Printings
Mystic Forge
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 4
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Commander Masters (CMM)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 964
Oracle Text
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.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- July 12, 2019
Because you never "cast" a land card, Mystic Forge doesn't allow you to play an artifact land from the top of your library.
Source: wotc - July 12, 2019
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.
Source: wotc - July 12, 2019
You still pay all costs for a spell you cast from your library, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs.
Source: wotc - July 12, 2019
You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the spells you cast from your library.
Source: wotc - July 12, 2019
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.
Source: wotc - July 12, 2019
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.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.