Crystal Golem

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Legality

Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Crystal Golem

Artifact Creature — Golem

At the end of your turn, Crystal Golem phases out.

CamraMaan on Interaction between Feldon of the …

6 months ago

I have Crystal Golem in my graveyard, and I make a copy of it with Feldon of the Third Path. Both have beginning-of-the-end-step triggers, so I'm assuming I can arrange them so that the Golem phases out before the sacrifice trigger resolves, allowing me to keep the Golem indefinitely, correct?

Vash13 on Why Does Phasing Not Trigger …

3 years ago

Yeah no, ive always found it (and banding) to be the hardest to explain to people, weather it is more complicated or not the people at wizards had the same experience that I've had and it just seems to not be an intuitive interaction, as I said before I played with Crystal Golem a lot so it made sense to me but because phasing also isn't super common people could go play against 100 deck and never see it used thus never needing an explanation even when it was "common".

Vash13 on Why Does Phasing Not Trigger …

3 years ago

One of my favorite old phasing cards is Crystal Golem and it causes confusion for every younger player and I have to sit down and explain phasing to them, basically just pretend it doesn't exist while its phased is kinda the short of it :)

Yesterday on What is the point of …

4 years ago

702.25f When a permanent phases out, any Auras, Equipment, or Fortifications attached to that permanent phase out at the same time. This alternate way of phasing out is known as phasing out “indirectly.” An Aura, Equipment, or Fortification that phased out indirectly won’t phase in by itself, but instead phases in along with the permanent it’s attached to.

702.25g If an object would simultaneously phase out directly and indirectly, it just phases out indirectly.

The rules also specifically mention that an Aura or Equipment or Fortification that directly phases out will phase back in attached to what it was originally attached to, if that object is still on the battlefield. So I'm not sure what the purpose of this specific distinction is. Is it required because of the case that; if a creature would phase in at the same time as an attached Equipment would phase in, and both of those permanents had directly phased out, the Equipment is unable to phase in attached to the creature?

I'll make an example here. An Equipment (let's say Sword of Sinew and Steel , though it's not relevant) is attached to a Crystal Golem , and a Reality Ripple resolves targeting the Sword and causing it to directly phase out. And the end of that turn, the Crystal Golem phases out via its triggered ability. At the beginning of your next untap step, both the Sword and the Crystal Golem attempt to phase in. Is the Sword still attached to the Golem when they do?

If they do both enter attached, then in which scenario does it ever matter whether a permanent is directly or indirectly phased out?