Malachite Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem
: This creature gains trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #29890
Malachite Golem is a 4/5 artifact creature for six mana that needs an additional blue mana each turn just to attack — a steep ongoing cost for a body that doesn't threaten the board on its own. There are faster, cheaper, more impactful six-drops in virtually every format, and the upkeep tax pushes this firmly into unplayable territory.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Malachite Golem is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean good. In Commander, a six-mana 4/5 with a blue upkeep cost to attack is nowhere near the rate you need — the format is full of six-drops that win games or generate value, and Malachite Golem does neither. In Pauper, where commons compete on tight efficiency, a six-mana vanilla-adjacent creature with an attack tax is simply too slow and too costly to see play. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it whatsoever.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Malachite Golem sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects its play value accurately. Don't expect this to appreciate — bulk artifact creatures without a combo role or reprint scarcity have nowhere to go.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.