Iron Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem
Vigilance
This creature attacks or blocks each combat if able.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #22674
Iron Golem is a vanilla 4/4 artifact creature for five mana with no abilities — what you see is what you get, and what you get is underwhelming. Cheaper bodies with evasion, keywords, or enters-the-battlefield effects outclass it at every point on the curve.
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 |
Iron Golem is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 4/4 with no text and no synergy hooks is simply not pulling its weight at five mana — artifact-matters commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Emry, Lurker of the Loch have access to far more efficient bodies that do something when they enter, die, or tap. Across competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, Iron Golem doesn't appear in any serious list; the bar for a colorless five-drop without an immediate board impact is essentially insurmountable when Thought-Knot Seer and Reality Smasher exist. It's a card that was never competitive and has no emerging niche to rescue it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Iron Golem isn't available at this time, but as a bulk common-level vanilla creature with no competitive applications, copies consistently show up in bulk bins for pennies. There's no reason to pay more than a few cents if you need one for a custom puzzle or novelty build.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.