Forging the Anchor
Sorcery
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of artifact cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #14185
Forging the Anchor tutors an artifact directly onto the battlefield — no mana cost paid, no delay — which is a backbreaking rate for any deck that wants a specific piece in play fast. Jhoira, Ageless Innovator decks treat it as a core slot: the artifact-matters payoffs are so dense that instant-speed deployment at sorcery cost is nearly always worth the card.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jhoira, Ageless Innovator
Jhoira, Ageless Innovator triggers off every artifact that enters, so Forging the Anchor isn't just finding a missing piece — it's a trigger on a stick that chains directly into Jhoira's draw and storm-count engine.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Forging the Anchor is a Commander card, full stop. In a 100-card singleton format where you need consistency and the games go long enough to extract full value from a three-mana tutor, it earns its slot in any artifact-heavy build. In Modern or Legacy, three mana to put a single artifact into play at sorcery speed is too slow when Urza's Saga and Whir of Invention exist; no competitive shell reaches for it. Pioneer is the same story — the format has enough artifact synergy to make you want this effect, but not enough decks that can afford to spend three mana and a card on a single piece. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton logic and could theoretically run it, though the compressed game length makes the cost sting more.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Forging the Anchor is bulk by any measure — easy to acquire, easy to include speculatively. Bulk artifact tutors with clean rules text tend to hold their floor when casual demand stays steady, so don't expect this to drop further.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.