Urza, Chief Artificer anchors an artifact-creature aggro deck. The deck floods the board with artifacts and artifact creature tokens, from thopter makers, cast triggers and Urza's own end-step Construct, which grows with every artifact on the battlefield. Urza gives every artifact creature menace, and anthems, artifact-count scaling threats and evasion granters turn that wide, hard-to-block board into lethal pressure. The artifact density also gets cashed in for card draw. How it wins: It swarms opponents with menace-wielding, artifact-scaled creatures and tokens, pumped by anthems and evasion, and finishes with big alpha strikes and combat-damage card advantage. Key roles: - Token generation: These cards churn out artifact creature bodies every turn or on every artifact cast, alongside Urza's end-step Construct, to go wide and raise the artifact count (Sai, Master Thopterist, Thopter Spy Network, Digsite Engineer) - Artifact-count scaling: These threats and equipment grow with each artifact controlled, so the artifact lands, signets and rocks double as power for the board (Cranial Plating, Master of Etherium, Bronze Guardian) - Anthems and evasion: Team pumps, plus granted flying and unblockability, stacked on Urza's menace, push damage through blockers (Tempered Steel, Cyberdrive Awakener, Chief of the Foundry) - Cost reduction and artifact velocity: Cheaper artifact spells and casting artifacts off the top of the library chain cast triggers and dump the hand quickly (Etherium Sculptor, Foundry Inspector, Mystic Forge) - Creature-based card flow: Artifact creatures entering, dying or connecting in combat refill the hand, turning expendable tokens into cards (Skullclamp, Losheel, Clockwork Scholar, Bident of Thassa) - Board protection and resets: Ward, shroud and indestructibility shield the artifact army, while one-sided or asymmetric sweepers clear opposing creatures and leave the artifact board standing (Indomitable Archangel, Organic Extinction, Unbreakable Formation)

Urza, Chief Artificer decklist

• Alela, Artful Provocateur
• Ancient Den
• Angel of the Ruins
• Arcane Sanctum
• Arcane Signet
• Armix, Filigree Thrasher
• Ash Barrens
• Austere Command
• Azorius Chancery
• Azorius Signet
• Baleful Strix
• Bident of Thassa
• Bojuka Bog
• Bronze Guardian
• Chief of the Foundry
• Command Tower
• Counterspell
• Cranial Plating
• Cyberdrive Awakener
• Darksteel Citadel
• Despark
• Digsite Engineer
• Dimir Aqueduct
• Dimir Signet
• Etched Champion
• Etherium Sculptor
• Ethersworn Adjudicator
• Exotic Orchard
• Filigree Attendant
• Foundry Inspector
• Ghostly Prison
• Goldmire Bridge
• Indomitable Archangel
• 4× Island
• Liquimetal Torque
• Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
• March of Progress
• Marionette Master
• Master of Etherium
• Mistvault Bridge
• Myr Battlesphere
• Mystic Forge
• Noxious Gearhulk
• One with the Machine
• Organic Extinction
• Ornithopter of Paradise
• Orzhov Basilica
• Orzhov Signet
• Path of Ancestry
• Path to Exile
• Phyrexian Rebirth
• 4× Plains
• Prairie Stream
• Preordain
• Razortide Bridge
• Reliquary Tower
• River of Tears
• Sai, Master Thopterist
• Seat of the Synod
• Sharding Sphinx
• Sharuum the Hegemon
• Skullclamp
• Skycloud Expanse
• Sol Ring
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Sphinx's Revelation
• Spire of Industry
• Steel Hellkite
• Steel Overseer
• Sunken Hollow
• 3× Swamp
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Swords to Plowshares
• Tempered Steel
• Temple of Deceit
• Temple of Enlightenment
• Temple of Silence
• Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle
• Thopter Shop
• Thopter Spy Network
• Thought Monitor
• Thought Vessel
• Thousand Moons Smithy
• Unbreakable Formation
• Unwinding Clock
• Vault of Whispers
• Vedalken Humiliator
• Vindicate
• Whirler Rogue
• Wire Surgeons