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Composite Golem

Artifact Creature — Golem

Sacrifice this creature: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{6}
Color identity
BGRUW
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Fifth Dawn
Price
$0.34
EDHREC rank
#18244
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Composite Golem card art
Composite Golem is a six-mana 4/4 that pays for itself on death — sacrifice it and you get one mana of each color, which is either a curiosity or the engine piece that makes a five-color commander like Kenrith, the Returned King go infinite. The card is irrelevant without a free sacrifice outlet and a combo payoff; with them, it's one of the cheapest infinite-mana enablers in the format.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Composite Golem is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it sees meaningful play in exactly one of those. In competitive Legacy and Vintage, a six-mana 4/4 with a death trigger is nowhere near rate, and those formats have cleaner infinite-mana setups at a fraction of the cost. Modern has the same problem — the card is legal but irrelevant. Commander is the only format where Composite Golem earns a slot, specifically in five-color sacrifice shells that can loop it with a free outlet for infinite colored mana.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.34 bulk tier

At $0.34, Composite Golem is bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box or buying a playset for the price of a pack. Bulk combo pieces like this tend to stay flat unless a commander or combo breakout pushes demand, and nothing on the horizon changes that calculus for Composite Golem.

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