Gilded Sentinel
Artifact Creature — Golem
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27934
Gilded Sentinel is a three-mana 3/3 artifact creature with vigilance — functional stats, zero text, zero impact beyond blocking and dying. Colorless artifact bodies at this rate exist in abundance, and almost all of them do more.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gilded Sentinel is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, artifact-matters decks like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Shorikai, Genesis Engine have no shortage of artifact creatures that pull double duty — Gilded Sentinel's blank text box makes it a last-resort filler pick. In Pauper, where commons compete on efficiency, a vanilla 3/3 for three with vigilance simply doesn't clear the bar when creatures like Kor Skyfisher and Myr Enforcer exist. Across every constructed format, Gilded Sentinel is outclassed by cheaper or more impactful options.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Gilded Sentinel is deep bulk — the kind of card that rounds out a bulk order but never drives one. There's no pressure on that price to move in either direction; demand is negligible and supply is effectively unlimited.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.