Marble Gargoyle
Artifact Creature — Gargoyle
Flying
: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #28682
Marble Gargoyle is a 3/3 flyer for three mana with a activated ability to give itself protection from a chosen color until end of turn — decent stats, real utility. The problem is that three mana for a vanilla-sized body with a reactive ability is simply not competitive in any powered environment.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Marble Gargoyle is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, a 3/3 flyer for three with a color-protection ability doesn't move the needle — the format's power ceiling is too high for a body this replaceable. Pauper is the one format where efficient commons matter most, but even there, better three-mana white flyers exist. Marble Gargoyle occupies the forgotten middle ground: not broken enough for competitive formats, not distinctive enough to carve a Commander niche.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Marble Gargoyle sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you find in a common box at the bottom of a table. That price accurately reflects demand: there's no competitive context pulling copies out of bulk bins, so don't expect it to move.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.