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Darksteel Forge

Artifact

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

CMC
9
Mana cost
{9}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
Magic 2014
Price
$50.44
EDHREC rank
#1436
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Darksteel Forge card art
Darksteel Forge makes every artifact you control indestructible, which turns board wipes into one-sided annihilation — pair it with Nevinyrral's Disk and you have a repeatable reset button that leaves your board untouched. Nine mana is the honest cost, and artifact-heavy decks running Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant can cheat it out early enough that the price rarely matters.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

50.4% of decks · synergy 0.48

Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant can reduce Darksteel Forge's cost by up to eight mana through its affinity-style ability, making a nine-mana enchantment a realistic turn-four play and giving the entire artifact board a layer of protection that opponents can't easily answer.

02
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

48.9% of decks · synergy 0.44

Leonardo da Vinci floods the board with artifact tokens, and Darksteel Forge turns that wide artifact presence into a nearly indestructible army — mass removal stops being a threat when every token shrugs it off.

03
Karn, Legacy Reforged

Karn, Legacy Reforged

64.1% of decks · synergy 0.42

Karn, Legacy Reforged runs a dedicated colorless artifact shell where every permanent on the board is an artifact, so Darksteel Forge's blanket indestructibility protects the entire gamestate rather than just a handful of pieces.

04
Daretti, Scrap Savant

Daretti, Scrap Savant

42.8% of decks · synergy 0.41

Daretti, Scrap Savant protects key artifacts through recursion, and Darksteel Forge extends that protection proactively — the combination means opponents need exile-based answers or they're simply not dealing with your board.

05
Memnarch

Memnarch

46.2% of decks · synergy 0.41

Memnarch steals permanents and converts them into artifacts, and Darksteel Forge immediately shields those stolen pieces from the removal opponents will inevitably aim at them to reclaim their cards.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Darksteel Forge is a Commander card through and through — the Nevinyrral's Disk lock, the synergy with artifact commanders, and the sheer board-control payoff are all built for a 100-card, multiplayer game where permanents stick around long enough for nine mana to matter. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but never played; the cost is prohibitive in formats where the game ends on turn one or two. Modern and Pioneer allow it, but competitive artifact strategies there win faster through other means and have no appetite for a nine-mana enchantment with no immediate effect. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it occasionally appears, slotted into artifact-centric signature spell packages, but the card's true home remains Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Darksteel Forge's closest budget approximation is Hanna's Custody or Indestructibility on a single key piece — they protect individual artifacts rather than the whole board, but they cost a fraction of the price and cover the most critical targets. For blanket protection, Boros Charm grants indestructibility to all permanents in response to a board wipe, which replicates the Nevinyrral's Disk interaction at instant speed for two mana, though it's a one-shot rather than a standing effect.

Price Context

Current price

$50.44 premium tier

At $50.44, Darksteel Forge sits firmly in the premium tier — a meaningful investment that reflects its consistent demand across Commander's most popular artifact commanders. The price is stable rather than speculative; it's a format staple with no close functional reprint, so it holds value as long as artifact commanders remain popular.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.