TYPE
Artifact Creature — Gargoyle

ABILITY
Obstinate Gargoyle 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/TOUGHNESS
2/2

ILLUSTRATOR
Craig J Spearing

LEGALITIES
Standard Future Historic Timeless Gladiator Pioneer Explorer Modern Legacy Pauper Vintage Penny Commander Oathbreaker Standardbrawl Brawl Alchemy Paupercommander Duel Oldschool Premodern Predh

LANGUAGES
DE EN ES FR IT JP PT ZH-CN

RULINGS

• 2024-06-07 Only creatures can be modified. If a modified creature stops being a creature, it is no longer considered 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 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 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 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 An Aura controlled by another player does not cause a creature you control to be modified.
• 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.
• 2024-06-07 A creature that is equipped is considered modified no matter who controls the Equipment that's attached to it.