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Thran Golem

Artifact Creature — Golem5 generic mana

The whole card is a conditional: pay five mana for a vanilla 3/3, then spend a second card and a second turn enchanting it before it becomes the 5/5 flyer with first strike and trample the name implies. That two-card setup is the friction the rate is built around, and it cuts against the grain of how Aura decks actually want to operate. Auras are already a tempo liability, since you risk getting two-for-oned the instant the host dies, and stacking that risk onto a five-mana body that arrives inert until the second piece lands is a steep ask. The payoff is real (a 5/5 evasive trampling first striker shrugs off most ground blockers), but the sequencing leaves a wide window where you have committed mana and gotten back a body that trades down. The wrinkle worth noting is that "enchanted" cares only about whether an Aura is attached, not whose Aura it is: an opponent's pacifying enchantment still trips the switch, which means a hostile Aura can hand you the upside it was meant to deny. It is a creature that asks to be the second half of a plan rather than the first, and most decks would rather have the flyer up front.

Thran Golem (dmr)
DMR · #387uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

As long as this creature is enchanted, it gets +2/+2 and has flying, first strike, and trample.
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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