Arisen Gorgon
Creature — Zombie Gorgon
This creature has deathtouch as long as you control a Liliana planeswalker. (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Core Set 2019
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #23795
Arisen Gorgon is a three-mana 3/3 with deathtouch and lifelink when you control a Swamp — strong keywords at a low rate, but both fall off the moment your mana base doesn't cooperate. It's a role-player in mono-black or heavily black shells and a bench card everywhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Arisen Gorgon is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the ceiling is low across all of them. In Commander, mono-black and Gorgon-tribal decks are the only realistic homes — the Swamp dependency makes it unreliable in two- or three-color builds where non-basics dominate. In competitive constructed formats like Modern and Legacy, a vanilla-statted three-drop with a conditional ability profile doesn't clear the power threshold. Pioneer is the softest field of the bunch, but even there, Arisen Gorgon competes against creatures that do more without the restriction.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Arisen Gorgon is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills out a binder page rather than a purchase order. The price reflects the narrow play pattern accurately, and there's no realistic pressure to push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.