Card

Urza, Lord Protector

Mana cost {1}{W}{U}

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer 2/4

Artifact, instant, and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {7}: If you both own and control Urza, Lord Protector and an artifact named The Mightstone and Weakstone, exile them, then meld them into Urza, Planeswalker. Activate only as a sorcery.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 110 known combos. 13 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · BRO · #225
Cheapest printing
€7.23
EDHREC salt
0.50
Color identity
Blue, White
Keywords
Meld

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

110 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    The mana value of a melded permanent is the sum of the mana values of its front faces. A creature that becomes a copy of a melded permanent has only the characteristics of that combined back face, and its mana value is 0.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    A player prompted to name a card may name the combined back face, and each player has the right to know that combined back face's characteristics at all times.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    During each of your turns, you may activate Urza, Planeswalker's loyalty abilities twice, whether that's activating the same ability two times, or activating two different abilities once each.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    In the Commander variant, a meld card's color identity is determined only by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of its front face. No symbols or rules text of the permanent it melds into are considered.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    While a melded permanent is on the battlefield, it has only the characteristics of its combined back face. Any effects that modify how the new object enters the battlefield will consider only the combined back face.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    If an effect moves a melded permanent to a new zone and then affects "that card," it affects both cards.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    Note that the permanent represented by the combined back faces has a color indicator.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    Urza, Lord Protector's first ability can't reduce the colored mana costs of spells you cast.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    When a pair of cards are melded, the result is a single creature that's represented by two cards. If the melded creature dies, both cards are put into your graveyard. As it leaves the battlefield, both of those cards are turned face up again. If the cards are put on the top or bottom of your library, you choose their relative order.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    Only two cards belonging to the same meld pair can be melded. Tokens, cards that aren't meld cards, or meld cards that don't form a meld pair can't be melded. If an effect instructs a player to meld cards that can't be melded, those cards remain in exile.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    One card in each pair of meld cards has an ability that instructs you to exile the two cards and meld them. If you control more than one object with one of those names, you select one object with that name to exile.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    When two cards are exiled and melded, they each leave the battlefield, then return together as one new object with no relation to either of the objects that left the battlefield. Counters, Auras, Equipment, and other effects that affected those two cards don't affect the melded permanent.
  • 2022-10-14 · Wizards of the Coast
    While a meld card is in any zone other than the battlefield, it has only the characteristics of its front face. The same is true while it's on the battlefield with its front face up.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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