Molten Gatekeeper

Artifact Creature — Golem

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, Molten Gatekeeper deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Unearth {R} ({R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (10)

guywitharock on These aren't Homemade, They're made in bombfactory

4 days ago

You may want to consider some "mana dorks" for your commander in the way of easy-to-cast, different colored token creatures:

• Forbidden Friendship
• Ral's Reinforcements

Also, there are some interaction-related convoke spells which are probably worth subbing in over other non-convoke options:

• Conclave Tribunal
• Everything Comes to Dust
• Hour of Reckoning
• Ephemeral Shields
• Temporal Cleansing

Depending on the direction you want to take, there are some cards which support a swarm strategy:

• Nadir Kraken pairs nicely with your extra card draw, and generates rare blue creature tokens for blue-color convoke mana.
• The Locust God god is nice for continual token gen, and again synergizes with your extra card draw while providing uncommon blue creature tokens.
• Oketra's Monument is nice in decks with a lot of white creatures, like yours, and adds continuous white token generation.
• Seraph of the Masses becomes a huge body that can just delete opponents without flying/reach blockers.
• Sublime Archangel can let swarm decks keep up pressure on opponents, even while you ramp. Throw out a random 8/8 token once per turn or whatever, forcing your opponents to deal with it, and it itself can become huge with Flying.
• Moonshaker Cavalry is basically a white version of Craterhoof Behemoth. One turn swing for the win.
• Massive Raid is a single-target bomb which uses your army of weenies, but doesn't cost much mana.
• Arabella, Abandoned Doll is a great bomb once you have a big board of weenies. Build up like 30 tokens or whatever, swing with Arabella and the swarm, kill the table. Or at a minimum deal a bunch of damage and gain a bunch of life.
• Divine Visitation is a non-bo with Arabella, but the upside is definitely worth it. Upgrade the token army.
• Angelic Aberration is similar but provides one-time additional ETB triggers if you lean into that more.
• Molten Gatekeeper is literally a second Witty Roastmaster but with unearth upside.
• Impact Tremors?? If you're really going that route with other cards, why not?

And here are some misc cards to consider:

• Jeskai Ascendancy can straight up give you free spells. Tap creatures for a convoke non-creature spell, Jes Asc untaps them on cast.
• Kykar, Wind's Fury can let you go mana-positive with non creature spells, which you have a lot of. Also pairs nicely with Quintorius, Loremaster which is on your current list.
• Skullclamp is an obvious draw engine for a token deck.
• Unstoppable Plan gets the weenies (and all others) back online on your opponents' turns, freeing up for instant-convokes or just blockers.
• Narset, Enlightened Exile is a cool way to get extra value from non-creature cards that end up in your graveyard.
• Mentor of the Meek is nice for potentially repeatable card draw in this kind of deck.

Tsukimi on Hazezon, Shaper of Sand - Desert Warfare (v0.4)

5 days ago

Hey, thanks for the upvote! This deck looks like a fun blend of landfall and group slug. I have a similar deck that uses every iteration of Impact Tremors possible, and I noticed that Molten Gatekeeper isn't on either list, but that may just be due to redundancy, not sure how many of these effects you are looking for. I thought this one might be more useful since it also has unearth.

Only other suggestion would be World Shaper but that may be too slow/clunky for your purposes.

xraider on Norin Naughty Nonsense

4 months ago

I have a few fun cards that have great synergy with Norin. Maybe interesting to check out? Altar of the Brood, Gimli of the Glittering Caves, Molten Gatekeeper, Vigilante Justice, Witty Roastmaster, Outpost Siege, Pandemonium

DemonDragonJ on Elemental Storm

6 months ago

I have replaced Molten Gatekeeper with Agate Instigator, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.82 to 3.81, because the instigator has a stronger synergy with this deck than did the gatekeeper.

DemonDragonJ on All Creatures Great and Small

6 months ago

I have replaced Molten Gatekeeper with Agate Instigator, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.62 to 3.60, because the instigator has a stronger synergy with this deck than did the gatekeeper.

jonjonhholt on Evolution Witness These Combos

9 months ago

I love this deck! Having that other new card Molten Gatekeeper as another way to actually kill with the loop makes this deck feel like it really has some legs. The one card that comes to mind with this list is Faithless Looting as it gives you a lot of filter to find your combo and if Molten Gatekeeper went up to maybe a 4 of then the discard "downside" ends up being to your advantage plenty of times.

Edit: another came to mind lol. Ancient Grudge could be a fun sideboard card if you did end up going w/ Faithless Looting

DemonDragonJ on Elemental Storm

9 months ago

I have replaced Witty Roastmaster with Molten Gatekeeper, since the newer creature has encore.

DemonDragonJ on All Creatures Great and Small

9 months ago

I have replaced Witty Roastmaster with Molten Gatekeeper, because the latter creature has encore; I could have replaced Warleader's Call, as this deck has a strong focus on creatures, but the power/toughness increasing effect of the enchantment is immensely useful in a deck that focuses on generation tokens.