Card
Urza, Lord High Artificer
Mana cost {2}{U}{U}
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer 1/4
When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control." Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}. {5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 332 known combos. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · DMR · #71
- Cheapest printing
- €15.22
- EDHREC salt
- 2.31
- Color identity
- Blue
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
332 known combos.
- Urza, Lord High Artificer + Forensic Gadgeteer + Sensei's Divining Top + Etherium Sculptor
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Urza, Lord High Artificer + Forensic Gadgeteer + Sensei's Divining Top + Foundry Inspector
Produces: Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite storm count
View on Commander Spellbook - Urza, Lord High Artificer + Worldwalker Helm + Mechanized Production
Produces: Infinite artifact tokens, Infinite blue mana, Exile your library
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card. - 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
You can tap any untapped artifact you control to pay the cost of the mana ability, including an artifact creature you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn. Tapping an Equipment this way won't affect its abilities or the equipped creature. - 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Urza's last ability doesn't change when you can play the exiled card. For example, if you exile a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty. If you exile a land card, you can play it only during your main phase and only if you have an available land play remaining. - 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
The token created by Urza's first ability will count itself, so it'll be at least 1/1. - 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
If you don't play the card exiled with Urza's last ability, it remains in exile. - 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast