1 Urza, Lord High Artificer Works Well With Any Artifact Build 9,488 Decks on EDHrec.com Urza, Lord High Artificer is the most popular mono-blue commander, and Commander players should be aware that playing such a deck will often make them a huge target, especially in more casual groups
But it's more useful than other graveyard effects like persist and undying in a self-mill build because those effects trigger on creature death, while unearth works as long as the card is in the graveyard
Cromat allows you to play every mutate creature, all of which can be used to mutate Cromat itself
Magic has gotten to the point where its not feasible to keep a massive hand and slowly react to threats one by one while drawing extra cards
Finally, I could rant on how poor a plan it is to rely on opponents with Zenith ChroniclerZenith Chronicler, but why do that when I could instead harp on just how good Undead ButlerUndead Butler is
Brimaz, King of Oreskos The big draw with Brimaz is his meaty stat line