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Molten Gatekeeper

Artifact Creature — Golem2 generic manaRed mana

Every other creature you control that enters pings each opponent for one, which reframes what a go-wide board actually accomplishes. Aristocrat and token decks have long converted bodies into life loss through sacrifice; here the conversion happens at the point of entry, before anything dies. That shift stacks with itself: a single wave of tokens becomes a burst of reach damage that scales with how many creatures resolve at once, and survival never enters the equation. The unearth clause pushes it past a one-and-done payoff. Once it dies, one red mana buys it back with haste for a turn, so the pinger returns exactly when you are about to flood the board again, then exiles itself cleanly at end of turn. Making it an artifact creature with unearth rather than a spell keeps it in artifact-matters territory and grants a second life through graveyard recursion that a creature-typed enchantment engine could not offer. The 2/3 frame is deliberately unremarkable: it exists to shrug off a stray point of damage while the trigger does the real work, not to attack. What it represents is a compression of the classic damage-on-entry effect into a low-cost, recurring package, an engine piece that pays off decks generating bodies in bunches rather than ones forced to build around feeding it.

Molten Gatekeeper (mh3)
MH3 · #128common
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.87
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Unearth Red mana (Red mana: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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