Cobalt Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem
: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #30375
Cobalt Golem is a 2/3 artifact creature that taps for one blue mana — a mana rock stapled to a body, but at five mana the rate is too slow to justify the slot in nearly any deck. Cheaper rocks and better bodies both exist in abundance; Cobalt Golem competes in neither category.
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 |
Cobalt Golem is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in almost none of them. In Pauper, where artifact synergies matter and the card pool is shallow, it at least has a theoretical home in artifact-based or affinity-adjacent strategies — though even there the mana cost is a liability. In Commander, five mana for a 2/3 that taps for one blue is nowhere near the efficiency bar set by Worn Powerstone, Thran Dynamo, or even Coldsteel Heart. Cobalt Golem is not a card that crosses formats; it stays on the bulk-bin shelf.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Cobalt Golem is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff pile rather than a trade binder. There is no pressure on this price in either direction; demand is too low to push it up, and it's already at the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.