Marble Priest
Artifact Creature — Cleric
All Walls able to block this creature do so.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature by Walls.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $1.81
- EDHREC rank
- #30661
Marble Priest blocks any attacking creature without dying, making it a perpetual roadblock that demands an answer before your opponent swings freely. The cost is steep — six mana for a 3/3 with no offensive presence — so it earns its seat only in decks that specifically need a repeatable combat lock, not as generic white filler.
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 |
Marble Priest is a Commander card in practice, even though it's technically legal in Legacy and Vintage — those formats move too fast for a six-mana do-nothing blocker to matter. In Commander, Marble Priest occupies a narrow niche: artifact-heavy or pillow-fort builds that want to tax or nullify combat indefinitely, where its blocker-that-never-dies effect actually has time to generate value across multiple turns. Outside of that specific shell, cheaper and more flexible defensive tools exist at every price point.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.81 cheap tier
At $1.81, Marble Priest sits in the bulk-rare tier — inexpensive enough that slotting it into a dedicated artifact or pillow-fort build costs almost nothing. The price is stable because demand is narrow; don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.