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Mystic Forge

Artifact MV 4

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What it does

You may look at the top card of your library any time.

You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library.

T, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Combos with Mystic Forge

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2019-07-12

    Because you never "cast" a land card, Mystic Forge doesn't allow you to play an artifact land from the top of your library.

  • 2019-07-12

    Mystic Forge lets you look at the top card of your library whenever you want (with one restriction—see below), even if you don't have priority. This action doesn't use the stack. Knowing what that card is becomes part of the information you have access to, just like you can look at the cards in your hand.

  • 2019-07-12

    You still pay all costs for a spell you cast from your library, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs.

  • 2019-07-12

    You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the spells you cast from your library.

  • 2019-07-12

    If the top card of your library changes while you're casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, you can't look at the new top card until you finish doing so. This means that if you cast the top card of your library, you can't look at the next one until you're done paying for that spell.

  • 2019-07-12

    If the top card of your library has a morph ability, you can cast it face down from the top of your library, even if it's normally not a colorless card.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Mystic Forge, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 12
Games played 5
Win rate 0%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Urza, Lord High Artificer 2 5 0%
Aloy, Savior of Meridian 1 0 —
Breya, Etherium Shaper 1 0 —
Dr. Madison Li 1 0 —
Kellan, the Kid 1 0 —
Sami, Wildcat Captain 1 0 —
Smaug the Magnificent 1 0 —
Tivit, Seller of Secrets 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 2 decks
  • Mono-Red 1 deck
  • Simic 1 deck
  • Boros 1 deck
  • Esper 1 deck
  • Four-Color (no Green) 1 deck
  • Bant 1 deck
  • Jeskai 1 deck

Every version of Mystic Forge

14 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Mystic Forge — a name search across every version, for 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.