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Thran Forge

Artifact

{2}: Until end of turn, target nonartifact creature gets +1/+0 and becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Weatherlight
Price
$0.25
EDHREC rank
#20603
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Thran Forge card art
Thran Forge turns every artifact creature you control into a Metal creature, which means Magda, Brazen Outlaw's Dwarf-tribal engine extends to your entire artifact suite the moment the Forge hits the board. The cost is three mana to cast and one per turn to maintain — cheap enough that almost any artifact-matters deck can absorb it without flinching.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Thran Forge earns its keep, slotting into any artifact-creature strategy that wants redundancy on the artifact subtype or needs to feed a tribal payoff. Legacy and Vintage both permit it, but the one-mana-per-turn upkeep cost is a real tax in formats where the game ends before you've recouped the investment. Thran Forge is essentially a Commander-only card in practice — the slower, longer games there are the only context where its incremental type-stamping actually accumulates value.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.25 bulk tier

At $0.25, Thran Forge is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. The price reflects narrow demand rather than low power; in the right artifact-tribal shell it punches well above its cost, but it won't move off the bulk floor without a breakout Commander printing that pushes it into the spotlight.

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