Razor Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem
Affinity for Plains (This spell costs 
less to cast for each Plains you control.)
Vigilance
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Darksteel
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #24338
Razor Golem is a 3/4 vigilance artifact creature that costs six mana — but reduces that cost by one for each Plains you control, bottoming out at three. The ceiling is a three-mana 3/4 with vigilance, which is a real rate; the floor is an overcosted vanilla threat in any deck that isn't running white.
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 |
Razor Golem sees essentially zero play in competitive formats despite being legal in Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Pauper — the affinity-style reduction is too conditional and the stat line too unexciting to compete. In Pauper it's at least theoretically interesting in mono-white aggressive shells, where Plains density is high enough to hit the three-mana floor, but better commons exist at that slot. Commander is where Razor Golem occasionally surfaces, specifically in Plains-heavy artifact or equipment builds where the discount is reliable, but even there it rarely makes cuts over stronger artifact payoffs.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Razor Golem is pure bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking about it. Bulk stays bulk; there's no sleeper angle here that would change that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.