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Granite Witness

Artifact Creature — Gargoyle Detective2 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana

Set it down face down and it reads as a nondescript 2/2 with ward, one of a dozen possible flip threats an opponent has to price into every attack and block. But the reveal does more than change the body: turning it face up lets you tap or untap a creature, and that clause is what makes the bluff pay. Flip mid-combat to untap your best blocker after attackers have committed, or tap down a defender to shove damage through, and the disguise cost has bought you a combat trick welded to a permanent instead of a one-shot spell. Vigilance on the revealed flier matters more than it looks: the body keeps attacking without giving up the defensive stance that makes the untap-a-blocker line worth setting up. The gargoyle-detective flavor rides the mechanic cleanly, a stone figure that looks inert until it moves, which is exactly the misread a disguised creature is asking for. What distinguishes this from most morph-style bluffs is that the payoff usually lives entirely in the surprise of the flip; here the free tap or untap reshapes a combat step you were already choosing to enter, so the information game and the board game reward the same decision at the same moment.

Granite Witness (mkm)
MKM · #206common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.06
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, vigilance Disguise White or Blue manaWhite or Blue mana (You may cast this card face down for 3 generic mana as a 2/2 creature with ward 2 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may tap or untap target creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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