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Obstinate Gargoyle

Obstinate Gargoyle

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Modern Horizons 3

#195 · EN · Common · 2024-06-14

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Obstinate Gargoyle

{1}{W}{B}

Artifact Creature — Gargoyle

This creature has flying as long as it's modified. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Power: 2

Toughness: 2

Artist: Craig J Spearing

Color identity: B, W

Reference prices

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FinishUSDEUR
Nonfoil$0.20€0.16
Foil$0.26€0.12

MTGO: 0.03 tix

Data snapshot 2026-10-22. Not live offers.

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Editions & versions

1 printings across 1 edition. Choose a printing to view its artwork and details.

Reference prices · Data snapshot 2026-10-22. Prices vary by seller and condition; — means no quote.

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Format legality
Standardnot legal
Futurenot legal
Historiclegal
Timelesslegal
Gladiatorlegal
Pioneernot legal
Modernlegal
Legacylegal
Pauperlegal
Vintagelegal
Pennylegal
Commanderlegal
Oathbreakerlegal
Standardbrawlnot legal
Brawllegal
Competitivebrawllegal
Alchemynot legal
Paupercommanderlegal
Duellegal
Oldschoolnot legal
Premodernnot legal
Predhnot legal
Tlrlegal
Rulings

2024-06-07 A creature that is equipped is considered modified no matter who controls the Equipment that's attached to it.

2024-06-07 A creature with a counter on it is considered modified no matter what kind of counter it is or which player put it on that creature.

2024-06-07 An Aura controlled by another player does not cause a creature you control to be modified.

2024-06-07 If a card with persist is removed from the graveyard after it dies but before the triggered ability resolves, it won't be returned to the battlefield.

2024-06-07 If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it. A creature's persist ability can bring it back again if its -1/-1 counters are removed this way.

2024-06-07 If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won't trigger and the card won't return to the battlefield. That's because persist checks the creature as it last existed on the battlefield, and it still had -1/-1 counters on it at that point.

2024-06-07 Once Obstinate Gargoyle has been blocked, causing it to gain flying by modifying it won't cause it to stop being blocked.

Current Oracle text is shown for every printing.