Obstinate Gargoyle
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) #195 · Common · Artifact Creature — Gargoyle
Mana cost: {1}{W}{B}
This creature has flying as long as it's modified. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Power/toughness 2/2 · Illustrated by Craig J Spearing · Released June 14, 2024
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.18 USD · €0.20 EUR
- Foil: $0.30 USD · €0.12 EUR
Nonfoil price over the last 90 days: down $0.07 USD (28.0%) to $0.18 USD; low $0.14 USD, high $0.25 USD.
Printings
- Modern Horizons 3 #195 (this printing) · Common · 2024 · $0.18 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2024-06-07 · wotc — A creature with a counter on it is considered modified no matter what kind of counter it is or which player put it on that creature.
- 2024-06-07 · wotc — If a card with persist is removed from the graveyard after it dies but before the triggered ability resolves, it won't be returned to the battlefield.
- 2024-06-07 · wotc — Once Obstinate Gargoyle has been blocked, causing it to gain flying by modifying it won't cause it to stop being blocked.
- 2024-06-07 · wotc — If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won't trigger and the card won't return to the battlefield. That's because persist checks the creature as it last existed on the battlefield, and it still had -1/-1 counters on it at that point.
- 2024-06-07 · wotc — An Aura controlled by another player does not cause a creature you control to be modified.
- 2024-06-07 · wotc — A creature that is equipped is considered modified no matter who controls the Equipment that's attached to it.
- 2024-06-07 · wotc — If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it. A creature's persist ability can bring it back again if its -1/-1 counters are removed this way.