Voidstone Gargoyle
Creature — Gargoyle
Flying
As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name.
Spells with the chosen name can't be cast.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #26563
Voidstone Gargoyle locks out a named nonland permanent permanently — as long as it stays on the board, the chosen card can't be cast and activated abilities on permanents with that name can't be used. Five mana for a 3/4 flier with that kind of stranglehold is a real rate in Commander, where a single problem card often defines a game.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Voidstone Gargoyle earns its keep — you name the table's biggest threat on entry, and suddenly the archenemy's signature piece is offline for the rest of the game. In Legacy and Vintage it's too slow and too narrow; Chalice of the Void and Pithing Needle do adjacent jobs at a fraction of the mana investment. Modern is the same story: the format moves fast enough that a five-mana lock piece that can be killed by any removal spell rarely makes the cut. In Oathbreaker, the compressed card pool means naming the right card hits harder, and Voidstone Gargoyle is playable in white-inclusive builds that want resilient hate.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Voidstone Gargoyle is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up without a second thought. That price is stable; it sees too little competitive play to spike and enough Commander demand to stay off the floor.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.