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Boulderbranch Golem

Artifact Creature — Golem

Prototype {3}{G} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)
When this creature enters, you gain life equal to its power.

CMC
7
Mana cost
{7}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
The Brothers' War
Price
$0.19
EDHREC rank
#19706
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Boulderbranch Golem card art
Boulderbranch Golem enters with life equal to the number of lands you control, stapling a meaningful life buffer onto a 5/4 body for seven mana. The rate is slow, but in blink shells built around Emiel the Blessed, each flicker resets the life gain trigger and the value compounds fast.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Boulderbranch Golem is a casual Commander card through and through — seven mana for a 5/4 is unplayable in Legacy, Vintage, Modern, or Pioneer, where the bar for that investment starts at 'win the game immediately.' Pauper is legal but uninterested; the format's efficient commons leave no room for a seven-drop with no evasion. In Commander, the life gain scales with the land-heavy, longer game the format enables, and blink or sacrifice loops can turn the enter-the-battlefield trigger into a repeatable cushion.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.19 bulk tier

At $0.19, Boulderbranch Golem is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box, not a store. The niche combo applications keep it from being worthless, but there's no pressure on the price in either direction.

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