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Artifact
LegalRank #308
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells of the chosen type cost 
less to cast.
Why is this card good?
Urza's Incubator is the premier cost reducer for tribal decks, and 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.
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.Related cards
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Printings (9)
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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.