Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch Commander Deck

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch builds a wide board of Myr tokens and creatures that untap at the beginning of combat, then leverages that untapped mana-producing Myr army through a dense suite of stax effects — taxing opponents' spells, restricting mana, and punishing noncreature or extra plays — to lock down the game while the deck operates freely. The untapping synergy enables Urtet to play around stasis effects and win through Millennium Calendar and All Will Be One. Urza's Saga, Oswald Fiddlebender and similar effects allow to play around stax effects and avoid silence-like locks centered around Drannith Magistrate and Possibility Storm (or similar effects). Piracy, Drain Power, and Mana Web function as forced decision points and mana compression tools rather than pure silence effects. When Price of Glory is active, Piracy and Drain Power force opponents to either spend counterspells or lose their entire land base — both outcomes are favorable. Against reactive blue decks holding up mana, Drain Power is especially punishing: the more mana they hold, the more lands Price of Glory destroys when they're forced to tap. Mana Web compounds this by tapping down all lands of a matching mana type the moment an opponent taps one, further amplifying the land destruction threat under Price of Glory. Together these three cards create genuine lose-lose situations that compound the deck's overall mana compression strategy. Portcullis is a situational tool against creature-heavy decks that go wide without needing the stack. It is not expected to be played in every game or matchup — it is a meta-specific answer kept in the deck for those specific scenarios.

Decklist

• Adarkar Wastes
• All Will Be One
• Alloy Myr
• An Offer You Can't Refuse
• Ancient Den
• Arcane Signet
• Arcum Dagsson
• Battlefield Forge
• Blind Obedience
• Buried Ruin
• Cascade Bluffs
• Chalice of the Void
• City of Brass
• Clifftop Retreat
• Clock of Omens
• Command Tower
• Copper Myr
• Cryptolith Rite
• Cyclonic Rift
• Damping Sphere
• Dauntless Dismantler
• Deflecting Swat
• Drain Power
• Drannith Magistrate
• Enduring Vitality
• Esper Sentinel
• Ethersworn Canonist
• Exotic Orchard
• Fatespinner
• Fierce Guardianship
• Flooded Strand
• Force of Will
• Glacial Fortress
• Goblin Engineer
• Gold Myr
• Grand Abolisher
• Great Furnace
• Hall of Gemstone
• Hallowed Fountain
• High Noon
• Imperial Recruiter
• Iron Myr
• 4× Island
• Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
• Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
• Leaden Myr
• Mana Drain
• Mana Maze
• Mana Web
• Mistrise Village
• 2× Mountain
• Myr Convert
• Mystic Gate
• Oswald Fiddlebender
• Path of Ancestry
• Piracy
• Plague Myr
• 4× Plains
• Polluted Delta
• Portcullis
• Possibility Storm
• Price of Glory
• Rhystic Study
• Rugged Prairie
• Sacred Foundry
• Seat of the Synod
• Shivan Reef
• Silence
• Silver Myr
• Smothering Tithe
• Sol Ring
• Spire of Industry
• Stasis
• Static Orb
• Steam Vents
• Sulfur Falls
• Sunder
• Swan Song
• Sylvan Library
• Tectonic Instability
• Teferi's Protection
• Tezzeret the Seeker
• The Millennium Calendar
• Trinisphere
• Unwinding Clock
• Urza, Lord High Artificer
• Urza's Saga
• Vexing Bauble
• Voice of Victory
• War's Toll
• Whir of Invention
• Winter Orb