Voidstone Gargoyle (PLC)
Creature — Gargoyle
Flying
As Voidstone Gargoyle enters the battlefield, 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.
Terese Nielsen
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Legalities
- brawl: banned
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- modern: legal
- pauper: legal
- pioneer: banned
- standard: banned
- vintage: legal
Rulings
- 2007-02-01:
The named card can be cast face down.
- 2007-02-01:
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.
- 2007-02-01:
Voidstone Gargoyle stops activated abilities that are mana abilities from being activated, unlike Pithing Needle.
- 2007-07-15:
Activated abilities of copies of a spell with that name (such as Lightning Storm) cannot be activated.
- 2016-06-08:
Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.