Sanctum Gargoyle
Artifact Creature — Gargoyle
Flying
When this creature enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Double Masters
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #16261
Sanctum Gargoyle is a 2/3 flyer that returns an artifact from your graveyard to your hand — useful recursion stapled to a body, but four mana for that rate is slow by competitive standards. It earns a slot almost exclusively in Oswald Fiddlebender lists, where being an artifact itself makes it a sac outlet target as well as a recursion piece.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Oswald Fiddlebender
Oswald Fiddlebender sacrifices artifacts to tutor other artifacts onto the battlefield, and Sanctum Gargoyle closes the loop by recovering whatever got sacrificed along the way — making it a value engine piece that keeps Oswald's chain going rather than losing card equity each activation.
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 |
Sanctum Gargoyle is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it sees real play is Pauper, where artifact recursion at common is a meaningful resource. In Commander it's a fringe inclusion outside dedicated Oswald Fiddlebender builds — four mana for a 2/3 with a one-shot hand-refill doesn't clear the bar in a format where Skullclamp and Spine of Ish Sah recursion engines exist. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage the card is simply outclassed and doesn't appear in competitive lists.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Sanctum Gargoyle is deep bulk — buy a playset for the price of a sleeve. That price is stable because demand is narrow; it's not going anywhere, but it's not rising either.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.