
Urza, Prince of Kroog
Urza, Prince of Kroog Commander Deck
This is an artifact-creature aggro deck that floods the board with artifacts and turns them into a large, anthem-stacked army. Urza is both the anthem and the late-game mana sink: he gives artifact creatures +2/+2, and his {6} ability copies any artifact the player controls as a 1/1 Soldier creature, which his own buff makes at least 3/3. Cost reducers for creature abilities make that copying cheaper to repeat, and cast and enter triggers turn every artifact into Thopters, cards and extra bodies. How it wins: It swarms with stacked anthems, often granting flying across the team, and attacks with evasive artifact creatures and Myr Battlesphere damage until opponents fall. Key roles: - Anthem stacking: Several lords and Urza, Prince of Kroog layer static buffs so even 1/1 tokens and mana dorks become real threats. (Master of Etherium, Chief of the Foundry, Salvation Engine) - Copy engine: Urza, Prince of Kroog's copy ability gets cheaper with activation discounts and is amplified by clone effects. Copying a big-ETB artifact or a mana rock as a creature doubles value and adds bodies. (Training Grounds, Heartstone, Sculpting Steel) - Token generation: Artifact cast triggers and upkeep triggers create flying Thopters and other artifact tokens that all benefit from the anthems. (Efficient Construction, Sai, Master Thopterist, Myr Battlesphere) - Artifact ramp and cost reduction: Rocks, Myr, artifact lands and artifact cost reducers deploy threats fast and fuel improvise and affinity payoffs. Untapping artifacts on opponents' turns doubles that mana for instant-speed copying. (Etherium Sculptor, Unwinding Clock, G
Urza, Prince of Kroog decklist
- Arcane Signet
- Azorius Signet
- Commander's Sphere
- Futurist Forge
- Gilded Lotus
- Heartstone
- Hedron Archive
- Ichor Wellspring
- Liquimetal Torque
- Midnight Clock
- Mind Stone
- Powerstone Shard
- Salvation Engine
- Sculpting Steel
- Sol Ring
- Swiftfoot Boots
- The Mightstone and Weakstone
- Thought Vessel
- Unwinding Clock
- Adarkar Wastes
- Ancient Den
- Azorius Chancery
- Buried Ruin
- Command Tower
- Darksteel Citadel
- Evolving Wilds
- Glacial Fortress
- 10× Island
- 9× Plains
- Power Depot
- Prairie Stream
- Razortide Bridge
- Seat of the Synod
- Spire of Industry
- Temple of Enlightenment
- Terramorphic Expanse
- Urza's Mine
- Chief of the Foundry
- Cyberdrive Awakener
- Etherium Sculptor
- Foundry Inspector
- Jhoira's Familiar
- Kappa Cannoneer
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
- Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
- Master of Etherium
- Mendicant Core, Guidelight
- Meteor Golem
- Myr Battlesphere
- Ornithopter
- Ornithopter of Paradise
- Padeem, Consul of Innovation
- Palladium Myr
- Sai, Master Thopterist
- Silver Myr
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Steel Overseer
- Thought Monitor
- Trinket Mage
- Trophy Mage
- Ultron Drone
- Viv Vision, Teen Synthezoid
- Efficient Construction
- Fateful Discovery
- Thopter Spy Network
- Training Grounds
- Aetherize
- Counterspell
- Dispatch
- Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
- Negate
- Path to Exile
- Scour for Scrap
- Stern Lesson
- Swords to Plowshares
- Thirst for Knowledge
- Karn, Living Legacy
- Dance of the Manse
- Echocasting Symposium
- Organic Extinction
- Thoughtcast
- Island