Gathering Stone

About Gathering Stone

Gathering Stone, Artifact, designed by Paolo Parente first released in Jan, 2026 in the set Lorwyn Eclipsed. It see play in 1 formats: Commander.

Gathering Stone would fit best in a tribal creature deck—especially one that is heavily creature-dense and focused on a single type such as Elves, Goblins, Humans, Zombies, or Slivers—because it both reduces the cost of your tribal spells and provides steady card selection/card advantage if your deck is built with a high concentration of that creature type. It would be strongest in slower, midrange tribal decks that value incremental advantage over explosive speed, since at four mana it is too slow for highly aggressive formats. However, it competes with and is generally weaker than existing tribal staples like **Herald’s Horn** (which costs 3, reduces creature costs of the chosen type, and provides similar card advantage), **Urza’s Incubator** (which reduces creature spells of a chosen type by {2}), and **Vanquisher’s Banner** (which draws cards whenever you cast creatures of the chosen type). Because these alternatives are cheaper or more impactful, Gathering Stone would likely only