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 
rather than pay the equip cost of the first equip ability you activate during each of your turns.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $9.15
- EDHREC rank
- #1279
Forge Anew does three things on one enchantment — returns an Equipment from your graveyard, gives it flash for the turn, and lets you pay equip costs at instant speed — and the floor on all of that is two mana. Commanders like Medomai the Ageless that want to protect key Equipment through board wipes and Cloud, Midgar Mercenary that treat equip-trigger density as the whole game plan both run this as a staple, not a luxury.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary's entire engine runs on equipping — every attach trigger generates value — so Forge Anew doubling as graveyard recovery and an instant-speed equip enabler makes it one of the highest-priority includes in the 99.
Noctis, Heir Apparent
Noctis, Heir Apparent cares about having the right Equipment attached at the right moment, and Forge Anew's flash-equip clause lets Noctis set up combat tricks without telegraphing them at sorcery speed.
Captain America, First Avenger
Captain America, First Avenger wants his Shield in play and attached as reliably as possible, and Forge Anew serves as both insurance against removal and a way to reattach at instant speed when opponents try to strip it mid-combat.
Nahiri, Forged in Fury
Nahiri, Forged in Fury cheats Equipment into play, so Forge Anew handles the one gap in that plan — recovering pieces that hit the graveyard before Nahiri can grab them — and the instant-speed clause keeps the pressure on at end of turn.
Ratonhnhaké꞉ton
Ratonhnhaké꞉ton builds around a small suite of high-impact Equipment, which means losing any one piece is a real setback — Forge Anew patches that vulnerability while also letting Ratonhnhaké꞉ton equip at instant speed to dodge forced-equip effects.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Forge Anew earns its slot without argument — the singleton format means Equipment can hit the graveyard and stay there without redundancy, and Forge Anew's recovery clause is exactly the safety net Equipment commanders need. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is legal but competes in formats where the turn clock is brutal and a three-ability enchantment at two mana still needs to prove it can keep pace; it sees negligible play there. Modern is the interesting case: Equipment synergy decks exist, and instant-speed equipping has genuine applications in a format full of combat tricks, but the enchantment speed of deployment means it rarely displaces other options. For most players, the Commander application is the reason to own Forge Anew.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Medomai the AgelessPaleontologist's Pick-Axe // Dinosaur HeaddressForge Anew
Infinite turns; Lock
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Dauthi VoidwalkerTethmos High PriestLightning GreavesGrinning TotemForge Anew
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
If Forge Anew's price is the sticking point, Ardent Soldier and Kazuul's Toll Collector each cover part of the package — cheap or free equip costs — but neither recovers Equipment from the graveyard, which is the half of Forge Anew that actually justifies the slot in most decks. Hammer of Nazahn is a reasonable middle ground for decks that mainly want auto-equip redundancy, though it costs mana to cast and doesn't touch the graveyard angle at all.
Price Context
Current price
$9.15 mid tier
At $9.15, Forge Anew sits in the mid tier — not a trivial purchase, but firmly in the range where it's worth it if Equipment is central to your commander's game plan rather than incidental. The card sees consistent demand across multiple Equipment commanders, so this price is unlikely to crater barring a reprint in a widely distributed product.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.