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Mycosynth Golem

Artifact Creature — Golem

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Artifact creature spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)

CMC
11
Mana cost
{11}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Fifth Dawn
Price
$37.75
EDHREC rank
#3468
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Mycosynth Golem card art
When Mycosynth Golem is on the battlefield, every artifact creature in your hand costs generic mana equal to its affinity count — meaning most cost zero or one in a dedicated artifact deck. The 11-mana cast cost is the catch, but in shells built around Krark-Clan Ironworks or helmed by Karn, Legacy Reforged, you're rarely paying full price, and the payoff is a hand that empties onto the board in a single turn.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Karn, Legacy Reforged

Karn, Legacy Reforged

56.6% of decks · synergy 0.41

Karn, Legacy Reforged is the most natural home for Mycosynth Golem — Karn's static ability counts artifacts you control for mana, which means you can accelerate into the Golem ahead of schedule and immediately exploit the cost reduction to flood the board with the rest of your hand.

02
Imskir Iron-Eater

Imskir Iron-Eater

39.3% of decks · synergy 0.39

Imskir Iron-Eater cares about sacrificing artifacts and drawing cards, and Mycosynth Golem turns that loop explosive: once artifact creatures are effectively free, you're drawing and sacrificing at a pace the table can't keep up with.

03
The Capitoline Triad

The Capitoline Triad

52.0% of decks · synergy 0.36

The Capitoline Triad rewards you for running a high density of artifacts, and Mycosynth Golem is exactly the kind of engine piece that makes a board of cheap or free artifact creatures snowball into an unmanageable threat in a single attack step.

04
Aloy, Savior of Meridian

Aloy, Savior of Meridian

33.0% of decks · synergy 0.32

Aloy, Savior of Meridian generates artifact tokens and benefits from artifact-creature density, so Mycosynth Golem's cost reduction lets you chain out an entire hand of threats the same turn you untap — exactly the kind of burst tempo Aloy decks want.

05

Megatron, Tyrant

28.9% of decks · synergy 0.28

Megatron, Tyrant converts artifacts into damage and card advantage, and Mycosynth Golem makes it trivial to stock the battlefield with sacrificial artifact creatures, turning Megatron's ability from a trickle into a torrent.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Mycosynth Golem actually lives — the 100-card singleton format gives artifact-creature decks enough redundancy to reach the critical mass the Golem demands, and the longer game means you'll find windows to cast or cheat it out. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is technically legal but sees virtually no play; those formats move too fast for an 11-mana creature whose payoff requires a board state you'd have already won through other means. Oathbreaker has the same theoretical access but the same practical problem: Mycosynth Golem rewards patient, artifact-dense construction, and the compressed Oathbreaker game plan rarely gives it room to breathe.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

There's no clean one-card replacement for what Mycosynth Golem does, but Foundry Inspector and Etherium Sculptor each shave a generic off every artifact you cast and together cost under $2 combined — they don't zero out your hand the way the Golem can, but they keep the cost-reduction engine running at a fraction of the price. If the goal is specifically to empty your hand of artifact creatures fast, Semblance Anvil naming artifact creature gets close for under $1, with the trade-off that it exiles a card from your hand to do it.

Price Context

Current price

$37.75 premium tier

At $37.75, Mycosynth Golem sits firmly in the premium tier — a price driven by its unique effect and the lack of a functional reprint rather than broad cross-format demand. It's a stable hold for dedicated artifact-creature builds but a hard sell if you're not specifically building around affinity synergies.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.