Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison

Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison

Artifact Creature — Golem // Land

Mana cost: {4}

How we read this card

Defender
This creature fights another target creature you control.

activated {2} —

When this creature dies this turn, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

triggered — brings a card back

(Transforms from Golden Guardian.)
Add two mana of any one color.

activated {T} — adds 2 mana

Create a 4/4 colorless Golem artifact creature token.

activated {4}, {T} — makes a token

Causes: a creature deals noncombat damage, put a creature onto the battlefield, a creature leaves a graveyard, create a Golem artifact token, create a Golem creature token, put a Golem artifact token onto the battlefield, put a Golem creature token onto the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a land it grants abilities to — 1,237 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Mystic Skull // Mystic Monstrosity — Mystic Skull // Mystic Monstrosity gives Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison an extra ability
  2. Chromatic Lantern — Chromatic Lantern gives Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison an extra ability
  3. Petrified Hamlet — Petrified Hamlet gives Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison an extra ability

1,234 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an artifact attacks — 1,243 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison attacks:

  1. Alibou, Ancient Witness — deals X damage
  2. Bio-Asset Allocator — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  3. Assaultron Dominator — puts a counter on a permanent
  4. Aloy, Savior of Meridian — triggers

an artifact deals combat damage — 1,243 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison deals combat damage:

  1. Locutus of Borg — makes a token
  2. Sharding Sphinx — makes a token
  3. Antagonist Incorporator — makes a token
  4. Research Thief — draws you 1 card
  5. Thopter Spy Network — draws you 1 card
  6. Hive Mind Coprocessor — makes you lose life
  7. Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  8. Automated Assembly Line — triggers

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

a nontoken artifact deals combat damage — 1,243 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

  1. Virulent Silencer — When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison deals combat damage, Virulent Silencer puts 2 counters on a permanent

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

When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison 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. Erebos's Titan — triggers

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

a creature deals noncombat damage — 1,420 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison deals noncombat damage:

  1. Soul Link — gains you that much life
  2. Tandem Lookout — draws you 1 card
  3. Armadillo Cloak — gains you that much life
  4. Vampiric Link — gains you that much life
  5. Spirit Loop — gains you that much life
  6. Spirit Link — gains you that much life
  7. Guilty Conscience — deals that much damage
  8. Visions of Brutality — makes a player lose life equal to that much
  9. Arm with Aether — triggers

12 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 (Golden Guardian is one).

When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison 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.

a creature token enters the battlefield — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

When a Golem enters thanks to Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison:

  1. Securitron Squadron — puts a counter on a permanent
  2. Anointer Priest — gains you 1 life
  3. Nesting Dovehawk — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

a creature token is created — 2,799 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

  1. Staff of the Storyteller — When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison makes a Golem token, Staff of the Storyteller puts a story counter on itself

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

anything deals noncombat damage — 3,068 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison deals noncombat damage:

  1. Quest for Pure Flame — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Fear of Burning Alive — deals that amount damage
  3. Niv-Mizzet, Visionary — draws you that many cards
  4. Chandra's Incinerator — deals that much damage
  5. Chandra's Pyreling — gets +1/+0
  6. Talon of Pain — puts a charge counter on itself
  7. Asgardian Inspiration — returns itself from the graveyard
  8. Thor, Guardian of Midgard — exiles a card from your library
  9. Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze — exiles a card from your library

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

an artifact is cast — 3,683 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison is cast:

  1. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — copies a spell
  2. Sai, Master Thopterist — makes a token

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

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison attacks, Far Fortune, End Boss deals 1 damage

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

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

  1. Anthem of Rakdos — When Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison attacks, Anthem of Rakdos gives +2/+0

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

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Golden Guardian is one).

  1. Goblin Goliath — When Goblin Goliath enters thanks to Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison, it makes a token

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