Solemn Simulacrum
Mana Cost:
Type: Artifact Creature — Golem
Oracle Text:
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Power/Toughness: 2/2
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (53) →
Expansion: Commander 2016
Price ( USD): $0.85
USD: $0.85 · EUR: €0.47
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Character Background
Solemn Simulacrum plays like a quiet workhorse: thematically a patient golem that tends the foundations by bringing you a land and, in dying, leaves you a final consolation prize, and mechanically it’s a textbook value engine best suited to midrange and value-oriented decks that want steady card advantage and light ramp. On turn four it both smooths mana and replaces itself, so it stabilizes tempo against fast starts while powering longer games; it’s less at home in pure aggro but very comfortable in control, midrange, and combo shells that need consistent resources. Specific synergies to exploit: flicker effects (Flickerwisp, Ghostly Flicker) let you reuse the land and draw triggers; Skullclamp or sacrifice outlets (Viscera Seer, Ashnod’s Altar) convert the death trigger into multiple cards or value loops; Panharmonicon doubles its ETB. Deckbuilding tip: include a sensible number of basic lands so the fetch is reliable and consider artifact support and recurrence to get repeated mileage from this four-drop.
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