Art by Bartłomiej Gaweł
Commander deckBUW
Urza, Chief Artificer
Build a massive army of Karnstructs while using high-value artifacts and recursion to simulate the Iron Man armory and technological superiority.
Asked for“I want to build a Tony Stark deck, with some token production, high value cards and a little bit of graveyard shanenigans with artifact recursion”
Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 59 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1Urza, Chief Artificer
3WUBLegendary Creature — Human Artificer
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
11
Etherium Sculptor
1UArtifact Creature — Vedalken Artificer
Cost reduction for the whole deck
Foundry Inspector
3Artifact Creature — Construct
Essential cost reduction for artifacts
Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
WULegendary Creature — Human Wizard
Reduces artifact costs significantly
Card Draw
10
Vedalken Archmage
2UUCreature — Vedalken Wizard
Massive draw engine for an artifact deck
Padeem, Consul of Innovation
3ULegendary Creature — Vedalken Artificer
Protects artifacts and provides steady cards
Thought Monitor
6UArtifact Creature — Construct
High-value card draw on a flying body
Esper Sentinel
WArtifact Creature — Human Soldier
Early game pressure and card advantage
Removal
12
Threats/Wincons
18
Sai, Master Thopterist
2ULegendary Creature — Human Artificer
Consistent token generation
Cyberdrive Awakener
5UArtifact Creature — Construct
Finisher that turns artifacts into flying threats
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
5WWLegendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
Buffs tokens and weakens enemies
Sphinx of the Steel Wind
5WUBArtifact Creature — Sphinx
High-value keyword soup threat
Wurmcoil Engine
6Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
Resilient high-value threat and lifegain
Phyrexian Metamorph
3UPArtifact Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter
Versatile copy of any artifact or creature
Master of Etherium
2UArtifact Creature — Vedalken Wizard
Huge threat that buffs other artifacts
Ethersworn Adjudicator
4UArtifact Creature — Vedalken Knight
Repeatable removal on a large body
Cataclysmic Gearhulk
3WWArtifact Creature — Construct
Artifact-friendly board wipe
Marionette Master
4BBCreature — Human Artificer
Turns artifact death into direct damage
The Antiquities War
3UEnchantment — Saga
Saga that ends in a massive alpha strike
Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
4UBLegendary Planeswalker — Tezzeret
Affinity for cards and heavy life drain
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
2WLegendary Creature — Elephant Artificer
Protects attacking tokens and draws cards
Bronze Guardian
4WArtifact Creature — Golem
Provides Ward to artifacts and scales damage
Digsite Engineer
2WCreature — Dwarf Artificer
Generates large constructs on artifact casts
Utility
8
Ethersworn Canonist
1WArtifact Creature — Human Cleric
Stax effect to control the table
Emry, Lurker of the Loch
2ULegendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Key graveyard recursion piece
Sharuum the Hegemon
3WUBLegendary Artifact Creature — Sphinx
Major artifact recursion engine
