Golbez, Crystal Collector
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Type: Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Oracle Text:
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.
Power/Toughness: 1/4
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Final Fantasy
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Character Background
Golbez, Crystal Collector naturally drives a value/combo build that wants lots of cheap artifacts and ways to fill your graveyard and hand with precision: the per-artifact surveil 1 is excellent card selection that sculpts what you reanimate at the end step, and the two thresholds (four artifacts to return a creature to hand, eight to convert that creature’s power into direct damage) reward an artifact-heavy engine rather than aggro or pure control. In practice you build around artifact token generators, cheap artifact creatures, and repeatable ETB artifact sources so you hit four quickly and push toward eight for a finisher; in Commander include staples like Sol Ring and Arcane Signet, and add Treasure/Servo token producers and self-mill or surveil synergies to stock the yard with a high-power creature to cast. Deck tips: maximize low-cost artifacts and artifact token density, include ways to cheat casts or recur threats, and use Golbez as a late-game value engine that turns incremental selection into explosive, repeatable recursion and burn.
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