Masked Gorgon
Creature — Gorgon
Green creatures and white creatures have protection from Gorgons.
Threshold — This creature has protection from green and from white as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Judgment
- Price
- $0.42
- EDHREC rank
- #28419
Masked Gorgon puts a 5/4 with protection from green and white on the board for five mana — relevant protection colors in Commander, where Swords to Plowshares and Heroic Intervention are everywhere. The stat line is fine but nothing exceptional, and five mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature is a hard sell when the format runs answers that ignore protection entirely.
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 |
Masked Gorgon sees essentially zero play in Legacy and Vintage — five mana for a 5/4 with conditional protection doesn't compete in formats that end games on turns one through three. Commander is the only realistic home, and even there Masked Gorgon is a fringe inclusion: protection from green and white blocks a real chunk of Commander's removal suite, but black has better five-drops that also protect themselves or generate value. Gorgon tribal shells under commanders like Hythonia the Cruel are the one context where the creature type alone earns a slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.42 bulk tier
At $0.42, Masked Gorgon is deep bulk — you're buying it for a theme deck, not because it's the best card for the slot. Demand is narrow enough that this price is stable rather than declining further, but there's no pressure driving it up.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.