Gatekeeper Gargoyle

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Gatekeeper Gargoyle

Artifact Creature — Gargoyle

Flying

Gatekeeper Garygoyle enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Gate you control.

erkmehoff on RIP Fieldy-D

4 years ago

Its still a huge work in progress. There's some great Gate themed cards like Gatecreeper Vine Gatekeeper Gargoyle and Gateway Shade that could go in it. I'll update it with all the possible playable cards, and try my best to perfect it.

Tbology on

5 years ago

I am creating a guild gate deck with another approach, and this deck is giving me a lot of great idea (the one I am building is modern tho)

As you know, the weakness of using all tapped lands is that you can only cast a 2CMC creatures on turn 3, and blood sun on turn 4 (in the best scenario). By the time you get the manas, you already took some damages from opponent(Aggro even worse). This is way too slow and I think the easiest way to fix it is adjust the mana pool, 50/50 basic lands and gate lands. I totally understands that it feels good to have all the gate lands in mana pool, I did that at first too, but it is just not practical. For my game test, 50/50 basic lands and gate lands, doesn't effect much on the performance of Gatekeeper Gargoyle and Glaive of the Guildpact, but increasing your chances of surviving from aggro dramatically. Sum of all, the reason of 50/50 mana pool is getting Basic lands to build up your defense, and using District Guide and Circuitous Route to ramp out the gate later.

In standard deck, Gleaming Barrier, Suspicious Bookcase and Amaranthine Wall are great defender to put in. and As they are all 0/4-6, Deafening Clarion is a great minor boardwipe in the early game especially when you run in to a tokens deck. Arcades, the Strategist will shine in this deck if you solely using defender in the deck, all defenders turn into attacker all of the sudden.

Just my opinion, please tell me what you think. I need some feedback to

After seeing your deck, now i also want to put few Blood Sun in my deck to! lol

Ratgut on

5 years ago

Personally, I like the idea of this deck a lot, but I don't see a lot of synergies going on except for 'look, I'm playing a lot of guildgates'. I don't know a lot of MTG cards by heart, so in the next statement will be a fair bit of guesswork, but I believe it should be possible to have a more refined strategy and win condition going on while milking the gates for gains.

Right now, I think you've gto something nice going on with Chamber Sentry, Voltaic Servant and Glaive of the Guildpact. District Guide is a staple, but I'm not sure about Elvish Rejuvenator as it might not help you find the diversity you need in mid-late. Arn't there some 2 drop elves that let you look for lands?

Tezzeret is nice although I think he, as well as the rest of the deck, might grow too late for you to be still alive? Maby I'm doing the math wrong, but it seems as if this deck is building up all the way trough early game without a lot of protection. Sure, Voltaic Servant is a great card (actually, i'm taking notes here), but beyond that all you have is an elf or 2 to chum block with.

And it is great that by turn 4 you can cast a 5/5 Awakened Amalgam Which then can be equipped with Glaive of the Guildpact and next turn possibly hit for 11, but since it's an artifact creature (and by then, your only threat on the board) I don't expect it to live long.

The way I see it, this deck has some great potential, but needs to focus more on 1 particular win condition. Would you like to overrun you enemies with an Awakened Amalgam or Gatekeeper Gargoyle on gate-steroids? Make sure they survive long enough (and possibly have trampleGate Smasher). In that case, get a full set of Suspicious Bookcase in your main. Also don't underestimate what Lightning Greaves can do here

Maby also consider putting in some 1-2 drops that give you an edge (or protection) early game. Maby I'm making a too big deal out of this, but personally I'm a player that focusses a lot on the first 6 turns.. most of my decks either win or lose by turn 4-5-6. I'm not sure in what meta you playing but personally I'd perpare for that kind of agression.

For the rest; I would feel Blood Sun is more of a side deck card, Phyrexian Scriptures might be hard to get on the board due to the double black cost, and the guildgates have amazing art which is enough reason to play this deck in the first place... that should have gone on top.

Last; I notice quite a few ETB triggers. Maby it could be profitable to build some triggers on that by either bouncing or flickering or ...

Anyway, I think the deck is really interesting, and has the potential to be a mean machine if the strategy can be refined more. Good luck!

CleverCombo on Gate For It

5 years ago

TogalUstir Hey thanks for the ideas, those are all really good thoughts. I had mentioned to Logan before we recorded our set review that the Blackblade should really be a one of at most. We also probably need to find a spot in there for Scapeshift and/or maybe Gatekeeper Gargoyle

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