Vantress Gargoyle
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Gargoyle
- Power / toughness
- 5 / 4
- Set
- Throne of Eldraine Promos #71s (rare)
Flying
This creature can't attack unless defending player has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
This creature can't block unless you have four or more cards in hand.
{T}: Each player mills a card.
Vantress Gargoyle has 4 printings, first in Throne of Eldraine (2019). EDHREC ranks it #12,032 among Commander cards. It appears most in Xanathar, Guild Kingpin decks (387 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Vantress Gargoyle most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Xanathar, Guild Kingpin: 387 decks
- The Lord of the Eagles: 251 decks
- Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel: 224 decks
- Circu, Dimir Lobotomist: 123 decks
- Raul, Trouble Shooter: 102 decks
- Zellix, Sanity Flayer: 30 decks
Often played with Vantress Gargoyle
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If Vantress Gargoyle attacks a planeswalker, the controller of that planeswalker is the defending player.
- : Vantress Gargoyle's attacking and blocking restrictions are checked only at the moment that you declare it as an attacking or blocking creature. If the defending player loses cards from their graveyard after Vantress Gargoyle attacks, or if you lose cards from your hand after it blocks, it remains in combat.