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Epitaph Golem

Artifact Creature — Golem5 generic mana

Most graveyard recursion is a one-shot: a spell that casts itself from the yard, a creature that returns and leaves nothing behind. This body offers something rarer, an open-ended retrieval engine you can fire every turn for two mana, sending any one card from your graveyard back to the bottom of your library. That destination is the deliberate brake. It does not return cards to hand or battlefield, only to the deck, so it rebuilds a thinning library across a long game rather than refilling immediate resources. Against exile-on-death removal it does nothing; against replacement-effect graveyard hate it is irrelevant. Where it earns its keep is in attrition mirrors where a specific card keeps getting milled, discarded, or sacrificed away and you want it back in the rotation. The colorless cost lets it sit in any deck regardless of color identity, and the 3/5 frame blocks early aggression while the activation grinds. The cost is the honest one: at two mana per retrieval on top of a five-mana deploy, this is a slow engine that asks you to win by reusing the same card over many turns, not by assembling a single decisive loop. As an artifact creature it eats the same sweepers everything else does, so it is built for the kind of deck that expects to outlast the board rather than survive it.

Epitaph Golem (soi)
SOI · #254uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

2 generic mana: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

3 sets
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