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CardName: Urza, Artificer Prodigy Cost: 1WUB Type: Legendary Creature - Human Artificer Pow/Tgh: 4/4 Rules Text: Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {2}. If you do, search your library for an artifact card with the same converted mana cost and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Mythic

Urza, Artificer Prodigy

Legendary Creature – Human Artificer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {2}

. If you do, search your library for an artifact card with the same converted mana cost and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

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Updated on 23 Oct 2013 by movezig5

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2013-10-19 08:33:43: movezig5 created and commented on the card Urza, Artificer Prodigy

by movezig5:

See Challenge # 092.

This is for "Dual Decks: Urza vs. Mishra." What's the return set? You figure it out! I just felt like making the card.

There should also be a planeswalker version of him at some point...

by movezig5:

Oh, and tell me if you think he's broken.

by Alex:

Hee. It's certainly a fun card. Quite a tight mirror with Mishra, Artificer Prodigy.

The natural problem with keying off the converted mana costs of artifacts is affinity. But the {3} cost is hefty, and I think unbreaks this nicely. Say we drop this guy turn 3 off a Dimir Signet (something I've done with Mishra before), with any old one-drop artifact on turn 1. Turn 4 could be a Myr Enforcer, but you can't search up something hideous like Spine of Ish Sah or Magister Sphinx with this unless turn 1 was Sol Ring-Signet and turn 2 was Thran Dynamo.

So no, I think this is fun without being broken. (The {3} cost is fairly hefty, hefty enough that it interferes with the fun as well to some extent, but that's better than broken.)

2013-10-23 23:10:05: movezig5 edited Urza, Artificer Prodigy:

Changed the mana cost of the ability to {2} rather than {3} .

by movezig5:

I decided to decrease it by {1} . I think that makes it a bit more interesting without becoming too broken. Anything that can tutor for artifacts has the potential to become a problem in vintage, so I wanted to be careful of that.

by jmgariepy:

Well, you'd have to be careful about the artifacts you put in the set, and make sure there were no broken bombs at {3} and {2} . This plus Cranial Plating, for example, is pretty nutso. But that's because Cranial Plating was nutso... Urza just happens to work well with it. Urza still has his starting cost, which, if this was a power mythic, would probably net us a 6/6 flyer... so all things considered, I'd call it fair unless proven broken.

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