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Mystic Forge

· Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

774

Decks Running

391

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

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. {T}

, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Titus Lunter

Final zone distribution

169 instances

1.2%

Library

48.5%

Battlefield

18.9%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 48 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 31 decks
3 Szarekh, the Silent King 24 decks
4 Molecule Man 19 decks
5 Dr. Madison Li 14 decks
6 Imotekh the Stormlord 14 decks
7 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 9 decks
8 T'Challa, the Black Panther 8 decks
9 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 8 decks
10 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

774 brought · 332 players

Brought to game

774

Ever drawn

153

Reached battlefield

103

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=82) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=470).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=35) — 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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.2pp to +8.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=103

14%

12%

18%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 33% (12 / 103 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

1064 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.