Will-Forged Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2015
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #25118
Will-Forged Golem is a colorless 4/4 that scales with the number of players who've contributed mana to cast it — a payoff that sounds interesting but demands too much coordination to be reliable. Six generic mana for a vanilla 4/4 in the solo case is a bad deal, and Commander is the only format where the upside even exists.
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 |
Will-Forged Golem is a Commander-specific card wearing the wrong clothes everywhere else — Pauper, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage all have better six-mana payoffs that don't require opponent cooperation to function. In Commander, the group-cast mechanic occasionally produces an 8/8 or 10/10 at no extra cost to you, which is genuinely large, but that ceiling requires three or four players to agree to spend mana on your creature in a turn-order vacuum — a coordination problem that rarely resolves favorably. The sweet spot is political or 'chaos' Commander tables where resource-sharing is already baked into the social contract.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Will-Forged Golem is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a trade binder slot but rarely gets called for. That price reflects demand accurately and isn't going anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.