First printed in Scars of Mirrodin (2010)
Artifact Creature — Golem
Your life total can't change. (You can't gain or lose life. You can't pay any amount of life except 0.)
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death.
8/8
- Illustrated by
- Chris Rahn
- Watermark
- Mirran
Legality
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (10)
- Effects that replace an event with having you gain life (like Words of Worship’s effect does) or having you lose life will end up replacing the event with nothing.
- If an effect says to set your life total to a certain number, that part of the effect won’t do anything.
- In a Commander game, the damage dealt to you by commanders will still be counted, even if that damage doesn’t cause you to lose life.
- Platinum Emperion’s ability doesn’t prevent damage. Rather, it changes the results of that damage. For example, if a creature with lifelink deals damage to you, you won’t lose any life, but its controller will still gain that much life. Similarly, if a creature you control with lifelink deals damage to another player, that player will lose life but you won’t gain any life.
- Abilities that trigger whenever damage is dealt to you will still trigger because that damage is still dealt, even though your life total doesn’t change as a result.
- If an effect would cause you to exchange life totals with another player, the exchange won’t happen. Neither player’s life total changes.
- You can’t pay a cost that includes the payment of any amount of life other than 0 life. However, you can choose to be dealt damage, even though that damage won’t result in your life total changing.
- Spells and abilities that would normally cause you to gain or lose life still resolve, but the life-gain or life-loss part simply has no effect.
- Effects that would replace having you gain life with some other event won’t be able to be applied because it’s impossible for you to gain life.
- If a cost would include causing you to gain life (like the alternative cost of an opponent’s Invigorate does), that cost can’t be paid.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.009 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 31 Oct 2026).
Combos
19 combos, the most popular first:
- Each opponent loses the game, Near-infinite damage: Fiery Emancipation + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Emperion
- Each opponent with an even life total loses the game, Near-infinite damage: Furnace of Rath + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Emperion
- Each opponent with an even life total loses the game, Near-infinite damage: Dictate of the Twin Gods + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Emperion
- Each opponent with an even life total loses the game, Near-infinite damage: Gratuitous Violence + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Emperion
- Each opponent loses the game, Near-infinite damage: City on Fire + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Emperion
- Infinite card draw: Ad Nauseam + Platinum Emperion
- Infinite damage to one opponent: Brash Taunter + Platinum Emperion + Volcano Hellion
- Each opponent with an even life total loses the game, Near-infinite damage: Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Emperion + Quest for Pure Flame
- Infinite damage to one opponent: Mogg Maniac + Platinum Emperion + Volcano Hellion
- Each opponent with an even life total loses the game, Near-infinite damage: Heartless Hidetsugu + Obosh, the Preypiercer + Platinum Emperion
