Voidstone Gargoyle
Card Information
Type: Creature — Gargoyle
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 5
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Planar Chaos (PLC)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 21
Oracle Text
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.
Keywords
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- June 8, 2016
Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.
Source: wotc - July 15, 2007
Activated abilities of copies of a spell with that name (such as Lightning Storm) cannot be activated.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2007
The named card can be cast face down.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2007
You can name either half of a split card, but not both. If you do so, that half (and both halves, if the split card has fuse) can’t be cast. The other half is unaffected.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2007
Voidstone Gargoyle stops activated abilities that are mana abilities from being activated, unlike Pithing Needle.
Source: wotc
Price History
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