Sword of Forge and Frontier card art

Sword of Forge and Frontier

Artifact — Equipment MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from green.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn. You may play an additional land this turn.

Equip 2

Combos with Sword of Forge and Frontier

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.

  • Mortuary Intruder Alarm Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice Activated Sleeper Infinite
    • Exile your library with the ability to play the exiled cards until end of turn
    • Play all lands in your library
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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

Rulings

3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-02-04

    If the equipped creature somehow deals combat damage to a player on an opponent's turn, the second ability will trigger. You'll be able to cast cards you exile if timing rules allow (so, instants, mostly), but you won't be able to play a land that turn.

  • 2023-02-04

    You must follow all normal timing rules for a card you play using Sword of Forge and Frontier's second ability and, if it's a spell, you must pay its costs to cast it.

  • 2023-02-04

    The effect that allows you to play an additional land that turn is cumulative with other effects that do so, including itself. If the second ability triggers multiple times in the same turn, perhaps because there were multiple combats, you will be able to play that many additional lands.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Sword of Forge and Frontier, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 1 1 —
Namor the Sub-Mariner 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 1 deck
  • Esper 1 deck

Every version of Sword of Forge and Frontier

6 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 Sword of Forge and Frontier — 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.