If you have the Steel Golem out can you still play artifact creatures?

Question

The Steel Golem's effect says that while it's in play you can't play creatures.

Answer 1

then no because a artifact creature is still a creature its a combo of the two.

that would be a great card for countering decks that rely on number of creatures.

though it cant get rid of creatures that have already been played before it came out.

Answer 2

The first guy is right, but a good way around it is

soul foundry[Imprint - When Soul Foundry comes into play, you may remove a creature card in your hand from the game. (The removed card is imprinted on this artifact.) X, T: Put a creature token into play that's a copy of the imprinted creature card. X is the converted mana cost]        

and cards like

one dozen eyes[Choose one - Put a 5/5 green Beast creature token into play; or put five 1/1 green Insect creature tokens into play. Entwine GGG (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)  ] and Thallids that way your not actually playing the creatures.

If you want to be mean you could donate the golem to your opponent for a bit of an annoyance :)