Gravestone Strider
Artifact Creature — Golem
: Add one mana of any color. Activate only once each turn.
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Exile target card from a graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #21332
Gravestone Strider enters as a 3/3 with ward 1 whenever a creature dies under your control — which means in any deck that trades creatures regularly, it grows into a legitimate threat for free. Two mana is the right price for a body that scales with your own game plan rather than demanding extra setup.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Gravestone Strider belongs in sacrifice and aristocrats shells where creatures die every turn cycle — it quietly becomes a 5/5 or larger without spending a single card. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, a two-mana 3/3 with a conditional upside is too slow to matter; aggro clocks you before the ward 1 ever deters anything meaningful. Pauper is the one non-Commander format where Gravestone Strider could carve space, specifically in sacrifice-based common shells that already want a low-cost threat that accrues value. Legacy and Vintage simply have too much removal that ignores ward entirely.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Gravestone Strider is deep bulk — zero barrier to picking up a playset. Bulk commons with narrow archetypes rarely climb in price, so treat this as a free include for sacrifice decks rather than a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.