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Upping the Average - Urza, Chief Artificer (Budget)
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Est deck cost: $130.68
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $2.79
Urza, Chief Artificer

Affinity for artifact creatures (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact creature you control.) Artifact creatures you control have menace. At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."

Creature
Urza, Chief Artificer (brc) 49
1

Artifact

Quantity: 14Price: $36.92
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (onc) 125
1
Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (scd) 259
1
Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (scd) 44
1
Cranial Plating

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. {B}{B}: Attach Cranial Plating to target creature you control. Equip {1}

Artifact
Cranial Plating (2xm) 245
1
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (scd) 263
1
Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (mh2) 228
1
Mystic Forge

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library. {T}, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Artifact
Mystic Forge (m20) 233
1
Orzhov Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (clb) 867
1
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (clb) 870
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (onc) 140
1
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (scd) 279
1
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (scd) 280
1
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (scd) 285
1
Unwinding Clock

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

Artifact
Unwinding Clock (plst) NPH-164
1

Creature

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Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (afc) 177
1
Bronze Guardian

Double strike Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Other artifacts you control have ward {2}. Bronze Guardian's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Creature Artifact
Bronze Guardian (c21) 13
1
Chief of the Foundry

Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
Chief of the Foundry (c18) 199
1
Digsite Engineer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."

Creature
Digsite Engineer (c21) 15
1
Emry, Lurker of the Loch

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control. When Emry, Lurker of the Loch enters the battlefield, mill four cards. {T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Creature
Emry, Lurker of the Loch (eld) 43
1
Etherium Sculptor

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Artifact
Etherium Sculptor (nec) 92
1
Foundry Inspector

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Artifact
Foundry Inspector (nec) 152
1
Gold Myr

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature Artifact
Gold Myr (nec) 153
1
Indomitable Archangel

Flying Metalcraft — Artifacts you control have shroud as long as you control three or more artifacts. (An artifact with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Indomitable Archangel (nec) 85
1
Leaden Myr

{T}: Add {B}.

Creature Artifact
Leaden Myr (som) 170
1
Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter

Flash Flying You may cast colorless spells and artifact spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast that spell is greater than Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter's power, put a +1/+1 counter on Liberator.

Creature Artifact
Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter (bro) 237
1
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to attacking artifact creatures you control. Whenever one or more artifact creatures enter the battlefield under your control, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar (c21) 18
1
Master of Etherium

Master of Etherium's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control. Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
Master of Etherium (nec) 94
1
Myr Battlesphere

When Myr Battlesphere enters the battlefield, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens. Whenever Myr Battlesphere attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, Myr Battlesphere gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Creature Artifact
Myr Battlesphere (onc) 138
1
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When Noxious Gearhulk enters the battlefield, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (c21) 148
1
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (mh2) 232
1
Padeem, Consul of Innovation

Artifacts you control have hexproof. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control the artifact with the highest mana value or tied for the highest mana value, draw a card.

Creature
Padeem, Consul of Innovation (kld) 59
1
Research Thief

Flash Flying Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Research Thief (nec) 16
1
Sai, Master Thopterist

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. {1}{U}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw a card.

Creature
Sai, Master Thopterist (nec) 97
1
Sharding Sphinx

Flying Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature Artifact
Sharding Sphinx (scd) 59
1
Sharuum the Hegemon

Flying When Sharuum the Hegemon enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature Artifact
Sharuum the Hegemon (2xm) 219
1
Shimmer Dragon

Flying As long as you control four or more artifacts, Shimmer Dragon has hexproof. Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Shimmer Dragon (j22) 347
1
Silver Myr

{T}: Add {U}.

Creature Artifact
Silver Myr (nec) 158
1
Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (onc) 141
1
Steel Hellkite

Flying {2}: Steel Hellkite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by Steel Hellkite this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Creature Artifact
Steel Hellkite (scd) 278
1
Steel Overseer

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Steel Overseer (j22) 798
1
Tawnos, Solemn Survivor

{2}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of up to one target artifact token you control. Mill two cards. {1}{W}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice two artifact tokens, Exile an artifact or creature card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Tawnos, Solemn Survivor (brc) 3
1
Thought Monitor

Affinity for artifacts Flying When Thought Monitor enters the battlefield, draw two cards.

Creature Artifact
Thought Monitor (mh2) 71
1
Urza, Prince of Kroog

Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2. {6}: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact you control, except it's a 1/1 Soldier creature in addition to its other types.

Creature
Urza, Prince of Kroog (bro) 226
1

Enchantment

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Mirrodin Besieged

As Mirrodin Besieged enters the battlefield, choose Mirran or Phyrexian. • Mirran — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token. • Phyrexian — At the beginning of your end step, draw a card, then discard a card. Then if there are fifteen or more artifact cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses the game.

