Obsianus Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- 30th Anniversary Edition
- Price
- $2.25
- EDHREC rank
- #28548
Obsianus Golem is a 4/6 colorless body for six mana with no abilities — you get a wall-sized blocker and nothing else. At that cost and with that statline, it loses to nearly every comparable six-drop in Commander and has no competitive home in any format.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Obsianus Golem is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 4/6 vanilla for six is well below the curve — the format's card quality is too high to spend that slot on a body with no ETB, no evasion, and no text. Pauper is the only format where vanilla beaters have ever scraped by, but even there Obsianus Golem's cost-to-stat ratio doesn't compete with the format's efficient commons. Vintage and Legacy have no interest in a six-mana do-nothing.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.25 cheap tier
At $2.25, Obsianus Golem sits in the cheap tier almost entirely on collector curiosity — it's one of the oldest cards in Magic, and that history drives more of its price than any gameplay demand. Don't expect that price to reflect power; there's no shell that wants this card, so the value is purely nostalgic.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.