Rusted Sentinel
Artifact Creature — Golem
This creature enters tapped.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic 2012
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #30689
Rusted Sentinel enters tapped and costs four mana for a 3/5 vigilance body — a stat line that was never exciting and hasn't aged into relevance. There are better four-drop defenders in every format that want one, and this one asks you to wait a full turn before it does anything.
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 |
Rusted Sentinel is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 3/5 vigilance for four that enters tapped competes against artifacts that generate value, ramp, or enable combos — Rusted Sentinel does none of those things. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent four-drop. Modern theoretically has space for budget defenders, but the enters-tapped clause is a real cost in a format that punishes tempo. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's verdict: slot count is too tight for a card with no enters-the-battlefield effect and no synergy hooks.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Rusted Sentinel is deep bulk — the kind of price that reflects demand, not just supply. That floor is stable for the same reason it's low: nothing in the current card pool gives Rusted Sentinel a role worth building around.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.