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Live Play Data

Mystic Forge

{4} · Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)
3%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
4151
Decks Running
1732
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
70%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=692
1%
T1
3%
T2
9%
T3
17%
T4
18%
T5
43%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15
On curve 30% (118 / 692 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

4151 brought · 1311 players
Brought to game
4151
Ever drawn
994
Reached battlefield
692
Still on board at game end
545

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ +7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=634) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2606).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=263).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +11.2pp; 95% confidence interval +7.4pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1139 instances
2.5%
Library
47.8%
Battlefield
21.2%
Graveyard
6.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Mystic Forge card

Mystic Forge

{4}
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. {T}, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.
Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Titus Lunter

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.