Sea Gate Colossus
Artifact Creature — Golem Warrior
This spell costs less to cast for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #19773
Sea Gate Colossus enters as an 8/8 for seven mana — acceptable stats, nothing more — but the real line is casting it for free when you draw it while you control eight or more artifacts. In artifact-heavy Commander shells that can reliably hit that threshold, it's a zero-mana 8/8 with upside; everywhere else, it's just an overcosted vanilla.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sea Gate Colossus is a Commander card first and almost exclusively. The free-cast condition rewards artifact-dense strategies that generate enough board presence to hit eight artifacts consistently, making it a natural fit in artifact-tribal or artifact-token shells. In Pauper it's legal but competes poorly — common-legal artifact decks rarely flood the board to eight artifacts while also needing an 8/8 finisher. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage all have far more efficient threats at every point on the curve, so Sea Gate Colossus won't see play there outside of fringe brewer territory.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Sea Gate Colossus is deep bulk — a throw-in rather than a purchase. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't hold or gain value, so grab it from a trade binder and don't think about it again.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.