Thraben Gargoyle

Artifact Creature — Gargoyle

Defender

{6}: Transform Thraben Gargoyle.

Legality

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
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (52)

joecool1299 on Arcades Needs Your Help

5 years ago

You may be an aggro wall deck (That's a sentence I never thought I'd say) but sometimes you have to get rid of the Peacekeeper or Hushwing Gryff. Path to Exile, Swords to Plowshares and Beast Within are all generic good cards.

You could also afford to draw more cards. Your commander does draw you some and you have some cards to assist that but you wanna play your two and three drop walls before that. Abzan Beastmaster is wonderfully in flavor and a personal howling mine. Sultai Flayer is an option but IDK if it's worth it. But also just generic good card draw like Soul of the Harvest, Mind's Eye, (If you have one), Shamanic Revelation, even stuff like Concentrate and Harmonize. Your deck may be running on a funky axis but that doesn't mean you should forget the essentials. In fact, they can help tie your gameplay together.

Angelic Chorus Lol. Don't know if it's good but come on. Verdant Sun's Avatar, Proper Burial too. They probably aren't worth it but it sounds funny. Dragon Throne of Tarkir is also pretty funny and works well with Arcades. Marble Titan is a meekstone with legs. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive makes your team unblockable. And Heroic Intervention is pretty good.

You could probably cut some of the less impressive walls like Order of the Stars or Thraben Gargoyle  ^Flip.

PlagueRats on Lifecrafter's Bestiary and Dusk to Dawn

6 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions, Hostile Desert is interesting, but the manabase is actually strained already, the deck could use even more green mana for Lifecrafter's Bestiary and it's too heavy into white to cut any Plains, also The dual lands need a lot of basics to enter untapped. I've tried a Westvale Abbey  ^Flip and found it's not worth giving up the land spot.

I've tried Thraben Inspector several times now and found that it's only good when things go bad. When things are going as statistically expected the deck draws so many cards that the clue isn't worth much at all. Also consider the deck is generally strong against control and Thraben Gargoyle  ^Flip is better against aggro.

Generally I'm not going to be in favour of any card that dilutes the decks main strategy, part of that strategy is low-variance reliability as opposed to some higher-varience combo.

troublinparadise on Ravenous Intruder

6 years ago

I'm really interested in this deck after reading about the Ravenous Intruder + Fling combo in this fantastic article: http://www.gatheringmagic.com/jonathanmedina-04262017-the-degenerates-combo-guide-to-amonkhet/. I checked, and found that no one is attempting this in standard tournaments. I think your deck is really good for not employing fling, and in order for the combo to work one would need to stock a few more 0 drop artifacts, such as these: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&format=+[%22Standard%22]&type=+[%22Artifact%22]&cmc=+%3C[1] . Bone Saw works, Harvest Hand  ^Flip counts for 2, (and has nice synergy with the humans in your deck), Thraben Gargoyle  ^Flip is good. I see that your deck is super budget, which I love, and luckily all these experimental cards I've dug up are pretty cheap as well! Sorry for the terrible URLs, couldn't get any of the link tricks to work...

Todespudel on Pia's Revolution!! under 40 bucks!!!

7 years ago

Okay I think I leave the prism in, but your suggestion with the Thraben Gargoyle  ^Flip is a good one. :)

Exchanged the Aetherflux Reservoir for Tezzeret the Schemer, he makes the deck more aggro.

Sheva21 on Upgraded Meren

7 years ago

Thank you for posting your deck, it gave me some potential ideas for a deck that I am working on, Sisters of Stoned to Death. Awesome deck. +1

As I was looking at the deck, I saw 2 cards that I do not know if they are the best cards for the deck. The cards that you might consider cutting are Thraben Gargoyle  ^Flip and Nylea, God of the Hunt. The reason for the first is while you might want a 1 drop to recur with your general, if you do not have the minimum amount of counters for the CMC of a card in your graveyard, you can return a dreature card to your hand. There are situations where you might want the card in your hand, instead of on the field.

I am wondering about Nylea, God of the Hunt because you should not need her to give trample to your creatures, unless you are using her activated ability, or need an indestructible creature.

The only card that I can currently think of potentially adding to your deck is Acidic Slime. I was looking at your land to mana symbol distribution, in the pie chart. I saw that you were a little lite on green, compared to black, but you have about a even split of lands that produce colored mana. I suggest Acidic Slime because I consider it to be a good, reusable (in your deck) form of destroying non-creatures that might be annoying. And it is green.

I hope my suggestions are useful. If I was wrong about why you have the 2 cards that I suggested that you take out, in the deck, I am sorry for not understanding.

Panzerforge on Visit Lovely Hanweir!

7 years ago

Darsul, I'm already running the Thraben Gargoyle  ^Flip, and it works great as it is two card types towards delirium, a great bargain. The werewolf, on the other hand, I'll have to test. I like the idea, and have been considering replacing Skin Invasion  ^Flip.

Thanks Geo67! I still like this deck, even if it lacks the speed of a newer AER deck.

Darsul on Visit Lovely Hanweir!

7 years ago

Hey, doesn't every good town need a Village Messenger  ^Flip or a Thraben Gargoyle  ^Flip? see what I did their 8) +1

Sebaszjuh on Grixis Chandra, (Bolas?) and Tezzeret Improvise

7 years ago

Hi,

Very nice deck, I used this deck and won 4 out of 5 matches with friends against modern eldrazi, mill and soldier token deck. The thing I changed, I removed 3 mountains and added 3 spirebluff canal. Also I did sideboard 1 Aligned Hedron Network and 1 Spell Shrivel, but that is just for my own meta.

The thing I had problems with was if you dont get the 1 and 2 drop artifacts, you're screwed.I was thinking about Thraben Gargoyle  ^Flip.