First-Sphere Gargantua

First-Sphere Gargantua card image

First-Sphere Gargantua: Creature - Phyrexian Horror, March of the Machine Commander. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{4}{B}{B}
Mana value
6
Type
Creature - Phyrexian Horror
Colour identity
Black (B)
Power / toughness
5/4
Rarity
Common
Set
March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
Released
2023-04-21
Collector number
248
Artist
Randy Vargas
Commander rank
20,166 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Unearth

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About First-Sphere Gargantua

First-Sphere Gargantua is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common black creature from March of the Machine Commander (MOC), a Commander product released in April 2023. It is collector number 248 in that set, with art by Randy Vargas. It costs {4}{B}{B} (four generic and two black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 5/4 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Modern Horizons (2019) to March of the Machine Commander (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.22 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.22 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of First-Sphere Gargantua by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of First-Sphere Gargantua

First-Sphere Gargantua has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #330Common2021
The List (PLST) #MH1-91Common2019
Modern Horizons (MH1) #91Common2019

Official rulings

Two official rulings apply to First-Sphere Gargantua, newest first.

  • If a creature returned to the battlefield by the unearth ability would leave it for any reason, it's exiled instead-unless the spell or ability that's causing the creature to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it. In that case, the spell or ability succeeds at exiling the creature. If the spell or ability later returns the creature card to the battlefield (as Astral Drift might, for example), the creature card will return as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effect will no longer apply to it.
  • Activating a creature card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting the creature card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the creature card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Cancel) will not.

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