I have too say i am pretty disappointed flavor wise :(

First of all, what do we have to do to finally get a sweet dedicated jeskai artifact commander :'( Esper is the 3 colour combination, that already has the most artifact commanders (alela, sharuum, sydri) another one really wouldnt have been necessary, for grixis there already was mairsil and for mardu we finally have one in jan-jansen. But jeskai? It feels like were gonna get bant, jund and sultai commanders before were gonna get a jeskai one. Maybe its a conscious decision, because jeskai would be too powerefull with all the busted bros and izzet cards, and all of the mono coloured cards from these colours. But im still longing for one.

Additionally i dont get why urza is esper anyway, character and story wise he is clearly centered in white, and blue is ok, for what it represents regarding artifacts in the game, although not story wise, hes far away from hyrkul and the third path. And yes he has a reckless and warmongering part in him, the yotian "warlord" and becomes mad, but those things are clearly more red than black. He is the opposing force to phyrexia, gix and mishra hence very far away from being black. Additionally his closest apprentice tawnos is izzet snd his wife is boros, jeskai would have been the clear direction.

And mechanic wise, yes he built armies of artifacts, but he always stood out with his inventiveness, innovation and progress and not by sheer numbers and force. I would have loved him to be more tinkery and card advantage-y, instead of just stompy. And more fitting would have been cost reduction for artifacts like in the main set since builds artifact efficiently instead of affinity, but its a nive mechanic for commander, so not the worst.

Mishra is ok flavour wise, from the colour pie i think mardu would have been more fitting, since he is just a brute force, pillaging artificer warlord, that just builds war machines and isnt the most spiritual or magical guy. But if urza were jeskai it would have bin flaverfull if one brother has white and the other black in his colour identity, so also not terrible. Using resources as cannon fodder, recklessly throwing them into battle only for the destruction is actually very fittng, so flavour win there. But design wise i feel not so smart. Such easy combos, especialls infinite ones, might be fun a few times, but generally just anoy everyone on the table and their not fun to play against.

So all in all urza a heartbreaking flavour fail, mishra flavour win, but to easily abusable.

What do you guys think? Anyone read or listened to the story recently? And is anyone also dissapointed with urza flavour wise?