Mystic Forge

MTG singles

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.

  • CommanderLegal
  • StandardNot legal
  • PioneerLegal
  • ModernLegal
  • LegacyLegal
  • VintageRestricted
  • PauperNot legal

#414 on EDHREC's list of the most played Commander cards (as of October 16, 2026).

Selling Mystic Forge?

We pay 50% of a card's market value in cash, or 70% in store credit, for cards worth more than $1. For the cheapest printing of Mystic Forge, that's about $1.29 cash or $1.80 in credit.

How selling to us works

All 14 printings and prices

Set#ReleasedNonfoilFoil
Modern Horizons 3 Commander M3C 302 Jun 2024 $5.39–
Fallout PIP 236 Mar 2024 $2.57$5.89
Fallout PIP 1012 Mar 2024 –$9.26
Fallout PIP 484 Mar 2024 $5.23$4.35
Fallout PIP 764 Mar 2024 –$6.06
Commander Masters CMM 964 Aug 2023 $3.27–
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts BRR 99z Nov 2022 –$471.73
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts BRR 36 Nov 2022 $5.44$9.80
The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts BRR 99 Nov 2022 $8.44$32.07
Warhammer 40,000 Commander 40K 246★ Oct 2022 –$12.75
Warhammer 40,000 Commander 40K 246 Oct 2022 $4.71–
Core Set 2020 Promos PM20 233p Jul 2019 $3.70$3.62
Core Set 2020 Promos PM20 233s Jul 2019 –$11.42
Core Set 2020 M20 233 Jul 2019 $4.37$6.41

TCGplayer market, near mint, Oct 16, 2026.

Rulings

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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