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Urza, Lord High Artificer

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer2 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The mana engine is the whole trick, and it's built to fold in on itself. That tap-an-artifact-for-blue ability turns every artifact you control into a mana rock the moment Urza resolves, and the 0/0 Construct token it makes on entry is itself an artifact that scales with every other artifact you've deployed: so the card arrives, immediately hands you a source of blue, and grows a body sized to how developed your artifacts are. The 1/4 body was never built to attack; the toughness just keeps Urza alive long enough for the engine to run. The activated ability at the top of the curve is what the mana was always pointed at: an impulse-draw off the top of your library that lets you play the exiled card for free, spells and lands alike, repeatable as long as the artifacts keep producing blue. What makes the design coherent is that each piece feeds the next. The token needs artifacts to be big; the artifacts make the mana; the mana plays free cards off the top; and any artifact you flip into for free deepens the mana pool and swells the token again. It is a self-reinforcing loop stapled to a creature, and the fact that all three abilities want the same resource (artifacts on the battlefield) is what turns a fair-looking rate into a value spiral that snowballs the moment the board is even slightly developed.

Urza, Lord High Artificer (fca)
FCA · #5mythic
Pricing
Normal: $26.30
Foil: $229.98
Oracle Text

Rules text

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 Blue mana. 5 generic mana: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Restricted
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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