Ancient Stone Idol

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Ancient Stone Idol: Artifact Creature - Golem, Murders at Karlov Manor Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{10}
Mana value
10
Type
Artifact Creature - Golem
Colour identity
Colourless
Power / toughness
12/12
Rarity
Rare
Set
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
Released
2024-02-09
Collector number
222
Artist
Josh Hass
Commander rank
2,545 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flash, Trample

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About Ancient Stone Idol

Ancient Stone Idol is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact creature from Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC), a Commander product released in February 2024. It is collector number 222 in that set, with art by Josh Hass. It costs {10} (ten generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 10. It is a 12/12 creature. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Treasure Chest (2016) to Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.04 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Flash

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each attacking creature.

Trample

When this creature dies, create a 6/12 colorless Construct artifact creature token with trample.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.04 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Ancient Stone Idol by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Ancient Stone Idol

Ancient Stone Idol has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Commander Masters (CMM) #940Rare2023
March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #347Rare2023
Treasure Chest (PZ2) #70755Rare2018
Commander 2018 (C18) #53Rare2018

Official rulings

Three official rulings apply to Ancient Stone Idol, newest first.

  • Ancient Stone Idol's cost is reduced for each attacking creature, not just creatures attacking you. It even counts your attacking creatures.
  • If there are enough attacking creatures, Ancient Stone Idol's cost can be reduced to {0}.
  • The total cost to cast a spell is locked in before you pay that cost. For example, if you control five attacking creatures, including one you can sacrifice to add {C}, Ancient Stone Idol costs {5} to cast. Then you can sacrifice the creature when you activate mana abilities just before paying the cost, and it still costs only {5} to cast.

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