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Territory Forge

Artifact4 generic manaRed mana

Copy-effects usually take the whole permanent: the stats, the type line, the abilities all at once. This narrows the theft to a single vector. It exiles an artifact or land and then wears only that card's activated abilities, a red artifact engine that fires whatever tap-line or mana ability it just stripped out of a board (yours or an opponent's). The cast condition is the design fence: the exile trigger only fires "if you cast it," so blinking or reanimating the body gets you the shell without the payload, which keeps the effect from spinning into a recursion loop that re-steals an ability every turn. The interesting part is that it does not care what the exiled card was, only what it does: any activated ability on the target, from a mana rock's tap-for-mana to a manland's animation cost, transfers wholesale onto a card sitting in red's color identity. Because the source is exiled rather than borrowed, the theft is permanent and clean; there is no "return it" clause, no dependence on the original staying in play. It reads as red's answer to a copy-and-control impulse that has historically lived in blue and colorless: you are not stealing the permanent so much as gutting it for parts and keeping the machine, then bolting that machine to a color that rarely gets to plunder for value this way.

Territory Forge (big)
BIG · #45mythic
Pricing
Normal: $1.52
Foil: $2.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this artifact enters, if you cast it, exile target artifact or land. This artifact has all activated abilities of the exiled card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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