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Forge Anew

· Enchantment · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

653

Decks Running

280

In Decks

1675

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Forge Anew

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, return target Equipment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. During your turn, you may activate equip abilities any time you could cast an instant. You may pay {0}

rather than pay the equip cost of the first equip ability you activate during each of your turns.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Craig J Spearing

Final zone distribution

139 instances

3.6%

Library

43.2%

Battlefield

15.8%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 63 decks
2 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 20 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 19 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 17 decks
5 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 12 decks
6 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 9 decks
7 Bruenor Battlehammer 8 decks
8 Dáin of the Ancient Halls 8 decks
9 Noctis, Heir Apparent 8 decks
10 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

656 brought · 254 players

Brought to game

656

Ever drawn

125

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 87% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=65) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=433).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=51) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +17.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=69

12%

10%

14%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 19% (8 / 69 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

69 of 100 times cast 69%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.