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Golem Artisan

Artifact Creature — Golem5 generic mana

A one-card anthem for a metal board, and the design splits the work cleanly into two halves: a repeatable pump and a repeatable evasion-or-tempo grant, both priced at two mana so neither dominates the other. Neither activation touches itself in a useful way (a 3/3 that has to pay to grow or fly is a slow clock alone), which is the tell that this was built as a payoff for going wide on artifacts rather than as a standalone threat. What makes it sturdier than a flat lord-style enabler is that the granted abilities are modal: flying to push damage through a clogged ground, trample to make an oversized attacker punch past chump blockers, haste to give a freshly cast artifact creature immediate reach. Each costs the same, so the texture of any given turn comes from which keyword the board actually needs, not from a fixed bonus. The pump and the keyword grant stack on a single target, turning one creature into a flying, trampling finisher when the mana is there to feed both. It contributes nothing the moment the rest of the artifact creatures leave the table, and everything when they stay: an anvil for a swarm of constructs, golems, and servos, rewarding the density of the board rather than supplying it.

Golem Artisan (2xm)
2XM · #258uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

2 generic mana: Target artifact creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. 2 generic mana: Target artifact creature gains your choice of flying, trample, or haste until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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