Gargoyle Flock
Creature — Tyranid Gargoyle
Flying
Skyswarm — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature entered the battlefield under your control this turn, create a 1/1 blue Tyranid Gargoyle creature token with flying.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #15434
Gargoyle Flock puts a flying token into play every time a creature with flying enters — the board fills fast, and the tokens fuel sacrifice loops, aristocrats engines, or just aerial beats. The Swarmlord is the natural home, but the payoff is real anywhere you're running a critical mass of fliers.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Swarmlord
The Swarmlord rewards every creature that has flying with a trigger, and Gargoyle Flock turns each of those creatures into two bodies — the Flock's triggered tokens then trigger The Swarmlord again, compounding the count every time a flier lands.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gargoyle Flock is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and the Commander format is where it actually sees play — token synergies and flying-tribal shells are plentiful enough to make the engine matter. In Legacy and Vintage the card has no competitive footing; those formats have no interest in a four-mana enchantment that requires a critical mass of fliers to function. Oathbreaker is the one fringe case where a flying-focused signature spell package could make this work, but the player base is small enough that raw inclusion numbers are low.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Gargoyle Flock is firmly bulk — you're picking it up as a throw-in or out of a bulk bin, not tracking it down. Bulk enchantments with narrow tribal applications rarely appreciate, so treat this as a cheap role-player you slot in and replace freely rather than a hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.