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Granite Witness

Artifact Creature — Gargoyle Detective

Flying, vigilance
Disguise {W/U}{W/U} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, you may tap or untap target creature.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
common
Set
Murders at Karlov Manor
Price
$0.05
EDHREC rank
#23494
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Granite Witness card art
Granite Witness enters as a 0/0 and grows into a permanent blocker every time a noncreature permanent enters under your control — the on-board math compounds fast in the right shell. The cost is that outside of dedicated landfall or enchantress-style engines, it's a vanilla body that stalls out around turn four; Yedora, Grave Gardener is the clearest home, turning every Forest death into a +1/+1 counter.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Granite Witness is a Commander card through and through — the counter accumulation only reaches critical mass over a long game with repeated permanent triggers, and EDH supplies exactly that. In competitive 60-card formats it's unplayable; Modern and Pioneer have no shell that wants a 0/0 creature that grows one counter at a time. Pauper is the one exception worth a mention: if a noncreature-permanent-heavy commons shell ever materializes, the price is right, but none exists today. Stick to Commander.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.05 bulk tier

At $0.05, Granite Witness is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is high; don't expect movement in either direction.

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