Maul Splicer
Creature — Phyrexian Human Artificer
When this creature enters, create two 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature tokens.
Golem creatures you control have trample.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #12586
Maul Splicer lands as a 7-mana spell that immediately puts three bodies on the board — a 1/1 Golem token, a second 1/1 Golem, and the Splicer itself — while granting all your Golems trample, which turns an army of small tokens into a genuine combat threat. The cost is steep, but in Brenard, Ginger Sculptor builds that can cheat it into play or copy it repeatedly, the payoff scales faster than the mana would suggest.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Brenard, Ginger Sculptor
Brenard, Ginger Sculptor turns every non-token creature that dies into a Golem copy, which means Maul Splicer dies once and immediately stamps a trample-granting Golem token into the yard loop — the more Golems you accumulate, the more the trample anthem matters, and Maul Splicer feeds both sides of that engine at once.
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 |
Maul Splicer is a Commander card through and through — seven mana is a real ask in any 1v1 format, but in a multiplayer game where the board develops slowly and token synergies compound, it earns its slot. In Pauper it's technically legal but irrelevant; the format's speed makes a seven-drop that doesn't win on the spot a non-starter. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem at a sharper angle. Commander is where Maul Splicer actually gets played: Golem-tribal and artifact-token shells use it as a late-game anthem staple, and any commander that reduces its cost or copies its enters-the-battlefield trigger makes it dramatically more efficient.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Maul Splicer isn't currently available in this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. It's a niche tribal piece with a narrow home, so copies tend to stay cheap — pick one up without hesitation if the price is under a dollar or two.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.