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Urza's Incubator
Price$16.53 – $33.53
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Urza's Incubator

{3}

Artifact

LegalRank #308

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.

Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

Why is this card good?

Urza's Incubator is the premier cost reducer for tribal decks, and {2} off every creature of your chosen type adds up absurdly fast. In a deck where 30+ creatures share a type, this functions like a mini-Ritual every turn, letting you flood the board or rebuild after a wipe far quicker than opponents expect. It shines in dedicated tribal builds: Slivers, Goblins, Elves, Dragons, Zombies, Merfolk, Vampires, and similar. Commanders like Edgar Markov, The Ur-Dragon, Sliver Overlord, or Krenko all want this. It pairs beautifully with other tribal payoffs and cost reducers to chain out multiple bodies in a single turn. The catch: it does nothing until you cast creatures, and it only helps one creature type. If your deck is a typal soup with no dominant type, or a non-creature-centric build (spellslinger, artifacts, lands), skip it. It's also unimpressive in slow, midrange creature decks where you're casting one body per turn — you want it where it snowballs across many cheap-to-mid creatures.

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Printings (9)

pmh3Modern Horizons 3 Promos · #297pR—Buy
mh3Modern Horizons 3 · #297R$16.53Buy
plstThe List · #C15-273R$26.41Buy
dmrDominaria Remastered · #239M$25.62Buy
dmrDominaria Remastered · #392M$24.63Buy
dmrDominaria Remastered · #453M$33.53Buy
cm2Commander Anthology Volume II · #228R$21.12Buy
c15Commander 2015 · #273R$25.63Buy
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udsUrza's Destiny · #142R$27.00Buy

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Rulings (2)

  • 2004-10-04

    Multiple Incubators are cumulative.

  • 2004-10-04

    You choose a creature type right as it enters, before any continuous effects are applied or trigged abilities trigger.

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