Voidstone Gargoyle is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Flying As this creature enters, 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.
How it works : Voidstone Gargoyle
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Activated abilities of copies of a spell with that name (such as Lightning Storm) cannot be activated.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
The named card can be cast face down.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Voidstone Gargoyle stops activated abilities that are mana abilities from being activated, unlike Pithing Needle.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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