Enchantment
Mirrodin Besieged (plst) MH1-57
1
Phyrexian Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types. II — Destroy all nonartifact creatures. III — Exile all opponents' graveyards.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Scriptures (plst) DOM-100
1
Thopter Spy Network

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Enchantment
Thopter Spy Network (j22) 361
1

Instant

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Access Denied

Counter target spell. Create X 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.

Instant
Access Denied (nec) 11
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
1
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (clb) 841
1
Dispatch

Tap target creature. Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, exile that creature.

Instant
Dispatch (nec) 83
1
Masterful Replication

Choose one — • Create two 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature tokens. • Choose target artifact you control. Each other artifact you control becomes a copy of that artifact until end of turn.

Instant
Masterful Replication (m20) 65
1
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (onc) 84
1
Reality Heist

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control. Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal up to two artifact cards from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Reality Heist (neo) 75
1
Rootborn Defenses

Populate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Instant
Rootborn Defenses (scd) 32
1
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (onc) 89
1
Unbreakable Formation

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.

Instant
Unbreakable Formation (dmc) 106
1
Void Rend

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230
1

Land

Quantity: 35Price: $27.97
Ancient Den

{T}: Add {W}.

Artifact Land
Ancient Den (c21) 276
1
Arcane Sanctum

Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Land
Arcane Sanctum (dmc) 196
1
Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (j22) 809
1
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (onc) 145
1
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (onc) 147
1
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (dmu) 244
1
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (onc) 151
1
Darksteel Citadel

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact Land
Darksteel Citadel (2xm) 315
1
Darkwater Catacombs

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (brc) 181
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (j22) 813
1
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (onc) 152
1
Goldmire Bridge

Goldmire Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Artifact Land
Goldmire Bridge (mh2) 247
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (scd) 339
4
Mistvault Bridge

Mistvault Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Artifact Land
Mistvault Bridge (mh2) 249
1
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (onc) 161
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (scd) 335
3
Power Depot

Power Depot enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts. Modular 1

Artifact Land
Power Depot (mh2) 251
1
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (scd) 314
1
Razortide Bridge

Razortide Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (mh2) 252
1
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (j22) 820
1
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (ncc) 427
1
Spire of Industry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact.

Land
Spire of Industry (aer) 184
1
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (scd) 322
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (scd) 343
2
Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (scd) 324
1
Temple of Enlightenment

Temple of Enlightenment enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Enlightenment enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (scd) 325
1
Temple of Silence

Temple of Silence enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Silence enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Silence (onc) 171
1
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (one) 261
1
Vault of Whispers

{T}: Add {B}.

Artifact Land
Vault of Whispers (mrd) 286
1

Sorcery

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Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (clb) 687
1
Forging the Anchor

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of artifact cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Forging the Anchor (bro) 50
1
March of Progress

Choose target artifact creature you control. For each creature chosen this way, create a token that's a copy of it. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Sorcery
March of Progress (brc) 8
1
Monumental Corruption

Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of artifacts you control.

Sorcery
Monumental Corruption (onc) 24
1
One with the Machine

Draw cards equal to the highest mana value among artifacts you control.

Sorcery
One with the Machine (m19) 66
1
Organic Extinction

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Destroy all nonartifact creatures.

Sorcery
Organic Extinction (nec) 8
1
Their Name Is Death

Destroy all nonartifact creatures.

Sorcery
Their Name Is Death (40k) 62
1

Maybeboard

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Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Academy Ruins (plst) 2XM-309
1
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is Esper Sentinel's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
1
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
1
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
1
Lita, Mechanical Engineer

Vigilance At the beginning of your end step, untap each other artifact creature you control. {3}{W}, {T}: Create a 5/5 colorless Vehicle artifact token named Zeppelin with flying and crew 3. (It has "Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.")

Creature Artifact
Lita, Mechanical Engineer (j22) 6
1
Raffine's Tower

({T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.) Raffine's Tower enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
1
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (2x2) 31
1
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32
1
Tempered Steel

Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2.

Enchantment
Tempered Steel (2xm) 34
1
Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge

Creature and planeswalker spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) +2: Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of artifacts you control. You gain X life. −3: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. −8: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Put all artifact cards from among them onto the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge (war) 275
1
The Mightstone and Weakstone

When The Mightstone and Weakstone enters the battlefield, choose one — • Draw two cards. • Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. {T}: Add {C}{C}. This mana can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells. (Melds with Urza, Lord Protector.)

Artifact
The Mightstone and Weakstone (bro) 238a
1
Thopter Shop

Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. {2}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Artifact
Thopter Shop (brc) 19
1
Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment
Urza's Saga (mh2) 259
1
Urza, Lord High Artificer

When Urza, Lord High Artificer enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This creature 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.

Creature
Urza, Lord High Artificer (dmr) 71
1
Vedalken Humiliator

Metalcraft — Whenever Vedalken Humiliator attacks, if you control three or more artifacts, creatures your opponents control lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 1/1 until end of turn.

Creature
Vedalken Humiliator (c18) 13
1
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (mh2) 294
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259
1

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