Molten Sentry
Creature — Elemental
As this creature enters, flip a coin. If the coin comes up heads, this creature enters as a 5/2 creature with haste. If it comes up tails, this creature enters as a 2/5 creature with defender.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #21534
Molten Sentry enters as either a 5/2 haste beater or a 2/5 defender — randomly — which means you can't reliably plan around either mode. A coin-flip creature that costs four mana and might just sit as a wall is a hard sell in any format with better options.
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 |
Molten Sentry is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, a four-mana 5/2 haste is passable aggression, but the random outcome makes Molten Sentry unreliable in a format where you need your pieces to do predictable work. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a coin-flip four-drop when the card pool is that deep. Modern could theoretically run aggressive red creatures at this slot, but there are a dozen better options that don't leave your turn-four play up to chance.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Molten Sentry is pure bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for cardboard. Don't expect that price to move; there's no competitive demand pulling it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.