Mirror Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem
Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target card from a graveyard.
This creature has protection from each of the exiled card's card types. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #26795
Mirror Golem hits the table with full protection from whatever card type it imprinted on its way in — often instants, artifacts, or creatures — making it a surprisingly durable 3/4 for six mana. The cost is real: six mana buys you a vanilla body unless your graveyard is stocked, and protection from a single type rarely covers every answer your opponents hold.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mirror Golem is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower pace gives you time to develop a graveyard, and a protected blocker that demands type-specific removal is a real political asset in multiplayer. In Legacy and Vintage it's unplayable; six mana for a conditional 3/4 doesn't register when threats cost one or two. Modern is legal but irrelevant — the same logic applies, and nothing in competitive Modern shells wants a slow imprint payoff. Commander is where Mirror Golem earns its slot, specifically in artifact-heavy or graveyard-centric builds where imprinting is trivial and the protection clause actually disrupts opponents' removal suites.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Mirror Golem is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It won't hold or gain value, but that's not the point; it's a cheap inclusion for any Commander player who wants a protected beater without touching their trade binder.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.