Golbez, Crystal Collector

Golbez, Crystal Collector

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Mana cost: {U}{B}

How we read this card

Whenever an artifact you control enters, surveil 1.

triggered — surveils

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.

triggered — brings a card back

triggered — makes each opponent lose life equal to that card's power

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: surveil, a creature leaves a graveyard, make a player lose life.

Cares about: an artifact enters the battlefield, an end step, an artifact you control, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

you surveil — 233 cards in the game can cause this (Golbez is one).

When Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils:

  1. Mirko, Obsessive Theorist — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Prudent Fateseer // Peer Review — gives +1/+0
  3. Diviner of Victory // Unwind History — gets +1/+1
  4. Saheeli, Consul of Oversight — makes a token
  5. Copy Catchers — makes a token
  6. Proft, Consulting Detective — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  7. Matoya, Archon Elder — draws you 1 card
  8. Denzilore Fatehold — puts a counter on a creature
  9. Whispering Snitch — deals 1 damage
  10. Blood Operative — makes you lose life

5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken Wizard enters the battlefield — 1,243 cards in the game can cause this (Golbez is one).

  1. Inalla, Archmage Ritualist — When Golbez, Crystal Collector enters, Inalla, Archmage Ritualist makes a token

a Wizard creature enters the battlefield — 1,264 cards in the game can cause this (Golbez is one).

  1. Diviner's Wand — When Golbez, Crystal Collector enters, Diviner's Wand triggers

a Wizard creature it grants types to — 1,269 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Blue Mage's Cane — Blue Mage's Cane gives Golbez, Crystal Collector an extra creature type

1,268 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature leaves a graveyard — 1,302 cards in the game can cause this (Golbez is one).

When Golbez, Crystal Collector leaves a graveyard:

  1. Grim Reaper's Scythe — makes a token
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim — deals 1 damage
  3. Cyan, Vengeful Samurai — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Along the Crooked Way — puts a counter on a Goblin or Army
  5. Skeleton Crew — makes a token
  6. Desecrated Tomb — makes a token
  7. Chalk Outline — makes a token
  8. Insidious Roots — makes a token
  9. Undead Hand Ninja — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  10. Rot Farm Mortipede — gets +1/+0

3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything leaves a graveyard — 2,503 cards in the game can cause this (Golbez is one).

When Golbez, Crystal Collector leaves a graveyard:

  1. Blastoneuron — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  2. Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab — makes a token
  3. Teval, the Balanced Scale — makes a token
  4. Hologram Stalker — makes a token
  5. Tormod, the Desecrator — makes a token
  6. Quintorius, Field Historian — makes a token
  7. Garrison Excavator — makes a token
  8. Amzu, Swarm's Hunger — makes a token
  9. Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch — becomes prepared
  10. Teval's Judgment — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

put a creature into a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot puts cards into the graveyard that Golbez, Crystal Collector can bring back
  2. Ayara, First of Locthwain — Ayara, First of Locthwain puts cards into the graveyard that Golbez, Crystal Collector can bring back
  3. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard that Golbez, Crystal Collector can bring back
  4. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard that Golbez, Crystal Collector can bring back
  5. Lethal Vapors — Lethal Vapors puts cards into the graveyard that Golbez, Crystal Collector can bring back
  6. Grave Peril — Grave Peril puts cards into the graveyard that Golbez, Crystal Collector can bring back
  7. Spreading Plague — Spreading Plague puts cards into the graveyard that Golbez, Crystal Collector can bring back
  8. Saw — Saw puts cards into the graveyard that Golbez, Crystal Collector can bring back
  9. Cryoshatter — Cryoshatter puts cards into the graveyard that Golbez, Crystal Collector can bring back
  10. Adric, Mathematical Genius — When Adric, Mathematical Genius is in the graveyard, Golbez, Crystal Collector can bring it back

2,759 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Golbez is one).

When a permanent makes a player lose life thanks to Golbez, Crystal Collector:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
  2. Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
  3. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
  4. Aether Syphon — raises your speed
  5. Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
  6. Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
  7. Slick Imitator — raises your speed
  8. Nesting Bot — raises your speed
  9. Howlsquad Heavy — raises your speed
  10. Hour of Victory — raises your speed

46 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a Human enters the battlefield — 4,639 cards in the game can cause this (Golbez is one).

When Golbez, Crystal Collector enters:

  1. General Kudro of Drannith — hits a graveyard
  2. Heronblade Elite — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  3. Kyler, Sigardian Emissary — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  4. Thalia's Lieutenant — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Champion of the Parish — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  6. Captain of the Mists — untaps itself
  7. Erkenbrand, Lord of Westfold — gives +1/+0
  8. Beregond of the Guard — gives +1/+1
  9. Théoden, King of Rohan — grants double strike
  10. Lossarnach Captain — taps a creature an opponent controls

2 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

put an artifact onto the battlefield — 4,643 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Relic Amulet — When Relic Amulet enters, Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils
  2. Chimeric Egg — When Chimeric Egg enters, Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils
  3. Tome of Legends — When Tome of Legends enters, Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils
  4. Canoptek Spyder — When Canoptek Spyder enters, Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils
  5. Sword of Wealth and Power — When a Treasure enters thanks to Sword of Wealth and Power, Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils
  6. Cloudstone Curio — When Cloudstone Curio enters, Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils
  7. Traxos, Scourge Eternal — When Traxos, Scourge Eternal enters, Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils
  8. Lux Artillery — When Lux Artillery enters, Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils
  9. Adaptive Omnitool — When Adaptive Omnitool enters, Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils
  10. Soultether Golem — When Soultether Golem enters, Golbez, Crystal Collector surveils

4,633 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Golbez is one).

Golbez, Crystal Collector:

  1. Samwise Gamgee — puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Thor, God of Thunder — puts cards into the graveyard that Thor, God of Thunder can bring back
  4. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  5. Harness the Storm — puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  6. Transplant Theorist — puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  7. Heart-Shaped Herb — puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  8. Wayward Angel — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs

436 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.