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Urza, Lord High Artificer

· Legendary Creature — Human Artificer · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

273

Decks Running

167

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Urza, Lord High Artificer

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer

When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control." Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}

: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Grzegorz Rutkowski

Final zone distribution

95 instances

3.2%

Library

57.9%

Battlefield

11.6%

Graveyard

2.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Urza, Lord High Artificer 24 decks
2 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 15 decks
3 Breya, Etherium Shaper 10 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 7 decks
5 Kilo, Apogee Mind 7 decks
6 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 7 decks
7 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 6 decks
8 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 5 decks
9 Dr. Eggman 5 decks
10 Golbez, Crystal Collector 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

273 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

273

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 73% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=26) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=172).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=15) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +18.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

12%

15%

27%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 33% (5 / 33 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

33 of 100 times cast 33%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.