---
name: "Guardian Beast"
mana_cost: "{3}{B}"
cmc: 4
type_line: "Creature — Beast"
colors: ["B"]
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: []
set: "ME4"
set_name: "Masters Edition IV"
collector_number: "85"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Ken Meyer, Jr."
oracle_id: "34c3aebe-a224-426a-ae06-f3145193313e"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/guardian-beast-me4"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Guardian Beast
- **Mana Cost:** `{3}{B}` (CMC: 4)
- **Type:** Creature — Beast
- **Power/Toughness:** 2/4

## Oracle Text
As long as this creature is untapped, noncreature artifacts you control can't be enchanted, they have indestructible, and other players can't gain control of them. This effect doesn't remove Auras already attached to those artifacts.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Spectral Guardian](/printing/spectral-guardian-mir.md) — Creature — Spirit
2. [Artifact Ward](/printing/artifact-ward-atq.md) — Enchantment — Aura
3. [Tel-Jilad Defiance](/printing/tel-jilad-defiance-som.md) — Instant
4. [Darksteel Brute](/printing/darksteel-brute-dst.md) — Artifact
5. [Scrapdiver Serpent](/printing/scrapdiver-serpent-som.md) — Creature — Serpent
6. [Aethershield Artificer](/printing/aethershield-artificer-j22.md) — Creature — Dwarf Artificer

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Masters Edition IV (ME4) #85
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Ken Meyer, Jr.
- **Total Printings:** 4 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`