First printed in Final Fantasy (2025)
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Whenever an artifact you control enters, surveil 1.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more artifacts, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Then if you control eight or more artifacts, each opponent loses life equal to that card's power.
1/4
- Illustrated by
- Bachzim
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH
Rulings (2)
- If the target creature card is an illegal target as Golbez, Crystal Collector's last ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. Opponents won't lose life even if you control eight or more artifacts.
- Golbez, Crystal Collector's last ability checks at the moment it would trigger to see if you control four or more artifacts. If you don't, the ability won't trigger at all. If it does trigger, the ability will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't control four or more artifacts at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
28 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite turns, Lock: Golbez, Crystal Collector + Repository Skaab + Time Warp
- Infinite artifact tokens, Infinite Clue tokens: Arcbound Reclaimer + Golbez, Crystal Collector + Thran Vigil + Unshakable Tail
- Infinite turns, Lock: Golbez, Crystal Collector + Repository Skaab + Temporal Manipulation
- Infinite turns, Lock: Golbez, Crystal Collector + Repository Skaab + Walk the Aeons
- Infinite turns, Lock: Capture of Jingzhou + Golbez, Crystal Collector + Repository Skaab
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Copy Catchers + Golbez, Crystal Collector + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Mycosynth Lattice
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Ashnod's Altar + Copy Catchers + Golbez, Crystal Collector + Mycosynth Lattice
- Infinite turns, Lock: Golbez, Crystal Collector + Repository Skaab + Time Stretch
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, Infinite artifact ETB…: Denzilore Fatehold + Golbez, Crystal Collector + Phantom Train + Scurry Oak + Sword of the Meek
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, Infinite artifact ETB…: Atog + Denzilore Fatehold + Golbez, Crystal Collector + Scurry Oak + Sword of the Meek
