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Gathering Stone

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CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Lorwyn Eclipsed
Price
$0.62
EDHREC rank
#4352
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Gathering Stone card art
Gathering Stone is a mana rock that also generates creature tokens, giving it a floor that most rocks lack — you're never just ramping, you're also building a board. The cost is that you need creatures to die to trigger it, so it does nothing in isolation; Oathsworn Vampire and Grub, Storied Matriarch are the kinds of engines that make it earn its slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Grub, Storied Matriarch

36.8% of decks · synergy 0.35

Grub, Storied Matriarch's ability rewards you for creatures entering and dying, and Gathering Stone feeds both sides of that loop — the tokens it produces become fodder that triggers Grub again.

02

Brigid, Clachan's Heart

22.4% of decks · synergy 0.20

Brigid, Clachan's Heart cares about creatures with counters and +1/+1 synergies, and Gathering Stone's token production gives her a steady stream of bodies to work with on top of its ramp.

03
Rat King, Verminister

Rat King, Verminister

21.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Rat King, Verminister wants a high creature count to maximize its payoffs, and Gathering Stone provides both mana and token bodies without spending extra card slots.

04
High Perfect Morcant

High Perfect Morcant

20.0% of decks · synergy 0.17

High Perfect Morcant builds around sacrifice and death triggers, where Gathering Stone functions as both acceleration and a recursive token source to keep the engine stocked.

05
Arahbo, the First Fang

Arahbo, the First Fang

12.8% of decks · synergy 0.11

Arahbo, the First Fang runs big-mana threats, and Gathering Stone supplements the ramp suite while incidentally producing creatures that can absorb pressure in the early game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Gathering Stone is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card in practice. In longer, multiplayer games the token upside compounds meaningfully — a rock that also generates board presence over several turns pulls real weight in a 100-card singleton format where redundancy is scarce. In competitive 60-card formats, three mana for a rock that doesn't immediately impact the board is too slow; you'd run Arcane Signet or any number of two-mana alternatives instead. Oathbreaker is the closest cousin to Commander in pace, so the card is playable there in the right shell.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.62 bulk tier

At $0.62, Gathering Stone sits firmly in bulk territory — low enough to pick up as an experiment without any real financial commitment. It won't hold or gain value, but that's not the point; you run it because the effect fits, not because of any secondary-market upside.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.