Price$0.27

Molten Gatekeeper

Artifact Creature — Golem

LegalBoard WipeRank #1,225

Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature 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.)

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KeywordsUnearth

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Combos (8)

Storm Herd + Molten Gatekeeper
→ Near-infinite ETB, Near-infinite creature tokens, Near-infinite damage
The Locust God + Curiosity + Molten Gatekeeper
→ Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite creature tokens with haste
Niv-Mizzet, Visionary + The Locust God + Molten Gatekeeper
→ Near-infinite damage, Infinite card draw, Near-infinite ETB
The Locust God + Ophidian Eye + Molten Gatekeeper
→ Near-infinite damage, Infinite card draw, Near-infinite ETB
The Locust God + Tandem Lookout + Molten Gatekeeper
→ Near-infinite damage, Infinite card draw, Near-infinite ETB
The Locust God + Snake Umbra + Molten Gatekeeper
→ Near-infinite damage, Infinite card draw, Near-infinite ETB

Rulings (5)

2024-06-07
If you activate a card's unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will do nothing as it resolves.
2024-06-07
Activating a card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting that card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Flare of Denial) will not.
2024-06-07
At the beginning of the next end step, a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the permanent will stay on the battlefield and the delayed triggered ability won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the permanent if it eventually leaves the battlefield.
2024-06-07
Unearth grants haste to the permanent that's returned to the battlefield (even if it's not a creature card). However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that permanent. If that permanent loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the next end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.
2024-06-07
If a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead—unless the spell or ability that's causing the permanent to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If that spell or ability later returns the card to the battlefield (as Static Prison might, for example), the permanent card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effects will no longer apply to it.

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Rulings (5)

2024-06-07

If you activate a card's unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will do nothing as it resolves.

2024-06-07

Activating a card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting that card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Flare of Denial) will not.

2024-06-07

At the beginning of the next end step, a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the permanent will stay on the battlefield and the delayed triggered ability won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the permanent if it eventually leaves the battlefield.

2024-06-07

Unearth grants haste to the permanent that's returned to the battlefield (even if it's not a creature card). However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that permanent. If that permanent loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the next end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.

2024-06-07

If a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead—unless the spell or ability that's causing the permanent to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If that spell or ability later returns the card to the battlefield (as Static Prison might, for example), the permanent card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effects will no longer apply to it.