifacts and Equipment, which is exactly the environment where Urza's Workshop goes from decent to broken.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Urza's Workshop earns its slot — 100-card artifact-themed decks routinely hit the artifact counts needed to make it a ritual staple rather than a marginal land. In Legacy and Vintage, the Workshop is legal but the go-wide artifact board states it demands are harder to assemble at competitive speed, and more powerful colorless mana options crowd it out. Oathbreaker can support it in the right artifact shell, but the 60-card singleton format limits how reliably you hit critical mass. Outside those formats, Urza's Workshop is simply not legal.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Powerstone Shard and Darksteel Citadel give you colorless production without requiring a board presence, though neither scales the way Urza's Workshop does. Mana Vault and Basalt Monolith are the closest functional replacements for burst colorless mana in artifact decks — they don't grow with your artifact count, but they're consistent on the turns where your board is still thin.
Price Context
Current price
$14.45 mid tier
At $14.45, Urza's Workshop sits in the mid tier — meaningful enough that you're making a real purchase, reasonable enough that dedicated artifact commanders should pay it without hesitation. It's earned that price by being a genuine engine in high-artifact-count Commander builds, and demand from multiple Urza-themed commanders keeps it there.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.