Urza, Lord High Artificer
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Type: Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
Oracle 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 {U}.
{5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Power/Toughness: 1/4
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (12) →
Expansion: Magic Online Promos
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Character Background
Urza, Lord High Artificer is built to be the engine of artifact-based combo and value decks: his enter-the-battlefield Construct scales into a clock while his tap-artifact-for-U ability turns every cheap mana rock into persistent blue fuel for interactive spells or storm-style lines. The activated shuffle-and-exile ability is a late-game free-casting telescope that rewards high artifact counts and library manipulation, so build with many low-cost artifacts (Sol Ring, Mox Opal, and other mana rocks where legal), artifact tutors like Fabricate, and cards that untap or copy artifacts (Voltaic Key, Rings, or Saheeli-style support) to supercharge mana and dig. In practice he anchors control shells that want card advantage and inevitability or combo shells that need to cast multiple big plays in a turn; protect him with countermagic and recur artifacts so his token stays huge and his mana engine keeps clicking. Prioritize a high artifact-to-nonartifact ratio and redundancy in cheap artifact producers to maximize both the Construct’s power and Urza’s economy.
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