Obsidian Forge

Obsidian Forge

Obsidian Forge • Dis • Artifact • Uncommon • Action: Destroy any number of friendly creatures. You may forge a key at +6 current cost, reduced by 1 for each creature destroyed this way. If you forge a key this way, destroy Obsidian Forge. • Artist: Hans Krill • Card Number: WC:093, MM:025, VM2023:080, VM2024:078, MoMu:032, ToC:023

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Dis

Artifact

Uncommon

1

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• Action: Destroy any number of friendly creatures. You may forge a key at +6 current cost, reduced by 1 for each creature destroyed this way. If you forge a key this way, destroy Obsidian Forge.
  Current Text
• Obsidian Forge was updated in Mass Mutation. Original card text:

  Action: Sacrifice any number of friendly creatures. Then, you may forge a key at +6 current cost, reduced by 1 for each creature sacrificed this way. If you do, destroy Obsidian Forge.

  Original Text

WC 093

MM 025

VM2023 080

VM2024 078

MoMu 032

ToC 023

Artist: Hans Krill

Official Rulings

• If I resolve the “Action:” on Obsidian Forge (WC 025) and choose to destroy a warded creature, will that creature reduce the cost to forge that key?
  No. If the creature is not “destroyed this way” they do not reduce the key cost.

  Source: Rulebook

If I resolve the “Action:” on Obsidian Forge (WC 025) and choose to destroy a warded creature, will that creature reduce the cost to forge that key?

No. If the creature is not “destroyed this way” they do not reduce the key cost.

Source: Rulebook

Commentary

Obsidian Forge specifically looks at whether a creature was successfully sacrificed to reduce the key cost. If a card was prevented from being sacrificed or leaving play by an effect like Ward, the creature's ward token will be removed, but it will not reduce the cost to forge.

When resolving the ability of Obsidian Forge, "any number" can be treated as zero.

Source: "Any Number"