Gallows at Willow Hill
Artifact
, 
, Tap three untapped Humans you control: Destroy target creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Avacyn Restored
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #20497
Gallows at Willow Hill kills any creature without triggering abilities — a clean, unconditional removal effect stapled to a land that taps for colorless. The cost is steep: five mana and a tap to activate, which means it rarely fires more than once a game, but in Commander that one shot can remove an indestructible or hexproof creature nothing else in the 99 can touch.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gallows at Willow Hill is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it only sees meaningful play in Commander. In Legacy and Vintage, five mana and a land slot for one removal effect is uncompetitive — those formats have Fatal Push and Swords to Plowshares. In Modern it's technically castable but the activation cost prices it out of any serious list. Commander is where it earns its slot: the 'without using the stack' clause bypasses both hexproof and indestructible, covering removal gaps that spells like Chaos Warp fill in red but are harder to access in white-green or colorless shells.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Gallows at Willow Hill is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking. Price stability is essentially guaranteed at this floor; there's no scenario where demand spikes enough to move a slow-activation utility land, so grab it cheap and don't look back.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.