Gods' Hall Guardian
Creature — Cat
Vigilance
Foretell (During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaldheim
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #22871
Gods' Hall Guardian is a 4/4 vigilance body for five mana — passable stats, but the ceiling is a free cast when you control a legendary artifact, which pushes it firmly into artifact-matters and Voltron shells. Outside of those synergies, a vanilla 4/4 for five has no business in any competitive list.
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 |
In Commander, Gods' Hall Guardian earns its slot in legendary-artifact decks — think Urza, Lord High Artificer or Breya, Etherium Shaper shells where a free 4/4 with vigilance is a real tempo play. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant; five mana for a conditional free cast never competes at that power level. Modern, Legacy, and Vintage have enough efficient threats that Gods' Hall Guardian doesn't register. Oathbreaker is the one fringe home outside Commander, where legendary artifacts show up often enough to make the cost-reduction live.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Gods' Hall Guardian is deep bulk — pick it up in a trade binder or grab a playset for under a dollar without thinking twice. Bulk rare pricing means zero financial risk, and there's no trajectory that changes that unless a legendary-artifact commander breaks out and drags it along.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.