Obstinate Gargoyle MTG Card

Mana cost
Converted mana cost	3
Rarity	Common
Type	Artifact Creature — Gargoyle
Abilities	Persist
Released	2024-06-14
Set symbol
Set name	Modern Horizons 3
Set code	MH3
Power	2
Toughness	2
Number	195
Frame	2015
Layout	Normal
Border	Black
Illustred by	Craig J Spearing

Text of card

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.)

Text of card Obstinate Gargoyle

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Legalities

Magic the Gathering formats where Obstinate Gargoyle has restrictions

Format	Legality
Commander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Paupercommander	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Vintage	Legal
Duel	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Timeless	Legal

Rules and information

The reference guide for Magic: The Gathering Obstinate Gargoyle card rulings provides official rulings, any errata issued, as well as a record of all the functional modifications that have occurred.

Date	Text
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.
2024-06-07	Only creatures can be modified. If a modified creature stops being a creature, it is no longer considered modified.