Gatekeeper Gargoyle
Artifact Creature — Gargoyle
Flying
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Gate you control.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #16984
Gatekeeper Gargoyle lands as a colorless flying beater whose power scales with how many Gates you control — in the right deck, that's a four- or five-mana threat that closes games. Nine-Fingers Keene is the natural home: a Gate-tribal commander that floods the board with the exact permanents Gatekeeper Gargoyle counts.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Nine-Fingers Keene
Nine-Fingers Keene's ability to tutor and play Gates at high speed means Gatekeeper Gargoyle hits the table with counters already stacked — it's not a late-game payoff you have to wait for, it's a threat that arrives scaled to whatever engine Keene has already built.
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 |
Gatekeeper Gargoyle is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but outside of Commander it sees essentially no play — Gate synergy simply doesn't exist as a competitive archetype in any 60-card format. In Commander it has a narrow but legitimate home in Gate-tribal builds, where a 24-plus-Gate deck can routinely produce a flying attacker with five or six counters for five mana. Outside of that specific shell, it's a vanilla-adjacent creature that asks too much of your manabase for too little guaranteed return.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Gatekeeper Gargoyle is firmly bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy singles. The price is unlikely to move meaningfully unless Gate-tribal becomes a mainstream archetype, which the format shows no signs of supporting at scale.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.