Hollow Warrior
Artifact Creature — Golem Warrior
This creature can't attack or block unless you tap an untapped creature you control not declared as an attacking or blocking creature this combat. (This cost is paid as attackers or blockers are declared.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #30791
Hollow Warrior is a 4/4 for four mana that can't attack or block unless you tap two untapped creatures you control — a steep tax that makes it a liability in combat-focused decks. The only reason to run it is if your deck actively wants to tap creatures for value, in which case the restriction becomes irrelevant.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hollow Warrior is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, a vanilla 4/4 for four mana is well below rate, and the tap-two-creatures attack restriction means it rarely gets through without setup. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it — those formats demand either efficiency or a broken payoff, and Hollow Warrior offers neither. Oathbreaker is the one context where a tap-synergy build could theoretically make use of it, but better options exist at every point on the curve.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Hollow Warrior is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not card power. The price is stable simply because demand is near zero, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.