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Urza, Powerstone Prodigy

Urza, Powerstone Prodigy

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer · {2}{U} · Blue commander

Vigilance {1}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. Whenever you discard one or more artifact cards, create a tapped Powerstone token. This ability triggers only once each turn. (The token is an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")
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What Urza, Powerstone Prodigy actually does

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What an Urza, Powerstone Prodigy deck wants

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Best cards for Urza, Powerstone Prodigy

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Super State7 mana
  6. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  7. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  8. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  2. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  3. Freed from the Real3 mana
  4. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  5. Retreat to Coralhelm3 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  8. Genji Glove5 mana

Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards

  1. Mox Diamond0 mana
  2. Fomori Vault0 mana
  3. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  4. Collector's Vault2 mana
  5. Containment Construct2 mana
  6. Ghostly Pilferer2 mana
  7. Key to the City2 mana
  8. Kitsa, Otterball Elite2 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  2. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  3. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  4. Eldritch Immunity1 mana
  5. Shore Up1 mana
  6. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  7. Cyberman Patrol2 mana
  8. It That Heralds the End2 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  3. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  4. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  5. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  6. Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia3 mana
  7. Field of the Dead0 mana
  8. Spawnbed Protector7 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Pongify1 mana
  3. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  4. Resculpt2 mana
  5. Suspend1 mana
  6. Snap2 mana
  7. Into the Flood Maw1 mana
  8. Planar Incision2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Displacement Wave2 mana
  2. Filter Out3 mana
  3. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  4. Coercive Portal4 mana
  5. Whelming Wave4 mana
  6. Consuming Tide4 mana
  7. Llawan, Cephalid Empress4 mana
  8. Part the Veil4 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Whir of Invention3 mana
  5. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  6. Mystical Tutor1 mana
  7. Muddle the Mixture2 mana
  8. Personal Tutor1 mana

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