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Urza, Lord Protector

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer MV 3

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What it does

Artifact, instant, and sorcery spells you cast cost 1 less to cast.

7: If you both own and control Urza, Lord Protector and an artifact named The Mightstone and Weakstone, exile them, then meld them into Urza, Planeswalker. Activate only as a sorcery.

Combos with Urza, Lord Protector

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

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Rulings

13 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2022-10-14

    The mana value of a melded permanent is the sum of the mana values of its front faces. A creature that becomes a copy of a melded permanent has only the characteristics of that combined back face, and its mana value is 0.

  • 2022-10-14

    A player prompted to name a card may name the combined back face, and each player has the right to know that combined back face's characteristics at all times.

  • 2022-10-14

    During each of your turns, you may activate Urza, Planeswalker's loyalty abilities twice, whether that's activating the same ability two times, or activating two different abilities once each.

  • 2022-10-14

    In the Commander variant, a meld card's color identity is determined only by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of its front face. No symbols or rules text of the permanent it melds into are considered.

  • 2022-10-14

    While a melded permanent is on the battlefield, it has only the characteristics of its combined back face. Any effects that modify how the new object enters the battlefield will consider only the combined back face.

  • 2022-10-14

    If an effect moves a melded permanent to a new zone and then affects "that card," it affects both cards.

  • 2022-10-14

    Note that the permanent represented by the combined back faces has a color indicator.

  • 2022-10-14

    Urza, Lord Protector's first ability can't reduce the colored mana costs of spells you cast.

  • 2022-10-14

    When a pair of cards are melded, the result is a single creature that's represented by two cards. If the melded creature dies, both cards are put into your graveyard. As it leaves the battlefield, both of those cards are turned face up again. If the cards are put on the top or bottom of your library, you choose their relative order.

  • 2022-10-14

    Only two cards belonging to the same meld pair can be melded. Tokens, cards that aren't meld cards, or meld cards that don't form a meld pair can't be melded. If an effect instructs a player to meld cards that can't be melded, those cards remain in exile.

  • 2022-10-14

    One card in each pair of meld cards has an ability that instructs you to exile the two cards and meld them. If you control more than one object with one of those names, you select one object with that name to exile.

  • 2022-10-14

    When two cards are exiled and melded, they each leave the battlefield, then return together as one new object with no relation to either of the objects that left the battlefield. Counters, Auras, Equipment, and other effects that affected those two cards don't affect the melded permanent.

  • 2022-10-14

    While a meld card is in any zone other than the battlefield, it has only the characteristics of its front face. The same is true while it's on the battlefield with its front face up.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Urza, Lord Protector in the command zone.

Decks led 2
Games played 0
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.

Urza, Lord Protector price history

The The Brothers' War #225 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$9.63▼ $0.25 (2.5%)
Low $9.63 · High $9.88Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 3, 2026$9.63$12.52
Oct 2, 2026$9.63$12.52
Oct 1, 2026$9.63$12.51
Sep 30, 2026$9.80$12.51
Sep 29, 2026$9.75$12.51
Sep 28, 2026$9.88$12.51

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Urza, Lord Protector

2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Urza, Lord Protector. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.