Hewed Stone Retainers
Artifact Creature — Golem
Cast this spell only if you've cast another spell this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fate Reforged
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #28667
Hewed Stone Retainers puts a 4/3 on the board for as little as one mana if you can satisfy the offering cost, making it one of the most efficient convoke-adjacent threats in artifact-heavy builds. The ceiling is real, but so is the dependency — without a disposable artifact in play, you're paying full retail for a vanilla 4/3.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hewed Stone Retainers is a Commander card almost by definition — the artifact density required to consistently reduce its cost exists naturally in artifact-themed decks, and the singleton format doesn't punish you for running a narrow payoff. In Modern and Legacy, a conditional 4/3 with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no evasion doesn't clear the bar; those formats have cheaper threats with more upside. Pioneer is the same story. Hewed Stone Retainers finds its actual home in Commander shells built around Breya, Etherium Shaper or Emry, Lurker of the Loch, where sacrifice fodder is abundant and a discounted 4/3 body is a fine early blocker or sacrifice target.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Hewed Stone Retainers is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card itself. Demand is too narrow to push the price anywhere meaningful, so pick it up for a quarter bin and don't think twice.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.