Bottle Golems
Artifact Creature — Golem
Trample
When this creature dies, you gain life equal to its power.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #16005
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
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
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
Audacious ReshapersMortuaryIntruder AlarmBottle Golems
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control
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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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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.