Stone Catapult
Creature — Human Soldier
: Destroy target tapped nonblack creature. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $45.49
- EDHREC rank
- #29395
Stone Catapult exiles a nonblack nonartifact creature at the cost of tapping and removing a creature you control from the game — a permanent, unconditional answer that dodges regeneration and indestructible entirely. The activation cost is steep, but the effect is clean removal that most black decks would trade for.
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 |
Stone Catapult sees its most relevant play in Commander, where singleton construction and four-player tables make unconditional exile removal genuinely valuable — especially against commanders that keep returning from the zone. Legacy and Vintage are legal formats, but the tap-plus-exile-your-own-creature activation is far too slow and resource-negative for competitive sixty-card environments where faster, cheaper interaction dominates. Oathbreaker is legal and mirrors the Commander logic at a smaller scale, where answering a problematic permanent with no chance of regeneration or death-trigger recursion can matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Ashnod's Altar lines aside, the core job Stone Catapult does — exiling a creature without targeting restrictions beyond nonblack nonartifact — is replicated more cheaply by spells like Generous Gift or Chaos Warp, which hit any permanent for three mana and don't demand you sacrifice a creature. If the appeal is a repeatable permanent rather than a spell, Karn Liberated covers exile on any permanent for seven mana at a much higher price tag, while Meteor Golem does the job on-body for seven mana and roughly $0.50.
Price Context
Current price
$45.49 premium tier
At $45.49, Stone Catapult sits firmly in the premium tier — a price driven almost entirely by age and scarcity rather than competitive demand. That price point is hard to justify for a card with no current presence in high-power formats; buy it if you specifically want the artifact and the flavor, not as a functional investment in removal efficiency.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.