Blightsteel Colossus
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem
Trample, infect, indestructible
If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.
- CMC
- 12
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Double Masters
- Price
- $64.89
- EDHREC rank
- #1056
Blightsteel Colossus ends games on contact — eleven poison counters from a single unblocked swing, backed by trample and indestructibility that makes it nearly impossible to answer once it's in play. Getting it there costs twelve mana, which is why decks like Aloy, Savior of Meridian and Cybermen Squadron exist: to cheat it into play and skip the part where your opponents have time to react.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aloy, Savior of Meridian
Aloy, Savior of Meridian appears in over 87% of Aloy decks because her ability to put large artifact creatures directly into play from the top of the library turns Blightsteel Colossus from a twelve-mana pipe dream into a mid-game threat that lands before anyone has an answer.
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers pair with Blightsteel Colossus because the commander's ability to grant a creature to your opponents temporarily — and then take it back with interest — creates devastating combat scenarios where Blightsteel's trample and infect close games in a single attack step.
Tannuk, Steadfast Second
Tannuk, Steadfast Second runs Blightsteel Colossus as the premier pay-off for its cost-reduction and artifact-acceleration engine, where shaving even a few mana off the twelve-mana price tag makes it a realistic turn-five or six play.
Satoru Umezawa
Satoru Umezawa's ninjutsu ability lets you sneak Blightsteel Colossus into the battlefield for just two blue mana the moment any creature connects, making it the single most punishing target for the ability in the entire format.
Oviya, Automech Artisan
Oviya, Automech Artisan generates artifact tokens that fuel mana and power scaling, and Blightsteel Colossus is the top-end finisher that converts that artifact infrastructure into an immediate poison clock your opponents can't ignore.
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 Blightsteel Colossus does its real work — the format's slower pace and abundance of cheat effects mean the twelve-mana cost is often irrelevant, and a single unblocked attack eliminates a player outright through infect. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees virtually no competitive play; twelve mana is unreachable in those formats without a dedicated reanimator shell, and even then there are faster, cheaper kills available. Oathbreaker is a fringe home where big-mana signatures and planeswalker acceleration can occasionally land it ahead of schedule. Outside those formats, Blightsteel Colossus is either banned or the format simply doesn't exist in a structure where it could function.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
No single card fully replicates what Blightsteel Colossus does — the combination of indestructibility, trample, and infect at eleven counters is unique — but Phyrexian Juggernaut and Ichorclaw Myr adjacent builds can approximate the infect gameplan at a fraction of the cost if the goal is poison counters rather than a single-swing kill. For decks that just want an enormous indestructible artifact threat, Darksteel Colossus fills the same cheat-target role for under two dollars, trading the one-hit-kill infect for a shuffle-on-death clause that makes it nearly impossible to get rid of permanently.
Price Context
Current price
$64.89 premium tier
At $64.89, Blightsteel Colossus sits firmly in premium territory — a price it has sustained for years because demand consistently outpaces reprint supply. It's not a card you pick up speculatively; you buy it when you're ready to build around it, knowing that price reflects genuine and persistent Commander demand.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.