Bottle Golems

Artifact Creature — Golem

Trample
When this creature dies, you gain life equal to its power.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Modern Horizons 2
Price
$0.20
EDHREC rank
#16005
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Bottle Golems card art
Bottle Golems enters with toughness equal to the number of artifacts you control — in the right deck that's a 6/6 or larger for three mana with no additional investment. Audacious Reshapers and artifact-dense shells are where this card stops being filler and starts being a legitimate threat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Bottle Golems is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and artifact-heavy strategies give it room to grow into something threatening, and the 100-card singleton environment means you're rarely competing with better three-drops for the same slot in an artifacts deck. In Pauper it's legal but competes in a faster, more hostile environment where a vanilla-ish creature that requires setup rarely makes the cut. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — the power floor is too high for a creature that does nothing the turn it enters without board support. If Bottle Golems is in your 99, it's because you built around it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.20 bulk tier

At $0.20, Bottle Golems is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. Nothing about its demand trajectory suggests that changes, so grab a copy from a bulk bin and don't think twice.

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