Mystic Forge
Artifact
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.
, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.
Illustrated by Titus Lunter · Core Set 2020 (M20)
Legalities
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Restricted
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
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Modern Horizons 3 Commander #302 rare 2024-06-14
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Fallout #764 rare 2024-03-08
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Fallout #484 rare 2024-03-08
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Fallout #236 rare 2024-03-08
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Fallout #1012 rare 2024-03-08
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Commander Masters #964 rare 2023-08-04
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The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts #99z mythic 2022-11-18
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The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts #99 mythic 2022-11-18
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The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts #36 mythic 2022-11-18
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Warhammer 40,000 Commander #246★ rare 2022-10-07
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Warhammer 40,000 Commander #246 rare 2022-10-07
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Core Set 2020 Promos #233s rare 2019-07-12
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Core Set 2020 Promos #233p rare 2019-07-12
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Core Set 2020 #233 rare 2019-07-12
Rulings
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Because you never "cast" a land card, Mystic Forge doesn't allow you to play an artifact land from the top of your library.
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You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the spells you cast from your library.
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You still pay all costs for a spell you cast from your library, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Archetypes that play this card
Legacy
- Mystic Forge Combo 42.3% of lists
- Other 2.0% of lists
Modern
- Other 1.6% of lists
Vintage
- Raker Shops 98.3% of lists
- Sphere Shops 95.0% of lists
- Stiflenought 16.7% of lists
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- Other 6.9% of lists
- Esper Lurrus Control 2.0% of lists