Obstinate Gargoyle
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SetMH3
Collector #195
Released2024-06-14
Raritycommon
ArtistCraig J Spearing
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Obstinate Gargoyle

CommonColour IDMV 3
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.)
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Keywords
Persist
Card capabilities
ArtifactCreature
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (7)
wotc7 Jun 2024
An Aura controlled by another player does not cause a creature you control to be modified.
wotc7 Jun 2024
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.
wotc7 Jun 2024
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.
wotc7 Jun 2024
A creature that is equipped is considered modified no matter who controls the Equipment that's attached to it.
wotc7 Jun 2024
Once Obstinate Gargoyle has been blocked, causing it to gain flying by modifying it won't cause it to stop being blocked.
wotc7 Jun 2024
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.